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Former IDF chief sued in U.S. court for his role in Kafr Kana shelling
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"A group of Lebanese nationals on Thursday filed a civil law suit against former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lieutenent General (res.) Moshe Ya'alon for war crimes and other human rights violations.

The class action lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), is in relation to the hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in the 1996 shelling by the IDF of a United Nations compound in south Lebanon's Kafr Kana.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

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"Last week, CCR and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed a class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shin Bet domestic security service."

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"Unlike previous damages law suits against senior Israeli defense officials, the lawsuits submitted against Ya'alon and Dichter will be processed by the U.S. court system because the two are currently staying in the States."

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