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Article: Palestinian human rights group claims: Ya'alon almost arrested in New Zealand
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TALIA DEKEL
Jerusalem Post
12-01-2006
Headline: Palestinian human rights group claims: Ya'alon almost arrested in New Zealand
Byline: TALIA DEKEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 07
Friday, December 1, 2006 -- Former chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon was almost arrested for war crimes during a recent trip to New Zealand, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said Thursday.
According to the human rights organization, the Auckland District Court issued an arrest warrant for Ya'alon, citing a "suspicion of committing a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949," a criminal offense in New Zealand under the Geneva Conventions Act 1958 and International Crimes and ...