Video series highlights life under Israeli control

by It makes me SO proud to be Jewish .. . . Tue Nov 23, 2010 17:48

http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/israeli-forces-raid-bilin....html

Super-duper uber-brave members of the criminal gang known as the 'IDF' kidnap child of Jailed activist leader

Israeli forces stormed the village of Bil'in in a night raid. Four soldiers raided the home of Adeeb Abu Rahma, one of the prominent organizers of the non-violent demonstrations against the Wall. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been imprisoned by Israel for the last 17 months. Tonight, Israeli forces arrested Mohammed Adeeb Abu Rahma, Adeeb's son, who is under 16 years old. It is unknown where he was taken. Mohammed is Adeeb's only son.

He was helping the family with their affairs while Adeeb remains unjustly detained by Israel. Seven daughters and Adeeb's wife also live in the home that was raided. In this inhumane attack on the Abu Rahma house, Mohammed was beaten by the Israeli soldiers when he peacefully resisted arrest.

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Members of the self-titled

by hb Fri Jun 04, 2010 21:45

Almost every subject can be argued two ways, especially when the subject at hand is as controversial as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. No matter how unjust the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip is, there will always be those biased or deluded souls that justify it with the "Hamas terrorists" argument and the hackneyed Israeli pretext of state security.

However, one subject, which cannot possibly have a flip side to it, is the torture of children. Only a deranged and perverted mind could justify that.

So which sick deranged and perverted minds are happy to torture children?

Step forward Israel’s security establishment

http://uruknet.com/?p=m66623&hd=&size=1&l=e

Throughout 2009, DCI’s Palestine chapter reviewed over 100 affidavits from Palestinian minors between the ages of 12 to 16 who gave sworn testimonies of their torture and sexual assault at the hands of Israeli soldiers or interrogators.

To read some of these affidavits is shocking. Israeli interrogators bind boys as young as 13 to chairs, sometimes handcuffed, and squeeze their testicles until the child admits to throwing stones. In other sworn affidavits, all of which were taken immediately after the boys were released, the minors recount how Israeli soldiers or interrogators slap them, kick them, call their mothers whores and threaten to rape them. "He started beating me all over my body and once again he grabbed my testicles and started pressing hard. 'I won’t let go of your testicles unless you confess,’ he said to me. I felt so much pain and kept shouting. I had no other choice but to confess to throwing stones," said one 15-year old boy in his testimony to DCI.

by Davy Carlin Wed Apr 14, 2010 13:18

Yep, read the various reports, indeed solidarity needs to continue against the ongoing injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

'D

by HB Tue Apr 06, 2010 15:25

The thing is that these troops did nothing different than what has been done by many Israeli troops before them, so why single these guys out when it is obviously Israeli policy to ignore murders by it's troops when the victims are Palestinian?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8604764.stm

Mohammed Qadus, 15, and Osayed Qadus, 20, were killed during protests on 20 March in which Israeli claims 'stones were thrown' at soldiers near an Israeli settlement.

Palestinian and human rights groups said the young men were killed with live ammunition.

They produced an X-ray image that shows a bullet lodged in the skull of one of the victims.

The IDF initially denied the allegation, saying troops had been given clearance to use rubber coated anti-riot ammunition. . . . .

Israeli 'account is false'

Later two men were killed near a military checkpoint.

The IDF investigation said the soldiers opened fire on one man who had attacked them with a broken bottle.

They shot a second man when he raised a 'sharp object' after the first man was shot, the investigation said.

Palestinians say the account is false and the men were killed in an unprovoked attack.

X-ray of Osayed Qadus's skull showing a bullet lodged inside

by HB Sun Apr 04, 2010 18:15

Vicious Terrorist Diabetes Defeated in Checkpoint Delay

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=273794

A diabetic Palestinian died on Saturday after being prevented from crossing the Al-Hamra military checkpoint into the Jordan Valley on Saturday.

