Video appears to show the Israeli army shot 3 Palestinians, killing 1, without provocation
Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a central square when he is suddenly shot and drops to the ground.
"Appears to show" like it's not a video and not something that happens every day.
But it does appear that way. And they probably didn’t get any “real” confirmation that the video is real.
I get it, I just think it's a bit weasel-y when people describe video footage that way. Like were they provoked? Did they kill one? It's not that complicated.
Israel said they were "kneeling to light a Molotov cocktail" and so it wasn't unprovoked. Problems are a) no Molotov cocktail in the clip and b) they shot someone else first, not the person kneeling. So let's put on our fucking Sherlock hats and solve this mystery oh wow I wonder whatever could have happened
"An IDF spokesperson said he was kneeling to light a molotov"
Every single word in there is a lie. Wow.
Nader told the AP that the object was a stack of cardboard boxes and scraps of paper that 17-year-old Osaid Rimawi had gathered and was preparing to light to keep the men warm.
Pretty fucked up
Aljazeera also just released this video of the IDF Nazis shooting civilians fleeing on the "safe route" https://youtu.be/qGsy2xTXpfY
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The fatal shooting in the village of Beit Rima last week is the latest in a series of incidents in which soldiers appeared to fire without provocation, a trend Palestinians say has worsened since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza three months ago.
After reviewing the footage, a military spokesperson said soldiers reported that one of the Palestinians — visible kneeling in front of an object just outside the frame — was igniting a Molotov cocktail when he was shot.
Nader told the AP that the object was a stack of cardboard boxes and scraps of paper that 17-year-old Osaid Rimawi had gathered and was preparing to light to keep the men warm.
Other videos of the shooting posted to social media and reviewed by AP appear consistent with Nader’s description of the object Osaid was preparing to light.
Human rights groups have previously presented cases in which soldiers opened fire without their lives being in danger, in apparent violation of the military’s rules of engagement.
The Hamas attack prompted Israel to wage a blistering air and ground campaign on the Gaza Strip that has killed over 23,000 people — and to tighten its grip on the West Bank through near-nightly, often deadly, raids.
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Appears?
At the extreme left of the video you can see a man in the middle of the road kneel down to light something on fire. The men contend that it was a pile of cardboard they wanted to burn for warmth. The Israeli's counter that it was a Molotov cocktail.
It doesn't look like a Molotov cocktail, but personally I don't buy the "warmth" story. Who lights cardboard on fire in the street for warmth? I think a far more likely scenario, given the men knew Israeli soldiers were nearby and didn't leave while others did, is that they were attempting to show some resistance by burning shit. This pissed off the Israeli's, who shot at them.
Seems like murder given the lack of an immediate threat.
Who lights cardboard on fire in the street for warmth?
People who got everything they have taken away from them, apparently 🙄
The desert is pretty cold at night. Lighting trash on fire for warmth is credible.
Not that anything justifies killing, but were they trying to set something on fire? Again, this would not justify anything.
Cardboard. For warmth. Because the Israeli government has taken away the electricity and fuel they'd otherwise use.
don't light fires when the nazguls are about
Yes - a pile of something in the middle of the road.
The youths said it was a pile of cardboard and paper to help keep them warm. Admittedly, it was around 10°C (50°F) over the last few nights at 2am.
As others have said, a like of wood and paper form warmth. The important part though is the person kneeling to light that on fire was not shot first, someone else standing nearby was killed. Then two other people running to the victims aid where then shot. When one of those guys trys to crawl away he gets shot again. Then when the IDF troops get there, they don't seem to give a shit about the pile of wood/paper, they just look at they guy they killed, kick one of the wounded guys on the ground, and then leave without providing any aid.
The IDF's story is they thought the guy lighting the pile was lighting a moltov cocktail. Bullshit, but even if so, why not shoot that guy doing the lighting instead of just some other random nearby guy? Or how do the guys coming to the first guys aid pose any kind of threat?
What's really fucked is nothing will come of this. Just another dead Palestinian.
Deserts get really cold at night, especially in the winter.
