Didn't you know stones are a very dangerous weapon of mass destruction? (sarcasm)
When IDF (Israeli Defence Force) is going to treat Palestinian kids like this, then will these kids think of Israelis (civilian & military) as their saviour & respect their lives? Obviously, they won't. Then, they are going to attack Israel after growing up. And when they do that, the Western media will run with the story that Palestinians are radicalizing their children & training them to be suicide bombers & telling their kids to kill innocent Israelis.
Just like wrongful prison sentences grew hatred among African-Americans for the law enforcement & the judiciary, which spilled out, & still spilling out, in city-wide, state-wide, & country-wide anger, in US, then how can the people in the West think that treating children like this (interrogating them in the dead of night, arresting them, & harassing them ... for merely throwing stones at armed soldiers) is going to earn Israeli soldiers & civilians any sympathy from these children?
"The arrested children are tied & blindfolded" ... like Gitmo adult detainees. US is maligned all over the world for the abusive treatment of Guantanamo detainees. How many in the world are maligning Israel for its abusive treatment of Palestinian children?
But, hey, we Canadians can't criticize Israel at all. After all, under the auspices of Stephen Harper, Israelis can criticize Israel for its actions, but if Canadians do it, then we will be imprisoned for hate speech.
Isn't the West so fair & balanced? (rhetorical question) !!!
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Videos have emerged exposing masked IDF soldiers raiding Palestinian homes in the dead of night to interrogate children suspected of throwing stones at the Israeli military. Hundreds of underage are prosecuted each year in the occupied territories.
B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has posted two videos to the web showing what it claims are masked Israeli soldiers searching Palestinian homes at night in Hebron on February 23 this year.
The soldiers, in full combat gear & with Tavor assault rifles at the ready, order to all kids in the house be brought out, ignoring protests of the parents that the children are fast asleep.
The company officer explains that the soldiers came at such an hour because stones are thrown at Israeli service personnel “all day long.”
The officer tells an indignant Palestinian father that he doesn’t need to “explain his schedule” to him & orders the unit to “use your barrels right on the rooms you haven’t yet checked or opened.”
“Do you sometimes throw stones here?” a nine-year-old boy is asked.
Children on the videos are of varying ages, from 8 to 16. The officer orders all children to be photographed when the procedure is over.
“The children were shaking with fear,” Mirvat Qafishah, 37, a mother of six, told B’Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari about the soldiers’ search of her home.
“My children were really scared,” Nayef Da’na, 53, a father of seven, also told B’Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari about the armed soldiers’ entry into his home.
It is not out of the ordinary for children to suffer mistreatment from the Israeli military.
IDF soldiers are subduing young suspects on arrest; there is at least one piece of video evidence of Israeli soldiers setting a dog on a Palestinian youth.
Though the military promised a full inquiry into that incident, human rights activist Bill Van Esveld told RT he has no doubt that the incident is going to be dropped.
“The incidents we know of have had no kind of inquiry,” he said.
The military cannot treat civilians as though they are potential criminals, nor is the military permitted to use its soldiers as a deterrent against civilians, B'Tselem wrote in an article dedicated to the incident, calling the Israel security forces’ policy of entering the homes of Palestinian civilians by night “unjust & terrifying.”
“The Israeli military, unfortunately, has a very poor record for accountability. There is no indication that the night arrests of children, which is a policy that has been going on for years, & that is clearly approved by the higher echelons,” Van Esveld revealed, stressing that the problem is not the soldiers carrying out such orders, but the officials who order this policy to be implemented.
Bill Van Esveld believes that mistreatment of children won't stop soon. Only “serious international pressure” could force Israel to put an end to unlawful policies of using attack dogs on kids & breaking into homes.
The statistics of mistreatment of youngsters in the West Bank is disturbing.
According to Defense for Children International Palestine, up to 700 youngsters 12-17 years old are prosecuted in Israeli military courts every year, which is about two kids more in custody every day.
The underage of the West Bank are arrested, interrogated & detained by the Israeli army, police or security agents. The arrested children are tied & blindfolded.
Then they are taken to interrogation centers, some of which exist on the territory of settlements on the occupied territories. They are not given the right to be accompanied by a parent during interrogation. When questioned, the children are rarely informed of their rights.
The interrogation techniques include “intimidation, threats & physical violence with a clear purpose of obtaining a confession.” The documents presenting to children sometimes are in Hebrew, a language not many Palestinian children speak, the organization informed.
It is estimated that over 15 years, around 8,000 children have been detained & prosecuted.
