Thursday, November 25, 2004
Grandmothers on Guard
At checkpoints in the West Bank, Israeli women are monitoring how the soldiers treat Palestinians. ... Founded in 2001 by three veteran women peace activists, the group’s volunteer monitors now number more than 400, and their meticulously detailed reports of checkpoint abuses ... have become required reading for both the media and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). ... Machsom Watch has exposed a pattern of abuses at the checkpoints that the group says feeds the rage that leads to the terrorism they’re supposed to prevent. In late July, for example, a 26-year-old university student named Muhammad Cana’an was kicked, beaten, and shot in the arm by an Israeli soldier, apparently without provocation, at a checkpoint near Nablus. After Machsom Watch witnesses reported the incident to the media and the IDF, the soldier was taken into custody -- one of the few times since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada, in September 2000, that the army has taken action against one of its own. ...
[See also their Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch Web site, which has reports and photos.]
At checkpoints in the West Bank, Israeli women are monitoring how the soldiers treat Palestinians. ... Founded in 2001 by three veteran women peace activists, the group’s volunteer monitors now number more than 400, and their meticulously detailed reports of checkpoint abuses ... have become required reading for both the media and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). ... Machsom Watch has exposed a pattern of abuses at the checkpoints that the group says feeds the rage that leads to the terrorism they’re supposed to prevent. In late July, for example, a 26-year-old university student named Muhammad Cana’an was kicked, beaten, and shot in the arm by an Israeli soldier, apparently without provocation, at a checkpoint near Nablus. After Machsom Watch witnesses reported the incident to the media and the IDF, the soldier was taken into custody -- one of the few times since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada, in September 2000, that the army has taken action against one of its own. ...
[See also their Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch Web site, which has reports and photos.]
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