This video is said to show Israeli soldiers and a “security” man aiming guns at the head of an injured boy, Maysara, who fell down, apparently after he was shot in the right leg while running away from an Israeli settlement in an occupied village near Nablus. It says it was recorded May 15th. Rawan Yaghi translates:
The Arabic at the beinning says: “Video showing IDF soldiers attacking an injured boy, Maysara, who fell down after he was shot by settlers while running away from them in the village of Qaryoun near Nablus.”
Voices in the video say “soldiers and security are surrounding him.”
What “security” in the West Bank is authorized to aim a gun at a child’s head? Who is authorized to use live ammunition on children?
Inhuman.
(Nice ‘offer’ of first aid by these thugs.)
Once in 2009, as my bus was pulling away from the Qalandia checkpoint, I happened to look out my window and see a young Palestinian man with a keffiya wrapped around his head against the cold. Then my window framed an Israeli soldier who casually raised his gun until it was pointing at the Palestinian guy’s head. The soldier pantomimed pulling the trigger and feeling the kick as he shot the young man in the head. The Palestinian guy was walking away and didn’t see the soldier pretend to kill him, but another soldier did and chuckled.
That was my last view of the occupation on that particular visit: a joke about cold-blooded murder, in broad daylight, with the approval of his peer.
Off topic (sorry), but there’s a new indie documentary on US policy in the Middle East–
Valentino’s Ghost: The politics behind images
Michael Singh, Producer
http://www.valentinosghost.com/
I haven’t seen it, but the trailer talks openly about the cost of supporting Israel; and even more shocking, I notice that the list of interviewees is not dominated by Jewish names.
It’s currently showing at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan.
In years to come, when “Nazi!” has lost it’s sting it’ll be replaced with “Zionist!”
How long before the Israelis/IDF/ and many others dispute and deny this horrible video???