Video: Israeli soldiers cheer shooting of Palestinian civilians

The Israeli Human Rights organization B’Tselem released a video showing Israeli soldiers cheer after shooting a Palestinian protester in the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

At around 2:00 P.M. on Friday afternoon, 13 April 2018, some thirty residents of the Palestinian village of Madama tried to remove a roadblock the Israeli military had placed at the eastern entrance to the village. About eleven soldiers then arrived on the scene.

Madama West Bank where Israeli soldiers and snipers shoot and fired at Palestinian civilians who were protesting. The soldiers were cheering eac time they hit or killed a civilian. The video is courtesy of B'Tselem, the Israeli civil rights organization — Madama West Bank where Israeli soldiers and snipers shoot and fired at Palestinian civilians who were protesting. The soldiers were cheering eac time they hit or killed a civilian. The video is courtesy of B’Tselem, the Israeli civil rights organization

In the clashes that ensued, residents threw stones at the soldiers from a distance of 50-80 meters, and the soldiers fired stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets at the villagers.

Seven residents sustained injuries from the rubber-coated metal bullets the soldiers fired: two were taken to a hospital in Nablus for medical treatment, and the other five were treated on the spot.

Joyfully cheering about shooting a person trying to clear the access road to his home and calmly discussing other ways to hit him and the other people with him are part of the discordant soundtrack accompanying 51 years of occupation.

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