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A new video shows the Israeli soldier, who executed a seriously wounded Palestinian in Hebron, last Thursday, shaking hands with fanatic leader, colonialist settler, Baroch Marzel, who frequently calls for killing, and expelling, the Palestinians.
The video shows the soldier walking towards Marzel for the sole reason of shaking his hands, while other soldiers could be seen removing the body of the slain Palestinian, identified as Abdul-Fattah Sharif. Commenting on the video, Marzel claimed he didn’t know that the soldier who walked to him, and shook his hand, was actually one who executed the wounded Palestinian. "Should I have known who he was; I would have hugged him, and would |
have kissed him, for what he did," Marzel stated, "I wouldn’t just shake his hand."
Whenever the Israeli army kills a Palestinian in Hebron, Marzel goes to the site to salute them and express his support to them.
He is known to even bring food to Israeli soldiers, manning military roadblocks in Hebron, and even would give pizza to soldiers who killed Palestinians.
Marzel is a senior Israeli Orthodox Jewish politician who was born in the United States, and lives, along with his wife and nine children, in an illegal colonialist outpost, in Palestinian property in Tel Romeida neighborhood in Hebron city.
He was also a senior member of the terrorist Kach movement, and was its spokesperson for more than ten years. he was also elected as the head of the secretariat of Kach, after the movement’s leader Meir Kahane was assassinated in New York.
Although Marzel was frequently arrested by the Israeli police and army, and acquired a criminal record of more than 40 incitements, and a 12-month suspended sentence for violent attacks, not only against the Palestinians, but also against Israeli Police Officers, he served as a parliamentary assistant of Member of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari.
The Boston-born fanatic led a protest against Pope Frances during his visit to Jerusalem, and described Pope Frances as an "impure pontiff," and said that the Pope should "leave our holy country."
He also described U.S. President Barack Obama as an "anti-Semitic Jew Hater."
It is worth mentioning that the head of "Israel Our Home" far-right party Avigdor Lieberman expressed his support and solidarity with the soldier who executed Sharif in Hebron.
Lieberman even filed an official request to visit the soldier, who is currently detained under interrogation, but the Israeli Defense Ministry rejected it.
He said he wanted to visit the soldier to inform him that he, and various members of Knesset, stand by him.
New Video Shows Soldier Shaking Hands With Far-right Activist After Shooting Subdued Palestinian Attacker
Soldier can be seen smiling alongside Baruch Marzel, the former leader of the outlawed Kach group, while the body of the assailant is removed from the scene of the attack.
The soldier who shot a Palestinian attacker while he was wounded in Hebron on Thursday was recorded shaking hands with far-right activist Baruch Marzel while the body of the assailant was removed from the scene.
The video, which was also recorded by a B'Teselem fieldworker, shows the soldier, whose name remains under a court-issued gag order, walking behind his company commander as the two walk away from the body of Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif, as other soldiers were covering it and lifting it on to a stretcher.
The soldier is then seen approaching a rescue worker and briefly speaking with him. Marzel approaches the two, and is seen shaking hands with the soldier who shot Sharif, who in turn pats him on the arm. In other photos taken by foreign press agencies, the soldier is seen smiling alongside Marzel. The documentation of their encounter lasts only dozens of seconds, as the video continues and focuses on the removal of the bodies of the assailant and his accomplice from the scene.
A media adviser to the family of the soldier responded to the report. "We’re not commenting on rumors of any kind that are meant to continue to tarnish the image of an outstanding IDF fighter. We regret that Haaretz is lending a hand to meaningless gossip that has no operational link to the incident."
"If I had known that he was that one who killed the terrorist I would have also kissed and hugged him," Marzel said after the video was published. "Anyone who kills a terrorist deserves a medal.
"I love all of the soldiers and [I] shake hands to all of the soldiers and have no intention to apologize for it… I was not previously acquitted with the soldier, but I love all soldiers and appreciate them," Marzel added. "[Peace Now head Yariv] Oppenheimer and Breaking the Silence are fighting the soldiers, I strengthen them. Choose which side you are on."
