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One ton bomb dropped on gaza neighborhood Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/658545.html http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/658545.html Last update - 07:56 16/12/2005 Former IDF chief: War crimes suit won't disrupt U.S. stay By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon is not letting a civil lawsuit filed against him over war crimes disrupt his stay in the United States, Israel Radio reported Friday. The class-action lawsuit brought by a group of Lebanese nationals was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Ya'alon is serving as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He was scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at a Thursday night conference. Ya'alon refused to accept the lawsuit when it was delivered to him, Israel Radio said. The suit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), relates to the hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in the 1996 shelling by the IDF of a United Nations compound in south Lebanon's Kafr Kana and accused Ya'alon of war crimes and other human-rights violations. CCR attorney Jamil Dakwar told Haaretz that the amount of compensation would be determined by the jury at the trial. Last week, CCR and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed a class-action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shin Bet security service. The lawsuit was submitted on behalf of the family members of 14 Palestinians who were killed when the IDF dropped a one-ton bomb on a Gaza neighborhood in July 2002 during the targeted killing of Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh. The compensation sought in that case is estimated in the millions of dollars. Unlike previous suits for damages against senior Israeli defense officials, the lawsuits submitted against Ya'alon and Dichter will be processed by the U.S. court system because the two are currently staying in the U.S.

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