Mohammad Damen Abed Al-Karim E'lieyat, 62, from the village of Dir Abu Da'eef in Jenin was en route to the Jordan Valley but was barred from transit. Ma'an's correspondent said E'lieyat made several attempts to cross but was turned back by Israeli authorities who said that he was unable to pass because he held French citizenship

by HB Sun Apr 04, 2010 02:41

they wont agree to Israel existing anywhere permanently either ,

Why do you tell so many lies, Seanie?

http://indymedia.org.il/article/2010/1/en/hamas-accepts...arter

Hamas accepts 'Israel’s right to exist’

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH - printed in The Jerusalem Post

Hamas has accepted Israel’s right to exist and would be prepared to nullify its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, Aziz Dwaik, Hamas’s most senior representative in the West Bank, said on Wednesday.

"The [Hamas] charter was drafted more than 20 years ago," Dwaik noted, adding that his movement would even be prepared to "nullify" the document.

"No one wants to throw anyone into the sea," he said.

by HB Sun Apr 04, 2010 02:26

HAMAS then proceeded to carry out a further violent coup

Why do you tell so many lies, Seanie?

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/useful-article-on-hama...atah/

The fundamental cause is, of course, well known. Israel, aided by the US, was not prepared to accept Hamas’s victory in last year’s Palestinian elections. Backed by a supine EU, the two governments decided to boycott their new Palestinian counterparts politically and punish Palestinian voters by blocking economic aid. Their policies had a dramatic effect, turning Gaza even more starkly into an open prison and creating human misery on a massive scale. The aim was to turn voters against Hamas - a strategy of stupidity as well as cynicism, since outside pressure usually produces resistance rather than surrender. . . .

It is also well known that Hamas was as surprised by its election victory as everyone else and that it offered its rival, Fatah, a coalition government of national unity. The offer was refused. If this was done initially out of wounded pride, Fatah’s rejection of Hamas’s regularly repeated overtures increasingly appeared to be coordinated with Washington as part of the boycott strategy. . . .

Most ominously, the document of US objectives outlined a $1.27bn programme that would add seven special battalions, totalling 4,700 men, to the 15,000 Abbas already has in his presidential guard and other security forces, which were also to be given extra training and arms. “The desired outcome will be the transformation of Palestinian security forces and provide for the president of the Palestinian Authority to able to safeguard decisions such as dismissing the cabinet and forming an emergency cabinet,” the document says.

Alastair Crooke, a former Middle East adviser to the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and current head of a research institute in Beirut, points out that Israel blocked some arms deliveries. It was wary of sending too many into Gaza for fear Fatah might lose them, as indeed has happened. In this sense, only part of the plan went ahead. (Britain has played a small part in helping Abbas’s security forces. It has provided about £350,000 of “non-lethal” equipment this year for protecting the Karni freight crossing between Gaza and Israel.)

But Crooke says Hamas was irritated that the Mecca deal was being sabotaged, notably by the refusal of Mohammed Dahlan, Fatah’s long-time Gaza strongman and head of the Preventive Security Forces, to accept the authority of the independent interior minister appointed to the unity government. “Dahlan refused to deal with him, and put his troops on the streets in defiance of the interior minister. Hamas felt they had little option but to take control of security away from forces which were in fact creating insecurity,” Crooke says. . . . .

by HB Sun Apr 04, 2010 02:14

Vanity Fair published a meticulously-researched expose showing that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, his aide Muhammed Dahlan actively conspired with the Bush administration to topple the democratically-elected government of Hamas and engineer civil war in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a lengthy article, Vanity Fair said it obtained “confidential documents” corroborated by sources in the US and Palestine, which lay bare a covert American operation, approved by the President Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war.

According to the magazine, the plan was for forces led by Dahlan and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. . . .

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaz...00804

by HB Sun Apr 04, 2010 02:04

because, gosh darn it, 1400 dead people is just not enough to satisfy the bloodlust

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/02/israel-threatens-gaz...ture/

According to Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, the military may escalate beyond the air strikes and launch another ground invasion of the Gaza Strip “in the near future.”