The majority were charged with throwing stones.
When IDF (Israeli Defence Force) is going to treat Palestinian kids like this, then will these kids think of Israelis (civilian & military) as their saviour & respect their lives? Obviously, they won't. Then, they are going to attack Israel after growing up. And when they do that, the Western media will run with the story that Palestinians are radicalizing their children & training them to be suicide bombers & telling their kids to kill innocent Israelis.
Just like wrongful prison sentences grew hatred among African-Americans for the law enforcement & the judiciary, which spilled out, & still spilling out, in city-wide, state-wide, & country-wide anger, in US, then how can the people in the West think that treating children like this (interrogating them in the dead of night, arresting them, & harassing them ... for merely throwing stones at armed soldiers) is going to earn Israeli soldiers & civilians any sympathy from these children?
"The arrested children are tied & blindfolded" ... like Gitmo adult detainees. US is maligned all over the world for the abusive treatment of Guantanamo detainees. How many in the world are maligning Israel for its abusive treatment of Palestinian children?
But, hey, we Canadians can't criticize Israel at all. After all, under the auspices of Stephen Harper, Israelis can criticize Israel for its actions, but if Canadians do it, then we will be imprisoned for hate speech.
Isn't the West so fair & balanced? (rhetorical question) !!!
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Videos have emerged exposing masked IDF soldiers raiding Palestinian homes in the dead of night to interrogate children suspected of throwing stones at the Israeli military. Hundreds of underage are prosecuted each year in the occupied territories.
B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has posted two videos to the web showing what it claims are masked Israeli soldiers searching Palestinian homes at night in Hebron on February 23 this year.
The soldiers, in full combat gear & with Tavor assault rifles at the ready, order to all kids in the house be brought out, ignoring protests of the parents that the children are fast asleep.
The company officer explains that the soldiers came at such an hour because stones are thrown at Israeli service personnel “all day long.”
The officer tells an indignant Palestinian father that he doesn’t need to “explain his schedule” to him & orders the unit to “use your barrels right on the rooms you haven’t yet checked or opened.”
“Do you sometimes throw stones here?” a nine-year-old boy is asked.
Children on the videos are of varying ages, from 8 to 16. The officer orders all children to be photographed when the procedure is over.
“The children were shaking with fear,” Mirvat Qafishah, 37, a mother of six, told B’Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari about the soldiers’ search of her home.
“My children were really scared,” Nayef Da’na, 53, a father of seven, also told B’Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari about the armed soldiers’ entry into his home.
It is not out of the ordinary for children to suffer mistreatment from the Israeli military.
IDF soldiers are subduing young suspects on arrest; there is at least one piece of video evidence of Israeli soldiers setting a dog on a Palestinian youth.
Though the military promised a full inquiry into that incident, human rights activist Bill Van Esveld told RT he has no doubt that the incident is going to be dropped.
“The incidents we know of have had no kind of inquiry,” he said.
The military cannot treat civilians as though they are potential criminals, nor is the military permitted to use its soldiers as a deterrent against civilians, B'Tselem wrote in an article dedicated to the incident, calling the Israel security forces’ policy of entering the homes of Palestinian civilians by night “unjust & terrifying.”
“The Israeli military, unfortunately, has a very poor record for accountability. There is no indication that the night arrests of children, which is a policy that has been going on for years, & that is clearly approved by the higher echelons,” Van Esveld revealed, stressing that the problem is not the soldiers carrying out such orders, but the officials who order this policy to be implemented.
Bill Van Esveld believes that mistreatment of children won't stop soon. Only “serious international pressure” could force Israel to put an end to unlawful policies of using attack dogs on kids & breaking into homes.
The statistics of mistreatment of youngsters in the West Bank is disturbing.
According to Defense for Children International Palestine, up to 700 youngsters 12-17 years old are prosecuted in Israeli military courts every year, which is about two kids more in custody every day.
The underage of the West Bank are arrested, interrogated & detained by the Israeli army, police or security agents. The arrested children are tied & blindfolded.
Then they are taken to interrogation centers, some of which exist on the territory of settlements on the occupied territories. They are not given the right to be accompanied by a parent during interrogation. When questioned, the children are rarely informed of their rights.
The interrogation techniques include “intimidation, threats & physical violence with a clear purpose of obtaining a confession.” The documents presenting to children sometimes are in Hebrew, a language not many Palestinian children speak, the organization informed.
It is estimated that over 15 years, around 8,000 children have been detained & prosecuted.
The majority were charged with throwing stones.
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