And killed them by hand with a knife! What kind of barbarian does that? Since the perpetrator(s) will never be brought to justice I'm not sure exactly what I would do in retaliation but after the funerals I know it would be swift and it would be deadly.
Its Israel, they have to be buried within 24 hours. I'm shocked that anyone could be proud of such an act. I don't see how this helps the arabs.
They must do it to stoke the hate. Just like when they would fire missiles indiscriminately into Israel. I can't seeing them being so stupid that they think it will bring them closer to a Palestinian state or the destruction of Israel. It just makes people like me wish they were gone from the face of the Earth.
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Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday. The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
Palestinian Popular Committees Against the Wall and Israeli Settlements express their deep sadness and sorrow concerning the killing incident in the Itamar colonial settlement. The Popular Committees view the killing incidence as a part of the escalation generated and mobilized by the policies and actions of the Israeli occupation. These policies created the circumstances for committing these heinous actions. Therefore, we believe that the Israeli government bears full responsibility for the occupation and its consequences. The Popular Committees are committed to nonviolence and civil disobedience in our struggle to end the Israeli occupation. Though the crime was committed on colonized land, we see the killing of children as a despicable crime regardless of their nationality, gender, color, race or religion.
You assholes are pathetic, look at the ratios of WHO kills children. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/children.html
Israeli Army Says âOk to Kill 12 Year Oldsâ admits to war crimes From Haaratz 2000 Amira Hass Q=You havenât shot children. A=âAll the sharpshooters havenât shot children.â Q=But nonetheless there are children who were hit, wounded or killed after they were hit in the head. Unless these were mistakes. A=âIf they were children, they were mistakes.â Q=âYou donât shoot a child who is 12 or younger.âThat is, a child of 12 or older is allowed? A=âTwelve and up is allowed. Heâs not a child any more, heâs already after his bar mitzvah. Something like that.â âTwelve and up, youâre allowed to shoot. Thatâs what they tell us.â Q=Again: Twelve and up youâre allowed to shoot children. A=âBecause this already doesnât look to me like a child by definition, even though in the United States a child can be 23.â(NOTE=WARNING HASBARA ALERT!!!!!!!!!!) Q=Under international law, a child is defined as someone up to the age of 18. A=âUp until 18 is a child?â(NOTE=Is this soldier stupid or what? Room temperature IQ perhaps? Is this the level of intelligence of an IDF sharpshooter? God help us all!!) Q=So, according to the IDF, it is 12? A=âAccording to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I donât know if this is what the IDF says to the media.â (NOTE=Ah ha! So this means the IDF lie to the media, we have an admission of lying here!) Q=I want to persist in the matter of the 12-year-olds. Why was this age set? A=âI have heard that it was important to the IDF to know whether someone was over 12, so therefore I understood that the age of 12 is a border line. They havenât told us any age, just that we must not shoot at children. The IDF doesnât specify ages. (NOTE=so now we have a âno ageâ policy, any Palestinian of any age is a target!) http://www.mafhoum.com/press/childtsahal.htm http://irish4palestine.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/211/
Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip â Nasser Abu Freeh was one of the first to see the Israeli soldiers as they entered this pastoral Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan. 3, hours after the Israeli government ordered the first ground forces into Gaza. Abu Freeh's two-story hilltop home is a favorite spot for Israeli soldiers, who used it as a command post during three previous attempts to deter Gaza militants from firing crude rockets into Israel from the surrounding cattle farms, orange groves and dirt alleys. Scouts from the militant Islamist group Hamas also favored the hilltop as a place to watch for approaching Israeli soldiers, and the fighters tried to lure the Israelis into a trap by planting land mines outside Abu Freeh's home. As the Israelis moved in, neighbors said, the Hamas scouts put up little resistance and quickly fell back into the more densely populated part of the neighborhood. Within hours, the Israeli soldiers took over Abu Freeh's house, moved the seven people living there into one room and began interrogating the adults. The questioners were angry because one of their soldiers had been killed nearby in the early hours of the ground offensive, and they wanted to know what traps Hamas had set for the Israeli forces. "Where are the tunnels?" Abu Freeh said the soldiers asked in Arabic. "I will kill you if you don't tell me." Israeli tanks and bulldozers soon took up hilltop positions around Abu Freeh's home, and Khaled Abed Rabbo's five-story house in the valley below was one of those