Israel last invaded the Gaza Strip in January of 2009, an attack that killed over 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz suggested earlier this week that another invasion was inevitable and that they would resume their occupation of Gaza.

by Fred Johnston Sun Apr 04, 2010 01:29

You have to love Martin Kramer in that Harvard video. He stops short of calling for euthanasia, but he'd bring a wry smile to any old Nazis still knocking about in the world. For even what he's said on the vid he should have been arrested. So he wants, effectively, a cull of the Palestinian people. Well, the ghetto has already been created, concentration camps by any other name exist in Israel for Palestinian prisoners . . . .I wonder what books he reads? Hadn't we men like that in mind when we promised 'Never Again?' That he can speak like that about the Palestinians is to my mind a serious crime. Listen to his meticulous, clinical and detailed arithmetical calculation. Who - in a certain courtroom dock - does that remind you of? Now replace all the references to Palestinians by the word 'Israeli.' If someone anywhere in Europe went on TV with a rant like that about Israel, what length of prison term could he expect?

by HB Fri Apr 02, 2010 18:27

The al-Qaeda affiliated Ansar al-Sunna Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack which killed the Thai worker, Sean, NOT Hamas.

Hamas have fired no rockets lately, Islamic Jihad have claimed responsibility for the majority of rockets fired and no one has claimed responsibility for the remainder

And IF the weapons cache 'found' by the Egyptians belonged to Hamas, well they have every right to possess weapons with which to defend themselves from vicious unprovoked attacks on Gaza civilians by Israeli occupation forces

Why do you tell so many lies?

by Sean Og Fri Apr 02, 2010 17:54

A total of 35 Kassams were fired from Gaza in March, one resulting in the killing a Thai agricultural worker.

Just in the last days, the Egyptians claim to have uncovered a massive arms cache waiting for shipment into the Gaza strip.

Has anyone in the American administration commented on this?

No! It is left to the Russians to attack Hamas on this matter and called on them to stop firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel.

by HB Fri Apr 02, 2010 14:31

Israel recently called a truce a in it's 3 year War Against deadly existentence-threatening terrorist shoes and Clothes

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/30/headlines/israel_...years

For the first time in almost three years, Israel will soon allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be delivered to Palestinians living in Gaza. Palestinian officials said ten truckloads are scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Israel has imposed a severe blockade on Gaza since June 2007 in defiance of the international community. Human rights groups have described the blockade as a form of collective punishment.

The War against Deadly Terrorist Crayons goes on, however
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjeev-bery/israels-ban-....html

Jimmy Cho Martyr Brigade cadres hiding out in their seekrit underground bunkers near the Egyptian-Gaza border

by hb Fri Apr 02, 2010 14:20

Not content with their illegal and atrocious War on Children the Israelis have now carried out an attack on some deadly Terrorist Cheese

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april012010/gaza-att...k.php

Israel launches retaliation strike, claiming to attack weapon manufacturing locations; so far it is confirmed that two targets were cheese factories.

Terrorist cheese: Don't turn yer back on it - it's lethal!

by HB Tue Mar 30, 2010 19:02

Israeli operatives continue their war against children:

http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2010/03/thirtee....html

Israeli soldiers detained a thirteen-year- old girl from her home in the Old City of Hebron on Tuesday the 23rd of March. At about 5:45 PM, CPTers followed four soldiers as they entered the girl’s home and ordered the entire family to the roof. Once on the roof, a fifth soldier from a permanent post on a neighboring Israeli settler home ordered the family’s three teenage daughters to one side of the roof. The soldier singled out the thirteen-year- old and accused her of throwing a stone.

The girl’s mother protested saying that minutes before she had notified this soldier about settlers throwing stones at her as she hung her laundry and that he had seen settlers throwing stones.

She was dumbfounded that the soldier’s response was to call another unit of soldiers to detain her daughter.