Boston-born Marzel, a disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane, was the latter's successor as leader of the Kach movement, which Israel outlawed in 1994 after Kach supporter Baruch Goldstein shot and killed 29 Muslim worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Marzel was convicted in 1996 of assaulting soldiers who were trying to arrest a settler. The judge deplored Marzel's ideology of contempt for the law, but didn't sentence him to prison.
Additional videos published by B'Tselem on Sunday show the soldiers a short time after the attack, looking at ease and walking around near Sharif's body. At one point one of the soldiers can even be seen tying his shoelaces near the body.
The soldier claimed in his military police investigation that he shot Sharif because he feared for his life. He also said during the investigation "I carried out the shooting while the terrorist was alive. I did so because I felt in mortal danger." His attorney, Ilan Katz, said during a hearing last Friday at the Jaffa Military Court that the shooting was carried out in accordance with the military's open-fire procedures.
On Sunday, Army Radio reported that the military investigation found that the soldier told one of his friends that the "terrorist needs to die" for stabbing another soldier. Despite the latter's efforts to calm him down, the soldier then shot the Palestinian. Attorney Katz denied this statement, but declined to comment on further details.
It has been clarified to the soldier in his investigation that he is suspected of murder. Operational Affairs Attorney Lt. Col. Adoram Riegler said during the hearing that it constitutes "suspicion of very grave offenses." Court justice Lt. Col. Ronen Schur determined that the investigation material "indicates a reasonable suspicion that the suspect fired unlawfully under the circumstances, and that this shooting might have led to the death of the terrorist, who at the time remained lying on the ground after he was shot earlier."
A poll published by Channel 2 News on Saturday showed that most of the public (57 percent) believed that there was no need to detain and investigate the soldier, compared to 32 percent who supported it. Forty-two percent of respondents defined the soldier's behavior as "responsible," 24 percent believed that it was a natural reaction to a stressful situation, 19 percent said it constituted a deviation from orders and 5 percent defined the shooting of the wounded assailant as murder – the offense the soldier is suspected of. More than two-thirds of the respondents had reservations about IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's decisive statements against the shooting, while 21 percent sided with them.
The mother of the soldier suspected of the murder wrote to Ya'alon on Sunday. "I am the mother of the soldier that you sent on a mission to protect the country's citizens and you have abandoned him. A mother who sent her son to protect the country and its citizens, and the establishment reciprocates by firing back and silencing his voice. I am the mother of the 19-year-old boy who is standing alone in front of the political and military leadership and can’t take it on."
"Bring us the boy back, bring us our lives back. Remember and don’t forget that you stood in my son's place, only in the room of Abu Jihad, and confirmed the kill of a despicable terrorist and murderer," she wrote, referring to Ya'alon's part in the 1988 assassination of a senior Fatah leader. "On Thursday my son also stood against a murderous terrorist, but the tables have turned and the terrorist who came to murder became a Righteous among the Nations and my son became the murderer. Have we gone crazy?!"
Whenever the Israeli army kills a Palestinian in Hebron, Marzel goes to the site to salute them and express his support to them.
He is known to even bring food to Israeli soldiers, manning military roadblocks in Hebron, and even would give pizza to soldiers who killed Palestinians.
Marzel is a senior Israeli Orthodox Jewish politician who was born in the United States, and lives, along with his wife and nine children, in an illegal colonialist outpost, in Palestinian property in Tel Romeida neighborhood in Hebron city.
He was also a senior member of the terrorist Kach movement, and was its spokesperson for more than ten years. he was also elected as the head of the secretariat of Kach, after the movement’s leader Meir Kahane was assassinated in New York.
Although Marzel was frequently arrested by the Israeli police and army, and acquired a criminal record of more than 40 incitements, and a 12-month suspended sentence for violent attacks, not only against the Palestinians, but also against Israeli Police Officers, he served as a parliamentary assistant of Member of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari.
