Interesting video. If this had been a Jewish woman going up and trying to reason with Muslims she would have been killed. The Jews seem more civilized. For this reason and many many others. I give the woman credit though. She is very brave.
"Muddying the waters further were the next actions of Captain R, the company commander, who approached Imanwounded, according to Palestinian witnesses, but alive and lying on the ground helplessand first fired two shots into her at close range to confirm the kill. Then, according to IDF witnesses, he walked a short distance away, turned back, approached the child again and emptied the magazine of his automatic weapon into her body.
Just imagine how he might have reacted had he not visited the Weaselthal Museum of Tolerance earlier that year.
Captain R then clarifies why he killed Iman: This is commander. Anything thats mobile, that moves in the zone, even if its a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over.
After she was taken to the hospital, doctors counted 17 bullet wounds in Imans body, and three in her head, though they were unsure of the exact number since her little body was shattered to the point where one couldnt accurately count how many bullets had riddled it.
Anywhere in the world, you would expect such a murderer to be tried and to receive a very harsh sentence. Unfortunately, the laws that apply in most of the world do not apply to Palestinian children and their murderers. An Israeli military court, on October 15, 2004, cleared the soldier of any wrongdoing or unethical behavior, declaring that confirming the kill is standard procedure.
A few of the soldiers serving with Captian R seem to have not been satisfied. They were apparently motivated by racist animosity towards him (he is Druze, they are Jewish), and took the matter to a Military Police court. He was charged not with the murder of Iman, but with illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice. He was cleared on all counts.
To add insult to fatal and gruesome injury, Captain R was then compensated with 80,000 Israeli Sheckels (around US$20,000) plus legal fees for the inconvenience of being taken to court over a triviality such as the life of a Palestinian child. The court also criticized the Military Police for investigating the case in the first place. Captain R was then promoted to the rank of Major, and continues to serve in the Israeli Army, where he may well have murdered other children in the past three years.
This is by no means an isolated incident or a freak failing of the justice system, but rather one example of many such stories that will shock anyone with an ounce of conscience or humanity in them. One could write whole books with the stories of children like Iman, killed in callous cold blood, whose murderers faced no repercussions whatsoever for their crimes. Since 2000, almost 1,000 Palestinian children have been murdered by the Israeli Army, and countless other thousands injured. Not a single Israeli soldier has faced any form of punishment, demotion, or even reprimand over any of these murders.