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Palestinian/ Israeli update 1/17/2016..Gazans Protest 10 Years of Israeli Blockade

Sunday, January 17, 2016 17:00
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Gazans bid farewell to latest victim of Israeli attacks

Funeral of Palestinian killed by Israel in Hebron

Withholding the Dead: One of Israel’s More Macabre Practices

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/16/withholding-the-dead-one-of-israels-more-macabre-practices/

….What would be the explanation for Israel’s desire to have the bodies in these cemeteries identified by number only? Is it to try and conceal the crime of organ harvesting in the event a new scandal should erupt? That’s a possibility, certainly, but my guess is it might also have something to do with the Judaic curse known as yimakh shemo, or “may his name be obliterated.” The curse is believed to date back to the origins of Purim, the story told in the Book of Esther, although there is also a passage in Deuteronomy in which the ancient Israelites are instructed to “blot out all memory of Amalek from under heaven” (Deuteronomy 25:19).

Did one or more rabbis in Israel appeal to the government to “blot out the names” of all Palestinians killed while resisting the occupation? Hard to say for sure, but one slightly strange thing made note of by Alhelsi is the rather curious manner in which the Israelis seem to have merged the concepts of “death” and “detention.” Again, keep in mind her article was published back in 2012:

These martyrs were kidnapped after their death and their bodies held captive ever since. Many have been in captivity since decades, such as martyr Ali al-Ja’fari from Dheisheh refugee camp, who was killed while in Israeli detention during the Nafhah hunger strike in 1980. Some of the martyrs were “tried” after their death and “are serving their sentences”, such as martyr Mohammad Al-Mansi whose family was told that their dead son was sentenced to 14 years in jail. Other martyrs are imprisoned for no reason, families speculate because the bodies of their children show signs of execution and are withheld to conceal that or to hide the organ theft operations the Israeli army has been conducting for decades on Palestinian martyrs. Family members are either asked to identify the martyr but not allowed to take the body back home or are informed by the IOF that their child is dead and is kept in “detention”. This immoral violation is meant as a punishment, not only for the dead, but as a collective punishment for families who are not given the chance to say goodbye or cry at the tomb of their beloved one. These “Cemeteries of Numbers” represent the disrespect the Zionist entity has to all known humane values and principles. But it is not only the Zionist entity that is the criminal here, but the so-called free world that talks continuously of human rights and of human dignity but is blind and deaf to the immoral actions of the immoral Zionist entity. The martyrs must be respected and laid to rest in a dignified manner, not be held captive in their own homeland, and the families must be able to mourn their children and give them a decent burial.

At least 300 Palestinian martyrs are held captive in these cemeteries and morgues (list).

“Our demand to return the bodies of the martyrs to their families is humane, and activities will continue until our demand is achieved,” said Ahmad Dabash, the committee member whose brother’s body has never been returned.

The committee’s activities are expected to include the setting up of a permanent protest tent as well as the printing up of posters of Palestinians who have killed and whose bodies have not been returned.

Israeli soldiers praise each other for shooting Palestinians

Ali Abunimah

This video is filmed from the perspective of Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinian youths protesting the occupation.

Soldiers can be heard making lighthearted comments and congratulating each other as they shoot to maim young Palestinians.

At first, the camera focuses on a young Palestinian, apparently holding a sling used to launch rocks towards occupation soldiers (though not apparently in the direction of the camera).

“What about him, doesn’t he want to stand?” a soldier says in Hebrew.

“Standing … standing,” the soldier says, then the crack of a gun is heard and the youth falls to the ground.

“He took it!” a soldier says triumphantly, and adds “He took it in the ass!”

“Well done,” another voice is heard saying. As the soldiers praise each other, Palestinians rush to evacuate the injured youth to safety.

Moments later, the soldiers can be heard discussing targeting another Palestinian youth. “Be ready, on him,” a soldier, apparently in command, says.

He then gives the order to shoot. “He fell. Well done!” he exclaims after the gunshot rings out.

“What a hit!” “Beautiful!” soldiers say.

The video shows at least half a dozen Palestinians being methodically targeted in this manner before the camera briefly pans and captures the faces of two of the Israeli assailants.

One of the Israelis whose face is captured stretches out his hand to cover the camera lens.

The video reveals that the Israeli gunmen are in an armored vehicle or jeep and are in no conceivable danger from the Palestinians they are shooting.

According to the Ma’an News Agency, the footage was released on Facebook last week by Palestinian activists who say it was recovered from a camera dropped by one of the soldiers.

The copy of the video above was subtitled by Ronnie Barkan.

Lethal weapons

Similar videos published by Israeli soldiers themselves have shown soldiers expressing sadistic joy as they shoot Palestinians.

Last year, Israel expanded its permission to occupation soldiers to use lethal .22-caliber sniper guns against Palestinian demonstrators.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem noted in September that from the start of 2015 three Palestinians had been killed by .22-caliber bullets “during stone-throwing incidents in which members of the security forces were not in mortal danger.”

Israel’s policy of shooting Palestinians with live ammunition in order to suppress anti-occupation protests frequently causes devastating and lifelong injuries even when it does not kill.

Restrictions on the use of live fire to “mortal danger” situations exist only on paper.

“Experience gained through monitoring [.22] use in the West Bank shows that the restrictions placed on using this type of ammunition get eroded over time, and the result is a constant expansion of the [.22] use,” B’Tselem says.

As this video demonstrates, live fire amounts to an enjoyable blood sport for the Israelis charged with enforcing the occupation.

Via – https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience-watch-the-idf-maim-palestinian-protesters/

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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/01/palestinian-israeli-update_17.html

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