Eight
days ago eleven Palestinian buildings containing seventy family
apartments located in the illegally Israeli occupied East Jerusalem
village of Wadi al-Hummus were demolished in a military-led operation
by more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers, policemen and municipal workers
using bulldozers, backhoes and explosives. Residents who resisted were
beaten by the soldiers, kicked down flights of stairs and even shot at
close range with rubber bullets. The soldiers were recorded laughing and
celebrating as they did their dirty work. Occupants who did not resist
and who held their hands up in surrender were also not spared the rod,
as were also foreign observers who were present to add their voices to
those who were protesting the outrage. The injuries sustained by some of
the victims have been photographed and are available online.
Twelve
Palestinians and four British observers were injured badly enough to be
hospitalized. The British reported that they were “stamped on, dragged
by the hair, strangled with a scarf and pepper sprayed by Israeli border
police.” One who was hospitalized described how Israeli soldiers
dragged him by his feet, lifting him up, and kicking him in the stomach,
while one soldier stamped on his head four times “at full force” before
standing on his head and pulling his hair. Another suffered a fractured
rib after “[the policeman] then stamped on my throat and others started
punching my torso. It was a sadistic display of violence…”
Yet
another foreign observer was dragged out of the house, “…her hands were
crushed so badly that she suffered a fractured knuckle on her left hand,
and her right hand suffered severe tissue damage ‘which will be
permanently misshapen unless she gets cosmetic surgery.’”........http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-has-the-most-moral-army-in-the-world/
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