Israeli commander accused of shooting injured girl

ISRAEL’S top military prosecutor has opened an investigation into a platoon commander who soldiers accuse of emptying an ammunition clip into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl to ensure she was dead.

Soldiers said the commander had approached the girl, who had already been shot and possibly killed, and repeatedly shot her as they pleaded with him to stop.

In an unusual move, the top military prosecutor, Brigadier General Avichai Mandelbleet, ordered an inquiry into the incident before the army finished its own investigation, an army spokeswoman said.