Miscellanous thoughts: THREE YOUTHS KILLED BY ISRAEL BETWEEN LATE SATURDAY AND EARLY TUESDAY

THREE YOUTHS KILLED BY ISRAEL BETWEEN LATE SATURDAY AND EARLY TUESDAY

OMAR YASSER SKAFI

On Saturday night 21 y/o Omar Yasser Skafi from Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem was shot and killed in West Jerusalem's Romema area. Israel's occupation forces story about the events started to fall apart as soon as it was announced.

Israeli occupation forces claimed that Skafi had "rammed" one person with a car and "stabbed" two others, but had to soon acknowledge that altogether another person was behind what had been a vehicular accident, apparently caused by Skafi's shooting; a person scared by it had ran before a car and had been hit by it.

The claim of two "stabbed" persons was soon reduced to one person treated for "shock" and one Israeli occupation soldier with "very light injury" according to an Israeli hospital's claim.

Israel's occupation forces' raid of Skafi's home few hours after his death led to clashes.

IHAB FATHI MISWADI

On Monday afternoon 21 y/o Ihab Fathi Miswadi was shot and left to die without medical aid by Israel's occupation forces near Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque, the site of the 1994 massacre of 29 Palestinians by US bornillegal Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein.

Miswadi allegedly stabbed a middle-aged illegal Israeli settler - in early reports an occupation forces' officer - and photographs seem to confirm this, with aid being given to a man in civilian clothes beside Miswadi, who gets no attention from the Israeli occupation soldiers and Israeli medics.

Israel's occupation forces also stopped Palestinian medics from reaching Miswadi.

This kind of behaviour is not only a war crime, but against basic standards of human moral behaviour even in conflicts - yet it has been the norm during the uprising, Israeli occupation apparently believing that terror of this nature will make the occupied Palestinians yield.

On photos taken from the scene the knife allegedly used in the attack was moved between photos, but at least in one photo blood can be clearly seen.

MALIK AKRAM SHAHIN

Israel's occupation forces shot 19 or 21 y/o Malik Akram Shahin in forehead during early Tuesday invasion of Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, with the bullet left lodged in his head.

Shahin was left without medical aid for an extended period before he could be evacuated to a hospital in Beit Jala, where he was pronounced dead.

Israeli occupation forces invasion has been described as 'indiscriminate', with the occupation forces firing live bullets, stun grenades and tear gas grenades throughout the crowded refugee camp. At least five youths were detained.

Shahin has been already buried. According to the secular, leftwing PFLP he was its member and its members carried his body in the funeral.