On Video: Israeli Soldiers Raid Homes, Question Kids as Young as 9 ( NBC News )

[Jefferson23]

3/14/2015

By Paul Goldman



TEL AVIV, Israel — Masked and armed Israeli soldiers have been recorded forcefully entering Palestinian homes and waking up, photographing and questioning children as young as nine.

The videos highlight Israeli efforts to track down young Palestinian rock throwers in the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli rights group.

"We are getting reports of nightly searches by soldiers demanding that Palestinian kids be woken up," Sarit Michaeli, an activist working for B'Tselem human rights group, told NBC News. "The Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military law so currently the army doesn't need a warrant or permit to enter Palestinian homes."

Since 2007, B'Tselem has handed out about 200 video cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank so they could document their treatment at the hands of Israeli soldiers. The surge of documented night operations targeting children, however, is more recent.

remainder in full: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-soldiers-raid-homes-question-kids-young-9-n322706

[4now]

1. When they aren't murdering children they like to terrorize them

and their parents.
Last summer the IDF murdered over 400 innocent Palestinian children.

[Jefferson23]

2. They call it deterence, but yea..it is disgusting and they're doing a bang up job

of creating fear and hatred..but do not try and hold these policies as responsible
for that. That seems to be a no no.

[Purveyor]

3. As the apartheid 'choo-choo' keeps right on chugging alone... eom

[azurnoir]

4. Imagine being 9 years old and being awakened by a masked man pointing a gun in your face

The soldiers who stormed Sameeh Daana's home at around 1:30 a.m. on February 24 were all wearing black masks, the 45-year-old said.

"They went into one room where nine-year-old Saddam was sleeping," he said. "I kept asking them to let me wake him up while they were outside the room because he will be terrified if they woke him."

The army refused and woke up Saddam at rifle point, Daana said.

"The soldiers questioned him in Hebrew and the boy doesn't even understand Hebrew. They questioned him about throwing stones," he added.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-soldiers-raid-homes-question-kids-young-9-n322706

[Jefferson23]

5. To torment and abuse children as they do is policy and it is for no reason but to do that.

The alleged rock throwers need to be stopped by big men with guns...ah, deterrence.

This is one reason among many why I admire these individuals:

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 Hardcover – September 18, 2012

Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "one of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation" (The New York Review of Books)

The very name of the Israel Defense Forces—which many Israelis speak of as "the most moral army in the world"—suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. Indeed, both internationally and within Israel, support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive and responsive, aimed at protecting the country from terror.

But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark work, which includes hundreds of soldiers' testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is anything but defensive. In their own words, the soldiers reveal in human and vivid detail how the key planks of the army's ostensibly protective program—"prevention of terror," "separation of populations," "preservation of the fabric of life," and "law enforcement"—have in fact served to accelerate acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of independence.

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Harsh-Logic-Testimonies-Territories/dp/0805095373

[Scootaloo]

6. All quiet on the justification front

I guess we'll have to wait until Tartan Day to hear what the defense of this sort of stuff is.

[Jefferson23]

7. How do you drag a kid out of bed and look him in the eye with the intent to leave him petrified?

Big strong men with guns going after little kids.