SherriMunnerlyn
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Violence against Palestinians is no longer reserved for Israeli soldiers or settlers, who still justify their actions with security. The young Israelis who have been attacking Palestinians, unprovoked, on the streets of Western, educated, democratic Israel, have no such excuse.
In the last week or so, the number of images of Palestinians laying in hospital beds or being carried away in coffins that has appeared in my news cycle is astonishing. It is not necessarily that there are more incidents of violence (its certainly plausible though I have not seen any statistical reports yet), but the media is certainly giving it more attention, and it certainly feels like there are more.
A resident of Jaffa beaten viciously by Jews by the Tel Aviv beach, a young Palestinian woman attacked while waiting for the Jerusalem light rail, a man assaulted by the Sea of Galilee, a waiter in Tel Aviv, the list goes on and on. All of these Palestinians are victims of hate crimes and racist violence committed by Jewish Israelis across Israel.
But there is also a woman in East Jerusalem, Ruba Odeh, who suffered a serious injury to her jaw after being shot by a Border Policeman on the roof of her own home in Silwan with a foam-tipped plastic bullet. Or 13-year old Mohammed al-Kurdi, wounded by IDF fire in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem. Or 23-year old Mohammed Asfour, who died Thursday from his wounds after being shot in the head two weeks ago during a West Bank demonstration in solidarity with the 4,593 Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli jails
When Israel?s military aggression against Palestinians becomes civilian aggression | +972 Magazine
This is what I call a picture of Zionism in action in Palestine!
It is military and civilian attacks of Zionists upon the indigenous Palestinian people!
Mohammed Asfour is the sixth Palestinian to be fatally shot by the IDF in 2013.
Btselem recounts the other five IDF fatal shootings of Palestinians, of 2013:
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11 January 2013: Anwar al-Mamluk, 20, of a-Shujaiyeh neighborhood, Gaza City, fatally shot by soldiers near the Gaza military perimeter fence
12 January 2013: Udai Darwish, 21, of Dura, Hebron District, fatally shot by soldiers after crossing the Separation Barrier into Israel on his way to work
15 January 2013: Samir Awad, 17, of the village of Budrus, Ramallah District, fatally shot by soldiers beside the Separation Barrier near Budrus
18 January 2013: Saleh al-Amarin, 15, of al-Aza Refugee Camp, Bethlehem District, fatally shot by soldiers in al-Ayda Refugee Camp
23 January 2013: Lubna al-Hanash, 21, of Bethlehem, fatally shot by soldiers near Route 60, by al-Arrub Refugee Camp
Five Palestinian civilians fatally shot by Israeli military in January 2013 | B'Tselem
Palestinian youth Samir Awad, 17, being taken to the hospital on January 15, he later succumbed to his injuries
Sherri