I am still reading all I can get about these poor people who has been brutally murdered by Israel. As I was guessing, Rachel was not the only one. After Rachel Israel had shoot dead one Brittish cameraman James Miller in conditions what shows that this killing was actually a murder. I have a link to a BBC site about that.
I will borrow some of their texts here:
"The British cameraman James Miller was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as he left a house in Rafah with two other journalists on the night of May 2. An Associated Press TV News (APTN) cameraman filmed the entire scene.
One of the three journalists held a white flag; Miller was shining a light on the flag and a third journalist held up her British passport. There was no shooting and the area was quiet as the audio track of the film clearly proves.
The three had walked about 60 feet toward an Israeli armed personnel carrier to request safe passage to leave the area when the first shot was fired. "We are British journalists," Saira Shah cried out into the darkness.
"Then comes the second shot, which killed James," Sweeney wrote. "He was shot in the front of his neck. The bullet was Israeli issue, fired, according to a forensic expert, from less than 200 meters [600 feet] away."
The IDF maintains that Miller was shot during crossfire, although no shooting is heard on the APTN tape apart from the two shots fired from the Israeli military vehicle.
When the APTN tape was shown to an Israeli soldier, who is shown in the film, he said the television team did not look like Islamic terrorists and concluded: "That's murder."
"British photographer Tom Hurndall, 22, was left brain dead after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on April 11. British cameraman James Miller, 34, was shot by an Israeli sniper as he left a house with two other journalists on May 2. "
"The three international observers died, or nearly died, at the hands of the Israeli military between the middle of March and the first week of May. Hurndall was shot in the head as he took a Palestinian toddler, who had frozen under Israeli fire, into his arms."
The eye witnesses and all the evidence speak out the truth of Israel's brutality, they do not care weather the circumstances are peacefull or the people are foreign, they kill who ever they think is on their way to their goal!
I found these websites of Tom Hurndall, the photographer who was shot in the head leaving him brain dead: http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/index.html
I also found one more victim, Brian Avery http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1336.shtml
Brian experienced serious wounds to his face after Israeli troops shot at him with heavy machine gun fire from an armoured personnel carrier.
I borrow some of the text from that site here:
"At the sight of the armoured vehicles both activists stood still and raised their hands above their heads. When the first armoured personnel carrier was 50 metres from them it fired a burst of machine gun fire (an estimated 15 rounds) at the ground in front of them so that they were sprayed by a shower of broken bullets and stones. Tobias, Brian's companion, leapt aside. He had fled about three steps when he looked back to see Brian lying face down on the road in a pool of blood."
"Shootings of Palestinian civilians are regularly reported as "accidental", the result of "crossfire", and Israeli spokespersons occasionally even express regret for these killings. However, experience with similarly patterned events on the ground and the frequency at which they have been occurring during the Second Intifada, force any empirical observer to conclude that killings are a typical feature of the Israeli army's operations. The current Intifada death toll -- 2,220 -- and injury statistics -- 22,308 --, and the circumstances of these acts of violence, as reported by medical authorities, reflect a rate of killing and injury far too high to be credibly explained as "accidental". "
"For those of us who have lived as eyewitnesses in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, it is not news that Israeli troops regularly shoot at people without there being any genuine clashes or any legitimate threat to the soldier that would necessitate self defence. This fact is well documented by numerous human rights groups on the ground. It is also one of the expected consequences of maintaining a military occupation of a civilian population for over one-third of a century -- the dehumanisation of the occupied people by the occupying army. "
Again these documents and pictures leaves me speachless.
Also these all proves me what I have been guessing, Israel do murder people on purpose and there are also witnesses to that, but somehow nothing is to be done to this matter!
So who allowas them to do so? And what is their goal? Im sure it won't end to this truce?? What happens next?
"Well the list of shot by Israel maybe endless, because from this site only I found so many more; Caoimhe Butterly was shot in the leg in Jenin. On the same day as Butterly was shot, Israeli troops shot and killed British national Iain Hook.
