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Written by Gideon Levy Gideon Levy
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Published: 24 December 2007 24 December 2007
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Last Updated: 24 December 2007 24 December 2007
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Created: 24 December 2007 24 December 2007
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The story of the recent killings in the West Bank is not on our agenda,
because so far the Palestinians there have not responded with attacks
in retaliation for these deaths. But it is not certain that this quiet
will continue.
Adib Salim, paralyzed on his right side, sold lupini beans. When the
IDF conducted one of its raids on Nablus he dared to stick his head
out. The soldiers killed him. The IDF Spokesman claimed that he
threatened to shoot at the soldiers, but the paralyzed bean seller was
totally incapable of doing so.
Abdel Wazir, the 71-year-old cousin of the legendary Abu Jihad, was a
retired accountant. He spent a terrifying night in his home: for hours
the soldiers fired next to his window, while he sat with his wife on
the sofa, both of them incapacitated by fear. When the order to go
outside was heard, he left his house and was immediately shot dead.
Jihad Shaar, 19, was making his way from his village, Tekua, in order
to register for university. Soldiers killed him for an unexplained
reason with cudgel blows and kicks, while he was waiting at the bus
stop. The IDF Spokesman said that the soldiers "behaved appropriately."
Mohammed Salah was a Palestinian policeman, after years of working as a
tiler in the settlements. On duty, he stopped a suspicious Palestinian
commercial van, which had tried to avoid the Palestinian checkpoint in
Bethlehem. Salah opened the door, suspecting that the van was carrying
stolen merchandise, and the IDF undercover soldiers inside shot him to
death. The IDF Spokesman claimed that he tried to shoot at the
soldiers, but all the eyewitnesses have rejected this version out of
hand.
Firas Kaskas went for a nature hike near Ramallah, accompanied by his
brother and his brother-in-law. When they noticed a herd of gazelles
running down to the wadi, they stood to watch. The soldiers who
suddenly appeared shot him from afar, without warning. The IDF
Spokesman claimed that the soldiers thought that he was placing an
explosive device in the heart of the nature reserve.
All these people were killed by the IDF in recent weeks, for no reason.
Add to them Mohammed Askar from Saida, who was shot at close range
during riots at Ketziot Prison; Kamela Kabha of Bartaa, an elderly
woman whose son tried to rush her to the hospital in Jenin and was
delayed at the Reihan checkpoint for three hours, until she died in his
arms, and other incidents of killing, and you will get the true picture
of Israel's "peace efforts."
And we haven't even mentioned the construction in the settlements.