Israeli forces shoot 5-year-old Palestinian boy in the face in East Jerusalem

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/12/israeli-palestinian-jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 24 Dec — Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon shot a 5-year-old Palestinian child in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet in East Jerusalem as he was getting out of a school bus on his way home, relatives said. “An Israeli soldier fired a black rubber-coated bullet at the child from a close distance, injuring him under the eye,” the uncle of 5-year-old Muhammad Jamal Ubeid told Ma‘an. The incident reportedly took place in the East Jerusalem village of al-‘Issawiya, where Muhammad’s family lives. The child’s uncle said that Muhammad and his 14-year-old sister stepped out of a school bus and had started to walk home when the Israeli forces shot him. The uncle said there were no confrontations at all in the area between Israeli forces and Palestinians at the time of the shooting … Muhammad was evacuated to the nearby Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus where medical authorities said he had a fracture in the bone below his eye. The boy was later transferred to the Hadassah Medical Center in the Ein Karem neighborhood in West Jerusalem for treatment.

[newfie11]

1. Bastards!

Their just doing target practice!

[oberliner]

2. A little skepticism may be in order here

Very much doubt that this took place the way it is described..

[azurnoir]

6. whatever do you mean?

[oberliner]

9. Like the part about an Israeli soldier just randomly shooting a chid as he gets off a bus

That seems worthy of a little skepticism, don't you think?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. Just like all the skepticism over the Nakba day murders?

Like that, ober?

[King_David]

3. Do you have another news source for this that is not a vanity site?

Mondoweiss is not a good reliable site to use and their stories are slanted to such an extent to make them unbelievable.

Mondoweiss is not a great source to use here in DU.

[oberliner]

4. Mondoweiss reprinted it from Ma'an

There are a few others with more (and contradictory) information on this incident.

[King_David]

5. Mmm. Ok

Not much choice

[azurnoir]

7. odd you seemed to have no problem with this story from Maan

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113491014

[King_David]

8. As you can see in the post ,I said I'd never read about it anywhere else

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Maan is not the most reliable source ... Mondoweiss is far far worse though on the credibility scale.

[Israeli]

10. Sure do ...

Haaretz has previously reported that the Israel Police have been using foam-tipped bullets that are harder and more powerful than some other kinds of bullets, and poses a particular danger for children and teenagers.

Isawiyah residents said Obeid was standing outside his home while Israeli police officers clashed with children and teenagers throwing stones at vehicles on nearby Ma'aleh Adumim Road.

If the Isawiyah accounts are accurate, Obeid is the second child in the neighborhood to be wounded by foam-tipped bullets fired at the upper body, a practice explicitly prohibited by police regulations.

In September another East Jerusalem resident, Mohammed Sunuqrut, a 16-year-old boy from the Wadi Joz neighborhood, died of injuries that Israeli and Palestinian sources say could only have been caused by a plastic or sponge-tipped bullet.

Other Palestinians, as well as journalists such as Israeli photographer Tali Mayer, WAFA journalist Christine Rinawi and CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman, have also been injured by sponge-tipped bullets.

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.633630

NB: No paywall .

Police to probe shooting of 5-year-old Palestinian

Cops reverse claim that there was no riot activity in the area when Muhammad Jamal Ubeid was hit by a rubber bullet

Following the incident, Ubeid was rushed to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital in Mount Scopus for emergency treatment. Doctors at the hospital said the boy suffered a fracture in a bone beneath his eye, and confirmed that the wound was typical of a rubber bullet strike.

The child was later transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem for further treatment, Ma’an reported.

The incident comes one month after an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy lost his eye under similar circumstances during a protest in Issawiya.

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-to-probe-shooting-of-5-year-old-palestinian/

[King_David]

11. Thank you,

For the other sources , Mondoweiss should never be relied on as a source.

That Haaretz article is behind a paywall I can only get the headline when clicking on the link provided.

[Israeli]

12. re : Haaretz article ...

Its not for me ......strange ??
Maybe because I have an Israeli IP address ??

Would you like me to post the whole thing KD ?
Or would you prefer to remain ignorant of the facts ????

[King_David]

13. No don't post the whole thing

I worry about copyright infringement, I'll look on my dads computer he pays.

[Israeli]

14. Good for him ...

...give him my regards ... if he is willing to pay for Haaretz he obviously cares .

Maybe you should spend more time on your dads computer ?

[King_David]

15. Studies have shown that the vast majority of American

Jews care very much for Israel .

There's a small number of Americans that are "interested" in Israel in a not very positive light because it involves Jews in some manner.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. Lots of people care for Israel, dave, but like

a friend that has become a belligerent drunk we must also be friends who will set him/her straight.

The problem lays with those who will not see reality, and would rather be enablers to the alcoholic.

Ir's pretty sad.

[King_David]

19. Umm no

Not everyone has good motives ...

Some /a lot of motives are 2000 years old.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

22. I never said everybody has "good motives."

I thought that I made that clear with the enabler comparison.

And how nice if you to bring up the Glick defense.

[shira]

24. So BDS'ers are now friends who want to help Israel out?

Pull the other leg.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

25. Someday you'll get it.

[shira]

18. Oh yes KD, the BDS'ers really care for Israel. Can't you feel the love? n/t

[Israeli]

20. True KD ...

...nobody is going to argue that with you .

However ....how many American Jews support Israel for an alternative motive ?

Example ...Sheldon Adelson.

He is THE most powerful influential American Jew we have going for us right now ....and he is a
Republican is he not ?

[King_David]

21. Yep

Every government has lobbyists good or bad.

Personally I think bad but that's a different debate.

[Sunlei]

26. To hurt innocents is what the military calls a 'mistake' or 'collateral damage'. Must be horrible,

horrible and scary to be a child in those areas. Only positive is Hadassah Medical Center helps many injured people, no matter who they are.