@oralloy,
Quote:The entire IDF was not standing there watching it happen.
Nope, just an officer and those under him. I get the feeling that you believe that that act of cowardice wouldn't have happened if the whole IDF had been there. I could show you a video of seven or eight members of the IDF beating up on one guy, but I have no doubt that you would defend such brutality by claiming that they all felt threatened by the guy they were beating.
Quote:You're the one who previously described this as Israeli soldiers firing on protesters. Don't blame me if you described it inaccurately.
You should have let this sleeping dog lie. Here's the story of what happened:
Friday, December 15, was another unquiet day in Nabi Saleh. It was a week after U.S. President Trump’s declaration about Jerusalem. As on every Friday, a protest march was set to take place. Tamimi relates that he went that morning with a group of his peers to see whether there were soldiers lurking in ambush, ahead of the march, which always makes its way toward the IDF’s fortified watchtower at the village’s entrance. There were five or six youths. A short time later, they saw about a dozen soldiers who’d come from the south and were trying to take cover in an ambush position. Mohammed and a friend shouted to them: We see you! The soldiers hurled tear-gas grenades at them. In the meantime, the marchers were drawing closer.
The military force positioned itself in the “villa,” a splendid but not yet finished wall-enclosed stone structure at the edge of Nabi Saleh, built by an affluent Palestinian exile who lives in Spain. It’s meant to be an alternative-health clinic, but its opening has been delayed because of the situation. Dozens of villagers surrounded the “villa,” knowing there were soldiers within.
Mohammed Tamimi approached the wall of the building, then climbed it. He wanted to see whether there were still soldiers inside, in the wake of a rumor that they had left. But the instant he appeared above the wall, he was shot in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet from a distance of a few meters. Tamimi managed to see the soldier aim his rifle at him, he recalls, but that’s all he remembers. He fell to the ground and the other youngsters rushed over to him.
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So he was just checking to see if there were still soldiers inside the villa, and so one of them shot him in the head.
Quote:Protecting yourself from a perceived threat does not make you a coward.
Correct. But shooting a bound and blindfolded man in the leg does.
Quote:From your new description, they probably thought the kid was a suicide bomber come to kill them.
But he was just checking to see if the soldiers were still in the villa.
Quote:A completely unrelated incident.
It would be if it wasn't committed by the same organization.