IDF troops kill wheelchair-bound Palestinian north of J'lem

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/435881.html

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"Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead a wheelchair-bound Palestinian at the Kalandiya checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, on Sunday night.

Military sources said that the troops tried to disperse a violent protest in the area, which was disrupting repair work at the Atarot airport. According to the sources, the troops fired warning shots, which hit the wheelchair-bound Palestinian."

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"Palestinian sources identified the man as Arafat Ibrahim Yakub, who was wounded in the first intifada and had been confined to a wheelchair since 1987."

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Another proud day for the IDF were there no young kids around

they had to settle for a person in a wheelchair

Hey look there goes a 4 year old on the way to the store Lock & Load

[number6]

2. being careful not to cause colateral damage :(

:shrug: :eyes:

[kalian]

3. In the immortal words of some "progressives" on these boards....

"how progressive"... :eyes: Its good to see some ethnic cleansing
going on.... :puke:

[Darranar]

4. If warning shots end up killing people...

I don't really think they should be considered "warning shots"...

[Scurrilous]

7. IDF stock excuse no. 107...

We were shooting at a wall. Honest.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/436368.html

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"Military sources gave the following account of the incident. "According to a preliminary investigation, a force that entered the refugee camp opened warning fire in the direction of a group of youths that was causing a disturbance. The gunfire was opened in the direction of a wall or at the ground, but the man was apparently hit inadvertently. The soldiers were not aware that they had hit someone during the incident."


Case closed.

[lefty_mcduff]

8. Uh Huh.

At least it's a step down in violence against walls. Last month it was tank shells.

[dArKeR]

5. Israeli troops kill a paraplegic

Jerusalem - Israeli soldiers shot dead a man in a wheelchair who had been shot twice before in confrontations with troops, medics and witnesses in the West Bank said on Sunday.

Arafat Yakoub, 31, was shot in the head when troops opened fire on stone-throwing demonstrators near a checkpoint at Kalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, medics said.

An Israeli military source said that troops had opened fire on several Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate an Israeli industrial zone near the camp, and that the army was investigating the incident.

http://iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1086564421874B253&set_id=1

[Karmadillo]

6. Let's be fair. It's not like the IDF has done this before. Oh. Wait.

http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/05/jenin0503.htm

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On April 3, 2002, the IDF launched a major military operation in the Jenin refugee camp, home to some fourteen thousand Palestinian refugees. An estimated eighty to one hundred armed Palestinians took part in the fighting. Israel claims the camp had been the launching ground for many of the suicide bombings that have killed and maimed over one hundred Israeli civilians in recent months. Human Rights Watch has repeatedly condemned this deliberate killing of civilians. Palestinian armed militants had also planted many explosive devices in the camp prior to and during the IDF incursion.

Among the twenty-two civilian deaths documented during this investigation were the following:

Fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man who was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April 10 as he was moving in his wheelchair equipped with a white flag down a major road in Jenin;