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| HRW Calls on Israel to Stop Shooting at Gaza Civilians |
| 2014-04-26 |
| [An Nahar] Israel must stop shooting at Paleostinian civilians in the Gazoo Strip, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said Friday, noting four have been killed near the border fence since the beginning of 2014. A report by the New York-based watchdog cited U.N. data which also said more than 60 civilians were maimed by Israeli gunfire near the perimeter fence of the Paleostinian enclave ruled by the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. It focused on seven incidents between January 2 and March 1, in which the four were killed and five others maimed, "none of whom posed a threat to the soldiers or others". HRW noted that "Paleostinians living in the densely inhabited Gazoo Strip use land near the fence with Israel for agriculture, collecting rubble, scrap metal, and other reusable materials, and recreation." "Month after month, Israeli forces have maimed and killed unarmed Paleostinians who did nothing but cross an invisible, shifting line that Israel has drawn inside Gazoo's perimeter," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, a front man for the Israeli army, did not challenge the facts but slammed the report which he said "completely ignored the reality of the state of conflict we have with Gazoo, the perimeter with which is a springboard for terrorism from the Strip". "The statement ridicules human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... . This week alone we've had numerous attacks emerging from the immediate perimeter of the fence," he said. "They don't magically arrive there," Lerner said of the perpetrators. He also referred to "terror tunnels" from Gazoo and projectiles fired at southern Israel. The military front man said "the 100-meter (yard) limit" from the border fence, which was agreed upon under the terms reached after an eight-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas snuffies in November 2012, was "known and widespread". |
| Posted by:Fred |