On June 12th three Israeli teens (aged 16 and 19) disappeared. The Israeli news calls it a kidnapping. Since then, the Israeli army has been conducting raids in Palestine, searching for the missing youths, and attempting to apply pressure to Palestinians in general.
There are several reports of the Israeli army blasting through the doors of homes and businesses at night, ransacking and confiscating what is inside, leaving a wake of lasting damage. These are not targeted raids - they move from house to house. Palestinians are blindfolded, and taken away in cars without allegations. Palestinian children under the age of 13 are arrested from school, escorted by soldiers as they cling to their teachers in terror.
In five days, the army has arrested over 200 people. The word 'kidnap' gets a bit muddled.
And so, when the Israeli army is mobilized in Palestine, youth will often congregate and throw rocks and bottles at the soldiers.
We heard today that during a raid, the army fired live ammunition into a crowd throwing rocks, and killed a 20-year-old. Blasting through the door of a home, shrapnel was lodged into the head of an eight year old.
You expect things to be tense here. I have only just arrived. But these kidnappings, on both sides, seem to weigh heavily on the minds and hearts of those I am meeting.
There are several reports of the Israeli army blasting through the doors of homes and businesses at night, ransacking and confiscating what is inside, leaving a wake of lasting damage. These are not targeted raids - they move from house to house. Palestinians are blindfolded, and taken away in cars without allegations. Palestinian children under the age of 13 are arrested from school, escorted by soldiers as they cling to their teachers in terror.
In five days, the army has arrested over 200 people. The word 'kidnap' gets a bit muddled.
And so, when the Israeli army is mobilized in Palestine, youth will often congregate and throw rocks and bottles at the soldiers.
We heard today that during a raid, the army fired live ammunition into a crowd throwing rocks, and killed a 20-year-old. Blasting through the door of a home, shrapnel was lodged into the head of an eight year old.
You expect things to be tense here. I have only just arrived. But these kidnappings, on both sides, seem to weigh heavily on the minds and hearts of those I am meeting.
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