'Israeli troops shot schoolgirl 20 times'

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Monday condemned what he called international indifference to Palestinian suffering in the face of a broad Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip aimed at halting rocket attacks on Israel.

At least 68 Palestinians have been killed in the five-day offensive, making it the deadliest Israeli incursion into Gaza in more than four years of fighting.

Nine Palestinians died Monday in northern Gaza, including four militants and a 14-year-old girl who residents said was shot as she baked bread with her mother.

Early today, one Palestinian gunman was killed and three wounded in an Israeli missile strike, Palestinians said. Israeli military sources confirmed armed Palestinians were the target.

In southern Gaza, miles away from the offensive, Palestinian residents said a 4-year-old boy was killed by tank fire next to his house near the town of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said there were no shootings in the area.

Late Monday, the army said it killed a Palestinian gunman who tried to infiltrate the Israeli settlement of Netzer Hazani near Khan Younis. Also, Palestinians said an Al Aqsa militant was killed in the Jebaliya camp.

In other developments, a spat between Israel and the United Nations escalated after a top U.N. official in the region acknowledged that some of his Palestinian employees were probably members of militant groups.

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, undercover Israeli troops ambushed a car on Monday, killing two members of an elite Palestinian security force and wounding a third, Palestinian security officials said.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-meast05.html

'Palestinian prime minister: World leaders don't care'

Sure they do...it's just that people have become aware of the whining the palis do when the Israelis shoot back...inst3ead of complaining about israel, the "prime minister" should be attacking the terrorists who will NOT ALLOW peace to happen...
World leader Do care! They're aware that if they continue to support and defend Arab terrorists, the same tactics will be used aganist them!! (in the not too distant future)

It shouldn't be the thirteen and fourteen year old girls and boys who are being shot. Instead it should be the adults who are sending them out as sappers.

Of course the argument on the other side is that it is impossible for an adult to walk up to a watchtower with a bag full of explosives. They'd be shot immediately when they got close. Send a kid and there's a chance the Israelis will hold their fire -- maybe the kid with the bag was going to just walk by.

Notice the "Bullets hit the bag and then soldiers opened fire on the girl" that got accidentally left in the story. See, the girl drops the bag at the base of the tower and runs but it doesn't go off (bad fuse?) so the fire team covering her opens up on the bag to try to set it off << did you imagine that the Israelis on the tower are leaning over and firing at what they believe to be a bag full of explosives at the base of the tower they are on? >>

Oh, I'm sure that the Israelis shot that girl, that at least some of the twenty bullets hitting her were Israeli. But probably quite a few them were "own goals". When you are using thirteen year old kids, not much time for training them instead of running to hit the dirt and try to crawl to safety.

The girl had entered a restricted area where a good number of terrorist attacks had taken place.
The soldiers thought the girl was carrying explosives in the bag (which isn't unfrequent). When they shot, the girl left the bag and run. At that moment several terrorists started shooting at the Israeli soldiers. When the Israelis replied to that shooting, they hit the girl.
Source: "libertaddigital", October 5, 2004

I can't fathom what kind of monster this scum fuck captain must be!
I hope this heartless monster enjoys burning in fucking hell !

Chris, you've never bothered to get the update, namely that this whole story of the girl being pumped with bullets from close range by the officer originated in a lie told by two soldiers under his command. In other words, that part of the story never happened.

"this whole story of the girl being pumped with bullets from close range by the officer originated in a lie told by two soldiers under his command"

Let's see the link, lying fuck

I also read it in newspapers the day after the events ( or perhaps two days later).
If you are really interested in knowing the truth, why don't you make some research? If you look it up in google, you will find it.

Capt. accused of verifying kill released
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH



In a dramatic about-face, one of the soldiers who testified that he had seen Capt. R., the Givati company commander, shoot 13-year-old Iman al-Hams to death at point-blank range last October near the Girit outpost close to Rafah, admitted to the Southern Command Military Court on Sunday that he had lied.

