Israel to pay October 2000 riot families
Israel to pay October 2000 riot families
The State of Israel has agreed to compensate the families of the October 2000 riots fatalities, Channel 1 reported on Wednesday evening.
The Galilee uprising, October...
The Galilee uprising, October 2, 2000.
Photo: AP
According to an agreement reached between the Northern District Attorney's Office and relatives of the 12 Israeli Arabs and a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip who were killed in the riots, the state will pay each bereaved family NIS 1,100,000. The deal requires a court's approval, and nullifies any future legal claims the families might have against Israel.
During the 10 days of riots, the 13 men were shot and killed by police and other security forces at various locations in the Galilee, and a Jewish motorist was killed in a crash after his car was stoned on the coastal road near Jisr e- Zarka.
At the beginning of 2008, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz announced that no police officers will be indicted in connection with the killing of the men during the riots.
The largely expected ruling, which was decried by Israeli Arabs, followed a decision by the Justice Ministry's Police Investigations Department in September 2005 to close the case due to lack of evidence.
The riots at the start of the Second Intifada sparked renewed concerns among Jews that the country's 1.4 million Arab citizens were a fifth column.
In September 2003, the Or Judicial Commission of Inquiry found that both the government and the police, taken by surprise by the rioting of Israeli citizens, failed to handle the situation properly.
The police, who were heavily outnumbered, later said they had not had enough nonlethal crowd dispersal gear.
Etgar Lefkovits contributed to this report.
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Sad for the families of these people, but in all honesty; odds are they were probably rioting/throwing stones/etc..
I dont think they should have been killed for it, but i do think its a sad state of affairs when Israel pays out over 10m nis for this while most removed from gush katif are still homeless, poor, or both.
I know a guy whose family still lives in a caravan, last year anyway.Originally Posted by bbsh
How about the Arabs from the PA (Palestinian Authority) pay for the **** they caused against Israelis over the last decade?
It was a settlement for the wrongful death of Israelis.
Judicial Process and Due Process at work in a liberal democracy.
Wrongful death? Probably more of a case of excessant use of force by the police..
Then again, even that is debateable as a crowd of a few hundred people throwing stones, bottles, destroying public property and just generally riotting can be quite threatning for a smaller police force.. Especially considering the context that this happened in (intifada)
If those police officers would have been captured, well.. I dont need to explain what would have happened.
Likely this:
that image makes my blood boil every time i see it...Likely this:
I can't see a reason why Israel should compensate the families.. this is absurd.
I suggest that one should not be so quick to portray Israeli Arabs as Palestinian terrorists, lest it become a self fulfilling prophecy.Likely this:
Israeli Arabs are citizens of the state. Palestinians are not. The distinction is fundamentally important in a civil, liberal society, as the former are under state protection and have state rights. The latter obviously do not.
story behind this?that image makes my blood boil every time i see it...
Two young IDF reservists took a wrong turn in the Wset Bank and were arrested, taken to a police station (Ramallah?) awaiting hand-over to IDF.
Arab rioters stormed the station and murdered the soldiers. The blood of the soldiers is proudly displayed at the window...
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