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In the dark of night, with no witnesses

Ada Ushpiz | 13.09.2002 15:15

The amateur video camera didn't stop focusing on Ala'a's father, who was weeping bitterly, banging his head, refusing to believe what he was seeing. Slowly it panned over the faces of the three other victims, lying on stretchers, their bearded faces showing through the bandages that were meant to cover the wounds of death and to close their open mouths. They were all young laborers in a stonecutting plant in the quarry of the village of Bani Naim, without any history of political or security activity, who were shot to death last week by IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers.

Ada Ushpiz
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