JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's army has exonerated a soldier in the 2011 killing of a Palestinian protester with a rifle-fired tear gas canister, and an Israeli human rights group criticised the ruling as a sign of military impunity.
Mustafa Tamimi, 28, was struck in the head by the canister while chasing an army jeep during a stone-throwing demonstration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Media photographs showed one of the jeep's rear doors slightly ajar with smoke coming out of it as Tamimi collapsed on the road.
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