IDF War Criminals & Terrorists via http://www.kawther.info/ga2/main.php
Every single Israeli soldier who crosses the border of 1967 is enforcing an illegal occupation, ethnical cleansing, genocide. They are without exception war criminals, and we must never forget their crimes. We must do everything possible to bring them before justice.
Here are some officers of the IDF and other Israeli armed forces who are known to have murdered Palestinians, and contributed to or committed directly or indirectly acts which qualify as crimes of war, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing ...
If you have pictures, documents or other verifiable information of these or other individuals belonging to the IDF which could help in securing arrest warrants against them in any jurisdiction, please contact me.
I hope that these individuals will be on their way to The Hague sooner or later.
NOTICE: Some of these pictures are taken from other websites. These pictures help to identify terrorists of US, German, English, French, etc. nationality who operate in the West Bank under assumed impunity. These pictures belong to their respective owners, and are used here for informative and educational purposes only. I claim no ownership over these pictures. Their use here is strictly non-commercial, and intended to help bring the persons depicted to justice. This applies equally to civilians and IDF military officers.
UPDATE: Some of the individuals listed here were posted by persons unknown to me to the website israeliwarcriminals.zzl.org, which no longer exists. The list was sent me by several readers. Because of their participation in the Gaza massacre of 2008/2009, they are "persons of interest" and thus included here.
Every single Israeli soldier who crosses the border of 1967 is enforcing an illegal occupation, ethnical cleansing, genocide. They are without exception war criminals, and we must never forget their crimes. We must do everything possible to bring them before justice.
Here are some officers of the IDF and other Israeli armed forces who are known to have murdered Palestinians, and contributed to or committed directly or indirectly acts which qualify as crimes of war, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing ...
If you have pictures, documents or other verifiable information of these or other individuals belonging to the IDF which could help in securing arrest warrants against them in any jurisdiction, please contact me.
I hope that these individuals will be on their way to The Hague sooner or later.
NOTICE: Some of these pictures are taken from other websites. These pictures help to identify terrorists of US, German, English, French, etc. nationality who operate in the West Bank under assumed impunity. These pictures belong to their respective owners, and are used here for informative and educational purposes only. I claim no ownership over these pictures. Their use here is strictly non-commercial, and intended to help bring the persons depicted to justice. This applies equally to civilians and IDF military officers.
UPDATE: Some of the individuals listed here were posted by persons unknown to me to the website israeliwarcriminals.zzl.org, which no longer exists. The list was sent me by several readers. Because of their participation in the Gaza massacre of 2008/2009, they are "persons of interest" and thus included here.
Benny Gantz
Israeli generals sued in Dutch court for killing Gaza family
Israeli army chief Benny Gantz, center, photographed on 20 July 2014, is being sued by Ismail Ziada for the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza that same day, resulting in the deaths of seven people including Ziada’s mother.
A Palestinian-Dutch citizen is suing two senior Israeli military commanders for the bombing of his family’s home during Israel’s 2014 attack on the Gaza Strip.
On 20 July of that year, without warning, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the house in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing six members of Ismail Ziada’s family and a seventh person who was visiting them.
Ziada, who lives in the Netherlands where he is married to a Dutch citizen, could not attend the funerals of his family members due to Israel’s blockade on Gaza.
He lost his mother, 70-year-old Muftia Ziada, three brothers, a sister-in-law and a 12-year-old nephew.
Ziada holds Benny Gantz and Amir Eshel, respectively the Israeli chief of staff and the chief of the air force at the time of the attack, responsible for the decision to drop the bomb.
This month, Ziada’s lawyers, Liesbeth Zegveld and Lisa-Marie Komp with human rights law firm Prakken d’Oliveira, filed a complaint in a Dutch court.
The same lawyers recently filed another case in the Netherlands on behalf of a Palestinian severely injured when the Israeli army used Dutch-trained dogs to attack him in the occupied West Bank.
In Ziada’s case, Gantz and Eshel have been summoned to appear on 27 June. If they don’t show up or send attorneys, the court could enter a default judgment in Ziada’s favor.
