The women were waving a white flag after fleeing from their home which had been hit by a tank shell. 1400 Palestinians were killed in this “Cast Lead” Israeli offensive of 2009. 13 Israelis were killed.
AFP: An Israeli soldier implicated in the killing of two Gaza women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a military court on Sunday, local media said.
The sniper, identified by Israeli media as “staff sergeant S,” was charged with manslaughter in 2010 over the fatal shooting of an unnamed individual, which Palestinian witnesses linked to the killing of 64-year-old Riyeh Abu Hajaj and her daughter Majda Abu Hajaj, 37, during Israel’s “Cast Lead” Gaza offensive. Read more here.
