Re: Hitler used to have the mentally ill, and retarded, eliminated. Is that what you did?
Please! Stop generalizing the behavior of Israel's Waffen-SS....
Israeli soldiers shoot mentally disabled man
Molly Moore The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Troops also kill a Palestinian mother
JERUSALEM Israeli military forces Monday shot and killed a 28-year-old mentally handicapped man near the West Bank town of Tulkarm, according to Palestinian witnesses and media reports.
A mother leaving home with her children near the southern Gaza Strip border with Egypt was shot and killed Sunday night, and the two shootings were the latest in a series of incidents in which Israeli soldiers have killed unarmed Palestinian civilians, according to accounts by Palestinian medical officials and media reports.
An Israeli military spokesman said soldiers shot the Palestinian man, Basem Kou, after he ran away from soldiers who ordered him to stop near a road they were patrolling.
Kou, who was born mentally handicapped, was riding his donkey near the entrance to his village of Beitlid, as he did most days, when soldiers ordered him to stop, according to relatives.
A spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces said that a military patrol near the Jewish settlement of Einav ordered a Palestinian whose "face was covered and "was holding a long stick" to stop for questioning.
The man turned and ran and soldiers chased him, the spokesman said. The soldiers shouted for him to stop, then fired warning shots into the air. When the man still refused to stop, soldiers "opened fire toward his legs." The man collapsed and died from his wounds as Israeli soldiers were attempting to administer medical aid, the spokesman said. Medical authorities said Kou died from a bullet wound in his lower spine.
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