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Israel Faces Its Own Abu Ghraib

HeadlineNov 23, 2004

Meanwhile the Israeli government has launched an investigation into a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot that Israeli soldiers have routinely desecrated the bodies of dead Palestinians and took “trophy photos” of the corpses. In one case soldiers posed for pictures with the head of a suicide bomber. In another instance, soldiers bound the body of an unarmed Palestinian to the hood of a jeep.

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