The Israeli military is promising an investigation today after soldiers near a checkpoint in downtown Hebron attacked a pair of Reuters cameramen, beating them with their rifles before stripping them to their underwear and detonating a tear gas canister in front of them. The incident took place Wednesday night.
The cameramen were in a car marked as belonging to Reuters and both were wearing flak jackets with “Press” written on them. They were heading to the checkpoint where a Palestinian boy with a toy gun had been slain earlier yesterday.
The soldiers that captured the Reuters cameramen accused them on not being members of a real media outlet, and claimed that they suspected them of working for B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group which is documenting abuses in the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers didn’t give the two a chance to present their press credentials and instead seized their cameras and beat them. One of the two cameramen had to be hospitalized. B’Tselem has reportedly given cameras to Palestinian civilians in the past to document military abuses, but needless to say this is not legally grounds to attack those civilians in the first place.
The soldiers were obviously upset by having been forced to kill a kid. That and some 'reporter' or Arab cop punching one of them in the face the day before.
Soldiering is a tough business, generating a need to spend severance allowances for a year of bowing dope in India. That poor little 'professional' will require extra panty-punching her year 'away'.
An Israeli investigation? Really?
Of course, there 'll be a pseudo investigation to show that the Nazi soldiers were absolutely right and virtuous and noble, as much as Heydrich and Himmler.
Followed by commendations and promotions.
Has anybody noticed that these IDF cowards never attack AP reporters? Food for thought.
Back to this incident, the Israhelis will investigate how the soldiers were caught doing what they did, not why they did it. Wait and see the result of this alleged investigation if ever there was an announced result.
It is the EU that needs to investigate this, and add it to considerations of trade sanctions.
You know that will never happen.
THE BADDIES RULE THE WORLD.
AND THE RULE OF LAW AND DECENCY DOES NOT EXIST