
Te gast: een Israelische vrouw, Aya Kaniuk, van de Machsom Watch, een organisatie van vrouwen die observeren bij de controleposten: Israeli Soldiers Do Not Shoot At Children. Ik schreef al eerder over Machsom Watch, hier.
23 April 2008
Translated by Tal Haran.
Israeli soldiers do not shoot children, said the manageress of a shop where I worked. But I have seen this, I told her. And once they murdered a child right in front of my very eyes, shot him with a live bullet to the neck.
No, she said, don’t say murder. And she did not agree and she could not accept this, for she knows. For her sons have served in the army, and her spouse. For Israelis do not shoot children.
But they did shoot. Omar Matar, fourteen-years old, from Qalandiya refugee camp. I was standing right there and saw the soldiers chase the children as these were running away, and they sniped away at them like hunters’ prey. And I saw how he fell, bleeding.
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