Friday, September 21, 2007
Israel Captures Hamas Leader in Spite of Best Efforts of ISM -- Also, an ISM Lawsuit
IDF captures head of Nablus cell planning suicide bombing
Also Friday, the IDF struck Gaza militants who were preparing to fire mortar shells at targets in Israel. The army said the militants belong to a cell that had already fired at Israel. Palestinian sources did not report any casualties.
The wanted Hamas militant, 34-year-old Nihad Shkirat, is believed to have headed a joint Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine cell in the city...
Also: IDF arrests head of Hamas cell in Nablus
Meanwhile, the IDF and the Israeli Justice System are being positively solicitous in their investigation into the possible wrongful shooting in the face of an International Solidarity Movement tool: IDF brings peace activist back to Jenin
In April 2003, Brian Avery, a 24-year-old American volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement, went outside with other group members to assist Palestinian medics in Jenin. The aid workers came under fire, apparently from an Israeli APC. Avery was hit in the face and spent several weeks in Haifa's Rambam Medical Center undergoing a series of operations to reconstruct his face...
Steve is less than sympathetic. Whatever the sympathy I can spare toward Avery -- having seen the pictures and video of the bombings the IDF is trying to prevent and which the ISM does everything they can to interfere with -- there is another issue and that is maintenance of IDF discipline and control. That's important, so the investigation is as well.
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