in the line of fire. More than 70 members of his family crowded into one apartment for days. On Jan. 7, Abed Rabbo said, the shelling intensified, and they heard an Israeli solider calling for people to come out of their homes. Abed Rabbo said he gathered his wife, their three daughters and his mother, Souad. Souad Abed Rabbo said that she tied a white robe around a mop handle and two of her granddaughters waved white headscarves as they walked outside. When they opened the door, they saw an Israeli tank parked in their garden about 10 yards away. "We were waiting for them to give us an order," Khaled said last week as he stood in the ruins of his home. "Then one came out of the tank and started to shoot." Souad Abed Rabbo said she was shot as she pushed her son back inside and her granddaughters fell on the stairs. When the shooting was over, she said, 2-year-old Amal and 7-year-old Souad were dead. The allegation is one of at least five such white flag incidents that human rights investigators are looking into across the Gaza Strip. It's part of a growing pattern of alleged abuses that have raised concerns that some Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes during their 22-day military campaign in Gaza. "The evidence we've gathered in two of the cases so far is exceedingly strong," said Fred Abrahams, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch working in the Gaza Strip. "All the research so far suggests they shot civilians that were leaving their homes with white flags." Along with the white flag incidents, Human Rights Watch is calling for an international investigation into widespread charges that Israel prevented medical teams from helping wounded Palestinians trapped in their homes and needlessly demolished hundreds of houses, including dozens in Ezbt Abed Rabbo. "This was not a rogue unit," said Abrahams. "The needless civilian deaths resulted from concrete decisions made by the military." The Israeli military, which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called "the most moral army in the world," said it's investigating the increasing number of war crimes allegations, but it rejected any suggestion that its soldiers had targeted civilians. "IDF forces have clear firing orders," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement in response to questions from McClatchy. "But in the complex situation in which fighting takes place inside towns and cities, placing our forces also at great risk, civilian casualties are regrettably possible." Throughout the war, Israeli officials said Hamas militants put Palestinian civilians in danger by booby-trapping homes and firing on soldiers from crowded buildings. However, residents living near Khaled Abed Rabbo all said that Hamas forces quickly abandoned the outlying neighborhood once the Israeli forces took over. With his daughters bleeding to death, Abed Rabbo said, the family screamed for help. Samieh al Sheik, an ambulance driver who lived in an adjacent home, heard the shouting. Without thinking about what could be waiting outside, Sheik said he ran to his ambulance, turned on the emergency lights and drove toward the screams. As he turned the corner and headed for Abed Rabbo's home, Sheik said he came face-to-face with the Israeli tank unit. The soldiers ordered him to get out of the ambulance and told him to walk straight out of the neighborhood. "I didn't see what happened to the family that day because I couldn't reach them," said Sheik, who returned to find the ambulance crushed under a demolished building. Faced with his dying children, Abed Rabbo gathered up the wounded and sought to escape, even if the Israelis opened fire. With Israeli soldiers shooting at the ground near their feet, Abed Rabbo said, the family walked more than a mile to the main road, where they finally found help. His surviving 4-year-old daughter, Samer, was one of the few to be allowed out of Gaza to receive special medical care in Brussels. Halima Badwan was less fortunate. As Abed Rabbo rushed his surviving daughter to the hospital, she lay dying in a house nearby. Halima and her husband, Ahmed, a retired 63-year-old Palestinian Authority general, were among nine people who'd gathered in one room during the fighting. The previous day, Ahmed Badwan said, a tank round had smashed into the room, killing a neighbor and seriously injuring his wife. Badwan didn't think he could carry his wife to safety. Red Cross officials in Gaza said that Israeli military officials repeatedly denied their requests to send medical teams to the neighborhood. So, when the Israeli military began declaring a short "humanitarian pause" to the shooting each day, Badwan said he took his wife's gold necklace and left her lying nearly unconscious in the ruins of their home. As he walked out of his neighborhood, Badwan said, he stopped at a nearby ambulance station and asked for help. The International Committee for the Red Cross was powerless to do anything. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/60853.html
So that justifies the knife slaughter of a 3-month old baby? Pathetic doesn't begin to describe you. Twisted and depraved is closer but still inadequate. I would go so far as to speculate that you are mentally ill. Ratios indeed.