The Boston-born fanatic led a protest against Pope Frances during his visit to Jerusalem, and described Pope Frances as an "impure pontiff," and said that the Pope should "leave our holy country."
He also described U.S. President Barack Obama as an "anti-Semitic Jew Hater."
It is worth mentioning that the head of "Israel Our Home" far-right party Avigdor Lieberman expressed his support and solidarity with the soldier who executed Sharif in Hebron.
Lieberman even filed an official request to visit the soldier, who is currently detained under interrogation, but the Israeli Defense Ministry rejected it.
He said he wanted to visit the soldier to inform him that he, and various members of Knesset, stand by him.
New Video Shows Soldier Shaking Hands With Far-right Activist After Shooting Subdued Palestinian Attacker
Soldier can be seen smiling alongside Baruch Marzel, the former leader of the outlawed Kach group, while the body of the assailant is removed from the scene of the attack.
The soldier who shot a Palestinian attacker while he was wounded in Hebron on Thursday was recorded shaking hands with far-right activist Baruch Marzel while the body of the assailant was removed from the scene.
The video, which was also recorded by a B'Teselem fieldworker, shows the soldier, whose name remains under a court-issued gag order, walking behind his company commander as the two walk away from the body of Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif, as other soldiers were covering it and lifting it on to a stretcher.
The soldier is then seen approaching a rescue worker and briefly speaking with him. Marzel approaches the two, and is seen shaking hands with the soldier who shot Sharif, who in turn pats him on the arm. In other photos taken by foreign press agencies, the soldier is seen smiling alongside Marzel. The documentation of their encounter lasts only dozens of seconds, as the video continues and focuses on the removal of the bodies of the assailant and his accomplice from the scene.
A media adviser to the family of the soldier responded to the report. "We’re not commenting on rumors of any kind that are meant to continue to tarnish the image of an outstanding IDF fighter. We regret that Haaretz is lending a hand to meaningless gossip that has no operational link to the incident."
"If I had known that he was that one who killed the terrorist I would have also kissed and hugged him," Marzel said after the video was published. "Anyone who kills a terrorist deserves a medal.
"I love all of the soldiers and [I] shake hands to all of the soldiers and have no intention to apologize for it… I was not previously acquitted with the soldier, but I love all soldiers and appreciate them," Marzel added. "[Peace Now head Yariv] Oppenheimer and Breaking the Silence are fighting the soldiers, I strengthen them. Choose which side you are on."
Boston-born Marzel, a disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane, was the latter's successor as leader of the Kach movement, which Israel outlawed in 1994 after Kach supporter Baruch Goldstein shot and killed 29 Muslim worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Marzel was convicted in 1996 of assaulting soldiers who were trying to arrest a settler. The judge deplored Marzel's ideology of contempt for the law, but didn't sentence him to prison.
Additional videos published by B'Tselem on Sunday show the soldiers a short time after the attack, looking at ease and walking around near Sharif's body. At one point one of the soldiers can even be seen tying his shoelaces near the body.
The soldier claimed in his military police investigation that he shot Sharif because he feared for his life. He also said during the investigation "I carried out the shooting while the terrorist was alive. I did so because I felt in mortal danger." His attorney, Ilan Katz, said during a hearing last Friday at the Jaffa Military Court that the shooting was carried out in accordance with the military's open-fire procedures.
On Sunday, Army Radio reported that the military investigation found that the soldier told one of his friends that the "terrorist needs to die" for stabbing another soldier. Despite the latter's efforts to calm him down, the soldier then shot the Palestinian. Attorney Katz denied this statement, but declined to comment on further details.
It has been clarified to the soldier in his investigation that he is suspected of murder. Operational Affairs Attorney Lt. Col. Adoram Riegler said during the hearing that it constitutes "suspicion of very grave offenses." Court justice Lt. Col. Ronen Schur determined that the investigation material "indicates a reasonable suspicion that the suspect fired unlawfully under the circumstances, and that this shooting might have led to the death of the terrorist, who at the time remained lying on the ground after he was shot earlier."
