Factsheet: The Case Against Avi Dichter

Just before midnight on July 22, 2002, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb on Al-Daraj, a densely-populated residential neighborhood in Gaza City in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Fifteen people, including eight children, were killed and more than 150 were injured in the aerial bombing.

Avraham (Avi) Dichter, the Director of Israel’s General Security Service, was responsible for planning and directing the attack, and made the decision to carry out this "targeted" assassination with the knowledge that the so-called target’s wife and approximately ten other civilians would be killed in the attack. Dichter is responsible for extrajudicial killings and war crimes, including both direct and indiscriminate attacks against civilians. Click on the link below for a two page handout about this incident and CCR's case against Dichter.

UPDATE: On April 16, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the case against Avi Dichter.