They won’t say why, but the Israeli military invaded a West Bank refugee camp today, fairly quickly attacking a bunch of Palestinian protesters, in an incident that left 28 protesters shot, and one Israeli soldier wounded from being hit with a rock.
Officials refused to comment on the raid itself, but said they ordered the “rioters” to disperse and the military shot the main “instigators” when they continued to demonstrate. They also claimed the Palestinians were throwing explosives, though AFP reports who were present did not witness any such thing.
Palestinian sources say they believe the Israeli troops were there to arrest a member of the Fatah Party, but that he managed to escape. The camp is home to about 15,000 Palestinian refugees. After about three hours, the troops left, mostly through a nearby settlement.
Health officials say the troops were initially using rubber bullets, as would be in keeping with Israeli “crowd control” tactics, but very quickly switched to live ammunition. Despite 28 people being shot, none are believed to be mortally wounded.
Seems the Israeli can’t wait for the next war to start.
Israeli soldiers= Thugs in uniform.
They are doing what America keep doing in Iraq/Afganistan/NKorea and on and on.
Hey,they arrested the head of Wapos Israeli operation for incitement.Scum.They hate their own propagandists.
It would make one question why Israel uses its military in what is usually civilian matters. The military should not be used in this matter because they are quick to shot and often held to a stand not correct for civilian matters. The very massive use of force speaks badly for the most moral nation on the planet. For those who want to call me names please explain why your most moral nation cannot arrest someone even when you have nuclear weapon and clearly that Palestinians are armed only with stones.
Trained in America who got rid of 43million native American Indians one million Iraqis 3million Vietnamese 3million Pillipines and so on.
August brim. So noted but why do you respond and not answer the question as to why the Israel military is used for police work? Is it just another way to milk the USA taxpayers? Do you not agree that money to defend the country which is our payment to the IDF shouldn’t be used for police work. I do agree the history of the USA towards native american and the disgraceful operations in vietnam is terrible. Vietnam was managed partially by old henry Kissinger which is from your tribe.
I Totally Agree