A poll published by Channel 2 News on Saturday showed that most of the public (57 percent) believed that there was no need to detain and investigate the soldier, compared to 32 percent who supported it. Forty-two percent of respondents defined the soldier's behavior as "responsible," 24 percent believed that it was a natural reaction to a stressful situation, 19 percent said it constituted a deviation from orders and 5 percent defined the shooting of the wounded assailant as murder – the offense the soldier is suspected of. More than two-thirds of the respondents had reservations about IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's decisive statements against the shooting, while 21 percent sided with them.
The mother of the soldier suspected of the murder wrote to Ya'alon on Sunday. "I am the mother of the soldier that you sent on a mission to protect the country's citizens and you have abandoned him. A mother who sent her son to protect the country and its citizens, and the establishment reciprocates by firing back and silencing his voice. I am the mother of the 19-year-old boy who is standing alone in front of the political and military leadership and can’t take it on."
"Bring us the boy back, bring us our lives back. Remember and don’t forget that you stood in my son's place, only in the room of Abu Jihad, and confirmed the kill of a despicable terrorist and murderer," she wrote, referring to Ya'alon's part in the 1988 assassination of a senior Fatah leader. "On Thursday my son also stood against a murderous terrorist, but the tables have turned and the terrorist who came to murder became a Righteous among the Nations and my son became the murderer. Have we gone crazy?!"
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Baruch Marzel’s presence at the site of last week's extrajudicial killing in Hebron is indicative of Israel's collusion with radical settlers.
On Thursday, Israeli human rights group B’tselem released a video of an Israeli soldier shooting Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif in the head, as he was laying wounded and motionless on the ground in Hebron. At the scene, a second Palestinian, Ramziz Aziz al-Qasrawi, quickly dies from a gunshot wound, having been offered no medical care. Following the extrajudicial executions, the soldier who shot Sharif shakes |
hands with Hebron settler and right-wing Jewish nationalist Baruch Marzel as Sharif’s body is removed from the scene.
Haaretz described the interaction between the two:
The soldier is then seen approaching a rescue worker and briefly speaking with him. Marzel approaches the two, and is seen shaking hands with the soldier who shot Sharif, who in turn pats him on the arm. In other photos taken by foreign press agencies, the soldier is seen smiling alongside Marzel.
Palestinian and Israeli news outlets have identified Marzel as an Israeli far-right extremist, activist, and ultra-nationalist. Indeed, Marzel, a longtime Hebron settler, is a ardent follower of Meir Kahane, who advocated for the forced transfer of Palestinians from all of “Israel,” along with all others who question uncompromised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied territories. Kahane believed in using violence to defend and forward this agenda; his followers, including Marzel (and now the soldier in question), are known to violently attack Palestinians in hopes of initiating the transfer process themselves.
Marzel’s presence at the site of the extrajudicial killings is representative of the affect radical Israeli settlers have in Palestinian areas: concern over their bodies elicits the presence of Israeli state forces. As Minister of Agriculture Ariel Sharon once said, it would be impossible to establish settlements in isolated areas of the West Bank without “people who were willing to live on those barren hills and ridges amidst a hostile local population.”
However, Marzel and his community could not live in Hebron in such violent opposition to the Palestinian population without the strong support of the Israeli government. Israeli support for Hebron settlers today looks like approximately 4,000 Israeli soldiers instituting a brutal military regime on over 200,000 Palestinians to protect around 500 settlers in the heart of Hebron. Israel’s Ministry of Housing also continues to fund settlement expansion in Hebron’s downtown.
Israel goes through the trouble of protecting these provocative settlers because their messianic vision of establishing a Jewish Hebron and “Greater Israel” aligns with the Israeli government’s somewhat rather goal: laying claim to the occupied territories and its resources. After all, Israel’s support for Hebron settlers began immediately after it occupied the city in 1967. Settlers moving to Hebron were seen by Israel as a way to prevent Palestinian expansion into areas coveted by Israel for future annexation and resource exploitation.
