Innovative Fundraising - Using a Blood Libel Against Israel to Raise Money

...Some reports indicate the shot was fired after Israeli soldiers saw a firebomb, others omit or discount this story. But the story Karakashian told of a young boy being lured into place and then shot in cold blood just doesn’t stand up in light of what the UN and the PCHR report about what happened on May 21, 2013. This raises a serious question: Is Defense for Children Palestine using a blood libel as a publicity tool?

Dexter Van Zile..
The Algemeiner..
03 October '13..

Something terrible happened near Ramallah on May 21, 2013. Atta Sabah, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, was paralyzed after being shot by an Israeli soldier. As a result, the boy, who lives in the Jazloun refugee camp in the West Bank, will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

What happened to Atta is a tragedy.

Reports from Haaretz, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press indicate that Atta was shot during a protest at which Palestinian teenagers were throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. The reports also indicate that Israeli soldiers fired on the teenagers after seeing one of them brandishing a firebomb.

A report from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) tells essentially the same story.

The PCHR reports that shots were fired at a confrontation between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli soldiers. Atta was hit and taken to the hospital in Ramallah before he was treated at a hospital inside Israel. The PCHR – an organization relied on by many anti-Israel groups to make their case – makes no reference to a firebomb.

Firebomb or no, these reports clearly indicate that Atta was shot during a violent confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian teenagers.

But there is another version of the story.

This version, offered by a group that promotes the welfare of Palestinian children, tells the story of a young boy being lured into a position of vulnerability by one Israeli soldier (who was holding onto the boy’s book bag), and being shot in cold blood by another soldier who was lying in wait.

If this version is true, it is an atrocity that needs further investigation.

If it is false, it is a blood libel.

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