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TechnoratiPalestinian Boy, 10, Shot Dead As Israeli Troops Fire On Demonstration
Ni'ilin, West Bank - A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire following clashes between troops and protesters demonstrating against the West Bank barrier yesterday.
The Israeli military said it would mount an investigation into the shooting of Ahmed Moussa, which comes just three weeks after an Israeli soldier was captured on video firing at close range a baton round at a Palestinian man who was blindfolded and cuffed.
The incidents occurred in the village of Ni'ilin, near Ramallah, where Palestinian and international protesters regularly rally to demonstrate against the barrier - which cuts the community off from its farmland and protects the Jewish settlements built illegally, according to international law, inside the West Bank.
Protests often turn violent when stone-throwing youths are confronted by Israeli soldiers firing teargas and ammunition. Scores of Palestinians and troops have been injured over the past few months.
According to witnesses, soldiers fired tear gas and live bullets at the protesters trying to scale a temporary fence, erected to stop them reaching the bulldozers used to clear land to build the barrier. Others said baton rounds had been used.
One regular demonstrator, Jonathon Pollock, said that 18 people were injured.
"We were trying to get to the barrier like we do every time. I personally saw soldiers and border policemen using live ammunition," said Pollock.
By late afternoon yesterday, most of the protesters had dispersed and the violence had subsided, although several youths remained in the area near the village entrance and continued throwing stones, according to some witnesses.
When Israeli soldiers again shot at the youths, Moussa was hit in the forehead.
Israel's military said it would conduct a "thorough examination with the forces in the region". It added the incident was "grave" and that it would consult Palestinian medical personnel.
But it also said it was also examining the possibility that Moussa was killed by Palestinian shooting.
Mohammed Nafa, one of the demonstrators, said he and others carried the boy to an ambulance, cupping his head with a baseball cap.
At a hospital in the nearby town of Ramallah, the boy's family waited at the morgue. A paramedic who had driven the body sat on stairs and wept.
"We told him not to go down [to the protests], but he wouldn't listen," the boy's aunt Khadija Moussa, told the Associated Press.
A border police officer was also wounded during the protest when a stone struck his eye.
The escalation in violence came as an Israeli commander, Lieutenant Colonel Omri Bruberg, who leads the battalion operating around Ni'ilin, was suspended for 10 days until military investigators decide whether there is enough evidence to indict him.
Bruberg is under investigation for his alleged role in the close-range shooting of a 27-year-old Palestinian man, Ashraf Abu-Rahma in the foot this month.
The incident was recorded by a 17-year-old girl from the village and shows Omri holding him by the arm while another soldier, a metre away, fires at the 27-year-old Palestinian's foot.
Abu-Rahma had been protesting at the barrier in Ni'ilin when he was later detained, blindfolded and handcuffed by the army, which then imposed a four-day curfew on the town of Ni'ilin.
The army launched its investigation into the shooting of Abu-Rahma after an Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem released the video of the incident.
It was the latest incident in which a video footage had been used to expose violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Although filmed on a privately owned camera, B'Tselem has handed out about 100 video cameras to Palestinians to film human rights abuses by the Israeli army and settlers.
Bruberg was suspended yesterday after failing his second polygraph test, conducted by the military police after he passed an earlier test conducted last week by a private institute.
The soldier who fired the gun and was held in custody says he was following Bruberg's orders. But Bruberg told military investigators he only told the soldier to shake his rifle to frighten Abu-Rahma.
B'Tselem filed a second complaint against the commander yesterday, alleging that he kicked and trod on the hands of another Palestinian demonstrator two weeks ago.
The UN's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says seven Palestinians and one international have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets fired by the army during protests in Ni'ilin over the past two weeks.
© 2008 The Guardian
27 Comments so far
Show Allgood work. thank you
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sohbet
the Israelis who do this are a sad people. they have lost all heart and now soul.their game has been consistant. lie deny delay, lie deny delay, lie deny delay. I feel bad for the Israelis who truly want peace. just like the peace activists in U.S. its a long haul.
This is a child, you Zionofucks! Goddam you "Israel"!
If an Israeli child were shot by Palestinians, the Baby Killing Israelis would go on a rampage and lob missiles at every Palestinian village. They wouldn't be satisfied until 100,000 Palestinians paid the price.
But since it's Israelis killing the Palestinian children, it's okay.
Why aren't Israelis, along with their evil twin, the U.S. government, charged with war crimes? The killing of innocent civilians is a war crime isn't it?
You Fucking Israeli-Nazi Murderers.
Shot Dead ANOTHER TEENAGER Yesterday.
May you all burn in Hell Forever.
Note: This one was not 10 years old, like a few days ago, this one was 18.
EFF THE JACK-BOOTED NAZI CHILD MURDERERS. EFF THE FOURTH REICH.
And Torturers. Google "Khiam" for documentaion of the Israeli's not just Murdering Children, But Torturing Them.
At what point did shooting children become okay?
At what point did bulldozing people's homes become okay?
At what point did stealing a country, a homeland become okay?
NEVER, IN THE EYES OF GOD.
Postscript: Bless the good Israeli's supplying video-cameras to Palestinians to document the horrors.
