Israeli naval commandos were taken off operational duties amid charges that they executed a wounded Palestinian terrorist. The elite unit known as Flotilla 13, Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. Navy Seals, killed an Islamic Jihad fugitive near Jenin over the weekend.
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