VIDEO:
Israeli Officers Threaten to Gas Kids to Death at Refugee Camp
Israeli border police,
responding to stone throwing, threatened Palestinians at a refugee
camp, saying "We will gas you until you die."
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November, 2015
In
a one-minute video recorded on Thursday by a resident of the Aida
refugee camp in the West Bank, an Israeli border officer speaking in
Arabic broadcasts the message via a loudspeaker as an Israeli jeep
drives through the street.
"People
of Aida refugee camp, we are the occupation forces. You throw stones,
and we will hit you with gas until you all die. The children, the
youth, the old people – you will all die. We won't leave any of you
alive," the officer says.
Earlier
that day, Israeli border police arrested a 25-year-old Palestinian,
who was ultimately released, Al Jazeera reported.
"We
have arrested one of you. He is with us now. We took him from his
home, and we will slaughter and kill him while you watch if you keep
throwing stones," the officer continues.
"Go
home or we will gas you until you die. Your families, your children,
everyone – we will kill you."
Yazan
Ikhlayel, 17, recorded the video after Israeli forces raided the camp
during a protest against the occupation and fired tear gas,
reportedly in response to Palestinian youths hurling stones at
Israel's separation wall.
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"The
most important thing I want people to see when they watch this video
is to realize what the Israeli 'democracy' really is," Ikhlayel
told Middle East Eye.
"They
have said it for us now, they are an occupation – they said 'we are
the occupation army.' It is proof, this is an apartheid country, it
is not democratic at all."
The
border officer who made the threat has since been suspended, the
Times of Israel reported.
The
Badil Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
called the message a clear threat to kill Palestinians by way of
extrajudicial executions, which would breach the Geneva Conventions.
"Such
an announcement is remarkable in its stated contempt for human life,
as well as raising a multitude of grave concerns as to the adherence
of Israeli forces to central tenets of international law," Badil
said in a statement.
Israel
shot 2,600 Palestinians in October: Red Crescent
At least 2,617
Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli forces using live
and rubber bullets in the month of October, a Red Crescent officials
says.
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November, 2015
On
Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an released a report quoting a
Red Crescent spokesperson as saying that at least 760 Palestinians
were shot with live rounds across the occupied Palestinian territory,
while another 1,857 were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets.
At
least 5,645 Palestinians sustained injuries, including burns from
tear gas canisters and excessive tear gas inhalation.
At
least 72 Palestinians were also killed in Palestinian territories by
Israeli soldiers in October.
Tensions
have been running high over the past several weeks between the
Israeli regime and Palestinians in the occupied territories.
The
latest wave of tensions was triggered by Israel’s imposition in
August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into
the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The
number of Israelis killed in the same period has been put at 10,
while 130 others have allegedly been injured.
The
unrest seemed unabated at the start of November with new clashes
leaving two more Palestinians injured by live rounds in a refugee
camp on Sunday, according to medics in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A
Palestinian was also shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of
Beit Einun in the occupied West Bank in what is being called as the
first death this month by Palestinian media.
Israeli
forces shot and injured two Palestinians with live rounds in the
village of Sair near the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The
ongoing Israeli aggression on Palestinians in the West Bank has been
the deadliest since an uprising a decade ago.
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