![Israeli children are dressing up as Elor Azaria, who shot prisoner in the head as he lay on the ground [VIDEO]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/elor-azaria-552x410.jpg "Israeli children are dressing up as Elor Azaria, who shot prisoner in the head as he lay on the ground [VIDEO]")
JerusalemOnline reports: This year for Purim, many Israeli children are dressing up as Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier who fatally shot a prisoner lying on the ground incapacitated. “I’m not saying that he did the right thing but in my eyes he is a hero,” stated one grandmother…
An Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian rebel dead after he was already incapacitated on the ground has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The killing took place in the Palestinian city of Hebron in Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Independent reports: [The dead Palestinian’s] father Yusri told reporters … “The sentence he received is less than…
An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has been sentenced to 18 months in jail on a manslaughter conviction for shooting a Palestinian man in the head after he had already been disarmed and injured by other soldiers. The Independent lists Palestinian children who have received longer prison sentences for throwing stones than Elor Azaria did for killing the unarmed man.
Palestinians’ formative years are scarred by what they witness and experience living under the Israeli military occupation of their lands that has been in place 50 years: Israeli settler violence against them in their homes, destroying their property, theft of their land and burning of their crops… even some instances in which Israeli extremists have burned Palestinians in their homes while they were sleeping.
![Rothschild reveals crucial role his ancestors played in the Balfour Declaration and creation of Israel [VIDEO]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rothschild.Taub_.2017-728x410.png "Rothschild reveals crucial role his ancestors played in the Balfour Declaration and creation of Israel [VIDEO]")
Rothschild said the way the declaration was procured was extraordinary: “It was the most incredible piece of opportunism.” HIs cousin Dorothy de Rothschild connected Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann to the British establishment. Dorothy “told Weizmann how to integrate, how to insert himself into British establishment life, which he learned very quickly…”
2016 was the deadliest year in the past decade for Palestinian children in the West Bank. Some were killed on their way to class, or coming home from. Several were shot dead while protesting the occupation. A brother and sister were killed in their home when their neighborhood was hit in an Israeli airstrike. See their photos and learn the details.
As Western media accepts death tolls from Iran at face value, Palestinian deaths in Gaza remain endlessly questioned, revealing how belief follows power, not evidence.
Israel’s destruction of refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarm is severing families from their homes, emptying communities, and accelerating Palestinian erasure. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has never been confined to Gaza alone.
Another baby in Gaza dies of hypothermia; call for help in retrieving bodies in Rafah; Israeli forces kill Palestinian, another dies in prison; Israeli violence against Bedouin; hunger strikers; headlines from Israel
Israel’s Yellow Line scheme has grabbed another 7% of Gaza’s land; illegal settlers steal 200 sheep in West Bank; will Gaza City be the next Rafah?; did IDF make a mistake? (shades of Minneapolis?)