2nd Nablus teenager succumbs to wounds

[Violet_Crumble]

Nablus - Ma'an - A second teenager shot Saturday in clashes in the northern West Bank has died, medical sources said early Sunday.

Useid Abed An-Nasser Qadus, 16, was shot by Israeli forces, medics said, during a protest that turned violent near Nablus.

Medics told Ma'an that the boy underwent lengthy surgery at a Nablus hospital, but ultimately died of blood loss despite 12 transfusions.

Muhammad Qadus, 16, died of a gunshot wound to the chest shortly after the two cousins were injured at the protest in Iraq Burin, a Palestinian village south of Nablus.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270288

[Ken Burch]

1. Dead far too young.

There was no good reason for the IDF to shoot this young man. And the trigger-happy paranoid mindset they're developing is itself a case against the Occupation. Not only is it oppressing Palestinians, it's psychologically warping Israeli troops and Israeli society in general. It just can't be sustained anymore.

[Ken Burch]

2. From the article:

"Useid was transported to a local hospital in a Red Crescent ambulance, medics said, while Muhammad was taken in a private car reportedly because Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from arriving."

And this response within the link from the IDF:

"Israel's army said neither boy was hurt by live fire.

'Contrary to what was published, live fire was not used. The Palestinians were hurt by rubber bullets used during the incident,' an Israeli military spokesman told Ma'an on Saturday."

(In other words, if they were killed by rubber bullets instead of live fire, that's not as bad).

[ProgressiveMuslim]

3. Rubber bullets are simply metal bullets coated with rubber. They kill.

[Ken Burch]

4. Yes....as the fate of these two young men proves.

I was just marveling at the unadulterated chutzpah of the IDF in making the distinction.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

5. I agree with you completely. As though rubber coating means they are "warning fire"

as opposed to "live fire."

[azurnoir]

9. IDF has been known to remove the rubber coating

Other testimonies raise concerns as to the procedures of opening fire in the territories, particularly crowd control weapons. A female Border Guard detailed to protocol she called "dismantling rubber" – the dismantling of rubber bullets from clusters of three to single bullets, and peeling the rubber off of them. She also said that, despite the clear orders to fire in the air or at the demonstrators' feet, it was common procedure to fire at the abdomen.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3841480,00.ht...

[Tripmann]

6. Is there any word yet...

....on whether the soldier, who was obviously in the life threatening situation of having a 16 year old throw stones at him, was wearing kevlar helmet and vest, or just full riot gear, before he executed the kid?

[ProgressiveMuslim]

7. I'm sure he suffered "shock." nt

[Scurrilous]

8. Military prosecutor to IDF: Probe shooting death of two Palestinians

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"The Israel Defense Forces' chief prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the army to open an internal investigation into the circumstances that led soldiers to open fire and kill two Palestinian youth in the West Bank over the weekend.

Major Avihai Mandelblit's issued his order to the IDF's criminal investigation division a day after the Judea and Samaria division of the army announced that it planned to probe the incident.

Military sources said the two Palestinians who were shot on Saturday in the village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, were apparently killed by live Israel Defense Forces fire, contrary to the IDF's initial claim that only rubber bullets were used.

IDF doctors met with Nablus hospital doctors Sunday night to examine X-rays of one of the men killed in Iraq Burin, which the Palestinians said show that a live bullet had penetrated his head."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158406.html