- The Breaking the Silence organization has collected new
testimony from Israel Defense Forces soldiers on harsh actions carried
out during the course of the fighting in the territories.
-
- Two of the testimonies pertain to a military doctor who
gave medics lessons in anatomy using the bodies of Palestinians killed
by Israeli forces.
-
- IDf sources said on Thursday that the army was unaware
of the incidents and that the reports would be investigated.
-
- An IDF conscript who served as a medic in the Ramallah
district some two years ago told Haaretz that the "lesson" had
taken place following a clash between an armed Palestinian and an IDF force.
-
- The soldier said that the Palestinian's body had been
riddled with bullets and that some of his internal organs had spilled out.
The doctor pronounced the man dead and then "took out a knife and
began to cut off parts of the body," the soldier said.
-
- "He explained the various parts to us - the membrane
that covers the lungs, the layers of the skin, the liver, stuff like that,"
the soldier continued.
-
- "I didn't say anything because I was still new in
the army. Two of the medics moved away, and one of them threw up. It was
all done very brutally. It was simply contempt for the body. I saw other
dead enemy bodies during my service. No other doctor did anything like
that."
-
- The second report came from a soldier who served in Hebron
in October 2000. The soldier told Breaking the Silence that a comrade had
fired live rounds at a Palestinian youth, Mansour Taha Ahmed, 21, who was
standing some distance from a group of stone-throwers.
-
- The soldier said he was firing rubber bullets at the
stone-throwers when he suddenly heard his comrade fire live rounds, killing
the young man.
-
- No Military Police investigation was opened into the
incident.
-
- http://www.haaretz.com/
|
