Israeli Officer Charged over Child Deaths

World | October 4, 2003, Saturday // 00:00

An Israeli army officer has reportedly been charged over causing the death of four Palestinians, three of them children. The officer was accused of ordering tank units to fire shells and machine guns to enforce a curfew in the West Bank town of Jenin June 2002. Israeli forces in the city then started shooting and shelling to drive civilians off the streets. Since the beginning of Palestinian uprising three years ago, some nine soldiers have gone on trial for killing Palestinians, all of those trials still lingering.

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