ISRAEL: First of the signatories of the 'Letters of the Officers' sentenced for refusing to serve
War Resisters' International learned today that Amit Gal, on of the signatories of the 'Letters of the Officers' (see www.seruv.org.il), has been sentenced to 28 days in prison for refusing to perform reserve services in the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday.
Amit Gal is the first among the signatories of this famous letter to be imprisoned since the letter was published - but several of the signatories already spent time in prison before the letter was made public.
War Resisters' International calls for letters of support to Amit Gal.
Amit Gal
Military personal no. 4695371
Military Prison No 4
Military postal code 02507
IDF, Israel
War Resisters' International calls for letters of protest to the Israeli authorities, and Israeli embassies abroad.
War Resisters' International calls for the immediate release of conscientious objector Amit Gal and all other imprisoned conscientious objectors.
Andreas Speck
War Resisters' International
Mr. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,
Minister of Defence,
Ministry of Defence,
37 Kaplan st.,
Tel-Aviv 61909,
Israel.
e-mail: mailto:sar@mod.gov.il or mailto:pniot@mod.gov
Fax: ++972-3-696-27-57 / ++972-3-691-69-40 / ++972-3-691-79-15
Commander of Military Prison No. 4,
Military Postal Code 02507
IDF, Israel
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