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Titolo: MIDEAST:  So Easy for Israelis to Shoot to Kill

West Bank, non Gaza; l'amichevole Abu Mazen, non il truce Hanyeh; sassi, 
non qassam; AP, non i "golpisti" di Hamas.
Tuttavia, nonostante questo, accadono cose atroci e ingiuste come quelle 
descritte nell'articolo.
Da dove iniziare a costruire la pace se non tra le persone?
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MIDEAST:  So Easy for Israelis to Shoot to Kill
By Cherrie Heywood
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 28 (IPS) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed 
three young Palestinians in the Ramallah district of the central West 
Bank last week. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claimed the 
Palestinians were about to throw Molotov cocktails at soldiers and 
settlers in the Bet El settlement.
But the circumstances in which the young men were shot, whether they 
actually did throw or attempt to throw firebombs, and if they actually 
threatened the lives of any soldiers or settlers, has been questioned.
IPS visited the area where two of the killings took place in the 
Palestinian refugee camp Jelazon, north of Ramallah. The families of the 
deceased gave a completely different version of events to that of the 
IDF, and accused the Israelis of premeditated murder.
Chief Palestinian negotiator and senior official Saeb Erekat condemned 
"the heavy-handed Israeli military tactics that undermine the 
Palestinian Authority's efforts to establish law and order."
Following media enquiries an IDF spokesman said Israeli soldiers had 
laid an ambush in response to a spate of stone and Molotov throwing 
incidents which had targeted Israeli settler vehicles in the last few weeks.
The spokesman added that the soldiers "assumed that the deceased were in 
the process of preparing Molotovs when they were shot."
Aziz Yousef, 21, from the village Kufr Malik near Ramallah was shot dead 
on Thursday. On Wednesday, Jelazon resident Muhammad Ramahi, 21, died 
from wounds sustained in a clash with Israeli troops at the refugee camp.
Wednesday's clash between protesting Palestinians and Israeli soldiers 
took place after the funeral of another Jelazon resident Abdel Qader 
al-Zaid, 17, who was killed by soldiers the previous day.
 From the Ramahi double-storey home the road which divides Jelazon camp 
from the Israeli settlement Bet El approximately 400 metres away was in 
clear view. Only Palestinian motorists use this road. A separate road 
for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers lies on the other side of Bet El.
The settlement is situated on the top of a steep hill. Most Israeli 
settlements, for security reasons, are built on high-lying areas which 
look down on Palestinian villages and towns in the valleys below.
Surrounding Bet El settlement is a 12-metre high razor-wire topped 
electrified fence. Most of the settlement houses are positioned well 
away from the fence, which also has high-beam street lamps at regular 
intervals.
Guarding the settlement is a 15-metre high Israeli military guard tower 
from which snipers armed with automatic weapons and a searchlight 
observe the camp and valley below from a bullet-proof glass window. An 
Israeli tank is parked next to the observation post.
Palestinians are forbidden by law from approaching the 400 metres of 
land-mined territory that separates the camp from the settlement. Any 
who do so are shot.
Ayman Ramahi, uncle of Muhammad and the head teacher at the UN-run 
Jelazon Boys High School said his nephew was due to get married shortly.
"He was excited about his new life with his bride after his family had 
agreed to borrow money from the bank to finance the wedding," Ramahi 
told IPS. "He was not involved in politics at all and was non-violent by 
nature. He was merely trying to shepherd the smaller boys away from 
Israeli soldiers. The boys had started to stone the soldiers after they 
entered the camp to break up the protest.
"This is always how the confrontations start. It seems to me the 
soldiers deliberately come here to initiate clashes."
Muhammad died several hours later in a Ramallah hospital after his 
liver, kidney and main aorta were decimated by a bullet.
Ikhtikhaar, 36, mother of Abdul Kader al-Zaid, said her son had taken a 
two-hour break from studying for his high school certificate to buy 
bread for the family and to practise some Dabke, traditional Arabic 
dancing, with friends.
"He was a keen sportsman who had his whole life ahead of him, and 
planned to study electrical engineering at university," she told IPS.
"He was shot dead on the outskirts of the camp. His body was then 
dragged 200m away from the camp and towards the settlement by the 
settlers," said brother Iyad who witnessed the event.
"The soldiers prevented, at gunpoint, family members and an ambulance 
from reaching my brother. His body lay there for four hours surrounded 
by the soldiers before it was eventually returned to the family," said Iyad.
Manaf Abbas, a field worker with the Palestinian human rights 
organisation Al-Haq, who investigated the shootings, said "it would have 
been enormously difficult for the youngsters to traverse 400 metres 
through mined territory unnoticed. The soldiers have binoculars and a 
telescope and the area is incredibly well lit.
"And to throw a firebomb from hundreds of metres away, uphill over a 
high fence and score a direct hit on either a settlement house or a 
soldier in the turret, is impossible."
Family and friends who witnessed the events insisted that the youths 
were killed on the outskirts of the camp, and nowhere near the settlement.
The Israeli rights organisation B'Tselem had reported in its 2002 report 
'Open-Fire Regulations in the Occupied Territories: Trigger Happy', that 
the IDF had changed its shoot to kill policy significantly following the 
outbreak of the second Palestinian al-Aqsa Intifadah, or uprising, in 2000.
Prior to that soldiers were only allowed to fire live ammunition when 
human life was in jeopardy, or if a dangerous suspect tried to escape; 
and then only as a last resort.
Following the uprising, which the IDF described as an "armed conflict 
short of war", ordinary policing acts such as dispersing demonstrations 
and making arrests were then expanded to fit the term "life-threatening".
"The new regulations allow, inter alia, firing at the legs of stone 
throwers, and sniper fire from ambush. In some areas, the procedure for 
apprehending suspects is nullified, and soldiers are allowed to fire 
without warning at Palestinian suspects," said the group.
B'Tselem says this change in policy is contrary to international law, 
and further that the IDF is responsible for the well-being of the 
civilian population under international law.
An IDF spokesman, however, said the Israeli military would continue to 
"beef-up its undercover presence" in order to thwart further 
stone-throwing incidents. (END/2008)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44468

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Si chiama realtà.

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 population under international law.
E questo non c'entra un ca**o con il discorso.
-Stefano

 Si chiama realtà.
No. Si chiamano *PIRLATE*, cioe' qualcosa di ben lontano dalla "realta'".
-Stefano