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Israel Battles Spanish Arrest Warrants


[Jerusalem Post] Ksenia Svetlova - Israel is battling hard to overturn a Spanish court's decision to issue arrest warrants against six current and former politicians and senior military officials, a source in the Spanish Attorney-General's Office told the Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Late last month, the National Court of Spain (the highest Spanish judicial council), issued arrest warrants against Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Doron Almog, Moshe Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Giora Eiland and Mike Herzog - accepting a petition from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that suggested they were guilty of war crimes in Gaza in 2002. The source said active negotiations between Madrid and Jerusalem are taking place to overturn the warrants. "Some elements with very clear motives and intentions use these lawsuits as a weapon against Israel. The combat between Israel and terrorists continues on different scenes, and the legal scene is just one of them," said former head of the IDF Southern Command Doron Almog.
2008-08-08 01:00:00
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