Ziada is suing the Israeli generals for more than $600,000 in damages plus court costs.
Among the witnesses the complaint cites is a neighbor of the Ziada family who described “how the image of the destroyed house and the mutilated bodies shocked him.”
Last year, Ziada sent a letter to Gantz and Eshel holding them liable for the devastating harm he suffered from the Israeli attack. Although the Israeli justice ministry confirmed receipt, it has still offered no substantive response.
Assault on GazaThe attack on the Ziada home was part of what the complaint calls Israel’s “policy to bomb civilian residential buildings” in “breach of international humanitarian law.”
During 51 days in the summer of 2014, Israel carried out thousands of airstrikes on Gaza, including targeted attacks on residential and other civilian buildings, an independent investigation commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council found.
In total, 2,251 Palestinians were killed – about one in every 1,000 of Gaza’s residents – including 1,462 civilians, among them 551 children. More than 11,000 Palestinians were injured, the majority women and children.
The UN inquiry found that Israel’s destruction and killing often amounted to war crimes and “may have constituted military tactics reflective of a broader policy, approved at least tacitly by decision-makers at the highest levels of the Government of Israel.”
According to the complaint, Gantz and Eshel were among the top leaders who “designed the policy of bombing residential buildings” and are “fully responsible for the decision to bomb the Ziada family residence.”
Dutch jurisdictionA key claim in the complaint is that the Dutch courts have jurisdiction over the case both because of Ziada’s connections to the Netherlands and because there is no way for him to obtain justice in Israeli courts.
It points out that Israel’s Military Advocate General (MAG) investigated the attack and concluded that the pilots who dropped the bomb would not be prosecuted, noting that they acted with the approval of military commanders.
The MAG claimed that the Ziada home served as a command center of the military branch of Hamas and that the “military advantage” of carrying out the attack without giving any warning outweighed the risk of civilian casualties.
But the complaint points out that MAG provided no evidence to support the decision not to open a criminal investigation and tried to use information allegedly obtained after the attack to justify it in retrospect.
International law requires that a decision about whether an object is a legitimate military target be made with information available before the attack.
The MAG’s handling of this case is part of its well-documented role in whitewashing hundreds of complaints filed by Palestinians through lawyers and human rights groups for alleged war crimes during the attack on Gaza.
As Ziada’s complaint notes, MAG cannot credibly investigate the Israeli army since it is not independent and directly advises the army on attacks in the midst of military operations.
The complaint also details how Ziada cannot gain justice in Israel’s civil and criminal courts since Israeli law doesn’t incorporate provisions to prosecute war crimes. Israel’s civil law also includes an “act of war” exception, which has been interpreted by judges to give the military blanket immunity for damage it causes to Palestinians.
Moreover, Israel imposes insurmountable legal and practical restrictions on Palestinians pursuing justice, including an unrealistically short 60-day period in which to file a complaint, exorbitant and discriminatory financial guarantees and bans on travel that prevent Palestinians meeting with lawyers or appearing as witnesses.
“Unpoliticized justice”Shortly after the deadly attack on the Ziada family home, 91-year-old Dutch citizen Henk Zanoli expressed his shock and pain by returning his Righteous Among the Nations medal to Israel.
Ziada is married to Zanoli’s great-niece.
Zanoli and his mother were given the medal by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for hiding a Jewish child from Nazi occupation forces from 1943 until the Netherlands was liberated in 1945.
They took a great risk because they were already under suspicion from the Nazis. Zanoli’s father was sent to a concentration camp in 1941 for opposing the German occupation. He died at Mauthausen a few months before the war ended.
“It’s a political statement,” Zanoli, a former judge, told Dutch media in 2014. “I want to show that I disagree with the actions of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians.”
In a letter he sent to the Israeli embassy along with the medal, Zanoli wrote that Israel’s actions in Gaza had already resulted in serious accusations of war crimes.
He added that as a retired jurist, “it would be no surprise to me that these accusations could lead to possible convictions if true and unpoliticized justice is able to have its course.”
