Haaretz: Our soldiers celebrate sniping Palestinian children

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- In an Op-ed published in Haaretz, an Israeli journalist wondered if the soldiers, who killed Ali Abu Alia (14 years old) on Friday, celebrated his murder.

“Did the soldiers celebrate on Friday when one of them fired directly into the stomach of Ali Abu Aliya, 15, who died afterwards from his wounds?”, Amira Haas wrote criticizing the murder of the Palestinian child.

“This is not an unrealistic question, because on the previous Friday, November 27, the male and female members of the Border Police rejoiced after one of them shot a ‘two-two’ bullet directly into the leg of another young Palestinian. A video clip, which accompanies this column, commemorated the joy of the Border Police”, she added.

“A video documented the moment the soldiers and female soldiers celebrated the injury of the Palestinian child in the foot during confrontations that erupted in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah.”

“In the video, a Palestinian young man was seen suddenly falling and holding his foot, while one of the soldiers began to laugh, and the two female soldiers congratulated the sniper. After the wounded person was transported, a female soldier rushed to embrace the sniper who fired, and shouted, “How beautiful this is,” while the commander of the force heard him saying “excellent,” she added.

Hass noted that the conditions in which the soldiers opened fire on Friday are similar. “The Palestinians are demonstrating against a settlement outpost that annexes their lands, and the soldiers use violence immediately.”

Israeli forces on Friday shot dead Ali Abu Alia during confrontations in the village of al-Mughayir, near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, making him the seventh Palestinian child that ‘Israel’ killed this year.

In 2019, Israeli occupation forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip and 26 in the West Bank, according to B’tselem.

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