Israel closes probe into Palestinian activist’s tear-gas death

“Israel’s army has decided to close an investigation into the killing of a Palestinian activist during a West Bank demonstration in 2009, an Israeli rights group said Tuesday.  According to B’Tselem, the military’s prosecutor general had decided to close the case for lack of evidence.  Bassem Abu Rahmeh, 30, who was struck in the chest by a tear-gas canister on April 17, 2009 at a protest in the village of Bilin, and died of his wounds.
The army had decided to open an investigation into Abu Rahmeh’s death in 2010 after a team of international experts found its forces had fired the tear gas in violation of regulations.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/10/israel-closes-probe-into-palestinian-activists-death/

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