The perverse logic of Israeli justice finds that the killing of thirteen civilians in 2002, including children, in order to kill one person they labeled a 'terrorist', although 'disproportionate' was still 'legitimate'.
Gaza/Tel Aviv - A internal probe Monday into Israel's targeted killing of a Hamas leader in Gaza nine years ago found that the victim was a 'legitimate' target - but the results of the strike had been 'disproportionate.'
An Israeli commission of inquiry submitted its findings to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 2002 incident in which Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on the central Gaza City house of Sheikh Salah Shehadeh, a senior leader in the radical Islamist movement now ruling Gaza and the head of its operational branch.
Shehadeh was killed, but so were his wife, his 15-year-old daughter and 13 other innocent civilians who were in neighbouring apartments when the bomb was dropped shortly before midnight on July 22, 2002.
Some 150 neighbouring Palestinians were also injured in Gaza City's densely-populated al-Daraj neighbourhood...
...'An examination of the operation according to the rules of Israeli and international law unequivocally removes any suspicion that a criminal offence was committed by any of those involved in the operation,' said the commission's report, a unclassified summary of which was sent to journalists Monday. more
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