Fallen soldier’s family takes military headstone to IDF headquarters in protest |
The relatives of a fallen soldier who are outraged over how the Israel Defense Forces has addressed their son’s death staged a protest on Thursday by uprooting his headstone from a military cemetery and placing it in front of the office of the General Staff at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The gesture by the family of Sgt. Gur Kehati came a little over a week after the new military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir, decided to close a criminal case against a senior reserve officer who was being investigated for Kehati’s death. At the time of that decision, the family expressed “shock, frustration and pain.”
On Thursday, they demonstrated their anger by placing his military headstone at the door of the General Staff offices.
In footage of the incident published by Hebrew media, Kehati’s father is seen placing a note on the headstone reading: “For Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, from the Kehati family.”
Kehati was killed alongside 71-year-old civilian........