Two more units of soldiers arrived at the house before escorting the girl out of her home. The girl’s aunt attempted to prevent the soldiers from taking the girl by linking arms with her and refusing to let go. After a five-minute stand off, soldiers stated that the aunt could accompany the girl and the group of eighteen soldiers escorted them both away to a military jeep. Israeli police arrived, arrested the girl and took her and her aunt to a police station for questioning and fingerprints. The girl was released later that evening.

apparently no ransom was demanded by the Israelis in order to secure the safe return of this kidnapped child to her family

13 yr old terrorist girl - another sucessful anti-terrorist operation by the brave soldiers of the hounorable and noble and most moral Isreali Occupations Forces

by Davy Carlin Thu Mar 25, 2010 16:14

As like the above I listened recently to a TV documentary on the Children of Gaza, indeed the sheer brutality and terror inflicted, the occupation ongoing, the resolutions broken, and the fingers stuck up to many by the Israeli governance ,shows without doubt how this situation needs to be continually worked against.

International solidarity, and indeed continued collective international pressure is needed, now, and no doubt, evermore, in the coming time.

Such accounts should, Renew, and embolden many more, to turn our attentions and to focus our minds, against a terrible injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

‘D

by HB Sun Mar 21, 2010 04:37

Boys disappearing from Hebron Old City
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=15829

Near our CPT apartment soldiers accused a 12 year old boy of throwing stones. He too spent one week in Ofir prison.

Soldiers recently blindfolded and handcuffed an eight year old boy for stone throwing. They forced him to spend eight hours with a dog behind a military gate.

A 14 year old neighbor boy was helping his dad in his store, cutting cardboard boxes filled with wares. The soldiers saw him with a knife, blindfolded him, whisked him away behind the military gate, holding him for two hours while the father pleaded at the gate.

A 15 year old boy in the neighbourhood ran an errand for his father. The soldiers saw him running, grabbed him, and likewise detained him behind the military gate for 2 hrs. as his father also insisted his son did no wrong.

Besides the issue of the boys' ages, and the severity of the sentences imposed, there is also the persistent need of the parents to travel two hours to the prison, their consequent loss of work, and their travel expenses involved. (Approximately $15 each trip) Sometimes before a child's case is settled, the parents must travel four or five times to the courtroom.

It is not clear if monetary ransom was sought, or paid, in all of these individual cases. However it is known that monetary ransom was sought in at least one of the above incidents

by HB Sun Mar 21, 2010 04:30

Israeli operatives have recently begun kidnapping Palestinian children. if the parents are lucky the Israeli operatives then seek a sum of money as ransom for the safe return of these children

Israel wants 1,500 shekels for 15-year-old boy - http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270097

Israeli authorities have asked the family of a detained 15-year-old boy to pay 1,500 Israeli shekels (about 400 US dollars) to release the minor, a prisoners solidarity group reported on Saturday.

Israeli operatives (in green/olive uniforms) pictured in the act of kidnapping Palestinian child, they usually then demand a ransom for the safe return of the child

by HB Sat Mar 20, 2010 20:27

Torrent: http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/3847840/Ch4-Disp...3-avi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6SklTzn1A

broadcast Mon 15th and Sun 21st March

http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/35-palesti...-gaza

What are we going to do to help them? Not only do they need justice for what has already passed and for the unimaginable losses that they have already endured but they also need help, now.

From the girl living with daily nosebleeds and blinding headaches because of the shrapnel embedded into her brain as a direct result of Israeli military violence, and for which Israel will not let her receive medical treatment, to the young girl living in a tent who said that she wants "to die" because

"it would be better for me to be martyred than to live like this".

These children are desperate for help and the only way that they will get that help is if someone stands up to Israel on their behalf, compels it to stop its ongoing and daily torture of the citizens of Gaza, and holds them accountable under international law.

The most credible and legitimate attempt to hold Israel accountable for what they have done to the people of Gaza thus far is the UN authorized Goldstone Report and this documentary, without even mentioning the report by name, highlights the importance of seeing that report brought to fruition.

