Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Sunday that he would not indict the police officers involved in the deaths of 13 Arab civilians during the riots of October 2000.
Mazuz released an official legal opinion Sunday, reinforcing a decision made by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department (PID) in September 2005 to close the investigation into the case.
Israeli Arabs were rioting in solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada which had just begun in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
During the riots, which lasted some ten days, 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip were shot and killed by police and security forces during violent demonstrations at the entrance to Umm al-Fahm.
In his official report, Mazuz said that in addition to many evidentiary problems that stem from the long period of time that has passed since the incident, «we had to take into consideration the fact that the incident …