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The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 7, 2000
Rights groups criticize Israel
Shooting children focus of complaint
By Matthew Kalman
JERUSALEM -- Israeli and Palestinian human-rights groups are
criticizing the Israeli army for the use of rubber bullets and the
deaths of children in the bloody clashes that have claimed nearly 80
lives in the past week and left about 1,900 wounded.
A report by the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring
Group said at least 15 children have been killed in the unrest.
"The force Israel has used against the Palestinians shows a brutality
never witnessed before, with live ammunition, rockets and
helicopters," said Ahmed Qureia, Speaker of the Palestinian
legislative council.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa angrily denounced Israel for
what he called "the shooting of the children."
Many Israelis, like people around the world, were shocked by last
weekend's television coverage of the death of 12-year-old Mohammed
Durra, killed by Israeli gunfire as he cowered against his father,
both of them crouched low to the ground, beneath a Palestinian gun
position in the Gaza Strip.
Major-General Giora Eiland, Israeli army operations chief, while
admitting that the boy died from Israeli bullets, accused him of
being a stone thrower. "What caused his death was his presence in a
place where he shouldn't have been."
The human-rights report released Thursday details several incidents
in which children have been killed, including 12-year-old Samer
Tabenjeh, shot by an Israeli helicopter crew in Nablus.
"The Israelis claim they use bullets only when their lives are in
danger, but that just isn't so," said Bassem Eid, director of the
Palestinian human-rights group. "Despite the peace process, Israelis
still consider the Palestinians in the occupied territories to be
their enemies."
The Israeli human-rights group Btselem says that one reason for the
high number of deaths is the use of rubber bullets.
"The Israeli army thinks they are nothing, but they are not rubber.
They are metal bullets with a thin covering of rubber, and they are
very dangerous," Btselem spokesman Tomer Feffer said.
The Israeli army insists its soldiers open fire only when fired upon
or when their lives are in danger. "If there is . . . shooting, we
will shoot as accurately as we can."
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