Israel Recognizes Settler Shooting of Palestinian Photographer as Nationalistic Crime
Press
photographer Majdi Shtayyeh, who was shot while covering a 2017
demonstration in Nablus for the Associated Press, will receive one-time
compensation from Israel's Defense Ministry
(Haaretz 19. april 2022)
En bosetter fra Itamar ved Nablus kjørte ned palestinere i 2017 og skjøt mot dem etterpå.
En ung palestiner ble drept og en pressefotograf skadet i hånda av flere skudd.
IDF og Israelsk militærpoliti undersøkte saken ... men bosetteren gikk fri.
5 år senere ...nå i 2022 får pressefotografen oppreising.
Han matte gå til sak og det er avgjørelsen her som nå foreligger.
Saken viser i klartekst hvordan IDF og israelsk militærpoliti opererer.
Ingenting utført av voldelige bosettere virker være straffbart.
I kommentarene under artikkelen er det klar melding om den forskjellsbehandling som skjer straffemessig avhengig av om en er israel eller er palestiner.
Rasisme?
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Israel Recognizes Settler Shooting of Palestinian Photographer as Nationalistic Crime
Press
photographer Majdi Shtayyeh, who was shot while covering a 2017
demonstration in Nablus for the Associated Press, will receive one-time
compensation from Israel's Defense Ministry
Palestinian press photographer Majdi Shtayyeh after being shot in the West Bank, in 2017.
Credit: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/ AFP
Israel's Defense Ministry recognized last month a Palestinian
photographer shot five years ago by a West Bank Jewish settler as a
victim of a nationalistic crime, meaning committed out of political
motives.
The Associated Press photographer, Majdi
Shtayyeh, was shot in the hand while photographing a demonstration by
Palestinians near Hawara in the Nablus area of the West Bank.
The
Defense Ministry’s determination will entitle Shtayyeh to one-time
compensation based on the degree of disability that he experienced. That
is to be determined by a medical committee from Israel’s National
Insurance Institute.
The 2017 incident occurred when a Jewish settler – from the West Bank
outpost of Itamar – drove toward a Palestinian demonstration before
accelerating and running over several of the protesters. In response,
they began throwing stones at him.
Majdi Shtayyeh after being shot.
Credit: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/ AFP
The settler then drew a weapon and shot at
them numerous times right before an Israeli army jeep arrived on the
scene. The protesters began to evacuate but the settler stood by his
car, next to the Israeli troops and began shooting at them.
Shtayyeh
was covering the demonstration for the Associated Press. While holding a
camera, he was wearing a protective vest with the word “press” and a
helmet bearing the abbreviation AP. He began moving away from the
settler’s car when the shooting started.
Shtayyeh was standing about 20 meters (66 feet) from the car and was
attempting to photograph the incident. While his back was to the car, he
was shot in his hand and seriously wounded in three fingers. A
23-year-old Palestinian resident of Beita, standing next to him, was
shot and killed.
Following the incident, the Israeli Police
and military began investigating, taking eyewitness accounts, including
the settler’s testimony. However, no conviction of wrongdoing nor
charges were filed against him.
The
photographer then sued the Defense Ministry, seeking recognition as a
victim of a nationalistically motivated crime. Last month, years later, a
committee with representatives from the Defense, the Justice, the
interior, and finance ministries issued a decision granting his request.
The Israeli law on compensation
for victims of hostile acts applies to Israeli citizens and residents
of Israel. It provides a monthly benefit based on the degree of the
victim’s disability. But, there is a separate compensation system for
Palestinians from the West Bank, providing for one-time payments. It is
through this system that Shtayyeh’s will receive the compensation.
“I am pleased that at least recognizing
Shtayyeh as a victim [of a nationalist act] will do justice to him that
will permit him to rehabilitate his hand,” said Eitay Mack, his lawyer.
The
Defense Ministry said that once Shtayyeh’s degree of disability is
determined, the interministerial committee will decide on the amount of
the compensation.
Kommentar fra Liz:
"One killed, one wounded and what happened to the Jewish terrorist? He
was not charged, retained his freedom and is probably heralded as a hero
by equally maniacal settlers and benefits from the funding and
political power bestowed on the settlers by successive Israeli
governments! Of course, if the tables had been reversed and it was a
Palestinian, Israeli Jews would have seen he served a long term in
prison, condemned Abbas for giving funds to his family and viewed it as
‘look what Israel as victim has to endure’, demolished his family’s
home. The stench created by Israel’s supremacist behaviour is
overpowering. These episodes should be completely unacceptable except to
a lunatic fringe of the Jewish community. Unfortunately this is not
the case or things would be different. "