MER - Israeli soldiers mutilate, deface Palestinians after murdering them

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Israeli soldiers mutilate, deface Palestinians after murdering them<br><br>IAP News - February 24, 2003<br><br><br>Israeli soldiers mutilate, deface Palestinians after murdering them<br> <br>Occupied Jerusalem: 24 February, 2003 (IAP News) <br><br>Israeli occupation soldiers reportedly mutilated and defaced the bodies<br>of at least two Palestinians after killing them in Gaza yesterday. <br><br>Eyewitness said Israeli soldiers used axes and bayonets to mutilate the<br>Palestinians after they were killed by Israeli troops during an army<br>incursion into the Beit Hanon neighborhood north of Gaza City Sunday. <br><br>The Jazeera Satellite Television on Monday screened a footage showing<br>Israeli soldiers mutilating the body of at least one Palestinian,<br>apparently using axes and large knifes. <br><br>The PA Television also showed one body whose head was badly mutilated by<br>axing and knifing. <br><br>The Israeli army refused to comment on the footage, saying only that<br>“these things happen in war.” <br><br>Israel is using its full military power against defenseless Palestinian<br>civilians for the purpose of forcing them to come to terms with the<br>Jewish colonialist occupation of the Palestinian homeland. <br><br>Since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada nearly 2 and a half years<br>ago, the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists killed and<br>murdered more than 2000 Palestinians, many of them children, minors and<br>women. <br><br>The Israeli occupation army also destroyed thousands of Palestinian homes<br>and ravaged the bulk of the civilian infrastructure in the West Bank and<br>Gaza Strip. <br><br>The United States and much of the international community - while at the<br>same time pontificating about launching a "war on terror" - have done<br>next to nothing to stop or even restrain the Israeli army rampage against<br>Palestinian population centers.<br>___________________________________<br><br>http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive.php?iapinfo+899 <b off></b> </body>