In this sense, Marzel’s presence at the site of Thursday’s extrajudicial killing and his extension of his hand to a murderer is no coincidence; Israel capitalizes on his presence, and the presence of other settlers, to expand the Israeli occupation into Palestinian territory. In turn, they protect and empower Marzel to lord over a population he aims to have violently transferred. Nevertheless, despite Marzel’s deplorable participation in and celebration of this system, it is the Israeli government alone that has the resources and power to maintain the occupation of Palestine.
Since the popular uprising began in October 2015, Israeli forces have killed at least 61 Palestinians in Hebron alone, and 206 Palestinians overall. Palestinians have killed approximately 29 Israelis over the same period.
Haaretz described the interaction between the two:
The soldier is then seen approaching a rescue worker and briefly speaking with him. Marzel approaches the two, and is seen shaking hands with the soldier who shot Sharif, who in turn pats him on the arm. In other photos taken by foreign press agencies, the soldier is seen smiling alongside Marzel.
Palestinian and Israeli news outlets have identified Marzel as an Israeli far-right extremist, activist, and ultra-nationalist. Indeed, Marzel, a longtime Hebron settler, is a ardent follower of Meir Kahane, who advocated for the forced transfer of Palestinians from all of “Israel,” along with all others who question uncompromised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied territories. Kahane believed in using violence to defend and forward this agenda; his followers, including Marzel (and now the soldier in question), are known to violently attack Palestinians in hopes of initiating the transfer process themselves.
Marzel’s presence at the site of the extrajudicial killings is representative of the affect radical Israeli settlers have in Palestinian areas: concern over their bodies elicits the presence of Israeli state forces. As Minister of Agriculture Ariel Sharon once said, it would be impossible to establish settlements in isolated areas of the West Bank without “people who were willing to live on those barren hills and ridges amidst a hostile local population.”
However, Marzel and his community could not live in Hebron in such violent opposition to the Palestinian population without the strong support of the Israeli government. Israeli support for Hebron settlers today looks like approximately 4,000 Israeli soldiers instituting a brutal military regime on over 200,000 Palestinians to protect around 500 settlers in the heart of Hebron. Israel’s Ministry of Housing also continues to fund settlement expansion in Hebron’s downtown.
Israel goes through the trouble of protecting these provocative settlers because their messianic vision of establishing a Jewish Hebron and “Greater Israel” aligns with the Israeli government’s somewhat rather goal: laying claim to the occupied territories and its resources. After all, Israel’s support for Hebron settlers began immediately after it occupied the city in 1967. Settlers moving to Hebron were seen by Israel as a way to prevent Palestinian expansion into areas coveted by Israel for future annexation and resource exploitation.
In this sense, Marzel’s presence at the site of Thursday’s extrajudicial killing and his extension of his hand to a murderer is no coincidence; Israel capitalizes on his presence, and the presence of other settlers, to expand the Israeli occupation into Palestinian territory. In turn, they protect and empower Marzel to lord over a population he aims to have violently transferred. Nevertheless, despite Marzel’s deplorable participation in and celebration of this system, it is the Israeli government alone that has the resources and power to maintain the occupation of Palestine.
Since the popular uprising began in October 2015, Israeli forces have killed at least 61 Palestinians in Hebron alone, and 206 Palestinians overall. Palestinians have killed approximately 29 Israelis over the same period.
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By Khalid Amayreh in Hebron
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary settlers have been hounding and intimidating a Palestinian journalist who filmed the gruesome murder of an unarmed and badly wounded Palestinian at the hands of an Israeli police officer in Hebron a few days ago. The film showed the trigger-happy Israeli officer fire several bullets on the head of the bleeding Palestinian, who then succumbed to his fatal wounds. Israeli army sources alleged that the wounded Palestinian had sought to stab Israeli soldiers. Palestinian eyewitnesses disputed the Israeli narrative. The hair-raising images of the crime generated angry reactions throughout |
the world. The Israeli foreign ministry reportedly privately complained that the brief sketch might further tarnish Israel’s image.