Ziada’s lawsuit will test whether that kind of justice, unavailable in Israel, can be found in the Netherlands.
Israeli army chief Benny Gantz, center, photographed on 20 July 2014, is being sued by Ismail Ziada for the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza that same day, resulting in the deaths of seven people including Ziada’s mother.
A Palestinian-Dutch citizen is suing two senior Israeli military commanders for the bombing of his family’s home during Israel’s 2014 attack on the Gaza Strip.
On 20 July of that year, without warning, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the house in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing six members of Ismail Ziada’s family and a seventh person who was visiting them.
Ziada, who lives in the Netherlands where he is married to a Dutch citizen, could not attend the funerals of his family members due to Israel’s blockade on Gaza.
He lost his mother, 70-year-old Muftia Ziada, three brothers, a sister-in-law and a 12-year-old nephew.
Ziada holds Benny Gantz and Amir Eshel, respectively the Israeli chief of staff and the chief of the air force at the time of the attack, responsible for the decision to drop the bomb.
This month, Ziada’s lawyers, Liesbeth Zegveld and Lisa-Marie Komp with human rights law firm Prakken d’Oliveira, filed a complaint in a Dutch court.
The same lawyers recently filed another case in the Netherlands on behalf of a Palestinian severely injured when the Israeli army used Dutch-trained dogs to attack him in the occupied West Bank.
In Ziada’s case, Gantz and Eshel have been summoned to appear on 27 June. If they don’t show up or send attorneys, the court could enter a default judgment in Ziada’s favor.
Ziada is suing the Israeli generals for more than $600,000 in damages plus court costs.
Among the witnesses the complaint cites is a neighbor of the Ziada family who described “how the image of the destroyed house and the mutilated bodies shocked him.”
Last year, Ziada sent a letter to Gantz and Eshel holding them liable for the devastating harm he suffered from the Israeli attack. Although the Israeli justice ministry confirmed receipt, it has still offered no substantive response.
Assault on GazaThe attack on the Ziada home was part of what the complaint calls Israel’s “policy to bomb civilian residential buildings” in “breach of international humanitarian law.”
During 51 days in the summer of 2014, Israel carried out thousands of airstrikes on Gaza, including targeted attacks on residential and other civilian buildings, an independent investigation commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council found.
In total, 2,251 Palestinians were killed – about one in every 1,000 of Gaza’s residents – including 1,462 civilians, among them 551 children. More than 11,000 Palestinians were injured, the majority women and children.
The UN inquiry found that Israel’s destruction and killing often amounted to war crimes and “may have constituted military tactics reflective of a broader policy, approved at least tacitly by decision-makers at the highest levels of the Government of Israel.”
According to the complaint, Gantz and Eshel were among the top leaders who “designed the policy of bombing residential buildings” and are “fully responsible for the decision to bomb the Ziada family residence.”
Dutch jurisdictionA key claim in the complaint is that the Dutch courts have jurisdiction over the case both because of Ziada’s connections to the Netherlands and because there is no way for him to obtain justice in Israeli courts.
It points out that Israel’s Military Advocate General (MAG) investigated the attack and concluded that the pilots who dropped the bomb would not be prosecuted, noting that they acted with the approval of military commanders.
The MAG claimed that the Ziada home served as a command center of the military branch of Hamas and that the “military advantage” of carrying out the attack without giving any warning outweighed the risk of civilian casualties.
But the complaint points out that MAG provided no evidence to support the decision not to open a criminal investigation and tried to use information allegedly obtained after the attack to justify it in retrospect.
International law requires that a decision about whether an object is a legitimate military target be made with information available before the attack.
The MAG’s handling of this case is part of its well-documented role in whitewashing hundreds of complaints filed by Palestinians through lawyers and human rights groups for alleged war crimes during the attack on Gaza.
As Ziada’s complaint notes, MAG cannot credibly investigate the Israeli army since it is not independent and directly advises the army on attacks in the midst of military operations.
