Israeli military shoot Palestinian deaf farmer in Gaza

It was 18 February approximately 10:15 am and farmers were leaving the land they’d harvested, roughly 500 m from the Green Line. The lightly-dressed, unarmed farmers were clearly visible to and seen by the several Israeli army jeeps and the Hummer which had patrolled the border fence, stopping for long intervals to watch the farmers work, then moving on.
The farmers’ proximity to the border fence was more than off-set by the very visible nature of their work and of all present, including the 5 international human rights workers wearing bright vests and using a megaphone. The farmers’ tools are a kitchen knife slightly sharper than one used for eating, binding cord, and donkey carts or pickup trucks to haul away the harvest.
Before the shooting occurred, the Hummer sat directly across from the working farmers for over 30 minutes, observing. There was no threat from the farmers who glanced worriedly at the vehicle from time to time but otherwise kept swiftly working. Israeli soldiers inside the vehicle would have had no problem seeing the actions of the farmers cutting and binding spinach and parsley, and loading it into the back of a small pickup truck. The farmers finished for the morning, packed the truck, and attempted to leave. Still unarmed.
The Israeli soldiers shot at the sides and backs of unarmed farmers pushing their pickup truck which had stalled. Even after al-Buraim had been hit, the shooting continued although the snipers would have been able to see that someone had been shot.
The firing continued as the farmers, surrounded by international human rights observers, walked away from the field and took shelter behind a nearby house, reaching it at around 10:30 am. Israeli soldiers continued to shoot at the farmers and internationals taking cover, for a period increasing their shots to every 5 seconds, with that unmistakably close “pftzzzz” of the bullets whizzing past.

People with conscience: refuseniks in the IOF*

He is disturbed that most of the Israeli public and much of the media is blind to the fact that hundreds of Palestinians have been cut to pieces by Israeli fire power. "In the long run, it's not a war of defence. We are creating a thousand suicide bombers for the future from the brothers of the dead, the sons of the dead ... in the long term, we are creating more terror. You can't separate the war in Gaza from the fact that the Palestinian nation is under occupation for more than 40 years. I'm not justifying Hamas firing rockets but we Israelis should first look at what we are doing."

IOF: Israeli Occupation Forces

Nobel Peace prize winner hurt by IOF's rubber coated steel bullets as she was protesting the wall at the palestinian village of Bil'in

Mairead Corrigan McGuire received the Nobel Peace prize in 1976 for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. She was recently participating in a conference in the village of Bil'in when she joined to the weekly held peaceful protest against the wall. This protest has been going on for a long time uniting every week come 100 peace activists, Israelis, Palestinians, and international activists. And every week the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)react by harsh intimidation, sometimes shooting rubber coated steel bullets at protesters. The rubber coated steel bullets came into question many times as they are not only meant to repel a protest but they can kill at close range.

Here is the video of Ms McGuire found on Mont Asbury:


Here is more on the story from Reclaiming Space and from Jim Wallis's blog