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Children Hurt In West Bank Violence
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| 9/30/02
Posted on 09/30/2002 6:29:22 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Israeli soldiers have opened fire on stone-throwing Palestinian youngsters in the West Bank city of Nablus and wounded five men in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said that 18 children were wounded and a ten-year-old boy was shot dead in the Nablus incident.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the alleged Nablus shootings, but said that troops fired on the five Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip after three mortar bombs were shot at their positions.
A report issued on Monday by Amnesty International said Israel's military and Palestinian militant groups had all shown "utter disregard for the lives of children and other civilians" in two years of bloodshed.
Siege lifted
The London-based human rights group said more than 250 Palestinian children had been killed during the Palestinian uprising for statehood.
More than 70 Israeli children have died, most of them killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, it said.
Monday's violence comes just twenty four hours after the Israeli military lifted a ten-day siege of Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah.
Emerging from his battered compound, Arafat blew kisses and waved at jubilant supporters and called for total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian cities.
Climbdown
"This is not withdrawal," Arafat said. "This is only moving a few metres away. They are trying to deceive the world."
Israel sent armour roaring into the sprawling West Bank complex after Palestinian suicide bombings killed seven people in Israel.
The pullback is an embarrassing climbdown for the Israeli government and followed calls from US President Bush for a swift end top the siege.
Observers say Bush's rare rebuke appears to signal a new dimension in US-Israel relations as the former attempts to curry international and Arab support for a possible strike against Iraq.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: death; palestinianyouth
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The London-based human rights group (Amnesty International(e)) said more than 250 Palestinian children had been killed during the Palestinian uprising for statehood.More than 70 Israeli children have died, most of them killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, it said.
Well, according to the AI(e) Scorecard, we need another 180 dead Jewish children to make up the difference. Can we get some more dead Jewish children over here?
I'm sure Hamas would be happy to oblige.
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posted on
09/30/2002 6:41:53 AM PDT
by
gridlock
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Palestinian witnesses and medical officials Uhuh.
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posted on
09/30/2002 6:48:39 AM PDT
by
Lent
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
One of Larry Niven's laws is "Never throw stuff at someone with a gun".
Another law is "Never stand next to someone throwing stuff at someone with a gun".
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posted on
09/30/2002 6:52:08 AM PDT
by
Hacksaw
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Related...
Last Updated: September 30, 2002 08:36 AM ET
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NABLUS, West Bank, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers confiscated video footage taken by a Reuters cameraman of clashes on Monday between troops and stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus.
An Israeli army spokesman acknowledged that troops manning a military checkpoint outside Nablus had acted against army regulations when they seized the videotape, and said all efforts were being made to return it.
Hassan Titi, a Nablus-based cameraman working for Reuters, went to the checkpoint to pass his videotape to an Israeli driver on the other side so that it could be taken to the Reuters bureau in Jerusalem.
Titi had just finished filming a confrontation in Nablus, a flashpoint in a two-year-old Palestinian revolt for independence, in which medical officials said a 10-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 other youths were wounded.
Troops refused to allow the handover and instead confiscated the tape.
Titi and other Palestinian journalists working for foreign news organisations are mostly barred from passing through a network of checkpoints which Israeli forces have set up in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Reuters has protested to the army that such restrictions hamper the dissemination of news.
Media watchdog groups have frequently charged the Israeli army with harassing journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
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posted on
09/30/2002 7:01:59 AM PDT
by
RCW2001
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Palestinian uprising for statehood Statehood? They don't want no steenkin' statehood. They want Israel. All. Jews. Gone.
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posted on
09/30/2002 7:03:35 AM PDT
by
Alouette
To: RCW2001
Is RC going to play the "children of the stones" game again? Oh so much fun. The pals like to have stooges over here to buy their stones vs guns routine.
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posted on
09/30/2002 7:11:37 AM PDT
by
Lent
To: Lent
Parents who love their children, would not let them anywhere near a tank or guns during a fight.
The Palestinian children are simply used and abused, and they do hate the Jews more than they love their children.
To: roses of sharon
Disgusting isn't it?
The story acts like it's IDF's fault that the kids are violent. Where's the parents of these "children"????
I got one answer... the parents are out tossing rocks too.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said...I wonder if these are the same "medical officials" that get arrested all the time for smuggling guns and terrorists in ambulances?
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the alleged Nablus shootings, but said...
Sounds like an immediate comment to me!
...that troops fired on the five Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip after three mortar bombs were shot at their positions.
Why is it that kids hang around active mortar pits? Don't they know they can be hurt?
This is a great example of how hard the media has to work to play a story against the Jews. They could have said 10 palestinian men set up a mortar in a housing area, firing on a Jewish Border Patrol while using children as human shields and the Jews were able to destroy the mortar pit with minimal casualtys in the civilian populace. I figure if it was the US in Afganistan we would have locked on the trajectory of the first round and dropped a salvo of artillery on the pit before the third round. How many kids would die? Who knows, all that would have been left was a smoking crater and shreds of flesh. Hard to tell the difference between veal and beef once you shred it.
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