Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: IFD Held Boy, 13, as Human Shield

Considerando che alcuni sostengono che i TK sono una cosa giusta, sono
sicuro che anche questa ignobile azione sara' da loro giustificata (se fatta
dagli israeliani)...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4908037&section=news
BIDDO, West Bank (Reuters) - When older Palestinian boys started throwing
stones at Israeli border police in the flashpoint West Bank village of
Biddo, 13-year-old Muhammed Badwan went along to watch.
He ended up on the hood of an Israeli jeep, at least one of his skinny arms
tied to a wire mesh screen that blocks the windshield from incoming stones,
according to a photograph of the purported incident distributed by an
Israeli rights group.
"He was a shield for them," Saeed Badwan, a 34-year-old labourer, said of
his only son. "When I saw him on the hood of the jeep, my whole mind went
crazy...It's a picture you can't even imagine. He was shivering from fear."
Police said Muhammed's case was sent to the Justice Ministry for
investigation. Israeli security forces insist they do their utmost to avoid
civilian casualties and accuse Palestinian militants of routinely using
non-combatants for cover.
Palestinian activists in Biddo, a focal point for protests against Israel's
West Bank barrier, say troops have increasingly responded with excessive
force to disperse stone throwers.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said it was monitoring West Bank
anti-barrier protests after Palestinian complaints of rising violence by
Israeli security forces, especially in Biddo.
Medics say four Palestinians have been shot dead this year in Biddo in rock
throwing protests against the barrier, which Israel says is necessary to
keep out suicide bombers. An elderly man also died of heart failure after
inhaling tear gas.
Palestinians say the barrier, whose planned route snakes deep into the West
Bank, is intended to annex territory captured by Israel in 1967 that
Palestinians want for a state.
Biddo activists said border police had in two separate instances this month
used villagers as shields to prevent stone throwing. They said forces had
also repeatedly used both rubber and live bullets to disperse protesters.
NO TO HUMAN SHIELDS
"I was scared when they got me at first. I thought they would put me in
prison...I was scared a stone would hit me," Muhammed said, nursing a split
lip a week after his hours-long detention. Stone throwing mostly stopped
when he was on the jeep.
I cried on the hood of the jeep, and when I saw my dad."
Israel's Supreme Court barred the use of Palestinians as human shields in
2002 after an incident in which soldiers forced the neighbor of a suspected
militant to knock on his door and deliver their ultimatum to surrender.
The militant shot and killed the man.
"There is supposed to be an injunction against the military... But there is
evidence it is still continuing. It is less, but it does happen," said
Marwan Dalal, a lawyer with the Israeli Arab rights group Adalah.
He said it was more common for soldiers to use Palestinians as human shields
in military operations, but that civilians had also been used to block stone
throwing.
He cited a case last year in which he said security forces used a
Palestinian as a human shield during a protest in the divided West Bank city
of Hebron.
"I am sure it happens more than is documented," he said.
A left-wing Israeli rabbi who said he too was detained as a human shield
when he tried to intervene to free Muhammed Badwan last week said he planned
to press charges.
"It is very depressing and very sad to see that we have come to this
position where this is what we do. There is disbelief," said Rabbi Arik
Ascherman, head of Rabbis for Human Rights, which distributed the picture,
taken by a foreign photographer, of Muhammed strapped to a jeep.
But Muhammed, though he said he still wanted to throw stones at soldiers,
said he did not consider all Israelis his enemy.
"If I saw an Israeli child, I would respect him, not hit him," Muhammed
said. "The soldier was not good, an animal. But the man who came to help me
is an honorable person."
Picture:
http://www.occupationalhazard.org/article.php?IDD=649

 
http://www.occupationalhazard.org/article.php?IDD=649
Non mi pare che sia legato o che qualcuno lo tenga fermo li.
Oltretutto non lo vedo ne piangere e non sembra nemmeno spaventato.
Insomma mi pare una gran ca***ta montata come al solito dai
pacifichisti.
-Stefano