umm hussain
Junior Member
RAMALLAH, West Bank, 23 March 2007 — It appears that the dog, which bit a Palestinian woman’s hand, during an Israeli invasion into Al-Ubeidiya village near Bethlehem on Wednesday, was “innocent,” according to the Israeli Army.
The Israeli Army spokesman failed to give a frank answer about who is responsible for “the dog attack” on the Palestinian woman Yusra Sbeih Rabay’a, of Al-Ubeidiya village on Wednesday.
The forces raided Al-Ubeidiya on Wednesday morning, searching for Yusra’s brother, Daoud Sbeih Rabay’a, who is believed to be a member of the Fatah military wing Al-Aqsa Brigades. With 25 military vehicles and bulldozers, the Israeli Army besieged the Rabay’a family houses and demolished part of it. During the Israeli Army siege, which lasted over seven hours, one of the police dogs attacked Yusra.
However, according to the story recounted by the military spokesman, the Israeli soldiers are “innocent” of giving orders to the dog to attack Yusra. Rather, Yusra had approached the soldiers and failed to obey their orders. According to the army’s story, “during the operation, the citizen (Yusra) Rabay’a got near to the soldiers and refused to leave the area, which led to the result that she was attacked by the dog, that bit her in her right hand before the soldiers intervened to rescue her from the dog’s teeth.”
Despite the fact that the soldiers expressed regret for the attack, the content of the story justifies “the dog’s action” and clarified that Yusra is the one responsible, because she was in a place that she should not have been in. Furthermore, the army clears the dog of responsibility because it was “doing its duty” and defending the soldiers. Consequently, the dog carried out its instructions without obtaining permission.
However, what cannot be denied or proven is whether Yusra is the one who initiated the incident, and forced the dog to bite her hand. Did she really put her hand between the teeth of the “innocent” dog, as would be understood by the incredulous Israeli story of the incident?
Meanwhile, following a petition filed by Palestinians, the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday issued a restraining order against continued construction of the separation wall near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Seven Palestinians had petitioned against the wall’s route east and southeast of Efrat settlement north of Bethlehem, and15 kilometers south of Jerusalem.
The court accepted their claim that the wall, a five-meter high concrete structure designed to keep out Palestinian activists, separates them from their fields. The petitioners suggested that the wall be moved to the west, closer to Efrat, or be replaced by “alternative security measures.”
The judges instructed the Israeli forces to present, within ten days, a new proposal that would lessen the damage done to Palestinian Authority fields while providing “fitting security” for the residents of Efrat. The court also said that the Palestinian petitioners would then have ten more days to respond to the new proposal.
In another development, hundreds of Palestinian nonviolent resistance activists from across the West Bank met yesterday at Bil’in’s school, west of Ramallah, to discuss a strategic national and worldwide campaign of nonviolent resistance to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian land. The village of Bil’in will be spreading its tactics to extend the West Bank cities suffering from the wall.
“This year provides an effective framework for highlighting the ongoing Palestinian struggle: 90 years since the Balfour Declaration, 60 years since Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) 40 years of Occupation of the West Bank, 25 years since Sabra/Shatila, 20 years since the first intifada, 5 years of building the Apartheid Wall,” Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, coordinator of Bil’in popular committee against Israeli wall and settlements, told Arab News.
“Today’s conference will be followed up by the international conference on April 20, which will offer Israelis and the international community an opportunity to support Palestinian non violent resistance to: land confiscation, home demolitions, checkpoints, and imprisonment behind the wall,” he added.
Can you see they are blaming the sister for the dog bite, it is NEVER their fault
The Israeli Army spokesman failed to give a frank answer about who is responsible for “the dog attack” on the Palestinian woman Yusra Sbeih Rabay’a, of Al-Ubeidiya village on Wednesday.
The forces raided Al-Ubeidiya on Wednesday morning, searching for Yusra’s brother, Daoud Sbeih Rabay’a, who is believed to be a member of the Fatah military wing Al-Aqsa Brigades. With 25 military vehicles and bulldozers, the Israeli Army besieged the Rabay’a family houses and demolished part of it. During the Israeli Army siege, which lasted over seven hours, one of the police dogs attacked Yusra.
However, according to the story recounted by the military spokesman, the Israeli soldiers are “innocent” of giving orders to the dog to attack Yusra. Rather, Yusra had approached the soldiers and failed to obey their orders. According to the army’s story, “during the operation, the citizen (Yusra) Rabay’a got near to the soldiers and refused to leave the area, which led to the result that she was attacked by the dog, that bit her in her right hand before the soldiers intervened to rescue her from the dog’s teeth.”
Despite the fact that the soldiers expressed regret for the attack, the content of the story justifies “the dog’s action” and clarified that Yusra is the one responsible, because she was in a place that she should not have been in. Furthermore, the army clears the dog of responsibility because it was “doing its duty” and defending the soldiers. Consequently, the dog carried out its instructions without obtaining permission.
However, what cannot be denied or proven is whether Yusra is the one who initiated the incident, and forced the dog to bite her hand. Did she really put her hand between the teeth of the “innocent” dog, as would be understood by the incredulous Israeli story of the incident?
Meanwhile, following a petition filed by Palestinians, the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday issued a restraining order against continued construction of the separation wall near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Seven Palestinians had petitioned against the wall’s route east and southeast of Efrat settlement north of Bethlehem, and15 kilometers south of Jerusalem.
The court accepted their claim that the wall, a five-meter high concrete structure designed to keep out Palestinian activists, separates them from their fields. The petitioners suggested that the wall be moved to the west, closer to Efrat, or be replaced by “alternative security measures.”
The judges instructed the Israeli forces to present, within ten days, a new proposal that would lessen the damage done to Palestinian Authority fields while providing “fitting security” for the residents of Efrat. The court also said that the Palestinian petitioners would then have ten more days to respond to the new proposal.
In another development, hundreds of Palestinian nonviolent resistance activists from across the West Bank met yesterday at Bil’in’s school, west of Ramallah, to discuss a strategic national and worldwide campaign of nonviolent resistance to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian land. The village of Bil’in will be spreading its tactics to extend the West Bank cities suffering from the wall.
“This year provides an effective framework for highlighting the ongoing Palestinian struggle: 90 years since the Balfour Declaration, 60 years since Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) 40 years of Occupation of the West Bank, 25 years since Sabra/Shatila, 20 years since the first intifada, 5 years of building the Apartheid Wall,” Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, coordinator of Bil’in popular committee against Israeli wall and settlements, told Arab News.
“Today’s conference will be followed up by the international conference on April 20, which will offer Israelis and the international community an opportunity to support Palestinian non violent resistance to: land confiscation, home demolitions, checkpoints, and imprisonment behind the wall,” he added.
Can you see they are blaming the sister for the dog bite, it is NEVER their fault
