Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The IDF downs a bomber at a checkpoint: IDF kills terrorist at West Bank checkpoint
A 20-year-old Palestinian carrying four pipe bombs was shot dead Monday evening at an IDF checkpoint located south of Nablus in the West Bank.
At around 7 pm soldiers manning the Hawara checkpoint spotted the Palestinian as he was making his way toward them in a suspicious manner with wires protruding from underneath his clothes.
Corporal Michal Ya'akov of the military police recounted the incident: "A young Palestinian who seemed confused arrived at the checkpoint. When he reached the turnstile I stopped him and asked that he pass through the metal detector. The apparatus beeped when he went through. I asked him what it was that he had on his body."
According to Ya'akov, the Palestinian responded by saying 'nothing' in Arabic while lifting his shirt and exposing the pipe bombs, which were strapped to the right part of his body.
"I identified the explosive devices and yelled 'explosives in the checkpoint' and cocked my rifle. Everyone (soldiers) aimed at Palestinian's head and neck so as not to set off the explosive device," she said...
Results were predictable. Yet here's how the other side reports the same incident: Israeli soldiers shoot dead young Palestinian at Huwwara checkpoint
Eyewitnesses told Ma’an’s Nablus correspondent that Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint fired a volley of six shots at the young man, who appeared to be around 16 years of age, hitting him several times in the back.
They then completely closed the checkpoint preventing anyone from passing through.
According to the eyewitnesses, the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint had asked the young man to lift up his shirt and when he refused they immediately opened fire on him.
Divergent portrayals of reality make peacemaking not only difficult but a waste of time.
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How dare you discredit their "narrative"!
Typical of you white capitalist colonialist oppressors - discrediting the norms and narratives of other peoples and cultures!