A strange tale of Palestinian abuse at the hands of soccer-mad Israeli soldiers has surfaced.
Israeli soldiers barged into a Palestinian home and commandeered its television room so they could watch an international soccer match, an Israeli television station reported.
Footage on Channel 10 television showed broken furniture and windows in the room where the report said the troops watched Wednesday’s Champions League final in Istanbul between AC Milan and Liverpool.
The family said the soldiers caused the damage.
“I was walking in the street and eight soldiers asked if we have TV and satellite,” said Anan al-Zrayer in the West Bank city of Hebron.
“I said ‘yes,’ and told them we don’t have Israeli channels. (After they entered the house,) I gave them the remote control and they carried out a search. We were kicked into another room,” he said.
The Israeli army said it would look into the allegations and if they were found to be true, disciplinary action would be taken against the soldiers.
If true, this is just plain wrong for at least two reasons. Innocent Palestinians should be secure in their own homes and soccer is boring.
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I agree with the former but not the latter. (Then again I grew up playing soccer)
Plus as it turns out Wed.’s match was a very exitinng one. One team coming back from a 3-0 defecit to win it on penalties.
As things would have it, the lab I work in right now is mostly Greek so they had the radio broadcast of the game streaming through the computers. (alas, it was in greek…)