U.N. staff see boy shot in back

[UpInArms]

http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1077923412783&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&pubid=968163964505&StarSource=email

GAZA CITY—An Israeli army officer has been suspended after an unarmed Palestinian youth was shot in the back at close range as he waved goodbye to a delegation of visiting United Nations aid workers, the Star has learned.

Yousef Bashir, 15, remains in serious condition at a hospital in Tel Aviv, where he was taken after the Feb. 18 incident at his family's home near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip.

He is partially paralyzed beneath his shoulder blades, with shrapnel lodged against his spine, the boy's father said.

An Israel Defence Forces spokesperson confirmed yesterday an unnamed officer has been suspended in connection with the shooting, pending the outcome of an investigation.

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[Nlighten1]

1. How much will you bet that...

he will be cleared of all charges?

[pinniped]

11. Just like in the US.

I wouldn't take that bet.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. How will the UN staff who leaked this classified information be punished?

Will they be said to have died as a result of routine missile fire into a densely populated refugee camp in the course of a regularly scheduled assassination operation?

Or will the US take care of it and detain them and their family indefinitely without charges in an undisclosed location?

[mmm]

3. Just doing what they do best!

Terrorism.

[madrchsod]

4. "an eye for an eye,

tooth for a tooth....that`s what the world is today"..kill some in a bus bomb,kill some in a field or street..

[LibertyorDeath]

5. That's some good Carma Israel's laying down there.

Gonna be a grand day when it comes back to them.


Israeli soldiers shooting unarmed 15 year old kids in the back

Such professionalism and courage should not go unrewarded.

What kind of human filth shoots a child in the back unprovoked.

[Jim Sagle]

9. The same kind of human filth that blows up a bus full of civilians.

THAT kind.

[bahrbearian]

10. You talking about Chimpy or Sharon..?

[Darranar]

13. Or perhaps Hamas?

[Ms. Clio]

14. so you agree the officer is human filth?

ain't nuthin but shit, in fact?

Good, I agree.

[CHestonsucks]

15. I suppose you could say..

the same sort of filth that straps a bomb to himself/herself and walks onto a bus, or into a restaurant, or into a building, or into a crowd and detonates it hoping to kill more than one person.

[boobooday]

6. Maybe they could tell

This child was thinking about Weapons of Mass Destruction as he was waving to the UN workers. A future Saddam.

Disgusting.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Just Me]

7. How completely wicked!!!

Shit.

What is the matter with that freakin' shooter?

[mobuto]

8. This violates LBN rules

and should be moved to the I/P section of Foreign Affairs/National Security.

[UpInArms]

12. my apologies

I will "alert" the mods to have this thread moved to the appropriate forum.

Mods: please accept my apologies - I generally do not post stories that deal with this particular issue and was unaware that it was not to be dealt with in this forum.

[Aidoneus]

16. It must be placed where few can see it

Wise thinking.

[w4rma]

17. Glad someone with connections was around to see it happen this time. (n/t)

[Zhade]

18. Reprehensible.

NT!