No justice for Abir Aramin

cyberhog

Abir, described by teachers as a "lovely" model student, was fatally wounded in January 2007 as she walked down the street with her sister and two friends after buying sweets in a shop across the road from her school in the West Bank village of Anata at the end of a maths exam.

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District Judge Orit Efal-Gabai declared unequivocally in open court: "Abir and her friends were walking down a street where there were no rock-throwers, therefore there was no reason to shoot in their direction.

"It is clear that Abir's death, caused by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, was due to negligence..."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bassam-aramins-search-for-justice-2055355.html


High Court affirms: Girl was killed by rubber bullet

The High Court of Justice on handed down pointed criticism of the police and state prosecutor's handling of an inquiry into the death of a 10-year-old killed by a rubber bullet three years ago. The court rejected the state's position that the girl, Abir Aramin, may have been killed by a stone thrown by Palestinians.

The decision upheld a lower court's decision in favor of the girl's family in a civil case against the state...

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=228697


On July 10, 2011 The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition to indict the border policemen suspected of killing Abir Aramin

In their verdict handed July 10th, 2011, written by Chief Justice Dorit Beinish and Justices Ayala Procaccia and Edna Arbel – the Justices ruled that the authorities handling of this "sordid affair" was "faulty, as no adequate investigation was held from the beginning".

The strongly-worded verdict stated that "it seems that the major fault in this affair was the negligent preliminary investigation which was held after Abir's injury and then death. It is a basic rule that when a violent incident occurs which causes the severe injury and later the death of a civilian, an immediate investigation should be held at the site – and a fortiori when the civilian is a minor".

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At the end of their verdict, the Justices state that they will not intervene with the Attorney-General's decision not to indict the border policemen who were involved in the incident in which Abir was killed – mostly due to the difficulty to hold an investigation over four years after the incident took place.

http://www.yesh-din.org/postview.asp?postid=171

This is the true face of Israeli "justice". A young Palestinian girl killed in cold blood and nobody in the security forces is held responsible.

cyberhog

Judge Orit Efal-Gabai has ordered the state to pay the Aramin family $432,000 in compensation.

The Jerusalem district court ruled on Sunday that the state of Israel was responsible for the child's death and must pay compensation for "lost years", the circumstances of her death and for burial expenses. Judge Orit Efal-Gabai said there was no doubt the bullet that struck Abir was fired in violation of orders.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/israel-pay-family-compensation-palestinian-girl?newsfeed=true

We all know Israel disregards court rulings it doesn't like, and I suspect this one will be no exception. Israel knows it doesn't have to worry about ignoring the rule of law or its security forces being held accountable for killing innocent children as long as it has the backing of it's great friend, the USA. Israel doesn't care that it undermines it's own legitimacy as a law-abiding nation, it’s been given free rein by the USA to do whatever and the judiciary is powerless to do anything about it.