Israeli military officials are tonight defending the attack and potentially fatal wounding of a 10-year-old Palestinian civilians at the Kissufim checkpoint, after troops shot him in the neck for “loitering.”
The military insists that loitering near the checkpoint is forbidden, and that shooting the child in the neck for doing so was consistent with the military protocol.
Israeli military forces routinely shoot and kill people who are even a little close to checkpoints into the Gaza Strip, though it is rare for one to be such a young child. The Israeli military continued to refer to him as a “suspect” in all statements, and suggested he might have been working for terrorists.
The boy, as yet unnamed, was confirmed to be unarmed, and was described as “gravely wounded” by Israeli sources. The incident is the second time Israeli forces have shot a young Palestinian child in the past few days, and will doubtless escalate tensions in both Gaza and the West Bank.
Perhaps the Israeli right wing WANTS escalation. They are certainly acting like it, with the shootings and the new laws and the settlements and fooling with the Mosque.
One way to understand the right wing is that they have been awaiting a moment international complications would allow a massive ethnic cleaning, and then they mean to create the excuse and do it. The present chaos all over the region is just what they'd be waiting for.
Killed for being alive and Palestinian, obviously he deserved it and his killer was the victim of having to see such a being.
Even more shocking, Rick, is that Israelis state that shooting a child for loitering is consistent with military protocol. Diabolic is a more fitting word to describe such inhumanity. And the US supports those freaks of nature?
Israel is provoking. It must have another attack in the works and needs a response from the tortured people of Gaza to justify it.
And the Israelis wonder why they are hated by the indigenous peoples.
animals
Pure Evil.
10 year olds in that region of the world, are known to be trained to kill, carry guns, or even suicide. I would not trust a kid from any Islamic family. Period.
Only Israel can get away with this.
Over 200,000 Arabs have been murdered by other Arabs in Syria. Many of them children. So really, "only Israel can get away with this"?
I would like to compliment Mr. Ditz on his total lack of bias. Other *blogs* would have called the ten year old a shepherd.
Loitering? Is this journalism or a blog? You must be kidding me. I understand that you all are anti-war. That's awesoem for you; however, when "kids" are sent out by their parents to throw molotov cocktails and hurl stones what do you think is going to happen? Don't give me this evil crap, you have no clue what it's like to live there, what it's like to have a gang of thugs hurling thousands of stones at you and mixing in some explosives to make it interesting and you fools sit behind your safe computer screen and tsk tsk all day long. Pathetic!
Israel is free to murder-massacre and snipe any time they want, because they know they can get away with it! They are nothing but murderous fiendish evil bast—s!!!! They call themselves the most moral and the chosen ones–yeah, they are chosen alright by God to be eventually destroyed!!! Whoever agrees with what the Israelis are doing also belongs in the pits of h-ll!
Israel is free to murder-massacre and snipe any time they want! They belong in the pits of he– along with many others who approve of what they do! They call themselves the 'most moral'–the 'master race' and the 'chosen ones'—-what a joke!!!