CARTOON: Israel Military 'Investigates' Video Showing Soldiers Pushing/Kicking Bodies Off West Bank Roof
Under international law, soldiers are obliged to ensure that bodies, including those of enemy fighters, are treated with respect.
"This is a serious incident that does not conform with [our] values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review." — Israeli Military officials
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
By Yolande Knell and James Gregory
BBC (9/20/24)
Israel's military has launched an investigation after its soldiers were filmed throwing the bodies of three dead Palestinians off a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank.
Footage of the incident, filmed in the northern town of Qabatiya, near Jenin, then appears to show an Israeli military bulldozer picking up and removing the bodies.
The images have sparked widespread outrage. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday that it was “a serious incident” that did not “conform” to its values and what was expected of its forces.
Local Palestinian officials say at least seven people were killed by Israeli forces in Qabatiya on Thursday.
Under international law, soldiers are obliged to ensure that bodies, including those of enemy fighters, are treated with respect.
The IDF said it carried out a counterterrorism operation in Qabatiya, during which four militants were killed in an "exchange of fire" and three others were killed after a drone strike on a car.
A journalist in Qabatiya told the BBC that on Thursday morning Israeli troops had surrounded a building in town.
He described how four men who were in the house then escaped to the roof and were shot by snipers.
Fighting continued in the town and when it had subsided, he then said he saw Israeli troops go up to the roof and drop the bodies down over the side, where they were then loaded onto a bulldozer. [Note, the video also clearly shows a soldier kicking one of the bodies off the edge of the roof. — MT]
Asked about the incident shown in the footage, the IDF said: "This is a serious incident that does not conform with [our] values and the expectations from IDF soldiers. The incident is under review."
The military said that one of those killed in Qabatiya was Shadi Zakarneh, who it identified as being "responsible for directing and carrying out attacks in the northern West Bank area".
It said he was "the head of the terrorist organisation" in Qabatiya but did not specify which group he belonged to.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in the West Bank, described the incident on X, formerly known as Twitter, as a "crime" which exposed the "brutality" of the Israeli army.
There has been a spike in violence in the West Bank since Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza.
More than 690 Palestinians have been killed there since then, the Palestinian health ministry says, as Israeli forces have intensified their nearly daily search and arrest raids.
Israel says it is trying to stem Palestinian attacks in the West Bank and Israel, in which at least 33 Israelis have been killed.
In Gaza, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli military action, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Throwing Bodies Off Roof In Occupied West Bank
[Editor’s Note: Kudos to CNN for not blurring out the image of this atrocity. More and more such imagery is being blurred or blocked to keep us from seeing the grim reality of our continued support of the US/Israel genocide. — Mark Taylor]
CNN (9/20/24)
The Israeli military is investigating soldiers for throwing bodies from a rooftop in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, amid an IDF incursion in the area that left seven dead has seen clashes and intense gunfire with militants.
How Israel Exploits Sex To Lure Young Jews To Israel & Sell Fascistic Zionist Fantasy
[Editor’s Note: All ethno-racist fascistic ideologies like Zionism always have an undercurrent of fantasy sexual prowess and perversion. Note how much of the early poster art shown in the video looks just like Nazi propaganda and how today Israel sexualizes the imagery of their soldiers. Such cynical use of sexual fetishes helps explain the intense focus by the Israeli military of systematic rape of even children. It’s a weak and sick society on its way out. — Mark Taylor]
uncivilized (9/20/24)
For a long time, Israel has used sex to sell zionism. There are 3 reasons why: they involve the settler-colony’s past, present, and survival for the future.
9-minute video
"Inanimate objects, do you have a soul?" [Alphonse de Lamartine]
This desecration of the bodies, this objectification of beings, does not seem to offend, beyond measure, international opinion ready to get carried away and to throw the other nations into a frenzy for actions Ô how much less reprehensible when it is not, simply false accusations, fabricated charges.
We are repulsed by these ignoble behaviors but above all, by the guilty silence that accompanies them, and strengthen them….
America under criminal administration Biden/Harris and Gavin Newsam in CA
https://youtu.be/lFNUkaRrKTk?si=ahmwOaWItOLejDZm
Same in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vc6CHRrtH8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py65MJC8VR4
A colleague went to San Francisco with family. On a corner in downtown he observed a scene from hell – three humans in grotesques unnatural “frozen” (unmoving) positions (fentanyl effect).
One was standing by a bicycle with upper body horizontally lying motionlessly across bike.
Nowhere on Earth – in any city, state or country would be allowed such horror and suffering – for years. Only in Biden/Harris/Newsome America.
While Congress mega-gangster, Nancy Pelosi, literally kisses hands of Ukrainian Nazi-gangster and US vassal, Zelensky, in US Congress, while a large contingent of RINO Republicans wave Ukrainian flags – celebrating hundreds of billions dollars to Ukraine while above horrors are daily in the US. Congress demanded that showing that infamous photos are – forbidden to show (“disinformation”).
Note, that after US coup against democratically elected government of Ukraine and in the name of “defending democracy”, all parties were outlawed, opponents of Nazi-dominated imposed government started to “disappear”, all media is strictly censored and staffed with CIA-trained propagandists, Russian media is immediately forbidden in Europe and US….
We are ruled by a corrupt and criminal Biden/Harris administration. The country is now being entirely run by a slew of minions like Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, etc. Just observe a video from the past day alone, which is outright shocking -- an absolutely wasted, mentally unfit, and enfeebled looking Biden croaking out some frail introduction to his wife, who is now heading the Cabinet meeting in his stead. It is the first Cabinet meeting since October of 2023—an entire year—and it’s being run by Jill sitting at the head of the president’s seat…
This is America today – in which CIA-DNC controlled state media in unison adores and pushes an unelected loser -- the brainless puppet “Skamala” Harris.