{"id":614,"date":"2008-07-21T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2008-07-21T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:30:37","slug":"israel-soldier-shoots-arrested-palestinian-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Israel soldier shoots arrested Palestinian on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vaqIgIzJkKE\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli human rights group has released a video that shows an Israeli soldier shooting a blindfolded Palestinian man with a rubber coated steel bullet at close range.<\/p>\n<p>BTselem released the video on Sunday, saying it had forwarded a copy to the Israeli military police and was demanding an investigation be opened.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a Palestinian man, whom BTselem named as Ashraf Abu Rahma, handcuffed and blindfolded standing by a group of Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>One soldier aims his weapon at the Abu Rahma&#8217;s legs, from about 1.5 metres away, and appears to fire at him.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on BTselem&#8217;s website said Abu Rahma stated that the bullet hit his left toe.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army admitted one of its soldiers had fired the shot and called the incident &#8220;a stark violation&#8221; of its rules of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The injury was sustained when an IDF [Israeli army] soldier fired an anti-riot weapon in close proximity to the detained Palestinian man, who had been arrested for taking part in a violent riot,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The army said it would investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The rights group said the incident took place on July 7, in the village of Nilin in the West Bank and had been filmed by a fourteen-year-old Palestinian girl in Nilin.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/07\/2008720182715746167.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vaqIgIzJkKE\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli human rights group has released a video that shows an Israeli soldier shooting a blindfolded Palestinian man with a rubber coated steel bullet at close range.<br \/>\n<code><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-615\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=614\" title=\"Isra\u00ebl Palestine \/ Israel soldier shoots arrested Palestinian on film \/ Images d\u2019un soldat isra\u00e9lien tirant sur un Palestinien\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2008720198127572_10.jpg\" alt=\"Isra\u00ebl Palestine \/ Israel soldier shoots arrested Palestinian on film \/ Images d\u2019un soldat isra\u00e9lien tirant sur un Palestinien\" \/><\/a><\/code> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2246,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-9U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}