Border Policemen shoot dead 10-year-old Palestinian near Jenin

[Englander]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP

Border Policemen shot dead a ten-year-old Palestinian girl and injured another man Friday in the West Bank village of Yamoun, northeast of Jenin.

Israel Defense Forces sources said that an undercover Border Police unit entered the village in order to arrest wanted Islamic Jihad militants.

The unit surrounded several houses that allegedly harbored the wanted men.

According to the IDF sources, the girl, Akaber Zaed, was inadvertently hit by shots fired at a Palestinian cab trying to evade a roadblock.

Abdul Rahman Zaed said his daughter was in a car with her uncle, who he said was shot in the head and arrested.

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[DELUSIONAL]

1. So the kill score for children wasn't high enough

This is one of the horrible side effects of HATE -- children die because of the god damned stupidity of the adults.

War isn't healthy for children -- or other living things.

[president4aday]

2. "undercover Border Police unit" = death squad

[Englander]

3. From Haaretz;

Border Police kill girl, 10, near Jenin
By Amos Harel

>snip

The girl and her aunt were traveling in a taxi, and according to army sources, the policemen shot at the taxi after it tried to circumvent one of these checkpoints. The sources said the policemen followed the standard procedure for arresting a suspect and aimed their fire at the taxi's wheels.

However, one of the bullets hit 10-year-old Akbar Zaid in the head, killing her. Another bullet wounded her aunt.

The policemen, meanwhile, continued to watch the target house, and when the suspects refused to come out, they stormed it and also used a bulldozer to knock it down. However, the wanted men had apparently slipped away before the policemen encircled the house, so the force left empty-handed in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Over the last two decades, there have been dozens of incidents in which Palestinians were killed or wounded when soldiers or policemen fired at the wheels of their cars.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/695601.html

[Englander]

4. Gideon Levy;

Twilight Zone / 'Are we finished having our children killed?'
By Gideon Levy

A bullet in the head from a distance of a few meters, fired suddenly and without warning shots aimed at the wheels, which the Israel Defense Forces claims there were. This is the way undercover soldiers from the Border Police killed Akaber Zaid, an eight-and-a-half year-old, who was on her way to the doctor, according to her uncle, who was with her and was also wounded.

Little Akaber was going to the doctor and he did indeed see her, but there was no longer a reason for him to do so. She had been on the way to have him remove stitches from her chin, but instead arrived dead at the same doctor's office, with her head smashed and her skull gaping.

Soldiers from the Border Police's undercover unit, known by the Hebrew acronym Yamas, shot at her uncle's taxi at close range as he was parking the vehicle next to the doctor's office. All the soldiers' claims, as presented to the media by the IDF, to the effect that they had shot at the taxi's wheels in accordance with the "regulations for arresting a suspect," were nothing but lies, says the girl's uncle, who was sitting next to her. The car was sprayed from the right and from behind with bullets, which entered through its windows. The shots were fired from just a few meters away, the uncle stresses, in the light of a street lamp.

We saw the taxi this week: All its wheels are intact. However, those who carried out the "investigations" on behalf of the IDF and the Border Police did not even bother to examine the vehicle, or to question the man who had driven it. He was also wounded and is hospitalized. We also took testimony from him and could not find a single fact on the ground that contradicts what he reports: The undercover soldiers shot at the girl from two directions, from nearby and, the uncle says, without warning. No soldier with a gun, certainly not an expert sharpshooter from the Yamas, would aim at close range at wheels and hit someone in the head instead.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=697894

[idontwantaname]

5. bump for human rights violations!

good job IDF. time to piss off more palestinians and not take any blame.

[Violet_Crumble]

6. For those who think collective punishment is acceptable...

How about we sit around and justify the acts of collective punishment the Palestinians can take against Israelis who had nothing to do with killing this child? After all, collective punishment runs both ways!

Violet...

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Does all "collective punishment" involve death? n/t

[Violet_Crumble]

8. No. I don't recall saying it did...

Why?

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I didn't say you did say that. I asked a question. Or did you miss that?

[Violet_Crumble]

14. No, but I'm wondering why you asked...

Or aren't I supposed to ask that? It's just that I assumed yr trying to make some point but I have no idea what it is...

Violet...

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[Englander]

10. The murder of the child = not collective punishment.

Collective punishment = revenge for the murder.

That point appeared to have been missed, so some clarification's needed, I thought.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. That makes no sense....

[Englander]

12. It does, but nevermind. n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

13. .

:eyes:

[Violet_Crumble]

15. Okay, now that makes sense...

n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

17. Not at all surprising.... n/t

[Englander]

18. Yes, I understood the point being made, it was a good one.

One I hadn't considered, that a collective punsihment should be meted out for the
murderers of this child, maybe the Chief of the Border Police should have his home
demolished, or his street should be given a few low-flying visits by some F-16s, or
a few artillery rounds should land in his garden, or a tank should crush his Merc, &tc.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. "toot, toot" n/t

[Violet_Crumble]

20. Yeah, I was thinking along those lines...

After all, if collective punishment towards the Palestinian people is seen as an acceptable response to missile attacks that don't result in deaths, then you'd think the same people who who find it acceptable in that case wouldn't have a problem with the responses you mentioned towards the Israelis...

Violet...

[Englander]

21. Well, that would be consistent, wouldn't it? n/t