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JERUSALEM, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Israel's Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a request to suspend a high-ranking military chief for callousness to Palestinian deaths.
The charge stems from an air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 targeting a Hamas militant, Salah Shehadeh, allegedly responsible for many Israeli deaths. The 1-ton bomb killed Shehadeh along with 15 Palestinian civilians.
The air force's then-commander, Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz, enraged Israelis when he told Haaretz magazine: "Do you know what I feel when I release a bomb? ... A slight hit in the plane as a result of the release. It passes after a second."
Halutz became deputy chief of general staff and Israelis asked the High Court of Justice to suspend him. Halutz said he was sorry about innocent deaths, but "someone who goes to kill children in Israel must take into account that children around him might be killed."
The judges criticized his remarks, but said they were not grounds for suspension. They are still to rule on another appeal challenging the legality of such operations.
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