Situation in which Caoimhe B. was Shot. Excerpt from Interview

Friday November 22, 2002 19:59

by Blisset

I know this is reposted from a comment but deserves to be read -

"I've been living in Jenin camp for the last few months and there was a re-invasion of the camp this morning from about five o'clock onwards.

The Israeli occupation forces are saying that they were looking for one wanted man in particular, but they closed off the bottom area of the camp - it's a closed military zone. There were house-to-house searches going on and around 20 men were rounded up in those searches and were beaten very severely, handcuffed and blindfolded. I received a call from the family of one of them in that zone where nobody was allowed out on to the streets, saying that a young girl needed medical attention, that she was very sick and they were asking if we could try and bring an ambulance in, because the Israelis had refused to co-ordinate with them. So I made my way down from where I live at the top of the camp to the bottom and when I arrived there I was arrested immediately with a cameraman from Reuters for entering a closed military zone and handcuffed and held with the group of 20 men for about two hours. I was then released and I was told that if I didn't leave the area that I would be shot . We managed eventually to get an ambulance in to evacuate the girl and then I went up to another part of the camp where there were clashes going on, between stone-throwing kids and Israeli soldiers. When I got there, the kids told me that a nine-year-old had just been killed and three had been shot - one was brain-damaged. I tried to negotiate with the soldiers because they were still shooting at kids, they were basically shooting live ammunition at them and I started engaging in some negotiation soldier and then another tank drove up, the guy looked out of his hatch and he opened fire on a crowd of kids. Most of them managed to run away, but there were around three small ones left on the road, so I was trying to basically carry them into an alleyway and then I got shot myself."

From Interview with Caoimhe Butterly

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Comments (5 of 5)

'knowledgable ignorance'

by kino

Sat Nov 23, 2002 14:45

digo.

yeah yeah

by Kino

Sat Nov 23, 2002 14:40

In relation to this (somewhat tedious) argument over Indymedia's bias, or not, etc, etc....

It is becoming clear at this point that there are many folks out there like this "Keith" who just cannot yet embrace any kind of expression, or manner of thinking, other than that which reenforces their sense of security about their world view.

The reason why "Indymedia" appears to come out with an anti-IDF bias may be because most of the people who bother to write on indymedia are also the people who have bothered to shake their brains and do some investigation.
(Personally I reckon that it's also because the injustice is real, but this is a comment, not an article)
Meanwhile, "keith" has plently of backup in the mainstream, to keep his "mightly israeli army" image secure is his world-view, so he doesn't need to do any investigation, but rather remain in "knowledable ingorance", which by the way, is my new fav. phrase.

Neither can keith get past our "concern" for caoimhe, to see that folks here are awake to what is much bigger than caoimhe's recent injury, and that what is being expressed here for caoimhe is respect rather than concern. As i believe she herself is telling us, don't focus on her, but on what she is trying to do, - what needs to be done. Those who know her also know that if anybody can look after herself, or may have a gaurdian angelito looking after her, it's caoimhe.

get well soon,
strength and dreams, batsil ants
It's rainiing in Dublin.
k.

You're concern for Ms Butterly is hypocrisy

by Keith

Sat Nov 23, 2002 05:30

Indy media focuses on the poor Ms Butterly and the Israeli forces shooting innocent children deliberately. Lies more Lies and more lies.

Indy media never chooses to cover the back ground to the murder of innocent Israeli children in their beds being red a bed time story. How is the Palestinian cause of freedom served by these acts of barbarism.

Israeli soldiers do not deliberatly shoot at civilians. The terror gangs aided and abetted by that filthy criminal Arafat hide behind the skirts of their women and use the children as mini warriors.

If the mighty Israeli army wished to carry out a massacre and when I mean a massacre that would be the wanton killing of tens and thousands of Arabs, it could have done it long ago but chooses to try and root out the terror gangs with low intensity fire.

The articles of Indy media are one sided and have no balance to the real situation going on in Israel.

ABC News Report includes more from Caoimhe

Fri Nov 22, 2002 21:47

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021122_964.html

'Beauty is truth; truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.'

by MG

Fri Nov 22, 2002 20:55

It is clear that the Israelis were shooting at stone-throwers.

However, RTE are talking about a gunbattle:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/1122/mideast01.html

Unison also suggests there was a "clash":

http://www.unison.ie/stories.php3?ca=10&si=27044&breakingnews=1