Skip to main content

IDF killers test 'non-lethal' weapons on Palestinian civilians


The killing of Jawaher Abu Rahma by the IDF has seen the Israeli propaganda machine go into overdrive with a vile campaign of lies and disinformation. You can get a flavour of the nonsense here. They claim she had a pre-existing medical condition and so her death was nothing to do with their chemical weapons. Jawaher's brother was killed by Israel at one of the regular weekly non-violent demonstrations at Bil'in. Corporate Watch has a good article on the companies that are supplying the IDF with their 'non-lethal' armoury. The IDF is using Gaza as a testing ground.
“The Israeli government and its army have been, for years now, using the West Bank and Gaza as their testing ground. The Palestinians are their guinea pigs. The Israeli army uses tear gas that would probably be banned in any other country in the world. They shoot tear gas, directly at protesters; once again, an illegal act. But a very rewarding one: Israel’s security industry is booming. It’s never been this good. Countries all over the world are buying Israel’s expertise in security, crowd control and weaponry every day. Israeli soldiers are training other countries commandos all over the planet.” [9]

Bil'in, and villages across Palestine, have become a testing ground for the Israeli security industry, and for international companies looking for an arena to try out their wares. While unmanned bulldozers, aircraft and boats patrol and bombard the besieged Gaza Strip and the latest in CCTV, fingerprint and body scan equipment proliferate at the hundreds of Israeli checkpoints across the West Bank, Bil'in and other villages engaged in the popular struggle are subjected to countless experiments in so-called 'non lethal' or 'less lethal' weapons technology. more
Labels:

Comments

  1. Wesley Harris6 January 2011 at 12:33

    This article is not very fairly balanced.
    You'd want to replace killers with soldiers, to at least get a running start on the problem.

    ReplyDelete
  2. eli_gabriel7 January 2013 at 23:12

    How about you stop the rockets and suicide bombings and recognize Israel as a state first, before making demands? How about that?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

'Coronavirus-free' Gaza prepares for the worst

Until now, the besieged Gaza Strip has stayed free of  the novel coronavirus  spreading across the world. As the Gaza Strip has been under a stringent Israeli-led blockade for nearly 13 years, the spread of the coronavirus - officially known as COVID-19 - has become the topic of discussion for many Palestinians, with  some joking  that the blockade was preventing them from being exposed.But as authorities in the coastal Palestinian enclave gear up to contain any potential outbreak, serious questions have arisen about the risks and implications of such a scenario.  But given its already difficult humanitarian situation and high population density, an outbreak in the Gaza Strip could prove to be catastrophic, health officials have warned.  "If the virus enters Gaza and spreads, it will get out of hand," Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Majdi Thuhair told Middle East Eye, as he explained that a severe shortage of resources and personnel would make it near impossible
Post a Comment
Read more

Boycott of New York diamond dealer launched to protest settlement construction

Members of Adalah NY call for boycott of Leviev for its crimes against Palestinians and South Africans New York, NY, May 9 – On the day before Mother’s Day, 40 New York human rights advocates gathered at the Leviev jewelry store on Madison Avenue and called on throngs of weekend Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in West Bank villages including Bil’in and Jayyous. Mother’s Day is one of the biggest jewelry shopping periods in the US annually. The New York protest came as controversy is growing in Norway over Norwegian government investments in Leviev’s company Africa-Israel . The New York protesters also commemorated Bassem Abu Rahma from Bil’in who was shot to death by Israeli soldiers last month during a peaceful protest against the construction on Bil’in’s land of Israel’s wall and of the Mattityahu East settlement by a Leviev company. Thanks to vivapalestina.us (not co
Post a Comment
Read more

Support striking Palestinian quarry workers demanding their rights from Israeli employer

On 16 June, 35 Palestinian workers at Salit Quarries in Mishor Adumim (in area C, east of Jerusalem, in the Occupied West Bank) began a strike. The workers, organized with the independent union WAC-Ma'an, are demanding an end to exploitation and humiliation, and insist on signing a first collective agreement. Salit Quarries’ main customer is Readymix Industries (Israel). The total reliance of Salit Quarry on Readymix as their biggest and by far the most important customer puts responsibility on Readymix to make sure that their clients abides by labour laws and safeguards elementary rights for the workers of Salit. We call upon Readymix to urge the Salit management to terminate this unnecessary strike by signing the collective agreement with the workers and WAC-Ma’an. Click this protest link to send your message. The text of the message is as follows: I write to you to express my grave concern about the failure of Salit management to sign a collective agreement with the workers of
Post a Comment
Read more