There is concern that MAG could be targeted by far-right activists enraged over conviction of 2 IDF soldiers for illegal conduct during Operation Cast Lead.
By YAAKOV KATZ
The Israel Police’s National Serious and International Crimes (NSIC) Unit was ordered on Thursday to investigate the message spray-painted on the home of Military Advocate-General Brig.-Gen. Avihai Mandelblit.There is concern that he could be targeted by far-right activists enraged over the recent conviction of two IDF soldiers for illegal conduct during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in January 2009.The word “traitor” was spray-painted in large black letters on a wall around Mandelblit’s Petah Tikva home on Wednesday, and police and the IDF have since stepped up security around the advocate- general.The investigation was first handled by Petah Tikva police, but Operations and Intelligence Branch head Cmdr. Yoav Segalovich ordered the NSIC Unit to take over, a police source confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.On October 3, two infantrymen from the Givati Brigade were convicted for ordering a nine-year-old Gazan boy to open boxes and suitcases they feared were booby-trapped.The soldiers were convicted of overstepping their authority, endangering a life, and inappropriate conduct, at the Southern Command Military Court in Kastina, near Kiryat Gat.
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