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Israeli Solider Says: Troops Competed to Kill PalestiniansMonday 21 Jan 2002
author: Saif Abu Marzouq in Palestine Chronicle
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In a special interview aired at Israeli television, Channel 2, and reported by the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, a solider who was discharged from the Israeli army a week ago said that Israeli troops and special units carried out "unimaginable" practices against Palestinians.
Israeli Solider Says: Troops Competed to Kill Palestinians
Sunday, January 20 2002 @ 07:41 PM GMT
By Saif Abu Marzouq, PalestineChronicle.com Reporter
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: In a special interview aired at Israeli television, Channel 2, and reported by the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, a solider who was discharged from the Israeli army a week ago said that Israeli troops and special units carried out "unimaginable" practices against Palestinians.
He said that he was a witness to a happening where Israeli troops competed among themselves on who is capable of killing more Palestinians, saying that soldiers would brag afterwards about the number of Palestinians they have killed.
According to the unnamed solider, Israeli troops operated on the basis of killing as many Palestinians as possible.
He told Channel 2 that while serving with the army in the West Bank town of Ramallah, one of his colleagues shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy without any reason. He also narrated occasions where soldiers would slam the heads of detained Palestinians into concrete walls after being arrested and handcuffed.
The army practices have also extended, according to the solider, to stealing Palestinian goods and furniture. He said that in one occasion, following a traffic accidents between two Palestinian cars, Israeli soldiers in his unit ignored the wounded passengers and began dismantling and stealing the record players of the two wrecked vehicles.