הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

Debabseh, a shepherd from South Hebron hills, who was suspected of the 1998 killing of Dov Driban, was killed in 2001 by "IB", a the Border Police officer of Israel's elite counter-terrorism unit the YAMAM (the unit also functions as a mista’arvim unit that impersonates Palestinian civilians in the course of its operations).

PCATI claims in the petition - filed by attorneys Shlomo Lecker, Shimon Dolan, Michael Sfard and Eliahu Abram – that the evidence collected indicates that the Border Police officers assassinated Debabseh although it was possible to arrest him. The intentional harm and killing of civilians under occupation, as alleged to have occurred in this case, also gives rise to the suspicion that a war crime was committed. The petition further states that the Military Advocate General, is disregarding incriminatory evidence, failing to pursue the truth and engaging in a cover up [and facilitating impunity] of an illegal assassination, and this with the support or involvement of political echelons