JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli military police on Tuesday arrested a
commander accused by comrades of riddling the body of a Palestinian
schoolgirl with bullets after fellow soldiers killed her.
A military police unit investigating the death of 13-year-old Iman
al-Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 5 arrested the company
commander after finding that his account of the incident was false, the
army said.
Hamas was hit about 20 times near an Israeli military outpost on her
way to school in Rafah, a refugee camp on Gaza's border with Egypt that
has seen frequent violence during a 4-year-old Palestinian uprising.
The army launched an investigation after unidentified soldiers from
the outpost told Israeli media that after their initial volley killed
the girl, the commander went out and fired into her body repeatedly.
Army chief Moshe Yaalon told Israel's cabinet the troops in the
outpost believed the girl had been sent by militants to lure them out
so they could be picked off by snipers. He said she approached the post
on a path only used by the militar
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