Posts Tagged ‘Eran Efrati’
Infiltrated Israeli undercover agents shot live bullets on Palestinian demonstrators
Posted on: October 9, 2015
Infiltrated Israeli soldiers shot live bullets on Palestinian demonstrators
A Reuters camera operator captured on film a group of Israeli undercover agents dressed as Palestinian youth during a demonstration in Beit El on Tuesday.
The soldiers are seen throwing stones alongside demonstrators, then turning around, drawing their guns and shouting orders at the crowd.
By Celine Hagbard | IMEMC |
Simon Hanna Via Khaled Diab…
I couldn’t quite believe this but I’ve watched a few vids on it now and it seems pretty clear to me.
“Caught on film. Israeli agents provocateurs disguise themselves as Palestinian protesters, then turn their guns on them and arrest them. How twisted. They’d have a great future in the Ba’ath.
Before this footage emerged, a Palestinian told me that undercover agents often attend Friday prayers at mosques and join marches. Palestinians sometimes strip their shirts off en masse to find out if there are any in their midst. https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Lisa Naomi Goldman has a good analysis here:
http://972mag.com/watch-israeli-undercover-agents-shoot-…/…/
The video, copyrighted by AFP, can be viewed here:
Around 20 seconds into the video, the Israeli infiltrators turn on the rest of the demonstrators and threaten to shoot them.
Another incident on Wednesday afternoon was described on the website ‘Mondoweiss.net’ as follows:
“Videos of the incident …reveal 8 Israeli security forces dressed as protesters with their faces covered, and one with a Hamas flag.
After participating in the protest confronting uniformed soldiers and throwing stones, the undercover forces suddenly drew their weapons against the Palestinian demonstrators.
The Israeli forces began backing up towards the Beit El checkpoint and a cluster of army Jeeps. Palestinians sprinted in the opposite direction.
“Next a group of 5 undercover agents are filmed detaining a Palestinian by throwing the youth to the ground, and punching and kicking him.
While in custody one of the officers shoots the Palestinian in the leg. He is then dragged away, bleeding from his face, and soldiers detained him for questioning. Later the youth was transferred to an Israeli medical facility.”
The website Electronic Initifada documented other incidents in which soldiers dressed as Palestinians are seen in the crowd, then photographed again among the Israeli soldiers, working with them and drawing guns against the Palestinian demonstrators.
On Sunday, undercover Israeli agents dressed as Palestinian civilians were able to enter a Palestinian hospital in Nablus and snatch a wounded boy from his hospital bed, allegedly because he was ‘wanted’ by Israeli forces for resisting the military occupation in some way.
These tactics are being utilized in the context of escalating protests across the West Bank, Jerusalem and inside Israel itself, which some analysts are terming a ‘third intifada (uprising)’ by Palestinian youth who have taken to the streets in large numbers to oppose the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and denial of basic human rights for the Palestinian people.
An estimated 600 Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli forces since Saturday, and hundreds have been abducted by Israeli forces. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the protests, including a 12-year old schoolboy in Bethlehem.
The tactic of infiltrating Palestinian protests with undercover soldiers dates back to the first intifada in the late 1980s, when the undercover forces regularly entered Palestinian towns and villages dressed as Palestinians in order to carry out extrajudicial assassinations against Palestinians suspected of organizing demonstrations against the military occupation of their land.
“You are cutting our breathing air”: Palestinians in Jerusalem under persistent harassment
Posted on: November 23, 2014
“You are cutting our breathing air”: Palestinians in Jerusalem under persistent harassment
I simply can’t imagine how Palestinians survive this never-ending suffocation without collectively combusting.
It is a miracle. The fact that there is as little violence from Palestinians as there is.
During yesterday’s interview on Democracy Now, Rashid Khalid said increased settlement activity in East Jerusalem had penetrated “neighborhood after neighborhood, Arab neighborhoods that have never seen armed settlers, with a heavy military and police presence to guard them, are now… slowly, but surely, being colonized one by one. And so, you’re basically turning up the heat on a very, very hot situation, and that’s been going on now for many months.”
Is it, by design, creating a tinderbox intended to make people snap?
In that same interview, Eran Efrati said the goal has always been to oppress Palestinians so much and make their lives so miserable as to make people leave and go crazy. “The end goal in the end to make them want to leave also made them want to do crazy things, like attacks on Jews and on Israelis.”
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