La loro vittima avrebbe potuto essere il loro nonno.
Se un palestinese avesse abusato del nonno di un soldato, Israele sarebbe esploso: animali, guardate come abusano dei vecchi!
Non dimenticherò gli eventi di quella notte, di cui siamo venuti a conoscenza quando siamo arrivati in paese.
Non dimenticherò l'immagine di un vecchio gettato a terra, ammanettato e imbavagliato.
Ben presto fu chiaro che si trattava - ancora, sì, ancora - di soldati del battaglione dal nome grottesco “#NetzahYehuda”, Giudea Eterna.
Gli archivi di Haaretz sono pieni di loro abusi e crimini. La loro fortuna si è esaurita: questa volta la vittima è stata un americano. ⬇️6
#CeasefireNOW #GazaGenocide #StopAlGenocidio #StopArmingIsrael
Sanzioni #USA contro il battaglione #NetzahYehuda.🧵1
"Non dimenticherò l'immagine di un uomo di 80 anni gettato a terra, ammanettato e imbavagliato, lasciato a morire."
“Forse scopriranno che tutti coloro che servono in un esercito di occupazione commettono abusi, ogni giorno e ogni notte.
Lo spero.”✍️#GideonLevy
#26aprile #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #IsraeliOccupation #PACE #Peace #NOwar #RestiamoUmani #HumanRights
Israeli leaders criticize expected US sanctions against military unit that could further strain ties
The decision would mark the first time the US has ever imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military.
The Israeli ultra-orthodox unit #NetzahYehuda came under heavy American criticism in 2022 after an elderly Palestinian-American man was found dead shortly after being detained at a West Bank checkpoint.
An autopsy found bruises on his head, redness on his wrists from being bound and bleeding in his eyelids from being tightly blindfolded. An investigation said Israeli soldiers assumed that Assad was asleep when they cut off cables binding his hands.
After an outcry from the US government, the Israeli military said one officer was reprimanded and two other officers reassigned to non-commanding roles.
Human rights groups long have argued that #Israel rarely holds soldiers accountable for the deaths of Palestinians.
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#Haaretz reporting further:
Gantz spoke with #Blinken, and his office noted that he asked him to reconsider the #Biden administration's decision to impose sanctions against the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion operating in the West Bank. In a statement from him, it was reported that Gantz warned that the decision would harm Israel's legitimacy during wartime, and that it is unjustified since "Israel has a strong and independent judicial system."
From DAWN’s report:
[…] In March 2022, Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights NGO, published a data sheet, "Law Enforcement on Soldiers Suspected of Harming Palestinians and their Property," notably finding that:
The odds that a Palestinian would see his or her complaint result in the prosecution of the soldier who harmed them: 2%.
72% of all complaints that were filed in 2019–2020 following suspected offenses committed by soldiers against Palestinians in which a decision was reached were closed with no criminal investigation.
[…] "[A]s soon as the operational investigation was completed, its insignificance quickly became clear: the battalion commander was reprimanded, and two other commanders were removed from their positions and barred from command roles for two years. As usual, the military announced the launch of [a military police] investigation into the incident. Yet B'Tselem's years of experience indicate that this investigation, too, is part of the MAG Corps' sophisticated whitewashing system. Its primary purpose is to silence criticism directed at the military – and at Israel – over the incident. It is not intended to uncover the truth or to hold those responsible accountable, and is certainly not meant [to] prevent the recurrence of such cases or ensure As'ad's [sic] family even a modicum of justice."
https://dawnmena.org/culprit-netzah-yehuda-battalion/
@israel
@palestine
#NetzahYehuda #WarCrimes
#Israel #ICJ #US
The 97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion (גדוד נצח יהודה), previously known as Nahal Haredi, is a battalion in the Kfir Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), within the IDF Central Command, that has committed gross violations of human rights and war crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank between 2015 and 2022, the period investigated by Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).
EA on #India’s WION News: #Biden-#Israel Ties Bend But Don’t Break…for Now (Scott Lucas w Shivan Chanana)
https://eaworldview.com/2024/04/biden-israel-ties-bend-but-not-break/
Il primo atto spregevole è stato commesso circa un anno e mezzo fa alle 3 del mattino nel prospero e tranquillo villaggio cisgiordano di #Jiljilya.
I soldati del battaglione #NetzahYehuda (chi altri?) fermano un uomo di 80 anni, #OmarAsad, per il sadico gusto di farlo. Stava tornando lentamente a casa dopo aver visitato un amico nel villaggio.
Li implora di lasciarlo in pace.
Lo trascinano con la forza fuori dall'auto, gli legano le mani dietro la schiena, lo bendano con uno straccio e gliene infilano un altro in bocca per impedirgli di urlare. Poi lo trascinano per strada.
A quel punto, uno dei piedi di As'ad è scalzo dopo che una infradito gli è scivolata via. Lo spingono nel cortile di un edificio in costruzione. ⬇3
As'ad viveva a #Jiljilya, un villaggio a nord di #Ramallah, ed è morto il 12 gennaio dopo essere stato fermato e ammanettato dai soldati a un posto di blocco volante in Cisgiordania.
As'ad era un cittadino americano e all'epoca alcuni parlamentari statunitensi avevano chiesto un'indagine approfondita sulle circostanze della sua morte.
I funzionari palestinesi avevano affermato che i soldati, membri del Battaglione #NetzahYehuda della #BrigataKfir, lo avevano picchiato, causandogli un attacco cardiaco. ⬇3
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