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| Disabled Palestinian dies of wounds |
| 2008-02-15 |
| A human rights group called for an investigation into the death Thursday of a mentally disabled Palestinian man who had been wounded by the Israelis during a West Bank arrest operation. How do you tell the difference between a "normal" Palestinian and a "mentally disabled" one? Is it that the mentally disabled are those that don't know they are carrying a bomb? According to neighbors' accounts, Israeli troops entered the town of Qabatiya before dawn on Feb. 7 to arrest an Islamic Jihad militant. Well, any jihadi is obviously mentally disabled. As the soldiers prepared an ambush, the mentally disabled man, 56-year-old Taysir Nazal, emerged from his home, the neighbors said. Soldiers fired three shots and hit Nazal in his legs, said relatives and a neighbor, Omar al-Sohu. Has it been confirmed that the guy was really mentally disabled? Or is this another of those "France 2" productions? "They didn't call on him to stop, and after he was hit, they left him for a half hour," al-Sohu said. "Then two soldiers came and started to talk to him in Arabic." I wonder what Hamas gunmen would have done had the roles been reversed. The Israeli military said it was checking the circumstances of the incident and did not immediately comment. Three Islamic Jihad militants were arrested in the raid. Proving that it's obvious that the IDF was just itching to kill someone. Nazal was hit several times in the legs. Doctors operated several times and amputated part of one leg, but he died on Thursday, doctors said. Sepsis? Lack of equipment/medical supplies? I'm no doctor, but it would seem that if they stopped the bleeding and gave him a transfusion that he should live. They can take care of the leg at their leisure. I assume it was a Gazan hospital. The Israeli rights group B'Tselem called for a military investigation. "From our research we see a pattern, a sort of norm ... that is expressed in shooting when a door is opened or the soldiers think someone is trying to flee, when in fact the soldiers are not acting in self-defense," B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said. Hey, I thought we were only talking about mentally disabled Palestinians, not retarded Israeli human rights groups. In any case, I'd surely love to see their "research" documentation, site studies, the military/psychology/scientific experience of the scientists involved in the "research", and transcripts/footage of interviews with soldiers/hospitals/victims/military. Or is that "pattern/sort of norm" thingy basically all we're going to get? Several mentally disabled Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in recent years. That's because jihadis do things that only mentally disabled people do, so it's hard to tell the difference. When you're in a shoot-or-maybe-get-shot situation, it's better to shoot first. Israel conducts arrest operations against Palestinian militants in West Bank towns almost nightly. So they probably have a good idea of when to shoot and when not to. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #5 Ahh. So it's not so much blood loss as irreversible and spiraling brain damage. Thanks. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-02-15 09:58 |
| #4 femoral artery cut - lose enuf blood to the brain - transfusions too late won't bring you back |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-15 09:53 |
| #3 Didn't work for Sean Taylor either. Yeah, but I was hoping to understand how a leg shot could kill someone. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-02-15 09:41 |
| #2 the blame lies with Hamas and other Paleo terrorists who hide among the civilian population. When a door is opened, you'd be stoopid to assume it's an "innocent" just looking to see whutsup |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-15 09:27 |
| #1 gorb, "if they stopped the bleeding and gave him a transfusion that he should live" Didn't work for Sean Taylor either. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-02-15 09:20 |