The complaint also details how Ziada cannot gain justice in Israel’s civil and criminal courts since Israeli law doesn’t incorporate provisions to prosecute war crimes. Israel’s civil law also includes an “act of war” exception, which has been interpreted by judges to give the military blanket immunity for damage it causes to Palestinians.
Moreover, Israel imposes insurmountable legal and practical restrictions on Palestinians pursuing justice, including an unrealistically short 60-day period in which to file a complaint, exorbitant and discriminatory financial guarantees and bans on travel that prevent Palestinians meeting with lawyers or appearing as witnesses.
“Unpoliticized justice”Shortly after the deadly attack on the Ziada family home, 91-year-old Dutch citizen Henk Zanoli expressed his shock and pain by returning his Righteous Among the Nations medal to Israel.
Ziada is married to Zanoli’s great-niece.
Zanoli and his mother were given the medal by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for hiding a Jewish child from Nazi occupation forces from 1943 until the Netherlands was liberated in 1945.
They took a great risk because they were already under suspicion from the Nazis. Zanoli’s father was sent to a concentration camp in 1941 for opposing the German occupation. He died at Mauthausen a few months before the war ended.
“It’s a political statement,” Zanoli, a former judge, told Dutch media in 2014. “I want to show that I disagree with the actions of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians.”
In a letter he sent to the Israeli embassy along with the medal, Zanoli wrote that Israel’s actions in Gaza had already resulted in serious accusations of war crimes.
He added that as a retired jurist, “it would be no surprise to me that these accusations could lead to possible convictions if true and unpoliticized justice is able to have its course.”
Ziada’s lawsuit will test whether that kind of justice, unavailable in Israel, can be found in the Netherlands.
Ygal Sharon
From War Criminal to Coffee Salesman Yigal Sharon, "יגאל שרון"
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a.k.a. Igal Sharon, a.k.a. Yigal Sharon.
Sharon was born in Tal-Aviv. He is divorced and he lives with his dog in a small apartment in Beniaeh Hanoa'ah Street near Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv.
Sharon supported and covered up grave crimes in Hebron. He implemented the illegitimate racist and inhuman laws of the British Mandate which ended on 15 May 1948. As a military commander, “Sharon” participated in and committed crimes against Humanity, Genocide, and Crimes of War against the civilian populations of Hebron.
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a.k.a. Igal Sharon, a.k.a. Yigal Sharon.
Sharon was born in Tal-Aviv. He is divorced and he lives with his dog in a small apartment in Beniaeh Hanoa'ah Street near Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv.
Sharon supported and covered up grave crimes in Hebron. He implemented the illegitimate racist and inhuman laws of the British Mandate which ended on 15 May 1948. As a military commander, “Sharon” participated in and committed crimes against Humanity, Genocide, and Crimes of War against the civilian populations of Hebron.
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For the time between 1997 and 2000, Sharon was appointed as military commander of Hebron.
On 10 March 1998, under Igal Sharon's command, the IDF opened fire from three meters distance at Palestinian civilian workers cars near the Tarqumia checkpoint. They murdered three workers and injured another 17 civilians. The workers who were murdered: [*] Muhammad Al-Sharawneh, the taxi driver. [*] Adnan Al-Sharhah, 36 years old, married and a father of nine children. [*] Galeb Al-Rojub, 35 years old, married and a father of five children. [*] Oqab Al-Sayyed Ahmad was shot twice but survived. Other 17 civilians were injured in the same terrorist crime. [*] Samer Karameh, age of 13, was murdered, on March 17, 1998, after being shot in the head by Colonel Yigal soldiers in Hebron. |
On 14 May 1998, IDF soldiers under Sharon's command opened fire at a peace demonstration in the center of Hebron. They murdered two Palestinians and injured 45.
On 10 Sep 1998, he led the military operation in which IDF soldiers assassinated the two brothers Imad and Adel Awad Allah. Sharon kept their bodies and hid them in numbered graves in a cemetery where the IDF buries Palestinians who they murder. Sharon is involved in the abduction and murder of two brothers, Emad and Adel Awadallah at the farm of Akram Maswadeh near Hebron. Their bodies were never recovered, and it is suspected that their organs were stolen and sold.