Why are we sending these lunatics $6 billion every year again??
One would think because of the numerous stories on CD about Israeli atrocities towards Palestinians that this is something new and is increasing.
Unfortunately that is not the case!
What we see here is NOTHING new!
It has been going on for many years.
I am thrilled that finally more of the atrocities are getting noticed.
Perhaps with more knowledge of a greater number of people, including Israelis, the Israeli government and the IDF will be curbed. However, this will only happen if we here in the United States push OUR government to openly CONDEMN Israel for their actions.
CD, Thank you and keep giving us the TRUTH!
Well, nothing has happened since 1982, when I was in Lebanon with the USN/USMC forces there, to rein in the evil and violent Israelis who have violated so many UN Security Council resolutions. WHY, you might ask. Easy.....the US is controlled by a group of very wealthy, whining Ashkenazi
Khazar Jews who have enabled Israel to be the murderous entity that it is. Hard FACT is the Khazars have NO real connection to Palestine. The vast majority of Jews in Israel are Khazars, and come from Poland, Eastern Europe, or Russia. The true semite Palestinian Jews are Sephardic, who are treated as second class citizens in Israel. Read Jack Bernstein's account of his living in Israel. Last point: If Christian America actually knew that the Israelis have just about run all of the Palestinian Christians out of the West Bank, the USA would abandon Israel in a New York second. If you are reading this, you have access to a vast amount of information to verify what I have written. Google Jack Bernstein, Benjamin Freedman (Friedman). Look up all the UN Security Council resolutions Israel has violated. And, ask yourself why the number of Jew US Senators is 4 times the presence of Jews in the general population in America. Wake UP, America, you have been scammed. It is far past time to ABANDON Israel.
This is but one example. For indepth background see (among
others) "Fateful Triangle" by Noam Chomsky and
"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Ilan Pappe (both
in paperback).
In the US, we live in a controlled (read censored) atmosphere. Each vote must be taken one-by-one such as the
battle against H.Con.Res. 362. You want the support of
those with whom you essentially disagree. If we see ourselves as creating saints overnight, we are
following a path to self-immolation.
Contact "Just Foreign Policy"
at: www.justforeignpolicy.org. Patience and knowledge
are our guides.
Talk about clueless, "Moshe Dayan"!
You sound like some of the Holocaust deniers I've had to deal with - seriously!
For what it's worth:
"Date: 2005-04-29 11:37 Bili'in, April 28
On the invitation of Bil'in village, west of Ramallah, Gush Shalom participated today (Thursday, 28.4.05) in a demonstration against the Separation Fence which is being built on the land of the village. The fence, which almost touches the houses of the village, separates the village from most of its land, on which the ultra-orthodox settlement of Kiryat Sefer will be enlarged even more. This settlement is built wholly on land taken from the adjoining Palestinian villages.
Together with Gush Shalom, "Anarchists Against the Wall", "Ta'ayush" and the Women's Coalition for Peace" took part.
All the participants - about 1000 Palestinians and 200 Israelis - undertook in advance to avoid all violence. However, before the demo could reach the site of the fence, it was savagely attacked by the security forces, which bombarded it with tear gas bombs without the slightest provocation.
Many of the demonstrators succeeded in going around the chain of soldiers, but clashed further on with a second chain and were attacked with tear gas. The first section of the demo, which included the Palestinian minister Fares Kadduri, presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti, Uri Avnery and Knesset members Barakeh, Dahamshe and Sakhalka, got to within 50 meters of the bulldozers, when they were viciously attacked. A tear gas bomb was thrown between the feet of MK Barakeh from a distance of less than a meter. Barakeh was slightly wounded. A soldier pushed Avnery violently and threw him down.
Only then the reason for this violence became clear: for the first time, a special unit of the Prison Service, called Massada, was put into action, using new means of riot control, such as specially painful plastic bullets covered with salt, pepper bombs and more. Several demonstrators, both Israeli and Palestinian, were wounded.
The cameras succeeded in prove a shocking fact: the stones which were thrown at the security forces and served as pretext for their savage behavior, were thrown by undercover members of the special unit disguised as Arabs (called "Arabized"). They mingled with the demonstrators and threw big rocks at the soldiers. When they were exposed, they turned on the nearest demonstrators and arrested four - two Palestinians and two Israelis.
The clashed lasted for four hours, and the demonstrators agreed to withdraw only after they were promised that the arrested men would be released.
(A  video film of the  demonstration will be shown on the Gush Shalom website immediately after the completion of the editing work.)"
Let me stress that for you, just in case you have failing eyesight and haven't read it:
"The cameras succeeded in prove a shocking fact: the stones which were thrown at the security forces and served as pretext for their savage behavior, were thrown by undercover members of the special unit disguised as Arabs (called "Arabized"). They mingled with the demonstrators and threw big rocks at the soldiers. When they were exposed, they turned on the nearest demonstrators and arrested four - two Palestinians and two Israelis."
If you have anything constructive to add, we would be delighted to hear it - if not, please place your head back in your rectum.
The Israelis have improved on everything they learned from the Nazis, both physically and mentally.