Physical trauma

Israel is sentencing young Gazan children to a life of pain, suffering and ultimately, death

One of the most disturbing aspects of this documentary was the inhumane Israeli policy of denying children in Gaza access to medical treatment. One father and mother sat at the bedside of their dying son and asked, in floods of tears, why Israel will not let their son leave Gaza in order to get the life-saving chemotherapy that he so desperately needs in order to treat his leukaemia? Through anguished heaving tears the father asks "Where are the human rights organisations? If you had a small animal you’d spend millions to try and cure it! You’d spend millions. Millions! But a child like this, no one looks at him. Why? They’ve incarcerated us here, why? Aren’t we human?" At the end of the documentary we learn that the young boy, predictably, lost his battle with cancer. He was left to endure a life of suffering and a death that could so easily have been avoided had Israel simply let him leave Gaza instead of trapping him in the world’s largest open air prison in the world.

by HB Sun Mar 14, 2010 23:28

In Israel, even the doctors are involved in the State's Torture - http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2010/03/israeli...ne%29

Ra'fat Hamdona, the head of the center, said in a statement on Sunday, that the Israeli health ministry participated in the torture of detainee Jihad Mughrabi, 21, who has been held in custody since 2008.
He said that those involved in the incident, which is in violation of all international rules and norms, should be brought to account.

The Hebrew press on Sunday revealed that the health ministry had taken part in the torture of Mughrabi, a Tulkarem resident, on the charge of indirect involvement in the killing of two Israeli guards.

Daily Ha'aretz said that Mughrabi complained at the Israeli higher court that he was tortured at the hands of Israeli investigators and that doctors in an Israeli hospital where he was treated returned him to the intelligence apparatus despite his serious condition.

by hb Sun Mar 14, 2010 15:52

Imagine the shrill uproar if a Harvard fellow called for forcefully limiting Jewish births? But he's just following the racist doctrine of Zionism to it's logical conclusion.

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/27/kramer_v...ramer

“Aging populations reject radical agenda and the Middle East is no different. Now eventually, this will happen among the Palestinians, too. But it will happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status. Those subsidies are one reason why in the ten years, from 1997 to 2007, Gaza's population grew by an astonishing 40%. At that rate, Gaza's population will double by 2030 to three million. Israel's present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim, undermine the Hamas regime, but they also break Gaza's runaway population growth and there is some evidence that they have. That may begin to crack the culture of martyrdom, which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men."

Essentially he's just advocating speeding up the ongoing genocide

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Harvard Zionist calls for quicker genocide

by HB Sun Mar 14, 2010 15:29

Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/14/palestinian...srael

With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Israeli military.

The Israeli group B'Tselem said that security forces had "severely violated" the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months.

The family of one 13-year-old boy from Hebron who was arrested on 27 February by a military patrol and detained for eight days have brought a legal case against the authorities. The teenager, Al-Hasan Muhtaseb, described how he had been interrogated without a lawyer late into the night, forced to confess to throwing stones, made to sign a confession in Hebrew that he couldn't read, jailed with adults and brought before a military court. He was only released on bail eight days later, after considerable legal effort by several human rights groups. As he had signed a confession, he still faces a possible indictment for throwing stones – a charge that usually brings several months in jail but carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' jail. . . .

Israel also routinely tortures the children unfortunate enough to be kidnapped by it's 'soldiers'

A Zionist would feel outraged . . on behalf of the Bulldozer

Indoctrination at Birth?

The land of milk and honey - a light onto the Nations?

Another dngerous Terrorist captured in a daring raid, by those Brave Israeli Soldiers

by Anti-zionist Thu Mar 11, 2010 00:53

NEW YORKERS SAY NO TO ‘THE BUTCHER OF GAZA’

NEW YORK – Israeli Defense Force chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi, called “The Butcher of Gaza” by Palestinian activists and some of their supporters, spoke at a “Friends of the IDF” fundraising dinner on Tuesday. Outside New York’s well known Waldorf Astoria, protesters let Ashkenazi know how they felt about his presence.

Prior to the dinner, a column of 500 protesters formed at 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Starting at 5 p.m., the protesters picketed for half an hour and then marched south on Lexington.

Gabi ashkenazi - The Butcher of Gaza

Protesting against the Butcher of Gaza at 'The Friends of the iDF'

by Anti-Zionist Wed Mar 10, 2010 23:52

Not content with illegally arresting and terrorising a 12 yr old boy . . . . . . .

