In Israel, a military court has acquitted an army captain who fired 17 bullets into a Palestinian schoolgirl. Thirteen-year old Iman al-Hams was killed while walking by an Israeli army tower near Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip last year. An audio tape of the incident shows the girl was identified as a “a little girl” who looked “scared to death.” Soldiers fired anyway, hitting her several times, including as she tried to flee. On the tape, the captain — identified to the media only as “Captain R” — said he was going to “confirm the kill.” Palestinian witnesses say they then saw him shoot Iman twice in the head and several times in her body. On the recording, the captain explained: “Anything that’s mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed.” After the verdict, the girl’s father, Samir al-Hams, said : “They did not charge him with Iman’s murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times. This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The soldier murdered her once and the court has murdered her again. What is the message? They are telling their soldiers to kill Palestinian children.”