Israel condemns website troops list

Israel’s military has condemned the publication of the names and photographs of 200 Israeli soldiers by a website that calls the troops “war criminals”.

The site also published the addresses and ID numbers of many of the Israelis, who it said had participated in the offensive Israel launched in Gaza in late 2008.

The Israel Defence Forces said that the military “deplores the publication of personal details of hundreds of IDF soldiers and officers, without any factual basis whatsoever”.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the website was put up earlier this week by anonymous activists in Britain and hosted by a US-based web service, which took it down by Friday, citing “breach of terms”.