(http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2010/March/3%20n/12-Yea...t.htm)

12-Year-Old Child, Hassan Al-Muhtasib, to Be Prosecuted As an Adult By an Israeli Military Court

Tuesday March 02, 2010 13:19 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli Authorities decided to file charges against a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after arresting him and charging him with throwing stones at the Israeli military.

The child was identified as Hassan Al-Mohtasib, 12. His 7-year-old brother was also detained but was released later on.

Their father, Fadel, said that his sons were in al-Shallalah Street, in the center of Hebron. His 7-year-old son, Amir, was released ten hours after his was kidnapped by the army.

He added that local residents told him that soldiers kidnapped his two children and took them to the nearby al-Karaj military camp.

He went to the camp and the soldiers told him that his sons were moved to al-Haram military camp in the city. Upon arriving at the second military base, he was informed that his children were moved to the police station in Keryat Arba Jewish settlement, in the center of Hebron.

He went to the police station in Keryat Arba’ but to no avail. When he returned back home, he found his 7-year-old child standing in front of the door, shaking and terrified.

Later on, an adult detainee at the Ofer detention center, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, phoned him and told him that his son al-Hasan is there, and that he will be sent to court.

Al-Mohtasib voiced an appeal to human rights groups, and Defense for Children International, to intervene and ensure the release of his child.

the astoundingly racist Israeli Military are also conducting a terror campaign against his 10 year old brother . . .

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11120.shtml

Hours after our interview, at 2am, Israeli soldiers would break into the house, snatch Amir from his bed, threaten his parents with death by gunfire if they tried to protect him, and take him downstairs under the stairwell. They would beat him so badly that he would bleed internally into his abdomen, necessitating overnight hospitalization. In complete shock and distress, Amir would not open his mouth to speak for another day and a half.

In our interview that afternoon before the brutal assault, Amir said that on the 28th, he was playing in the street near the Ibrahimi Mosque, on his way with Hasan to see their aunt.

"Two of the soldiers stopped us and handcuffed us," Amir said. "They brought us to two separate jeeps. They took me to the settlement and put me in a corner. I still had handcuffs on. They put a dog next to me. I said that I wanted to go home. They said no, and told me I would stay here forever. They refused to let me use the bathroom. They wouldn't let me call my mother. They blindfolded me and I stayed there like that until my father was able to come and get me late at night."

Amir's detention inside the settlement lasted nearly ten hours. "The only thing that I thought about was how afraid I was, especially with the dog beside me. I wanted to run away and go back to my house," he said.

Amir and Hasan's mother, Mukarrem, told me that Amir immediately displayed signs of trauma when he returned home. "He was trying to tell me a joke, and trying to laugh. But it was not normal laughter. He was happy and terrified at the same time," she said. "He wet himself at some point during the detention. He was extremely afraid."

Amir revealed that he hadn't been able to sleep in the nights following his detention, worried sick about his brother in jail and extremely afraid that the soldiers would come back (which, eventually, they did). Today, approximately 350 children are languishing inside Israeli prisons and detention camps, enduring interrogation, torture and indefinite sentences, sometimes without charge. The number fluctuates constantly, but thousands of Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 16 have moved through the Israeli military judicial system over the past decade since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada. Israel designates 18 as the age of adulthood for its own citizens, but through a military order, and against international law, Israel mandates 16 as the age of adulthood for Palestinians. Additionally, Israel has special military orders (#1644 and #132) to be able to arrest and judge Palestinian children -- termed "juvenile delinquents" -- as young as 12 years old.

A terrifingly dangerous 12 yr old 'terrorist'

his even more dangerous 10 yr old brother

by Me Wed Mar 10, 2010 22:51

Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel in Dock (http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m64031&hd=&size=1&l=e0

By Jonathan Cook

March 10, 2010

Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today.

A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah.

Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, who arrived in Israel on Saturday, said they hoped their civil action would shed new light on their daughter’s killing and finally lead to Israel’s being held responsible for her death. They are also seeking damages that could amount to millions of dollars if the court finds in their favour. . . .

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Rache Corrie