WHO'S THE TERRORIST?

Israeli soldiers serving at the Gaza Strip admitted that they had killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, "for sport."

Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinian boy for fun


The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, accused the Israeli army of killing an “unarmed, wounded and neutralized” Palestinian man, describing the murder as an “extrajudicial execution."

Israeli forces kill “unarmed, wounded” Palestinian


Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinian civilians, including a physician, in Rafah refugee camp, medical sources said on Monday.

Israeli troops kill Palestinian doctor


Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin.

The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old.

Nor was it as nauseating as the pictures in an Israeli newspaper of ultra-orthodox soldiers mocking Palestinian corpses by impaling a man's head on a pole and sticking a cigarette in his mouth.

But the matter of the violin touched on something deeper about the way Israelis see themselves, and their conflict with the Palestinians.

The violinist, Wissam Tayem, was on his way to a music lesson near Nablus when he said an Israeli officer ordered him to "play something sad" while soldiers made fun of him.

Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
Chris McGreal
The Guardian