Israel is already trying to fight a deepening international campaign aimed at boycotting Jewish settlements, viewed as illegal and illegitimate under international law. The campaign, known as Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) has already prompted many foreign firms to terminate their operations in the settlements.
Earlier this week, the Israeli army briefly reprimanded the murderer for a few hours. However, the Hebrew media has pointed out that the symbolic detention and interrogation of the murderer was a purely public relations measure, which would mitigate angry reactions and help Israel portray herself as law-abiding country unlike other countries in the Middle East.
According to Palestinian and Israeli human rights workers, when Israeli soldiers are caught “red handed,” e.g. brutally murdering a totally innocent Palestinian and without the slightest provocation, the murderer or murderers are rebuked, not for carrying out the murderous act itself, but for having failed to ensure that no one would film the crime.
On Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities briefly detained Imad Abu Shamsiyya for filming the event using his cellular mobile phone. However, it was apparently too late for the Israeli army to retrieve the film which had already found its way through the world-wide web. Earlier, dozens of settlers surrounded Abu Shansiyya’s home in downtown Hebron, threatening to kill him if he “ever did it again.”
Abu Shamsiyya on Monday appealed to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmould Abbas to protect him and his family from settler attacks. “These people are barbarians and savages who could embark on the unthinkable.” Abu Shamsiyya added that the “Israeli army and government stand virtually powerless to rein in these hateful criminals.
The reason for this is that the government itself and the army, to a large extent, are more or less controlled by the settler camp.” In the past few years, settler terrorists crossed several red lines, including burning alive a Palestinian boy near Jerusalem, burning the home of a Palestinian family, the Dawabsheh family, resulting in the death of both parents and their child, and vandalizing several Muslim and Christian places of worship.
Last week, settler terrorists burned the home of a Palestinian witness who saw the deadly incident of burning the Dawabsheh family home. Many settlers apparently harbor a decidedly genocidal mindset vis-à-vis Palestinians and non-Jews in general.
They believe that the partial or complete physical extermination of the Palestinians, following the Biblical style, would expedite the appearance of the Redeemer or Jewish Messiah. The Redeemer, according to some Talmudic sages and Jewish mystics, would then bring about lasting salvation to Jews and the world and create a worldwide empire ruled from Jerusalem.
Israel is already trying to fight a deepening international campaign aimed at boycotting Jewish settlements, viewed as illegal and illegitimate under international law. The campaign, known as Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) has already prompted many foreign firms to terminate their operations in the settlements.
Earlier this week, the Israeli army briefly reprimanded the murderer for a few hours. However, the Hebrew media has pointed out that the symbolic detention and interrogation of the murderer was a purely public relations measure, which would mitigate angry reactions and help Israel portray herself as law-abiding country unlike other countries in the Middle East.
According to Palestinian and Israeli human rights workers, when Israeli soldiers are caught “red handed,” e.g. brutally murdering a totally innocent Palestinian and without the slightest provocation, the murderer or murderers are rebuked, not for carrying out the murderous act itself, but for having failed to ensure that no one would film the crime.
On Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities briefly detained Imad Abu Shamsiyya for filming the event using his cellular mobile phone. However, it was apparently too late for the Israeli army to retrieve the film which had already found its way through the world-wide web. Earlier, dozens of settlers surrounded Abu Shansiyya’s home in downtown Hebron, threatening to kill him if he “ever did it again.”
Abu Shamsiyya on Monday appealed to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmould Abbas to protect him and his family from settler attacks. “These people are barbarians and savages who could embark on the unthinkable.” Abu Shamsiyya added that the “Israeli army and government stand virtually powerless to rein in these hateful criminals.
The reason for this is that the government itself and the army, to a large extent, are more or less controlled by the settler camp.” In the past few years, settler terrorists crossed several red lines, including burning alive a Palestinian boy near Jerusalem, burning the home of a Palestinian family, the Dawabsheh family, resulting in the death of both parents and their child, and vandalizing several Muslim and Christian places of worship.
Last week, settler terrorists burned the home of a Palestinian witness who saw the deadly incident of burning the Dawabsheh family home. Many settlers apparently harbor a decidedly genocidal mindset vis-à-vis Palestinians and non-Jews in general.