Following the developments, the court ordered the release of Capt. R. from custody and the return of his weapon to him. He will go back to the division and receive details of his future post.

"Despite two previous court sessions, the soldier admitted to lying and fabricating the story," Capt. R.'s lawyer, Elad Eizenberg, told The Jerusalem Post.

Eizenberg said the charges against his client were based mainly on the testimonies of two soldiers, the one who recanted on Sunday and another who, in an earlier hearing, was unable to confirm that the company commander had aimed his weapon and shot the girl.

According to Eizenberg, the former told the court that he and others lied in an attempt to oust Capt. R. from the company. R. had taken up his post two months before Hams was shot.

"He fought against all sorts of problems he encountered among the soldiers in an attempt to restore discipline. The soldiers apparently took advantage of the situation and decided to incriminate him and kick him out. They had a clear-cut agenda," Eizenberg said.

According to Eizenberg, prior to the shooting of the girl, the soldiers had approached Israel Radio with another story in an attempt to discredit their commander.

Capt R. was indicted last November on two counts of illegal use of weapons, obstruction of justice, unbecoming behavior and the improper use of authority that endangered others. He has been confined to an army base since his arrest.

Throughout, he has denied the charges against him and expressed his intention to clear his name.

Yoav Mani, a lawyer on the defense team, said it intends to demand a Military Police investigation in the wake of the recent developments.



http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107659936495

Not so likely. Or he might try throwing some other slime at Israel -- or you -- to make up for his mindlessness on this one incident.

Feb. 21, 2005 21:20 | Updated Feb. 22, 2005 11:47
Citizens should insist on a fair press
By EVELYN GORDON



Last week, I found myself envying America its media. Certainly, American journalism has its share of error, biased reporting and other journalistic sins. Yet unlike many other countries' media it still takes the ideal of fair and honest reporting seriously – so seriously that egregious sins against this ideal can even cost a journalist his job.

Eason Jordan's February 11 resignation from his post as CNN's executive vice president was a case in point.

On January 27, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jordan allegedly accused US soldiers in Iraq of deliberately targeting journalists. (Jordan denies this, but his denial seems suspect given that one audience member who reported and protested his comment was Barney Frank, a homosexual Democratic congressman from ultra-liberal Massachusetts – hardly a knee-jerk right-winger.)

And because in America it is considered unacceptable for senior journalists to make such incendiary charges without serious proof, public pressure, including from parts of the mainstream media, eventually convinced Jordan (and presumably also CNN) that resignation was the wisest course.

But Jordan's case is hardly unique. Five months earlier Dan Rather, the veteran anchor of CBS Evening News, announced his resignation after reporting, based on what later proved to be forged documents, that President George W. Bush had shirked his military service.

Rather did not falsify the documents himself; he merely made insufficient efforts to authenticate them before broadcasting them to the nation.

But in America, senior journalists are expected to vet such serious accusations thoroughly before airing them. The resultant public outcry was sufficient to make Rather (and presumably CBS) conclude that he should resign.

Since all Western media claim to aspire to accuracy and fairness, one might think that such journalistic accountability would be the norm. Yet in many Western countries journalists can falsify, fabricate and distort with impunity.

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A particularly flagrant Israeli example was Ilana Dayan's report on the October 5 shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by IDF soldiers. Initially, the soldiers claimed to have no idea that Iman al-Hams was a schoolgirl; they merely saw an unidentified Palestinian carrying a backpack near their outpost, where no innocent Palestinian had reason to be, and concluded that it was a bomber coming to attack them. Later, however, several soldiers accused their company commander of "confirming the kill" – i.e. shooting al-Hams repeatedly at close range, where he could not have avoided seeing that she was a schoolgirl. (The star prosecution witness in the commander's trial has since admitted in court that his "eyewitness" account of this "confirmed kill" was a lie.)
After the "confirmed kill" story broke, Dayan broadcast an investigative report into it on Fact, the acclaimed television news magazine she anchors. The IDF subsequently accused her of having distorted, or even fabricated, parts of the report in a libelous fashion. Most egregiously, the IDF said, she tacked footage of the soldiers celebrating onto the footage of them shooting, so that anyone watching would assume they were celebrating al-Hams' death.

