ABSTRACT
On 4 August 2005, a 19-year-old private in the Israeli army, Eden Nathan Zaada, shot and killed four unarmed Arabian Israelis in anger over Israel’s withdrawal from the then-occupied Gaza Strip. Even though then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon condemned the killings as ‘a despicable act by a bloodthirsty terrorist’, the Israeli Defense Ministry denied that it could be terrorism, as it, according to Israeli law, only is terrorism when perpetrated by ‘organizations hostile to Israel’. Despite the fact that the killed were Israeli citizens, their relatives had no right to the same kind of compensation given to Jewish Israelis killed by Palestinians.3
