Undercover IDF soldier kills Palestinian in drill, goes unpunished

[azurnoir]

Two weeks ago, undercover IDF soldiers carrying out a drill in a Palestinian village in the West Bank killed a resident after several mistook them for burglars and attacked them. Israeli press buried the real story: The fact that the IDF used Palestinians as drill props – and killed one.

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How did the Palestinian find himself in handcuffs in the first place? Well, a team of armed Duvdevan soldiers (who wander around dressed as Palestinians, not in uniform and without obvious weaponry) decided to hold an infiltration practice drill in a Palestinian village. Their infiltration skills were not up to snuff, as it turned out, and the villagers – who suffered recently from a wave of burglaries – took them for burglars, and attacked them with cold weapons, wounding one. The gunmen returned fire, wounding two of the people who were trying to defend their home and property. One of them later died of his wounds. The other was kicked in the face while handcuffed.

So, the IDF punished a soldier who acted in an unprofessional yet excusable way – such actions by soldiers after their comrades are hit is unbecoming yet unavoidable; this is the price of unleashing the beast in man, by turning him into a soldier – but refrained from punishing the people who decided Palestinians are so lacking in basic human properties, that they may be used as extras in a military exercise which may, as it turned out, include live fire. The IDF has been practicing on Palestinians for months now, perhaps years, and this time the practice went bad – and, worst of all from the IDF’s point of view, made it to the press. The soldier who lost control was dismissed; the officers who planned the exercise on live human beings and the soldiers armed with live weapons – that is the people responsible for the death of the villager, will remain in their posts.

http://972mag.com/undercover-idf-soldier-kills-palestinian-in-drill-goes-unpunished/42493/

[orwell]

1. IOKIYIDF...n/t

[azurnoir]

3. huh I'm not too good with acronyms n/t

[Scurrilous]

6. "It's OK If You're IDF." n/t

[Scurrilous]

2. Earlier thread:

Undercover Israeli soldiers shoot three Palestinian brothers

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=6961


Soldier dismissed after kicking bound Palestinian

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4217835,00.html

IDF relieves from duty Duvdevan soldier after he kicks in the face a Palestinian man who assaulted his unit during undercover exercise

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. What are "cold weapons"

[Scurrilous]

5. Made me google:

Cold weapon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_weapon

I think they had a knife and a pipe or a stick.

[azurnoir]

7. Medics: Palestinian teen shot during Israeli military training

Israeli soldiers shot an 18-year-old shepherd in the chest on Thursday evening during military training exercises in the northern West Bank, medics said.

Yasir Suleiman Nijad Kaabnah was shot while herding sheep and camels near Wadi al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley, medics told Ma'an.

Salem Kaabneh, the victim's uncle who was with him when he was shot, told Ma'an that Israeli troops who were training in the area fired at Suleiman injuring him in the chest.

Medical officials said soldiers refused to help the wounded teenager and he was taken in a private car to hospital in Tubas. He was transferred to Rafadea Hospital in Nablus, where he is in a critical condition in intensive care.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=478058