Human rights NGO: Investigate senior IDF officers over Ofer killings
http://972mag.com/human-rights-ngo-investigate-senior-idf-officers-over-ofer-killings/91131/
Following the release of CCTV footage showing the killing of two Palestinian minors near Ofer prison on Thursday, the Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem called for an investigation of senior officers who were present at the scene. B’Tselem also asked the IDF to look into “misleading information” given to the local and international media after the incident.
The organization released several more videos from the event, showing the moment of shootings and the minutes leading up to them from two different angles. Here are the clips:
Nadem Syam Nawara, 17, and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh, 16, were shot to death near Ofer military prison in the West Bank during a Nakba Day protest. Two more Palestinian protesters were injured. Stones were thrown at IDF soldiers during the protest, but as the new footage revealed, Nawara and Odeh were shot from afar; one of them was actually with his back to the soldiers, and neither posed any risk to the army forces, nor threw any rocks.
Following the incident, the IDF Spokesperson claimed that no live ammunition was used by the military that day. However, the medical team that treated the teens said that they were wounded from live bullets. The distance from which they were shot also supports this theory, as rubber coated bullets very rarely kill from such a distance.
Now it just might be me and here are two points I would like to make. The hasbaristas a trying really hard to paint the Palestinians as anti-Semites. As another DUer pointed out, and quite clearly, that the Palestinians are bound to be resentful of an occupying force.
The second point pretty much goes like this. Some Palestinains may just very well be anti-Semites, but the IDF sharpshooters who killed two Palestinian boys are cold blooded fucking killers.
