No excuse
Haaretz reports that the shooting of Palestinian children in the occupied territories by the Israeli Defense Forces is "a routine matter, without commissions of inquiry and without public interest." The conscience of the world was shocked recently by the brutal tracking and cold-blooded shooting of 13-year-old Iman Al-Hamas by an Israeli officer as she tried to flee a restricted zone. Contrary to initial IDF reports, the radio traffic showed that the Army knew she posed no threat and was trying to flee when she was gunned down. This kind of cold-blooded and gratuitous killing is incompatible with civilized society or the standards to which the IDF aspires. (Andrew Sullivan pointed me to the original story about Iman Al-Hamas.) See also Iman Darweesh Al Hams, Wikipedia.
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