Under Sharon's command, the IDF shot the Palestinians journalists Wael Al-Shukhi, Hosam Abu Allan in their heads, and an Israeli journalist from the Ma'ariv newspaper.
During the command of Sharon, he demanded Itzik Moshe Ya'alon from the Central Command to issue several military orders to occupy the rooftops of Palestinian houses in Hebron. Among them, the houses of Dr. Tayser Zahdeh and the families Abu Munshar and Hashem Al-Azzeh.
Under the command of Ygal Sharon the IDF shot and arrested many children. Majdi Al-Muhtaseb of age 9 was shot after he refused to give his football to an IDF soldier.
On 16 June 1999 Majdi Al-Hashim of age 9 was shot by Ygal Sharon's soldier in Al-Shalaleh Street.
On 20 April 1998, Sharon made a deal with the settlers from Hebron to confiscate the lands of farmers near the village of Yatta, and to destroy their caves and their wells.
During his tenure as military commander of Hebron, the Jewish settler Shlomo Alkobi murdered the Palestinian Asem Rashad Arafeh of age 23. Sharon's soldiers shot 96 peace demonstrators during the funeral of Arafeh, among them Palestinian police officers.
Ygal Sharon was generally known as a homosexual among the paratroopers stationed in Hebron. The settlers used to make fun about him and call him a "womanizer".
Under the command of Sharon, the sexual harassment by soldiers of the IDF against Palestinian women in Hebron increased dramatically. My neighbor Nezeeha Abu Dahoud is one example. She was harassed by soldiers under the command of Sharon, who entered the bedroom of Nazeeha and her husband insulting them. When the husband tried to protect her, they beat him savagely.
Sharon appears in my film "Hebron, City without Mercy" where his soldiers force Palestinian civilians to drink urine. The film was used by the Israel military to teach their soldiers how to not be caught on camera.
According to credible reports of persons who knew him personally, Ygal Sharon consumed drugs and was often drugged while on duty.
Ygal Sharon is a former commander of the IDF paratroopers. In 2000 he was discharged at the rank of colonel as a commander of the IDF in Hebron.
According to a CV which he has put on the net, Sharon later studied history at The Tel Aviv University and he got a BA. He also studied social sciences at Haifa University, and he studied Law at Herzeliya IDC, at Radzyner School of Law.
As of 2007 Yigal Sharon was an attorney with the firm of Goldman, Erlich, Gever, Edelstein, and Co. He specializes in contract litigation and real estate. On 16.12.07 Yigal Sharon was appointed as the coordinator for foreign expansion of an Israeli coffee company, "Aroma".
On 10 Sep 1998, he led the military operation in which IDF soldiers assassinated the two brothers Imad and Adel Awad Allah. Sharon kept their bodies and hid them in numbered graves in a cemetery where the IDF buries Palestinians who they murder. Sharon is involved in the abduction and murder of two brothers, Emad and Adel Awadallah at the farm of Akram Maswadeh near Hebron. Their bodies were never recovered, and it is suspected that their organs were stolen and sold.
Under Sharon's command, the IDF shot the Palestinians journalists Wael Al-Shukhi, Hosam Abu Allan in their heads, and an Israeli journalist from the Ma'ariv newspaper.
During the command of Sharon, he demanded Itzik Moshe Ya'alon from the Central Command to issue several military orders to occupy the rooftops of Palestinian houses in Hebron. Among them, the houses of Dr. Tayser Zahdeh and the families Abu Munshar and Hashem Al-Azzeh.
Under the command of Ygal Sharon the IDF shot and arrested many children. Majdi Al-Muhtaseb of age 9 was shot after he refused to give his football to an IDF soldier.
On 16 June 1999 Majdi Al-Hashim of age 9 was shot by Ygal Sharon's soldier in Al-Shalaleh Street.
On 20 April 1998, Sharon made a deal with the settlers from Hebron to confiscate the lands of farmers near the village of Yatta, and to destroy their caves and their wells.