They believe that the partial or complete physical extermination of the Palestinians, following the Biblical style, would expedite the appearance of the Redeemer or Jewish Messiah. The Redeemer, according to some Talmudic sages and Jewish mystics, would then bring about lasting salvation to Jews and the world and create a worldwide empire ruled from Jerusalem.
Palestinian MP Najet Abu Baker called for prosecuting the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) for carrying out extrajudicial executions against Palestinian civilians.
Backed by their military leaders, Israeli soldiers have deliberately and systematically carried out extrajudicial executions against Palestinian youths and minors, she said.
On a Facebook post, MP Abu Baker said that Israeli occupation soldiers maintained their policy of extrajudicial executions against Palestinian youths and minors without any fear of possible punishment.
She also lashed out the international community’s continued silence towards Israeli crimes, which, she said, provides a green light for such policy. She pointed out that 38 Palestinian children out of 171 martyrs were shot and killed in cold blood by Israeli forces since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in early October 2015.
All investigations opened into Israeli shootings over the past period showed that Palestinian victims posed no threat to Israelis, she underlined. MP Abu Baker called on the international community and human rights institutions to act urgently to stop Israel’s extrajudicial executions against Palestinians.
Earlier last week, an Israeli rights group documented the execution of a Palestinian youth, Abdulfattah al-Sharif, by an Israeli soldier while he was lying wounded on the ground after being shot by Israeli gunfire in al-Khalil city.
The video recorded by a field researcher at B’Tselem showed that the injured Palestinian was moving while a soldier stepped forward and shot him directly in the head from a close distance leading to his immediate death.
Israeli campaigns to support the soldier who executed wounded Palestinian
Israeli right-wing activists launched campaigns to support the Israeli soldier who executed a Palestinian youth in al-Khalil city last Thursday.
The execution process was filmed by the Palestinian human rights activist Imad Abu Shamsiya. Posters slamming the investigation with the soldier, who murdered the Palestinian Abdulfattah al-Sharif in Tel al-Rumaidah district, were hanged on street walls.
Israeli right-wing members called for halting the trial against the soldier and asked the government along with the Israelis to support him.
Members of Israeli Knesset along with Israeli ministers rushed to express their support for the soldier while electronic campaigns were also launched on social media websites demanding his immediate release.
Israeli media sources revealed that the investigation in the execution of Sharif showed that the Israeli soldier reached the scene 6 minutes after the stabbing attack and shot the Palestinian man dead after he had been already shot and injured.
Backed by their military leaders, Israeli soldiers have deliberately and systematically carried out extrajudicial executions against Palestinian youths and minors, she said.
On a Facebook post, MP Abu Baker said that Israeli occupation soldiers maintained their policy of extrajudicial executions against Palestinian youths and minors without any fear of possible punishment.
She also lashed out the international community’s continued silence towards Israeli crimes, which, she said, provides a green light for such policy. She pointed out that 38 Palestinian children out of 171 martyrs were shot and killed in cold blood by Israeli forces since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in early October 2015.
All investigations opened into Israeli shootings over the past period showed that Palestinian victims posed no threat to Israelis, she underlined. MP Abu Baker called on the international community and human rights institutions to act urgently to stop Israel’s extrajudicial executions against Palestinians.
Earlier last week, an Israeli rights group documented the execution of a Palestinian youth, Abdulfattah al-Sharif, by an Israeli soldier while he was lying wounded on the ground after being shot by Israeli gunfire in al-Khalil city.
The video recorded by a field researcher at B’Tselem showed that the injured Palestinian was moving while a soldier stepped forward and shot him directly in the head from a close distance leading to his immediate death.
Israeli campaigns to support the soldier who executed wounded Palestinian
Israeli right-wing activists launched campaigns to support the Israeli soldier who executed a Palestinian youth in al-Khalil city last Thursday.
