1 in 4 Zionist troops serving at the hundreds of checkpoints has engaged in abuse of Palestinians.

Report slams Zionist army over Palestinian abuse probes

Al-Qods, 2007 Dec 18, Al-Manar

Ninety percent of the probes launched by the Zionist occupation army since 2000 into suspected offences against Palestinians closed without any indictment, a Zionist human rights group said on Tuesday December 18.
 
According to the Yesh Din report, the criminal offences include "illegal shooting causing the death and injury of civilians, violence and abuse, intentional damage to property, looting, taking bribes." The number of investigations launched by the Zionist military police into the killing and wounding of civilians not involved in combat "is especially low considering the number of casualties," the report said.
 
The 239 probes opened from September 2000 to September 2007 led to only 16 convictions, a rate of less than seven percent, the report said.

"The low number of investigations opened and the minute number of indictments served reveal the Zionist army's de facto derogation of its duty to protect the Palestinian population against offences committed by soldiers," Yesh Din legal advisor Michael Sfard said in a statement. This "inevitably leads to a rise in the number and severity of the offenses committed by them," Sfard said.
 
There was no immediate reaction from the Zionist occupation army to the report. A recent army-commissioned survey showed that one in four Zionist troops serving at the hundreds of checkpoints across the occupied West Bank has engaged in or witnessed abuse of Palestinians, including humiliations and gratuitous delays.