officers who killed 13 Palestinians
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israel's prosecutor general Mini Mazuz
aroused the ire of the 1948 Palestinians after he exonerated
Israeli police officers charged with killing 13 Palestinian young
men during the October uprising which broke out in 2000.
Mazuz decided to close the judicial files containing
complaints from the families of the victims against a
number of police officers implicated in the murder of
their children at the pretext of lack of sufficient
evidence to convict them.
"After having examined the details of the
actions and evidence pertaining to investigations
conducted by the investigation
unit with the policemen, we did not have fundamental and
definitive evidence to criminalize or hold anybody liable;
thus, it is imperative to close the investigation file of these
incidents", Israel's prosecutor general
said in his draft resolution.
After the news spread, hundreds of 1948
Palestinians expressed
their extreme anger and threatened to resort to international
judicial bodies to help bring the truth to light.
For its part, the largely Arab democratic front for peace and
equality parliamentary bloc deplored the acquittal,
describing it as a racist of the first degree and is consistent
with the racist mindset which has been dominating the
Israeli establishment for 60 years.
Arab MP Mohamed Barakah, the head of this parliamentary
bloc, opined that this decision was consistent with the past
and present of a person such as Mazuz, because he always
legalized the poisons of the IOA as well as he wrote off the
remainder of the evidence to convict the killers taking
advantage of the time wasted for the
issuance of his resolution.
Shawki Khatib, the head of the higher follow up
committee in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948,
underlined that the efforts will continue "until all the
murderers are sent to prison".
Arab MP Ibrahim Sarsour, a member of the united Arab
list, announced that the higher follow up committee will
hold an emergency meeting to condemn the resolution
and take firm action to curb the Israeli government from
disdaining Arab blood, calling for organizing marches in
the Arab villages and towns to condemn the decision.
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