by Kristen Ess
November 18, 2003 Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14 year old boy Saturday night, 15 November 2003 at 7 pm. IOF were invading the boy's village, Beit Forik, near Nablus. As is common in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers were randomly firing throughout the village. After Israeli soldiers shot and killed the 14 year old, Ahmed Halani, they ran over his body with their military jeep. A friend comments, "This is normal, the Israelis are always doing this, running over the person after they kill them. Lots of times it's with the tank, especially in Nablus and Hebron." She shrugs and finishes with, "This is the Israelis."
Israeli Occupation Forces have been heavily invaded the Jenin and Nablus areas since the beginning of the month of Ramadan. As one of dozens of recent examples, IOF killed a 38 year-old woman, Im Tiaz Sofan, while invading the Old City of Nablus on the sixth of this month. Two Israeli helicopters, several tanks and soldiers invaded the city. Israeli soldiers shot Sofan while she was standing inside her home. She bled to death within an hour because Israeli soldiers would not allow an ambulance to reach her. Across town that same day, IOF killed a young man in the Balata Refugee Camp.
On 8 November, IOF invaded Barkeen Village near Jenin and killed 16 year old Mortaz Wasaf Mustafa Ahmoudi and injured four other people. On Sunday, IOF killed a 55 year old man in Rafah.
There are countless examples of IOF brutality in the past three weeks, a few of them re-reported herein as a reminder of what reality is, as the Israeli and U.S. media and governments play spin doctors with this morning’s news that the Palestinian resistance killing of two Israeli soldiers is the cause of the collapse of the “peace process.”
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=4518
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