As Israel’s blockade of Gaza enters its 11th year, the economic and humanitarian situation has become so dire that youth are beginning to take the risk of crossing into Israel to find work. When 6 boys tried this on Saturday, they were shot at by Israeli forces, although they posed no threat. 2 of the boys made it back home, 2 were injured, and 2 didn’t make it out alive.
A boy who threw stones at IDF jeeps suffered the punishment of execution by a soldier; it was the third time in recent weeks that soldiers aimed at stone-throwers’ heads.
A study of AP’s 2018 reports on Palestinians and Israelis killed found that AP headlines reported on Israeli deaths at a rate four times greater than on Palestinian deaths, and that articles were almost three times longer. Essential information was often missing; never once, for example, did AP use the term “occupied” or “occupation”…
The cruel, unnecessary death of Dalal Lulah…
Israeli forces shot dead Ahmad Abdul-Jaber Salim, 28, with a bullet to the head. They then fired teargas canisters at ambulances and medics trying to treat him. Eye witnesses say the Israeli soldiers were firing live ammunition at Palestinian protesters in Jayyous, Palestine, near Qalqiliya.
Just before Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi slapped one of the soldiers who’d invaded her yard, she learned that her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed had been shot in the head at close range. (Three articles)
An Israeli soldier sees a slim teenager approaching the fence, unarmed, not endangering anyone – and shoots him in the head with live ammunition, destroying his life and that of his family, probably for all time. At first the IDF claims that the soldier had thwarted a “knifing attack;” later they say that the teen had “put his hand in his pocket in a suspicious way.”
The Israeli army sharpshooter couldn’t target the lower part of his victim’s body — he didn’t have one. The 29-year-old, who worked washing cars, lost both legs in an Israeli airstrike during Israel’s 2008 invasion of Gaza. He used a wheelchair to get around. On Friday the army finished the job: A sharpshooter aimed at his head and shot him dead…
Israel continues the complete isolation of 16 Palestinian villages, closing roads, enforcing curfew, imprisoning villages in their homes, and causing the closure of fifty schools.
An Israeli army commander has been threatening to intentionally disable Palestinians in Dheisheh Refugee Camp: “I will make half of you disabled and let the other half push the wheelchairs.” It’s already happening.