German doctor Harald Fischer and Italian cameraman Rafaeli Ciriello were both also killed by Israeli gunfire during the Intifada. Several others internationals have been injured by Israeli fire."
I will borrow some of their texts here:
"The British cameraman James Miller was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as he left a house in Rafah with two other journalists on the night of May 2. An Associated Press TV News (APTN) cameraman filmed the entire scene.
One of the three journalists held a white flag; Miller was shining a light on the flag and a third journalist held up her British passport. There was no shooting and the area was quiet as the audio track of the film clearly proves.
The three had walked about 60 feet toward an Israeli armed personnel carrier to request safe passage to leave the area when the first shot was fired. "We are British journalists," Saira Shah cried out into the darkness.
"Then comes the second shot, which killed James," Sweeney wrote. "He was shot in the front of his neck. The bullet was Israeli issue, fired, according to a forensic expert, from less than 200 meters [600 feet] away."
The IDF maintains that Miller was shot during crossfire, although no shooting is heard on the APTN tape apart from the two shots fired from the Israeli military vehicle.
When the APTN tape was shown to an Israeli soldier, who is shown in the film, he said the television team did not look like Islamic terrorists and concluded: "That's murder."
"British photographer Tom Hurndall, 22, was left brain dead after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on April 11. British cameraman James Miller, 34, was shot by an Israeli sniper as he left a house with two other journalists on May 2. "
"The three international observers died, or nearly died, at the hands of the Israeli military between the middle of March and the first week of May. Hurndall was shot in the head as he took a Palestinian toddler, who had frozen under Israeli fire, into his arms."
The eye witnesses and all the evidence speak out the truth of Israel's brutality, they do not care weather the circumstances are peacefull or the people are foreign, they kill who ever they think is on their way to their goal!
I found these websites of Tom Hurndall, the photographer who was shot in the head leaving him brain dead: http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/index.html
I also found one more victim, Brian Avery http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1336.shtml
Brian experienced serious wounds to his face after Israeli troops shot at him with heavy machine gun fire from an armoured personnel carrier.
I borrow some of the text from that site here:
"At the sight of the armoured vehicles both activists stood still and raised their hands above their heads. When the first armoured personnel carrier was 50 metres from them it fired a burst of machine gun fire (an estimated 15 rounds) at the ground in front of them so that they were sprayed by a shower of broken bullets and stones. Tobias, Brian's companion, leapt aside. He had fled about three steps when he looked back to see Brian lying face down on the road in a pool of blood."
"Shootings of Palestinian civilians are regularly reported as "accidental", the result of "crossfire", and Israeli spokespersons occasionally even express regret for these killings. However, experience with similarly patterned events on the ground and the frequency at which they have been occurring during the Second Intifada, force any empirical observer to conclude that killings are a typical feature of the Israeli army's operations. The current Intifada death toll -- 2,220 -- and injury statistics -- 22,308 --, and the circumstances of these acts of violence, as reported by medical authorities, reflect a rate of killing and injury far too high to be credibly explained as "accidental". "
"For those of us who have lived as eyewitnesses in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, it is not news that Israeli troops regularly shoot at people without there being any genuine clashes or any legitimate threat to the soldier that would necessitate self defence. This fact is well documented by numerous human rights groups on the ground. It is also one of the expected consequences of maintaining a military occupation of a civilian population for over one-third of a century -- the dehumanisation of the occupied people by the occupying army. "
Again these documents and pictures leaves me speachless.
Also these all proves me what I have been guessing, Israel do murder people on purpose and there are also witnesses to that, but somehow nothing is to be done to this matter!
So who allowas them to do so? And what is their goal? Im sure it won't end to this truce?? What happens next?
"Well the list of shot by Israel maybe endless, because from this site only I found so many more; Caoimhe Butterly was shot in the leg in Jenin. On the same day as Butterly was shot, Israeli troops shot and killed British national Iain Hook.
German doctor Harald Fischer and Italian cameraman Rafaeli Ciriello were both also killed by Israeli gunfire during the Intifada. Several others internationals have been injured by Israeli fire."