During his tenure as military commander of Hebron, the Jewish settler Shlomo Alkobi murdered the Palestinian Asem Rashad Arafeh of age 23. Sharon's soldiers shot 96 peace demonstrators during the funeral of Arafeh, among them Palestinian police officers.
Ygal Sharon was generally known as a homosexual among the paratroopers stationed in Hebron. The settlers used to make fun about him and call him a "womanizer".
Under the command of Sharon, the sexual harassment by soldiers of the IDF against Palestinian women in Hebron increased dramatically. My neighbor Nezeeha Abu Dahoud is one example. She was harassed by soldiers under the command of Sharon, who entered the bedroom of Nazeeha and her husband insulting them. When the husband tried to protect her, they beat him savagely.
Sharon appears in my film "Hebron, City without Mercy" where his soldiers force Palestinian civilians to drink urine. The film was used by the Israel military to teach their soldiers how to not be caught on camera.
According to credible reports of persons who knew him personally, Ygal Sharon consumed drugs and was often drugged while on duty.
Ygal Sharon is a former commander of the IDF paratroopers. In 2000 he was discharged at the rank of colonel as a commander of the IDF in Hebron.
According to a CV which he has put on the net, Sharon later studied history at The Tel Aviv University and he got a BA. He also studied social sciences at Haifa University, and he studied Law at Herzeliya IDC, at Radzyner School of Law.
As of 2007 Yigal Sharon was an attorney with the firm of Goldman, Erlich, Gever, Edelstein, and Co. He specializes in contract litigation and real estate. On 16.12.07 Yigal Sharon was appointed as the coordinator for foreign expansion of an Israeli coffee company, "Aroma".
Amir Peretz:
WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
On 12 July 2006, the suspect ordered the aerial bombardment of villages and cities in Lebanon, targeting essential infrastructure, such as water, food, fuel and electricity supplies.
The bombing also damaged hospitals, clinics and schools - all places expressly prohibited from attack under international law.
As a result of the bombing, ground assault and artillery fire, more than 1,200 people were killed including hundreds of children and elderly people.
On 8th November 2006, the suspect ordered the shelling of Beit Hanoun, a neighborhood in Gaza, in response to rockets fired toward Israel. For 15 minutes, residential neighborhoods were shelled, resulting in the deaths of 19 people, including 9 children. At least 40 people were injured.
Firing shells deliberately and indiscriminately into civilian areas constitutes a war crime.
In August 2006, an official complaint was filed to the High Court in Morocco on the suspicion Peretz had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. The suspect holds Moroccan citizenship.
The complaint was filed by 3 Moroccan Jews, all renowned for their human rights work.
Description of the suspect: an olive-skinned man, about 60 years old, black hair, brown eyes, with a moustache.
Anyone who has information about the suspect when he is outside of the Israeli borders, please report immediately to a human rights lawyer. Relevant for countries with universal jurisdiction.
On 12 July 2006, the suspect ordered the aerial bombardment of villages and cities in Lebanon, targeting essential infrastructure, such as water, food, fuel and electricity supplies.
The bombing also damaged hospitals, clinics and schools - all places expressly prohibited from attack under international law.
As a result of the bombing, ground assault and artillery fire, more than 1,200 people were killed including hundreds of children and elderly people.
On 8th November 2006, the suspect ordered the shelling of Beit Hanoun, a neighborhood in Gaza, in response to rockets fired toward Israel. For 15 minutes, residential neighborhoods were shelled, resulting in the deaths of 19 people, including 9 children. At least 40 people were injured.
Firing shells deliberately and indiscriminately into civilian areas constitutes a war crime.
In August 2006, an official complaint was filed to the High Court in Morocco on the suspicion Peretz had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. The suspect holds Moroccan citizenship.
The complaint was filed by 3 Moroccan Jews, all renowned for their human rights work.
Description of the suspect: an olive-skinned man, about 60 years old, black hair, brown eyes, with a moustache.
Anyone who has information about the suspect when he is outside of the Israeli borders, please report immediately to a human rights lawyer. Relevant for countries with universal jurisdiction.
