Press and independent media
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Fury after Israeli officer in charge of prisoner's shooting is 'reassigned'
08/08/2008
[The Independent] Outraged Israeli human rights organisations have united in challenging the military’s decision to invoke only minor penalties against a senior officer over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner by a soldier under his command.
Lt-Col Omri Burberg has been "reassigned" and was indicted yesterday on the limited charge of "unworthy conduct" after the incident last month in which he held the Palestinian as the soldier shot him at close range in the foot with a rubber-coated bullet. The offence does not carry a custodial sentence.
“Soft charges hurt more than bullet”
07/08/2008
[YNet] Ashraf Abu Rahma, bound Palestinian fired at by IDF soldier, laments lenient charges filed by Military Prosecution against officer who held him during Naalin shooting incident.
Fencing in the High Court of Justice
05/08/2008
[Ha’aretz] The recent rulings of the High Court of Justice in petitions against the route of the separation fence, as in the areas of Tzofin and Bil’in, show the justices are fed up with saluting every claim of "security needs."
Civil Disobedience and the Will to Resist
05/08/2008
[Middle East Times] The Israeli High Court of Justice has recently given the state just 45 days to submit a new route for part of the separation wall that cuts through the Palestinian village of Bil’in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Court, state clash over barrier route
03/08/2008
[Jerusalem Post] In one of the most bitter clashes in memory between the High Court of Justice and a representative of the State Attorney’s Office, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch on Sunday accused the state of violating a ruling handed down 11 months ago regarding the route of the West Bank security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bil’in and the urban settlement of Modi’in Illit.