Was this the garbage that was cast out of the garden of Eden?
I weep for our affiliation with Israel.
Shame on us for aligning ourselves with such a hateful, Nazi-esque empire.
Who'd have thought this could happen? That the Jewish People would become as ugly as their nemesis...the Nazi's?
Incredible.
And equally incredible to try to imagine that our tax dollars are supporting this criminal enterprise?!
When will our common dream (nightmare) of Nazi domination end? When will we call out the Nazi's in our midst for their contemptible criminality? The Pelosi's? The Bush's? The Cheney's? And on and on and on and on?
A little glimmer of hope. Cindy Sheehan gathered enough signatures to qualify as an Independent to run against the Nazi Nancy Pelosi in the November election.
Godspeed Cindy. But let's not trust the Diebold electronic voting machines in the Bay area come November!!! We must be at ALL the polling areas counting the votes...
How these Israelis have the nerve to wall out the Palestinians and leave them in dire poverty. First they steal their land, then their means of making a living, and next they block them from water and trade. You would think that after what the Jews experienced during Hitler's reign, they would have developed compassion for all. But greed is man's choice for the day,and forget the starving and innocent children.
Boy, a lot of these folks sound just like Americans - "Kill'em all, let the flat earth genocidal blood god sort'em out." With the merciless American conquerors, that's about what you'd expect. You know, all the higher attributes of people who don't bathe and who got away with genocide themselves.
Have no fear, the Israeli's will mirror the behaviors of every genocidal tribe in human history and they will probably get a away with it. Like the Jews themselves, when it was their turn on the pig wheel, there were survivors, and those survivors swore a blood oath of revenge, on somebody. The Palestinians simply happened to be a an available victim to be eviscerated by a rage without limits - just like America. The proof is that so many will kill you for merely saying it.
The real trick here is that all those American Israeli's, especially the ones with dual citizenship working in the Executive offices of the White House got America to pay for it for them - for 50 years.
Getting America to pay for anything for that long is one good trick.
Zionists - history of theft and murder - all the while crying poor me and getting vicious when anyone doesn't buy - Israel was built with everything they could steal - they went as guests and then turned on their hosts with murder and theft - DUMB ARABS - being charitable hosts and allowing the vipers in. Oh yeah - that is what they do - century after century after century until everyone gets tired of them
Sounds like we have another Mohammed Al-Dura on our hands. Will it take a trial to find out that the Palestinian animals killed another one of their own for propaganda purposes?
Heil Ehud!----the new Hitler. Of course, the good citizens of Israel, like the good people of Dachau, have absolutely no idea of what is happening in their neighborhood.
Lademain
May Allah have mercy on your soul!
But spoken like a true Chr....., er bestiality worshipper.
Congrats to Israel for finally getting some steel in their spine and defending themselves, which is how they should have defended themselves from the very beginning. We hope the Israelis ignore the whining of all those who aid and abet the Islamic thugs; thugs and thieves who chopped off an American reporter's head and then had the bloody gall to broadcast their murder for their bloody entertainment. Anyone who feels sympathy for the Islamic imposters occupying Israel's territories are either fools or despicable Saudi propagandists. We are on to you. And we understand your attempt to propagate another fraud similar to the one you people created with the al Durrah hoax. Your current ploy would be laughable were it not so despicable. Now we have a question for YOU: Would YOU people would stand still and take a concrete chunk dropped on your head by an ten year old arab child? If a 12 year old girl aimed a shot gun at your baby's belly, would you let her pull the trigger "because she is "only a 12 year old"? And if this girly-murderer were an arab, would you spew lies to justify her murdering your baby? When you people take a hit in your face and end up blind from some lousy kid attacking you, then you can complain. Until then, just shut up. We are the NON-evangelical Chnstians for Zion. We say: Restore Jewish Palestine from the ocean to the sea the way the League of Nations and the Brits promised it should be.
So when do we accuse Israel of committing genocide?
Rove deserves to be cited for contempt because he is one of the most contemptable political operatives to advise a President.
His sleaziness includes the Swift Boat Ads, spreading rumours that George W. Bush's opponent for Governor of Texas was gay, and most vile of all was the outing of V. Plame.
Revealing the identity of an undercover CIA agent is a capital offense and Rove should be judged in a court of law and pay the price if found guilty. Ideally the sentencing would take place after Bush has left office so Bush can't pardon him.
http://www.stateofdarkness.com
Gaza And The Warsaw Ghetto
same place
different time
while the world stood by
genocide
live
This should end.
Israel:
Ammuniation and aid funded by Land of the "Free" and home of the "Brave"
RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli troops wounded three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said.
Israel should have sanctions brought against them and they should face the World Court for their crimes against the Palestinians and other Middle Eastern people. If the Nazis can be tried in a War Tribunal than so should Israel. They are not above International Law and neither is our Government. War and War crimes should be prosecuted against all countries that do pre-emptive strikes. We must respect all people in the world and their right to LIVE AND HAVE A LIFE.
"truly a crime against a child"
Paid for by your Congressman and mine with our tax money and now both AIPAC candidates are fawning all over these Baby Butchers!