This is a photo of the blood of Ahmed Deeb, a 21-year-old unarmed protester who marched on the confiscatory "buffer zone" in Gaza. According to Suha Afyouni, Deeb has now died from the wound to his femoral artery. The Washington Post is also reporting a killing. Max Ajl has the story here.
Writes Eva Bartlett, of International Solidarity Movement, who took the photo (apparently the mass at right center is a stone):
Demo against the Israeli-imposed "buffer zone", April 28, Nahal Oz, eastern Gaza. [IDF] soldiers shoot one unarmed Palestinian demonstrator, Ahmed Deeb, 21. The bullet severs his femural artery, causing sudden and copious bleeding. Dr. Abdullah el Attar at Shifa hospital confirms that Ahmed's injury is serious and that he has lost a lot of blood. Dr. Attar says the bullet used on Ahmed was a "dum dum", an exploding bullet which, on impact, breaks into many pieces. At the time of visiting Shifa Ahmed had been rushed to surgery. He is the 9th unarmed protester to be shot by the IOF ["Israeli Occupation Forces'] in less than 1 month, including the three shot last week, one of which was an international solidarity acitivist from Malta.
Update: Here is a video of the protest from B'tselem:
Another Zionist crime, another day goes by in Palestine.
And now dum-dums shot at unarmed (and unharmful) protesters. There MUST be a limit. ISRAEL IS CRYING OUT FOR HELP. This sociopathy cannot be allowed to proceed. The Israelis have no internal limiting circuits. Some rabbi or other has told them that the Palestinians (and, indeed, the internationals, thus, all the goyim) are drugged cockroaches in a bottle, fit for nothing but killing. Nothing is disallowed to Israelis.
Anti-Semitism should be expected to flare after this becomes public. So publicize it so that the reasonable Jews will stop supporting “any” Jewish State, stop supporting “this” Jewish State, stop talking about the appropriateness of “a” Jewish State, and start joining the BDS bandwagon.
Judge Goldstone should tell the South African Jews about this (and remember that the dum dum bullet was either manufactured and distributed by the IOF or else was a ‘good idea” of the soldier who shot it) and ask them to reconsider their horror at his Report.
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This is martyrdom.
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One protester in the video Feeling the Hate in New York: “Jews don’t support terrorism”.
Honey, “Jews” have been funding terrorism for more than 60 years now and the murder of Ahmed Deeb, a man at the prime of his youth, is yet another example of Zionist and Jewish terrorism. HIS blood, is on YOUR hands.
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Does anyone still doubt that these are “isolated” incidents? Does anyone still doubt that there is no official policy from up high the chain of command that permits Israeli soldiers to open fire and kill Palestinian civilian willy-nilly? The so-called rules of engagement clearly permit this. The leadership and the army are war criminals.
Dum-dum is a different name for hollow point, also known as hydra-shock. The bullet enters the body, mushrooms and fragments, ripping every tissue and artery into shreds like a mini pipe bomb.
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If the Palestinians were to give up violence and follow Ghandi’s methods of non-violent protest, they would get their state in ….
How many years was it supposed to be again?
I notice the linked Wa Po article claims this “was the first death at such demonstrations, ” which may be true on a technicality (Gaza specific) but not otherwise. Also no mention of Bianca Zammit, the Maltese photographer also shot at the same event.
MSM is just so frustrating sometimes.
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Where is eee ? Can the Hasbara council give us a speech Please?
The Palestinians have a history of lying about these kinds of incidents. I will wait for the official response of the IDF to make up my mind.
In all my years in the IDF I never saw an IDF issued hollow point which also makes this story very strange to me.
oh yeah very honest IDF. Did you forget the white phosphorus controversy?
I will wait for the official response of the IDF to make up my mind.
Yeah, why bother with independent research and inquiry when you can have a trusted body make the decisions for you?
A fine “atheist” you are, eee.
3e,
Trust me, as someone who served in Dover Zahal, that the army lies all the time about these things (I got to compare raw field reports with final statements to the press). The official version is just that: an official version. Don’t trust Palestinian reports if you don’t want to, but your faith in the IDF is entirely misplaced.
Also from my service in DZ (this was a hot issue during the first intifada), the IDF has confirmed in the past that it indeed uses dum-dums, that they are legal and that it uses them “only in keeping with international law and IDF regulations”.
Another reported and confirmed, by the IDF no less, incident of the IDF lying, in a report to B’Tselem in 2003:
From Richard Silverstein’s Blog
And from the B’Tselem report quoted at the link above:
But, by all means, wait for the IDF to issue a report, eee. We’d expect nothing more from you. After all, we wouldn’t want you to regurgitate propaganda until you get spoonfed the proper lines to use.
>> … that the army lies all the time about these things … The official version is just that: an official version.
What? You mean the American military isn’t the only one that coughs up “official versions” of incidents that have very little semblance to the facts?! Oh, right, the U.S. Army isn’t “the most moral” army in the world… ;-)
Right on eljay, except that that the US army isn’t fighting against “lying Arab terrorists” with highly developed “oriental imaginations”. What’s that you say? Oh. Never mind.