Shaul Mofaz
WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Between, October 2000 and June 2002 the suspect ordered a series of actions against the Palestinian people, which included assassinations, torture, house demolitions and the deportation of civilians.
In early 2001, the suspect, as Chief of Staff ordered the Israeli army to kill 70 armed Palestinians per day.
On 29th March 2002 and for 6 weeks after, the suspect was in charge of a military operation called "Operation Defensive Shield" in which, according to the Red Crescent, the army killed 216 Palestinians and wounded 416.
The operation involved the widespread destruction of homes, the denial of medical treatment for the wounded, especially in two Palestinian cities, Jenin and Nablus. These actions are classifiable as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The suspect continued these activities even after being appointed Israeli Defense Minister up to 2006.
In 2002, a British lawyer presented a file to the UK Director of Public Prosecutions asking for the suspect to be investigated for war crimes such as targeted assassinations and the demolition of Palestinian homes.
The suspect left the UK quickly upon hearing a file had been presented.
Description of the suspect: an olive-skinned man, about 60 years old, of below average height, clean-shaven.
The suspect is armed and may be dangerous.
Anyone who has information about the suspect when he is outside of the Israeli borders, please report immediately to a human rights lawyer. Relevant for countries with universal jurisdiction.
Candidate who wants Olmert's job once 'sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day'
A leading candidate to be Israel's next premier called for a death toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the military during the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by two Israeli journalists.
The account of a briefing given in May 2001 to senior West Bank army commanders reinforces the image of hawkishness enjoyed by Shaul Mofaz.
He has emerged as the main rival to the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, for the leadership of the Kadima party being vacated by Ehud Olmert.
Mr Mofaz is expected to stress his security credentials as a former chief of staff and defence minister in his campaign to defeat Ms Livni, the most popular among the Israeli public of the candidates to succeed Mr Olmert as party leader.
According to the book Boomerang, by Ofer Shelah, of Yedhiot Ahronot, and Raviv Drucker, of Channel Ten, Mr Mofaz convened a meeting of brigade and regimental commanders covering the occupied West Bank at Jerusalem's Ammunition Hill. It occurred early in the premiership of Ariel Sharon when the intifada was well under way.
The book, which was well reviewed, and was based on extensive interviews with officials and documentary research, chiefly made news when it was published in 2005 because of its contention that Mr Sharon had, in large part, dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza to deflect the threat of a corruption indictment.
The two prominent journalists say in the book that the chief of staff at one stage of the Jerusalem meeting – "in an exceptional act" – ordered the person customarily responsible for recording the pronouncements of the military's top officer on such occasions to stop doing so.
The general then warned, says the book, without placing his remarks in direct quotes, that there would be "no more messages to the Palestinian Authority so that it will act". The authors say that Mr Mofaz instead laid down that they call "a price to be set exactly".
The authors say that he said he wanted "10 slain Palestinians" in each territorial brigade area.
The book goes on to record that one senior officer then whispered to the Central Command commander, Yitzhak Eitan, that he would be well advised to ask for such an order in writing and added: "It comes to 70 killed a day".
It then says that General Eitan convened the same group of officers the following day and "made clear that what Mofaz said [was] not to be understood as an order and should not be treated as a directive for action."
But it adds that one officer, the brigade commander in the Hebron area, Colonel Yehuda Albek, "preferred the Mofaz version" to that of General Eitan.
The next day, he began an action near Dahariya against Palestinian police "who had not committed any hostile acts". A policeman was killed and several wounded. When the colonel was summoned to command HQ to explain the operation to his concerned superiors, he said that it was in line with the remarks made earlier by the chief of staff, says the book.
There was no immediate response from Mr Mofaz's office yesterday to inquiries about the book's account.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, called for an immediate election, which the polls show he would win. "It doesn't make any difference who heads Kadima. They are all party to a string of failures by this government," he said.
Mr Netanyahu could get his way if the victor of the Kadima leadership contest fails to form a workable coalition to stay in office. In that case elections could be called for early next year – with the possibility that Mr Olmert could remain as caretaker prime minister until then.
