Stones versus guns. Yes, it's hatred all right. From the Israelis in particular. And the Palestinian kids have no way to combat it. They can only wait for the United States to stop arming and backing Israel. When Hell freezes over, I'm guessing.
In the last two years in Dheisheh, “at least 81 youths have been injured by bullets in the limbs, about 60 of whom have suffered permanent disabilities,” Al-Quds newspaper reported on 13 August.
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“In the camp, when the soldiers come, you will find 200, 300 kids and also older people throwing stones or even just standing in the streets, trying to show the enemy, the Israeli occupation, that they are not welcome in our camp,” explained an activist and resident of Dheisheh.
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In several testimonies gathered by The Electronic Intifada, youth in the camp say that an Arabic-speaking officer with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency known as the Shin Bet has been provoking youths during clashes and threatening them with physical harm. The officer goes by the alias Captain Nidal.
“They choose [to shoot at] the leg to disable and torture you,” 20-year-old Muhammad, not his real name, told The Electronic Intifada.
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“I was injured in the knee area, [which produced] a hole in the bone – nothing was broken, just a hole. And in my other leg I was hit in the flesh. A bullet in one leg and two bullets in the other,” Muhammad said.
“During the confrontations one young man was injured, so I went to carry him and as I was carrying him I was shot in my right leg,” he added.
“I kept walking and he shot me in my other leg, but I still kept going. Then he shot me again and I fell down. The youths came and carried us both away. We were very close to the army and if I had not pulled the other guy away they would have taken him. They [the army] would have taken both of us if the guys hadn’t come and taken us,” Muhammad explained.
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The Israeli army raided Dheisheh three times between the end of July and mid-August, the group says.
During the recent incursions, at least 18 youths – between 14 and 27 years old – were shot in their legs. Eight were shot directly in the knee and several more in both legs, Badil reports.
Badil’s study was published just days before the Israeli army raided the camp on Friday last week and shot two more youths.
Youth have testified to Badil that Captain Nidal has made statements such as “I will make all the youth of the camp disabled,” “I will have all of you walking with crutches and in wheelchairs,” “I will make half of you disabled, and let the other half push the wheelchairs” and “I will make all of you stand in line at the ATM waiting for your disability subsidies and assistance.”
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In Dheisheh, Muhammad explained that even though they face routine threats of physical and psychological harm from the Israeli army, the youth of the camp won’t be deterred from resisting the Israeli army’s routine acts of violence.
“They do this to stop the youths [from] going out and resisting,” he said, “but despite this we’re waiting for them, even if we’re disabled.”
Electronic Intifada
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