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In another Israeli atrocity committed in Beit Ommar today…
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 3pm: Thirteen Palestinian boys, all between the ages of 12 and 15, were arrested by Israeli Forces from a playground in the village of Beit Ommar, in the southern West Bank. The Israeli soldiers, supported by a unit of special forces, attacked the children with sound bombs, tear gas, and rubber bullets before making the arrests.(emphasis added)
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13 Boys Arrested From Playground after Army Represses Beit Ommar Demonstration
On Saturday the 19th of February at 1 pm, the Beit Ommar National Committee held a large demonstration to protest the Israeli government’s decision to expand settlements, with support from the United States. They were joined by Palestinian Popular Committees from Hebron, Al-Masar’a, Beit Ola, Tuwani, Surif, and Wadi Rahal, as well as members from the Beit Ommar municipality. The gathered Palestinian activists were also supported by a large number of Israeli and International solidarity activists.
The army arrived in several jeeps from Karmei Tsur settlement and immediately began shooting tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. Israeli Forces also threw sound bombs at the crowd, hitting a few people directly. A minister from the Beit Ommar municipality was injured in his leg, and a member of the National Committee was injured after a sound bomb exploded on his back. The army continued their attacks, while a group of settlers gathered behind the Karmei Tsur fence to watch the repression. After an hour and half, the demonstrators successfully delivered their message to the soldiers and media and returned to the village with no arrests.
At around 3pm, half an hour after the demonstration had ended, an undercover military vehicle came into the village near Karmei Tsur and soldiers attacked the residence of Husni Za’qiq. Soldiers occupied the house and prevented anyone from leaving. Other soldiers, accompanied by special units, invaded a park full of children between the ages of 12 and 15 years. The Israeli Forces attacked and shot rubber bullets and sound bombs at the children so they could not run away, and then proceeded to arrest 13 of them. Several army vehicles came into the area for support, attacking houses and cars to frighten people so they could not come to the children’s defense. The army shot tear gas and sound bombs toward women who attempted to rescue the youth, and then beat the group of women, including Mona Abu Maria. The army succeeded in taking the arrested children, all of whom are under the age of 18, out of the village. Their families do not yet know where they are being held.
This is only part of a systemic pogram against the Palestinians…
Israeli army targets and arrests children in order to repress Palestinian dissent in the West Bank
God help the Palestinians…!
*gah*
6 Comments
*GAH* is right!! There will be a reckoning one day, and it may be sooner than later..
Ctut, if you don’t watch it, let me suggest that you do ,meaning the program “Arab Labor” on LinkTV. It treats the IP issues in a humourous but reality based manner.
Last night’s episode did have to do with kids being arrested and prosecuted and how that did in one of the Israeli protagonists. And the ending is just too funny.
The Israeli military got their ass kicked by a lightly armed militia in Lebanon. They can only succeed against unarmed women and children.
The mighty U.S. legions are no better. Unable to defeat the Taliban after eight years of trying.
Thank you, CTuttle.
The Israeli army attacks the Palestinians, and children, in a sickening display of nationalist oppression.
The Palestinian authorities attack Palestinians who want to protest the corruption of their own leadership.
Both sides will do all they can to divide the regular people from joining up. Israelis are poisoned by Zionist ideology, itself fed by centuries of oppression and anti-semitism, and their forced outster from other countries, not least by the holocaust itself. The Palestinians are victims of imperialist jockeying for position, and from Arab leaders who also used them like chess pieces, and convenient martyrs by which to glide over the oppression of their own people.
Only a unity of all peoples in the Middle East — Arab Shia and Sunni, Christian and Jew — against the exploiters who rule over them will bring any lasting peace to this region.
WTF?! That’s totally disgusting behavior by the Israeli central government.
Want to do something constructive about it? You can help “blackout-proof” the protests in the Middle East to enable activists to broadcast live video feeds even during internet and phone blackouts.