3 year old Palestinian girl shot in the head

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 Ron Webb wrote:

 TG12345 wrote:

Have you ever been to the West Bank? I have, and three times.

Yes, I know.  I have read your reports on this forum, and I admire the work that you are doing.  If you had actually been a witness to this incident, I would believe you.

 I have seen soldiers shoot Palestinian kids who were throwing rocks.

Yup, I totally believe that.

 I have also seen them falsely arrest kids who weren't doing anything, like this summer in Hebron when some school age kids playing soccer at night were almost arrested after a soldier claimed they were throwing rocks at him.
Fortunately, a Palestinian man with a camera was there, and what was on film was the soldier throwing rocks at the kids and trying to provoke them. When tha didn't work, he tried to get them arrested.
Due to our presence and the video, his commander did not arrest the kids, but the soldier was not disciplined also.

Do you have the video by any chance?  I'd like to see it.

Anyway, IMHO there is still a considerable moral distance between those sorts of things and deliberately shooting a three year old girl in the face.

 How would a stray bullet hit someone in a balcony who is nowhere near the stone throwers and above them? I have been to that village also and have seen the houses there, to shoot her the soldier must have aimed upwards. During the clashes, people throw rocks from the street or the road, not from the houses.

I don't know.  Possibly a bullet ricocheted.  Possibly the girl wasn't actually on the balcony.  Possibly the intended target was her father, who perhaps was shooting from the balcony.  It does seem an odd coincidence that it happened to be the daughter of the Nablus police chief who was shot.

There are now several similar sites reporting the incident (e.g. http://palestineinsight.net), in which Fatah leader Morad Eshteiwy claims that Israeli forces directly shot her.  They don't say whether Eshteiwy witnessed the incident himself.

Sorry, but I'm still finding it easier to believe that a Fatah leader would make up a story like this to discredit the Israeli soldiers, than that an Israeli soldier would deliberately shoot a three year old girl in the face.  I know Israelis do a lot of terrible things, but I also know that false accusations are commonplace in conflicts like this.

IMHO the real atrocity here is the very fact that we have an Israeli tank driving down a Palestinian street spraying sewage at houses and people, as shown in this video.  I can hardly think of anything more disgusting or dehumanizing, or more provocative, or less likely to lead to peace, than that.  