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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Of course Nadim Nawara was killed by live fire - but where?

When you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the correct answers. The Guardian condescendingly reports: A postmortem examination of the exhumed body of one of two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli forces at a demonstration last month has reportedly identified wounds consistent with live ammunition, despite the Israeli military's denial that it used live rounds that day. The killings of 17-year-old Nadeem Nawara and 16-year-old Mohammad...

Beitunia Pallywood again: The injury of Mohammed Azza/Azi/Aziz (update)

The HRW report I mentioned earlier today does shed light on something: the time of the shooting of the injured youth Mohammed Azza. HRW says: Israeli forces shot and wounded Azza in the chest at around 12:20 p.m., about 15 meters from where Nawareh and Salameh were later fatally shot, Azza’s father and a witness told Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch has not seen...

In a move that surprises no one, Human Rights Watch has released a report on the Beitunia shootings that uncritically reports every anti-Israel claim and ignores everything that is self-contradictory: Video footage, photographs, witness statements, and medical records indicate that two 17-year-old boys whom Israeli forces shot and killed on May 15, 2014 posed no imminent...

The Perfectly Placed Pallywood Photographer

This video - again taken from the extended CCTV video released from "Nakba Day" protests in Beitunia - isn't a smoking gun, but it sure raises some questions about what may have been pre-planned. It shows the events in the three minutes between the "botched Pallywood" video I showed (which now has over 20,000 views) and the first incident with Nadim Nawara. Clearly, one of the masked leaders of the riots also is good friends with photographers on...

The grassy knoll in Beitunia

Ben Ehrenreich writes that the bullets that killed the youths in Beitunia were not fired by the Israeli shooters in the CNN video, but from an entirely different group: In the LARB article I quoted a doctor who treated both boys and who told me that their wounds were without question caused by live fire. Nuwara was shot in the chest, Abu Thaher in the back: both bullets...

Ok, I've stared at the videos and photos taken during "Nakba Day" for hours. I've read all the articles I can find. I've come up with my conclusions that there is no possible way that Nadeem Nawara was shot and killed by Israeli forces. But CNN and the New York Times, showing far less diligence, have concluded that he was killed by Israeli live fire. OK. I'm just an anonymous...

From Robert Mackey of the NYT: The Israeli military suspended a soldier who was captured on video this month firing his rifle at protesters in the occupied West Bank. Video evidence showed that the soldier fired his weapon within seconds of a Palestinian boy’s collapsing to the ground with what proved to be a fatal gunshot wound. As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported...

A botched attempt at Pallywood: "The Hopper"

More footage taken from the extended "Nakba Day" CCTV video in Beitunia shows an attempt to fake an injury for the cameras that doesn't pan out. Now that we have established that people faked injuries for the cameras, what else might have been faked? (All posts on this topic here...

Extended "Nakba Day" video shows no blood stains from Israeli bullets

Now that the entire hours-long footage of the CCTV cameras from the Nakba Day incidents in Beitunia are available, interesting facts are emerging. We can see cameramen arriving at both incident scenes about ten minutes ahead of time, even sitting on the same object directly in front of where the youths are supposedly shot. We see a youth hopping around on one leg, pretending to be injured, and his buddies calling an ambulance over, only to see him...

The scenes that the media doesn't show you on "Nakba Day"

Commenter "Joe in Australia" has found some "Nakba Day" video from last year, at the exact same site as the Beitunia incident. In this video we see more of what the press does during these demonstrations: They stand right next to the people throwing Molotov cocktails. Cheers erupt when one of the firebombs hits a Jeep. Presumably, this is the sort of stuff that was happening around the corner, in the blind spot of the famous CCTV video. But...

Q: Who falls forward when they are shot from the front? A: People who are shot in their legs. By looking at the video I made recently showing Nadim Nawarah's fall synchronized with CNN's video showing Israeli police shooting what is undoubtedly a rubber bullet*, it is clear that he was hit with something. His fall comes at the same time that everyone else around him reacts...

Synchronized video of Beitunia incident

I synchronized the gunshots from the CNN video to the CCTV videos of the Beitunia "Nakba Day" incident to show what happened from multiple angles. Unlike the way CNN presented it, the gunshot at the beginning of their footage is the one that lines up with Nadim Nawarah falling down (opposite the direction of the shot.) The second shot seems to have come from the same position but I couldn't figure out which policeman shot it (you need to see the...

CNN footage shows Israeli troops firing rubber bullets, not live fire, in Beitunia

This is Israel's Channel 2 analyzing video released by CNN yesterday that appeared to show the Israel border police officer firing the gunshot that felled Nadim Nawarah at the "Nakba Day" protest in Beitunia. While Nadim and the other youth have had funerals and Palestinian Arab medical reports indicating bullets that tore through their bodies, the CNN footage actually...

Pallywood again? IDF denies using live fire during "Nakba Day" demonstration (updates - new videos)

Yesterday, a security video was released that seems to show the two Palestinian Arabs being shot and killed during "Nakba Day" demonstrations near Ofer Prison in Bitunia: The first second one shot was Mohammed Udeh, wearing a green Islamist flag. Here are some close-up photos of him before and after the event, plus a video of him throwing rocks beforehand: (These photos...