Yesh Gvul: 8 additional files of suspect Israeli officers, including Chief of Staff Dan Halutz were submitted to the English police, in addition to the investigation against Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog. Yesh Gvul has withdrawn the petition to the High Court of Justice which requested that the court order the opening of a criminal investigation into the killing of 14 innocent civilians in the course of the killing of the Hamas leader Salah Shechade

The Yesh Gvul movement is withdrawing the petition we submitted to the HCJ, which demanded to open a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the killing of 14 innocent residents of Gaza, in the course of the execution without trial of the Hamas leader Salah Shechade, by the means of dropping a one ton bomb on a densely populated neighbourhood on July 22, 2002.

Yesh Gvul spokesperson, Dr. Ishai Menuchin stated that "Yesh Gvul has lost faith in the Israeli Supreme Court's ability to rule in cases connected to the IDF's actions as an occupying force, and into grave breaches of international law including the execution of war crimes, which are the result of those actions.

Yesh Gvul warned, within the framework of the petition which was submitted by Advocates Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfard, that "the High Court of Justice is last stop of the law enforcement train before it crosses the borders of the State of Israel".

The train has left the station with the issuing of an arrest warrant in England against the former GOC Southern Commander, Doron Almog, on the suspicion of responsibility for the committing of war crimes.

Eight additional files, which raise the suspicion that additional IDF offices are responsible for war crimes, have been submitted to English police. These are the first cars of a long train.

The High Court of Justice, which has heretofore avoided the discussion into the IDF's responsibility for the committing of war crimes, must see itself as responsible for the fact that search for justice is now taking place in England, and not in the Israeli courts.