In reality, the celebration footage came from a Rosh Hashana party several weeks earlier – a fact Dayan admitted when confronted.

Tacking unrelated celebration scenes onto the ostensible footage of al-Hams's killing (in reality, the shooting scenes also turned out to be from a different incident) is indeed slanderous fabrication; it implies that the soldiers rejoiced over having killed a schoolgirl.

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Yet not only did Dayan pay no price; her media colleagues vigorously defended her right to indulge in such fabrications.
Her boss, program editor Doron Glazer, for instance, dismissed the incident by declaring: "The chief of staff has more important work to do than attacking Fact." And Haaretz columnist Ehud Asheri went even further, writing that Dayan was not guilty of "tendentious and intentional fabrication," because "the celebration scene was shown in the context of the general atmosphere in the company."
In other words, since Dayan believed – rightly or wrongly – that those particular soldiers were capable of celebrating a schoolgirl's death, it was legitimate for her to fabricate footage that showed them doing so when they did not.
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YET ISRAEL is hardly unique: Similarly egregious incidents occur in many European countries.

Consider, for instance, the behavior of Riccardo Cristiano, a journalist for Italy's national television station, RAI, after a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli reservists in Ramallah on October 12, 2000. Media outlets around the world broadcast footage of the event by the independent Italian station RTI, but many mistakenly credited RAI.

Four days later, Cristiano published an advertisement in the Palestinian press declaring that RAI not only did not, but would not shoot such footage. "We always respect the Palestinian Authority's journalistic procedures for working in Palestine," he wrote. "This is not our way of acting. We do not do such things."

It is hard to imagine a more egregious journalistic sin than openly admitting to the systematic suppression of news unfavorable to one party in a conflict. Indeed, RAI was sufficiently embarrassed not only to recall Cristiano (about that, it had no choice, as Israel revoked his press credentials); it even held a disciplinary hearing. But then, far from penalizing him, RAI rewarded Cristiano with a prestigious New York posting – without eliciting a murmur of protest from Italy's media or public.

Similarly, when France's Nouvel Observateurpublished a story in 2001 that accused Israeli soldiers – without a shred of evidence – of systematically raping Palestinian women, no heads rolled; the journal merely mumbled a brief apology, and the French media and public deemed this sufficient. There, too, printing libelous accusations without checking the facts is evidently considered unexceptionable.

The quality of information disseminated by the world's media would undoubtedly improve if more media outlets adopted American standards of accountability. But that will only happen when other countries' citizens start emulating their American counterparts – by insisting on it.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1108956311538&apage=2

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From my point of view, for him is not important to believe it or not: his only interest is to attack Israel. However, he must have think we would be unable to find a link, and here they are. After all, it was very easy.

OF COURSE

a.k.a. 'The Zio-Extremist Daily Standard.' Natch.

Gee, I wonder what the NON-zio-screamer rags have to say about this

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2250618E-C876-4AEC-BBCB-B4E5C9CF5D69.htm

Yeah, it was really Palestinian snipers who made those 17 bullet wounds in her corpse. From a helicopter no less. The IDF stormtrooper who stood directly over her had nothing to do with it. LOL

I wonder how many days Katsaf subjected "S" to sleep deprivation to make him "see the light."

Oh, my, aljazeera, God's word.

Amen.

This lovely creature is here to vent his love for all fellow humans who don't measure up to his sanity and lucid penetrating understanding of the actual facts.

(hahahahehe...)

But take into account that we Jews are not human.