The execution process was filmed by the Palestinian human rights activist Imad Abu Shamsiya. Posters slamming the investigation with the soldier, who murdered the Palestinian Abdulfattah al-Sharif in Tel al-Rumaidah district, were hanged on street walls.
Israeli right-wing members called for halting the trial against the soldier and asked the government along with the Israelis to support him.
Members of Israeli Knesset along with Israeli ministers rushed to express their support for the soldier while electronic campaigns were also launched on social media websites demanding his immediate release.
Israeli media sources revealed that the investigation in the execution of Sharif showed that the Israeli soldier reached the scene 6 minutes after the stabbing attack and shot the Palestinian man dead after he had been already shot and injured.
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Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” The soldiers of the IDF, our children, maintain high ethical values while courageously fighting against bloodthirsty murderers under difficult operational conditions,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” Yasmine Rashad Zaro 13
Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” Hadeel Wajeeh ‘Awwad, 16
Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” Hadeel Hashlamoun
Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” Mahdi Mohammad Ramadan al-Mohtasib
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After Thursday’s execution of a wounded young Palestinian man and his friend (who bled to death), was captured on tape, many details started emerging, including the involvement of an Israeli military medic in the crime.
In one of the videos that captured this extrajudicial assassination of the already seriously wounded, completely incapacitated Palestinian, the sound of an Israeli colonialist settler, who is also a medic and a cameraman, could be heard saying, “He is not dead… shoot him in the head.” The second video shows an Israeli soldier executing the wounded Palestinian, Abdul-Fattah Sharif, with a gunshot to the head, after conspiring with an Israeli colonialist settler to drive his van forward to block surveillance cameras and prevent onlookers from documenting the crime. The soldiers and settler did not see the Palestinian who was filming from an upstairs window. The Israeli medics did not attempt any first aid on the two Palestinians, leaving one of them to bleed to death and executing the other. Issa Amro, the coordinator of the Youth against Settlements Coalition, said what happened “is clear proof that the Israeli soldiers and the medics conspire and cooperate in executing the Palestinians.” "The fanatic Israeli colonialist settler medic, Ofer Yohanna, appeared in many videos prior to this incident, constantly delaying any medical help to wounded Palestinians," Amro added, "This is what also happened in the cases of Hadeel Hashlamoun and the Sa’id al-Atrash, who were both killed, and Yasmeen az-Zaro, who was injured." He added that the Palestinians are now also suspecting that Israeli medics have killed wounded Palestinians, while transporting them in ambulances, including the case of Tareq Natsha, who did not suffer a serious injury, but died in an Israeli ambulance.” "Such incidents show the mutual roles between the soldiers, medics, police and the settlers," Amro said, "They seem to be implementing orders from higher up in the government and leadership, to assassinate wounded Palestinians." He added that the investigations conducted by the Israeli army are inaccurate and cannot be fair, because the military should not be allowed to investigate itself. He says this is especially true in this case, where the investigators and the culprit soldiers are colleagues, often serving together. "They protect each other; these investigations are not fair, and are not transparent, while the outcome of such investigation cannot be trusted," Amro added, "One of these cases in Hadeel al-Hashlamoun. The army admitted that the soldiers could have arrested her, instead of killing her, as she did not pose any direct threat, yet, she was shot with more than 15 live rounds." No soldier was charged with any misconduct in the case. Amro called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, since there have been many extra-judicial executions over the past five months, and urged Palestinians to continue to document all conducts of the army, especially since those videos have been proven to be very effective in exposing Israeli crimes. It is worth mentioning that dozens of extremist Israeli colonialist settlers marched, on Sunday at night, calling on the Israeli government to release the soldier who executed Abdul-Fattah Sharif last Thursday in Hebron. They gathered in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city, while chanting racist slogans, including “Death to Arabs”. They demanded the unconditional release of the soldier. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted on Sunday to the shooting of a wounded Palestinian at point-blank range in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron earlier this week, stating that any questioning of the Israeli army’s moral integrity was "outrageous and unacceptable." Netanyahu: “outrageous and unacceptable.” Mohammad Abu Khalaf and many many more......
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