{"id":8904,"date":"2011-01-07T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2011-01-07T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:15:39","slug":"how-to-become-collateral-damage-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/how-to-become-collateral-damage-37\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become collateral damage #37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jan\/07\/israeli-military-regrets-killing-wrong-man\"> <b>Israeli military &#8216;regrets&#8217; killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron<\/b>,  Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OOPS!<\/p>\n<p>In the occupied West Bank, <b>Israeli troops killed a 65-year-old Palestinian civilian named Amr Qawasme<\/b> in a pre-dawn house raid earlier today in Hebron. Amr Qawasme&#8217;s wife Sopheye said the troops stormed into his bedroom while he was sleeping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sopheye Qawasme: &quot;He wasn&#8217;t even awake. They just entered the door and shot him right away. I had gone to pray. When I came back, they told me. I have no idea how they just broke into the house and shot him. They came at me and put a rifle to my head, and they shot him again.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Israeli military confirmed that Amr Qawasme was a civilian, but said <b>the raid was justified because a member of Hamas was living in the building.<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/1\/7\/headlines#9\"> &#8211;Israeli Troops Kill 65-Year-Old Man in Home Raid, Democracy NOW! Headlines, January 7, 2011<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So you better know ALL your neighbors &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; AND their politics.  <\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, it couldn&#8217;t happen here!  At least not too often &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli military &#8216;regrets&#8217; killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT OOPS! In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops killed a 65-year-old Palestinian civilian named Amr Qawasme in a pre-dawn house raid earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,41],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-news","category-palestine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}