Report: Human Rights Organizations Refuse to Comment on Video of Palestinian Father Calling on Israeli Border Police to Shoot Toddler (VIDEO)
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by Ruthie Blum
A Palestinian father pushing his toddler son to provoke Israeli Border Police into shooting him. Photo: Screenshot.
Human rights organizations have refused to comment on footage of a Palestinian father pushing his young child to provoke Israeli Border Police into shooting him, Israeli Channel 1’s English news reported on Sunday.
According to IBA News, the video clip of a weekly Palestinian protest at Nilin in the West Bank, originally uploaded to YouTube, has received more than 100,000 views on the Facebook wall of IDF foreign press spokesman Peter Lerner since Saturday. It shows the flag-waving toddler approaching the armed policemen, one of whom responds with a high five. The father then urges the boy to pelt the officers with stones.
According to IBA anchor Eylon Aslan-Levy, Amnesty International told the media outlet that it was “unable to comment,” and Human Rights Watch failed to respond to repeated requests for a statement.
Lerner’s tweet of the clip reads:
#Pallywood father of the year stages his toddler son tries to get him to throw stones calls border police to shoot. pic.twitter.com/YMUu83oilf
— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) July 30, 2016
