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10 September

Doron Almog 2LONDON POLICE FEARED GUN BATTLE IN AIRPORT
This day in 2005, Israeli General Doron Almog’s plane landed in Heathrow Airport, where he was tipped off by persons unknown that an arrest warrant for war crimes had been issued and police officers were waiting for him at immigration. The plane was allowed to fly back to Tel Aviv because police feared Almog’s bodyguards would start a gun battle on UK soil if they served the UK arrest warrant on Almog. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw apologized to Israel for the issuing of the warrant by the Chief London Magistrate.

 

 

خشيت شرطة لندن من نشوب معركة مسلحة في المطار

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في هذا اليوم من عام 2005، هبطت طائرة الجنرال الإسرائيلي دورون ألموغ في مطار هيثرو، حيث تم إبلاغه من قبل أشخاص مجهولين بوجود مذكرة لاعتقاله بتهمة ارتكاب جرائم حرب وكان ضباط الشرطة في انتظاره عند مكتب الهجرة. سُمح للطائرة بالعودة إلى تل أبيب لأن الشرطة كانت تخشى أن يبدأ حراس الجنرال ألموغ معركة نارية على الأراضي البريطانية إذا نفذوا أمر القبض البريطاني على الجنرال. اعتذر وزير الخارجية جاك سترو لإسرائيل عن إصدار مذكرة الاعتقال الصادرة عن كبير قضاة لندن.

The following joint statement was issued by Hickman & Rose - a law firm based in Islington, London and specializing in human-rights cases - and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)

An Israeli war crimes suspect today turned tail to avoid arrest by British police officers under an arrest warrant issued by Bow Street Magistrates’ Court. Major General (retired) Doron Almog today spent some time ‘airside’ at Heathrow airport before taking a return flight to Israel. He had learned that he was facing arrest by British police after a decision on 10th September 2005 by Chief London Magistrate Timothy Workman to issue a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of committing a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949 which is a criminal offence in the UK under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957. (The alleged offence was committed as part of Israel’s belligerent occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory).

This unprecedented arrest warrant against a senior Israeli soldier was issued after years of failed efforts to obtain justice through the Israeli judicial system. Because of the failure of the Israeli judiciary to combat impunity, PCHR, acting for victims in Gaza, built a file of evidence with the help of Hickman & Rose Solicitors to pursue a case against him (and others) in the UK in accordance with the legal principle of universal jurisdiction over war crimes.

Scotland Yard allowed a suspected war criminal to escape Britain because officers feared an attempt to stop him would lead to a gun battle at Heathrow airport, police documents seen by the Guardian reveal. The former senior Israeli officer was supposed to be detained as he arrived in London for a speaking engagement after a British court had ordered his arrest.

But detectives watched on as he landed and hid on the plane for two hours, before flying off to escape justice. In the documents, counter-terrorism police say they did not try to board the Israeli civilian jet partly because they feared armed guards on the plane would open fire on British officers.

Israeli general escaped arrest at Heathrow ‘because police feared gunfight’
An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest at Heathrow airport because British police feared an armed stand-off. Major-General Doron Almog stayed on board the El Al plane for two hours after it landed in London in September 2005 after being tipped off that a warrant had been issued for his detention.

In 2002, another Israeli war criminal, Shaul Mofaz, was helped by the UK Government and police to avoid detention by police on a UK arrest warrant