Assassinated for Picking Edible Wild Plants 3/19/14
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November 2014 B'tselem Reports Army Decided to Close Case without Indicting or Punishing Any Soldier
April 19. Stanley Heller interviews Israeli journalist Amira Hass about the killing.
April 19. After one month there has been no Israeli government statement about the obvious criminal activity on the part of the soldiers. The military police are still "investigating"
The young teenager and his two friends has crossed the fence in daylight. The army knew people routinely did that to pick wild thistle. The large gap in the fence which is
supposedly so vital to Israeli security still hadn't been fixed as of April 4. The army unit saw these people from far away, issued no warning of any kind, did nothing
other than shoot with live ammunition.
April 19. Still no report on the killing from the BBC or the New York Times
April 16. Medea Benjamin speaks about the injustice done to Yusuf Shawamreh in her Gandhi Peace Award Acceptance Speech
April 11. TSVN joins other groups and personalities and raises the issue on its TV program and on You Tube.
April 9. Mentioned in a story in an Australian newspaper
April 6. Was He Killed for Sport? - Anne Robbins
April 4. Unconcerned Commander Says "It Wasn't Personal" to Grieving Father - Gideon Levy and Alex Levac
April 4. Britain's Stop the War Coalition calls on BBC (newsonline.complaints@bbc.co.uk) to cover this story
March 26. Army Had Arrested Thistle Pickers at that Spot Two Days Earlier - Yedioth Aharonot
Mar 28. The Israeli "paper of record" Ha'aretz calls the killing a "war crime".
March 27. The great Israeli journalist Amira Hass writes about the killing "Letter to Soldier X"
March 26. B'tselem Report
March 26. B'tselem says, the Israeli "Military Police Investigations’ Unit (MPIU) has launched an investigation of the incident."
March 22. Condolences sent by Israeli Committee Against Home Demoltions
March 20. Palestinian children watch funeral
March 19. Kerala, India newspaper prints report based only on Israeli sources. Reader asks for revision in a comment.
March 19, 2014
Yusuf A-Shawamreh, 14, killed after he and two friends crosses through a hole in the "separation fence" to pick edible wild plants. He was shot and
his friends were arrested. Though the army base is only 2km away it took 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. A-Shawamreh died. The young man was a nephew of Salim Shawamreh whose home
was knocked down many times by the Israelis for "lack of a permit" and who works for the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
When will the guilty be punished for this infamy?