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More horror in Palestine as Israeli 'defence' forces shot to death 8yr old girl

no justice - no peace | 20.03.2006 19:56 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Associated Press reported that eight-year-old Akbar Zayed was on her way to a clinic to have stitches removed from her chin when she was gunned down by a barrage of Israeli 'defence' forces. The IDF raid left behind demolished homes, damaged cars, three hospitalised and a family devastated by the death of a little girl. It was meant to be a raid to arrest 'fugitives' the army claimed were holed up in a house. However the people to end up being shoot in the West Bank village of Yamoun were those in a taxi going to the clinic in the adjacent street.



Kamal Zayed, the uncle of the murdered girl who was driving the car, said three men ran toward the car and before he could turn off the engine they fired on him. “I saw them behind the fence. There were more than 30 soldiers. The first bullet hit my niece. She got a bullet in the head from the very beginning,” he recalled while talking to reporters from hospital bed where he was being treated yesterday for gunshot wounds in his arm and leg.

When the IDF opened fire gunfire the car had just arrived at the clinic where the young girl was was to have her stitches removed. “I started to yell ... opened the door and started taking her out of the car to get her into the clinic.”

With the girl dead the outrage didn't end there. Kamal reported that when he was placed in an ambulance to be taken away for treatment to his gunshot wounds, the IDF soldiers was him dragged out of the ambulance and interrogated him for more than two hours before finally allowing him to receive medical treatment.

The girl was killed right at the start of the incident. The IDF rounding up the family members and detaining them at an Israeli military base for several hours but the fugitives fled, assuming they were ever really there.

Yesterday, hundreds of people attended the funeral of the girl. Stopping frequently to wipe away the tears, Akbal Zayed’s father, Abder Zayed, said, “How can I enter the house and never see her again?”

Hearing stories like these it is difficult to see why some people have difficulty understanding the motivation of suicide bombers. Place yourself in the shoes of somebody who has lost their daughter, sister, wife, husband, son or brother - murdered in cold blood by people who will never be held responsible or see any kind of justice.

The Israeli army has since said it was looking into the reports that policemen had killed Akbar Zayed, and confirmed that an 'elite Border Police unit' had been hunting down terror suspects and opened fire at a suspicious car that approached an area that the unit had cordoned off.

Meanwhile, the Israeli papers are keen to inform us that on Friday, two bombs were discovered by soldiers on a road leading to Nablus and destroyed by the IDF. They also tell us that at the Hawarah checkpoint near Nablus, two Palestinians were arrested, one in possession of what is described as a homemade gun and the other for carrying a knife.

There is no end in sight for this cycle of violence unleashed as a result of the British shoehorning Israel into the region last century.

The Hamas government looks like it is becoming more hardline as more moderate Palestinian factions are refusing to join the militant Islamist movement in a coalition. Hamas leader-in-exile, Khaled Meshaal, said running the Palestinian Authority would not deflect the group from its overriding goal of pursuing a long-term struggle with Israel.

"We and the Zionists have a date with destiny. If they want a fight, we are ready for it. If they want a war, we are the sons of war. If they want a struggle, we are for it to the end," he declared.

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Interesting version of the story

21.03.2006 05:50

"However the people to end up being shoot in the West Bank village of Yamoun were those in a taxi going to the clinic in the adjacent street."

Simple question, why did the taxi try to evade the roadblock?
Don;t palestinians ever take responsibilty for their actions?

Arthur


Typical Judaeo-fascist remark

21.03.2006 09:32

It's very revealing of the mindset of the Judaeo-fascist appeasers like Arthur that their response to the gunning down of a Palestinian child by Israeli occupation forces is to blame the Palestinians.

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arthur...

21.03.2006 12:59

Arthur, why be so insensitive? A completely deplorable event has happened, a child has been murdered. Someone once said about Holocaust Denial, Primo Levy i think, that to deny someones testimony on something so catastrophic is the most barbaric thing you can do to a person. (Obviously Levy said that much better). This is another time to be looking at the brutality of occupation. Peace and reconcilliation isnt built on the bodies of dead children.

As Jews arent the catastrophic results of putting state ideology infront of humanity plainly obviouse? Its just been Purim, cmon think about it.

Ma'avak Ehad


Motivation

21.03.2006 23:44

"Hearing stories like these it is difficult to see why some people have difficulty understanding the motivation of suicide bombers."

Yes... Islam.

It is a fact, that not a single Christian Palestinian has ever blown themselves up.
To blame Israel for suicide bombing, simply doesn't explain why Islamic terrorism is prevalant in countries where there are no Jews or Americans. For example, South Thailand where Buddhists have had their heads sawn off.

It's too easy to blame Israel, and this is pretty standard fare for the Palestinians who find it far easier than blaming their own corrupt leaders. Unfortunately, it's just not as simple as that.

Israel has had to deal with suicide bombers for years now and has been routinely denounced for its
reaction - yet look what happens on the one and only occasion Britain has had to deal with suicide bombers to date: an innocent man is shot dead.

As insensitive as it may be, the question DOES need to be asked as to why the vehicle didn't stop. The fact is, soldiers fighting suicide terror don't really have much room to be 'sensitive'. This version of the story seems to be missing certain 'snippets' of information found elsewhere. The latter commentary provides insight into why.

