Haaretz
Tamir cleared of negligence in Jenin deaths
Date: 11-17-04
Head of the IDF Central Command Brigadier General Moshe (Chico) Tamir was recently acquitted of criminal negligence relating to the death of four Palestinian civilians from tank fire in Jenin.
Tamir was tried at a disciplinary hearing. A battalion commander and a company commander of the armored corps are still awaiting a criminal trial.
Tamir served as the Golani Brigade commander at the time of the incident in June 2002, when the Brigade was in charge of the Jenin area.
The shooting occurred after a tank outfit entered the Jenin market place under instructions to impose a curfew in order to search for arms and
ammunition.
The company commander, who had been authorized to fire "deterrence fire," whose purpose is to frighten residents into clearing out of the street, used shells and machine gun fire instead, causing the death of a 53-year old civilian Hilal Shata and three children, Jamil and Ahmed Gazawi, brothers aged 13 and five, and a six-year-old girl, Sujud Turki.
The company commander was tried for causing death by negligence, and for aggravated injury.
The battalion commander, who approved the fire, was indicted six months ago for causing death by negligence.
The former IDF Military Advocate General Menahem Finkelstein decided only to hold a disciplinary hearing for Brigadier General Tamir. Two months ago he was tried by Navy Commander-in-Chief Major General Yedidia Ya'ari, who acquitted the former Golani Brigade commander.
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