Israeli border police throw tear gas at seated residents

At the last Nabi Saleh demo, freelance photographer Mati MilsVideo:tein took this short video, which just goes to show the fucking callousness of the Israeli military. In their words:

“We were with a group of people, mainly women and elderly people, supposedly on the sidelines of the demonstration. Some of the people were sitting there resting, smoking and gossiping,” he said.

“There was no violence in this area, no stone throwing or any kind of organizing by demonstrators. Border Policemen were driving around the area and suddenly on one of their patrols the commander decided to toss a tear gas grenade at the people, for no apparent reason, at least as far as I could see,” said Milstein.

what’s extra upsetting is that Haaretz goes on to take the border police claim that this is “staged” as part of the headline for the story. even if there were kids throwing stones on the other side of these people, [i]that’s not enough of a fucking reason to gas bystanders[/i], legally or morally.

Fuck the IDF, and fuck the Magav.

(Source: haaretz.com)