Between, October 2000 and June 2002 the suspect ordered a series of actions against the Palestinian people, which included assassinations, torture, house demolitions and the deportation of civilians.
In early 2001, the suspect, as Chief of Staff ordered the Israeli army to kill 70 armed Palestinians per day.
On 29th March 2002 and for 6 weeks after, the suspect was in charge of a military operation called "Operation Defensive Shield" in which, according to the Red Crescent, the army killed 216 Palestinians and wounded 416.
The operation involved the widespread destruction of homes, the denial of medical treatment for the wounded, especially in two Palestinian cities, Jenin and Nablus. These actions are classifiable as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The suspect continued these activities even after being appointed Israeli Defense Minister up to 2006.
In 2002, a British lawyer presented a file to the UK Director of Public Prosecutions asking for the suspect to be investigated for war crimes such as targeted assassinations and the demolition of Palestinian homes.
The suspect left the UK quickly upon hearing a file had been presented.
Description of the suspect: an olive-skinned man, about 60 years old, of below average height, clean-shaven.
The suspect is armed and may be dangerous.
Anyone who has information about the suspect when he is outside of the Israeli borders, please report immediately to a human rights lawyer. Relevant for countries with universal jurisdiction.
Candidate who wants Olmert's job once 'sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day'
A leading candidate to be Israel's next premier called for a death toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the military during the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by two Israeli journalists.
The account of a briefing given in May 2001 to senior West Bank army commanders reinforces the image of hawkishness enjoyed by Shaul Mofaz.
He has emerged as the main rival to the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, for the leadership of the Kadima party being vacated by Ehud Olmert.
Mr Mofaz is expected to stress his security credentials as a former chief of staff and defence minister in his campaign to defeat Ms Livni, the most popular among the Israeli public of the candidates to succeed Mr Olmert as party leader.
According to the book Boomerang, by Ofer Shelah, of Yedhiot Ahronot, and Raviv Drucker, of Channel Ten, Mr Mofaz convened a meeting of brigade and regimental commanders covering the occupied West Bank at Jerusalem's Ammunition Hill. It occurred early in the premiership of Ariel Sharon when the intifada was well under way.
The book, which was well reviewed, and was based on extensive interviews with officials and documentary research, chiefly made news when it was published in 2005 because of its contention that Mr Sharon had, in large part, dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza to deflect the threat of a corruption indictment.
The two prominent journalists say in the book that the chief of staff at one stage of the Jerusalem meeting – "in an exceptional act" – ordered the person customarily responsible for recording the pronouncements of the military's top officer on such occasions to stop doing so.
The general then warned, says the book, without placing his remarks in direct quotes, that there would be "no more messages to the Palestinian Authority so that it will act". The authors say that Mr Mofaz instead laid down that they call "a price to be set exactly".
The authors say that he said he wanted "10 slain Palestinians" in each territorial brigade area.
The book goes on to record that one senior officer then whispered to the Central Command commander, Yitzhak Eitan, that he would be well advised to ask for such an order in writing and added: "It comes to 70 killed a day".
It then says that General Eitan convened the same group of officers the following day and "made clear that what Mofaz said [was] not to be understood as an order and should not be treated as a directive for action."
But it adds that one officer, the brigade commander in the Hebron area, Colonel Yehuda Albek, "preferred the Mofaz version" to that of General Eitan.
The next day, he began an action near Dahariya against Palestinian police "who had not committed any hostile acts". A policeman was killed and several wounded. When the colonel was summoned to command HQ to explain the operation to his concerned superiors, he said that it was in line with the remarks made earlier by the chief of staff, says the book.
There was no immediate response from Mr Mofaz's office yesterday to inquiries about the book's account.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, called for an immediate election, which the polls show he would win. "It doesn't make any difference who heads Kadima. They are all party to a string of failures by this government," he said.
Mr Netanyahu could get his way if the victor of the Kadima leadership contest fails to form a workable coalition to stay in office. In that case elections could be called for early next year – with the possibility that Mr Olmert could remain as caretaker prime minister until then.
