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Murdering Children for Sport
"Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the back.
Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that Sharon refused to let the
Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet with Yasir Arafat, yet his
death also went unnoticed by American television news. But not entirely
unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers, who taunted the Palestinian boys over
loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading
them to come out and throw rocks, did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a
reporter for the New York Times.
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads
gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were
lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their
sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice
children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His
account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not
for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on
his vacation."
The Nation, March 11, 2002
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