{"id":41779,"date":"2026-03-29T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:31:07","slug":"israeli-military-finds-no-negligence-in-killing-of-farmer-near-lebanon-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41779\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli military finds no negligence in killing of farmer near Lebanon border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">March 29 (Reuters) &#8211; The Israeli military said on Sunday it had found no negligence or ethical \u200cfailures by officers involved in the killing of \u200cIsraeli farmer Ofer Moskovitz near the Lebanese frontier earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bhead of Israel&#8217;s Northern Command said on March 23 that Israeli forces had misfired artillery, killing 60-year-old Moskovitz, an avocado farmer from the town of Misgav Am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200cmilitary had initially attributed \u2060the incident to cross-border fire from Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The inquiry found that the fire was carried \u2060out during an operational incident providing close support to the maneuvering forces,&#8221; the Israeli military said in a \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It also \u200bdetermined that the error \u200bresulted from a convergence \u200cof several operational factors and non-optimal firing conditions. Alongside this, no negligence was found, nor was any ethical failure identified among those involved in the firing process within the artillery unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The military said the head of \u200cits ground forces had ordered \u200bthe introduction of a stricter operational \u200bdirective addressing artillery \u200bfire over civilian communities and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel has \u200claunched a major ground assault \u200band air campaign \u200bin Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran\u2011backed group that began firing into Israel on March 2, two \u200bdays after the \u200cstart of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Hatem \u200bMaher and Muhammad Al Gebaly; Editing by \u200bSusan Fenton and Ros Russell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29 (Reuters) &#8211; The Israeli military said on Sunday it had found no negligence or ethical \u200cfailures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,72,93,17822,9324,17821],"class_list":{"0":"post-41779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-israeli-military","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-negligence","12":"tag-northern-command","13":"tag-ofer-moskovitz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116314130523074708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}