A Palestinian child killer is punished with a reprimand. "This article is at the top of the page."

It was reported that an Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli soldier to reprimand for his act of killing a two-year-old Palestinian child. The military court claimed that the killing of the Palestinian child was an unintentional mistake, and acquitted the Israeli soldier. When I heard this news, all the images of Israeli killings, with all their imagined and unimagined tools, over more than five decades, jumped into my memory. How can an army that describes itself as moral and boasts of the purity of its weapons justify the killing of a two-year-old child? Are the actions of the Israeli security forces justified, no matter how long they are, and are the Palestinian people sentenced to pay the price of Israeli fear and cowardice with their lives? The most appropriate and commanded to judge the murderer with a grievous penalty is a reprimand. How much is the Israeli disregard for Palestinian life, and how degraded is the Israeli behavior in respecting the value of life, which is the highest. Let justice fall if it is in this way and this form.

He is not the first Palestinian child, nor will he be the last, to be killed by Israeli forces' fire. The occupation forces used to kill Palestinian children, as they do not recognize the International Child Protection Convention of 1989, nor its application to Palestinian children, whether they are under direct military occupation, or under the Israeli civil authority. Since 1967, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian children under one pretext or another.

The systematic Israeli killing process did not stop at the men of the Palestinian resistance, but included pregnant and non-pregnant women, innocent elderly people, and children with special needs such as Iyad al-Hallaq, and those who are deaf and those who do not hear. Intended racial death. Even whoever seclusion in a mosque or celibacy in a mihrab, or conferred with his family, the Israeli hand of menon reached him and his family, friends and companions without the slightest discrimination or distinction.

The hand of Israeli killing extended from the Palestinian massacres in Deir Yassin, Tantura, and Kafr Qassem, to the Bahr al-Baqar School and the Egyptian students there, and in the Qana massacre, where 106 Lebanese civilians were killed in southern Lebanon at the hands of Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Prize, Jordanians in Jordanian cities such as Salt and Jerash, and Egyptian scientists. Iraqis, Syrians, and representatives of the Palestinian resistance in various parts of the world.

Although the first of the Ten Commandments forbids and prohibits killing, and the heavenly religions prohibit it, “And do not kill the soul that God has forbidden, except with justice.” Human rights charters protect it with all its tools, and international humanitarian law has only been established to protect the right to life for the residents of the occupied areas, civilians and military personnel. The Israeli security, including the army, police and intelligence services, has a policy of killing by various means, by air, land and sea.

The Israeli outstretched hand for killing does not wait for a judicial authorization as is required in all countries of the world, as is the case in executions, but rather seizes any opportunity from an unknown informant, day or night, dawn or evening, to implement the policy of physical liquidation, even if the entire family of the wanted person, She is present in his house, communicates with him, or sleeps with him, even if that leads to killing all of them, and in return you see them sing of warning others to vacate the place.

And you see them accompanying the killing process later by demolishing the house of the dead person or the house of his relatives even if he slept one night in it, or they let him bleed on the pretext that he might be carrying an explosive belt, or they disrupt and prevent the arrival of the ambulance, and even provide him with the necessary and vital aid from an Arab doctor or paramedic.

Even the directives on open fire published by the United Nations as the gospel of live fire in all countries, as a last resort for the use of lethal force, have been replaced by instructions for the Israeli army to use lethal firepower if the Israeli soldier is endangered, as if the UN experts do not value the right to life. They are inhuman, as they stipulated that the aggressor be warned in a language he understands and in a loud voice to stop, and that the firearm be directed in the air with warning shots.

Specific and clear instructions, which cannot be ambiguous, have been replaced by the Israelis with vague, flexible, ambiguous, vague, and cloudy instructions, which allow ample room for interpretation. It may be a verbal altercation, an emotional movement, a punch or a blow, a humiliating movement, a stone, a children’s game, or transgression, so who assesses the criterion of danger, its seriousness, and its proportionality with the use of armed firepower, and is it equal to a knife with a machine gun?!

What encouraged the systematic Israeli policy of killing was the absence of an effective penalty or deterrent punishment for the perpetrator, accomplice, instigator, and accomplice in these crimes, regardless of their different names and ranks. The United States, for example, has distanced itself from the trial and prosecution of the Israeli killers of American civilians because they are of Palestinian origin, and this in itself is racial discrimination, i.e. a crime in itself.

The Americans did not pursue, prosecute, or punish the killers of Sherine Abu Aqelah and the elderly Omar Asaad in the village of Jaljalia, despite the fact that a long time has passed since they were killed. Likewise, the European Union was and still is acting towards the Israeli security forces, protecting them and immunizing them from any responsibility, despite the possibility of prosecuting them. Even the International Criminal Court, which is supposed to be the first and last resort to try the Israeli killers against the Palestinians, has failed in this task that its texts oblige it to do. Rather, its Attorney General, Karim Khan, distanced himself from directing any charge or submitting any indictment against any Israeli security guard, settler, or any Israeli official. We note here that the Oslo Accords do not allow any Israeli to be tried before Palestinian courts for any crime he committed on Palestinian land.

It is a sad matter, rather a matter that stirs the nerves and makes the perpetrator of the crime not receive his punishment and recompense so that he may be an example to others, and so that the punishment will have a deterrent effect on others. Otherwise, the punishment loses its function and purpose. As for talking about reprimands, warnings, demotions, salary deductions, arrests for interrogation for days, transfers, retirement, and other grievous punishments, this is nothing but "laughing at the beards" and disregarding the value of life for the Palestinian, and systematic antagonism against his divine, natural, and human right to life. Life (And there is life for you in retribution, O people of understanding, so that you may fear).