TH


utterly sickening

21.03.2006 23:47

Like Arthur the Israeli's have no interest whatsoever in the humanity of Palestinians. Hence, the blocade with Palestinian's being starved to death. This is an atrocity and should be recognised as exactly the same as the "Polish Ghetto's" under Nazi Germany, where the poor inhabitants were starved to death for a while and then eventually had to work for food to survive. What is also utterly sickening is the total non coverage of this atrocity by the World's media, who are waging a campaign to demonise muslims. They and the Israeli Government and their allies have proved beyond doubt that they are TRUE NAZI'S !

This blocade of humanitarian aid and food must end right now and for good (and not just a day or two) and Israel MUST be made to be ashamed for what they have done by a United World community.

nodboss


Wrong comparison

22.03.2006 09:10

"This is an atrocity and should be recognised as exactly the same as the "Polish Ghetto's" under Nazi Germany, "

It absolutely is not.

Did the Polish Jews represent a mortal threat to the Germans? Did Polish Jews (a single one) blow up and murder pregnant Germans? No.

Comparisons between Jews and Nazis, or Palestinian terrorists and Jewish victims are as historically inaccurate as they are fundamentally offensive.

The Palestinians could have had, and still can have, peace and prosperity as soon as they are ready to choose life with Israel over death with Allah. Thus far, they can blame only themselves (and their leaders).

Meanwhile, where is the rest of the Arab world? Oh, that's right... Blaming Israel whilst doing exactly Sweet F.A. for the Palestinians. Direct your anger correctly.

TH


Who's terrorising who?

22.03.2006 09:47

Why does the above comment talk about Palestinian terrorists when it is another palestinian child who lies dead and more blood on Israeli hands?

n


Sensitivity Has Two Sides

22.03.2006 18:20

"Arthur, why be so insensitive? A completely deplorable event has happened, a child has been murdered."

Yes a child was killed. The death of a child is always a terrible thing. Many children have been killed during the course of this 60 year war. The fact however, is that the child was not targeted. She was killed in a war zone. The driver of the car she was in made a bad choice, specifically trying to evade a roadblock.
This is a far sight different than a suicide bomber blowing up an Israeli school bus, restaurant or religious event.
Intifada is war, and war sucks. The palestinians need to take responsibilty for their bad choices and stop blaming the Israelis for the results of their own obscenities.

Arthur


Arthur is an obcenity

22.03.2006 20:08

Arthur is an apologist for murderers. It is the IDF soldiers that open fired on a taxi and killed an eight year old girl that need to take responsibility. It is disingenuous to blame the driver, just because he lives in occupied territories doesn't somehow make it his fault that the occupiers have murdered his niece. It is the fault of the IDF, as simple as that. To suggest that the driver somehow tried to evade a road block is the work of a revisionist since the driver had pulled up outside the medic clinic outside of the security perimeter created by the IDF for their raid.

What is truly obscene is just how low Arthur is prepared to sink in order to defend the indefensible. He throws in a random "suicide bomber blowing up an Israeli school bus, restaurant or religious event" as if the existence of one bunch of murders justifies the actions of another. The fact of the matter remains that Israeli solders making an illegal raid into illegally occupied territories have mistakenly murdered an innocent child (just one of over 3,000 young children killed by Israeli's in Palestine).

ben


Explosive Issue

22.03.2006 21:20

"It is the IDF soldiers that open fired on a taxi and killed an eight year old girl that need to take responsibility."

It's not uncommon to have explosives or armed fighters in automobiles. Any driver who has nothing to worry about would stop at a roadblock instead of speeding by it. Sorry, but the soldiers did the correct thing in firing at the auto. It's terrible when a child is killed. War isn't pretty. The IDF managed to capture a van with 7 kgs of explosives today. Do you think the driver of the van would have stopped for a roadblock if he wasn't forced to?

Arthur


Evil dishonest troll get out of here

22.03.2006 23:26

This 'Arthur' is indeed an evil apologist! It IS uncommon to have explosives in cars, there are BILLIONS of cars driven everyday without a single bomber in sight. In Palestine, tens of thousands of cars are driven around everyday without an explosives or guns in them. It is thousands of times more common for somebody to be driving around with a child in the car than a boot full of AK47s! You are one sick evil troll Arthur and not at all welcome here with your lies.

Arthur says that any driver who had nothing to worry about would stop at a roadblock instead of speeding by it. Well, the driver of the taxi had nothing to worry about and didn't speed by any roadblock as Ben has already pointed out. Go read the reports again! The IDF soldiers responsible are being investigated for having gone way to far. You wonder why? BECAUSE THEY JUST KILLED AN INNOCENT CHILD. There was no speeding gun tooting, bomb carrying evil do'ers, just a taxi carrying an uncle and his eight year old child.

Arthur wants us to belief that the soldiers were right to do what they did. Why is that? Why is Arthur so incessant about standing up for the murdering Israeli Defense Force? Ben wiped your sorry arse and still you are back for more, repeated the same shit again and again. You think the fact that the allegedly found some explosives in a van is somehow proof that the child had to be killed or that it's okay that the IDF murder Palestinian children while making illegal raids? No, of course not, so fuck off and don't come back you twisted evil piece of worthless shit!

Hans Lucas


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