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Report: IDF probing racist graffiti left by soldiers in Gaza
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, IDF, hamas, gaza

The Israel Defense Forces is investigating incidents of racist graffiti scrawled by its soldiers on Palestinian property the Gaza Strip, foreign media outlets say.

A series of slogans in both Hebrew and English were left on a house in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeytun, including "Arabs need 2 die," "Make war not peace", and "1 is down, 999,999 to go," The Guardian newspaper reported.

Troops also wrote "Arabs 1948-2009" on the image of a gravestone, the British daily said.
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According to the media outlets, some of the graffiti was sprayed on the walls of a house belonging to the Samouni family, which lost 30 of its members during the IDF's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Sky News quoted IDF spokesperson Major Avital Leibovich as saying the incidents in Zeytun are under investigation.

"This is not the way soldiers are educated and trained. It is against our moral values. They will be investigated and those responsible will be punished," she was quoted as saying.


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      1.   Wow!!!! 12:22  |  Amazed 28/01/09
      2.   Sad but what is more needed is to probe Hamas actions in war!! 13:06  |  arthur 28/01/09
      3.   To 1/ the 19-20 year olds write graffiti... 13:10  |  Anne 28/01/09
      4.   Not the way Israeli soldiers are educated? 13:34  |  Ben Alofs 28/01/09
      5.   Same as racist graffiti left by settlers in Hebron 13:50  |  Dave 28/01/09
      6.   Photos show something strange 14:07  |  Jackie 28/01/09
      7.   To Anne from #1 14:29  |  Amazed 28/01/09
      8.   graffiti 14:31  |  danny 28/01/09
      9.   Jackie 5 Probably written by American immigrants. 14:44  |  Dave 28/01/09
      10.   Horrible business and scary.. 14:45  |  Palestinian 28/01/09
      11.   IDF "Instigates" and then "Investigates" 16:36  |  Reuben 28/01/09
      12.   arthur 16:44  |  hank 28/01/09
      13.   They are just some mean suckers! 16:45  |  Mikael 28/01/09
      14.   To Amazed/7 16:46  |  Anne 28/01/09
      15.   danny 16:48  |  hank 28/01/09
      16.   the guardian reported 16:48  |  Arie 28/01/09
      17.   A few more facts 16:54  |  Gee 28/01/09
      18.   Least of concerns 17:14  |  Dave Duncan 28/01/09
      19.   Wow wow wow 17:19  |  Daniel Trabelsi 28/01/09
      20.   Arabic graffiti in Gaza against Jews is much worse 17:27  |  Avi 28/01/09
      21.   Shalom Anne #3 absolutely right 17:39  |  BIG SUR 28/01/09
      22.   Dave from Great Britain really? 17:43  |  Big Sur 28/01/09
      23.   #10 Palestinian in Seoul 17:45  |  Murray of Montreal 28/01/09
      24.   Arie, I saw the graffiti on Al Jazeera... 18:08  |  BBSNews 28/01/09
      25.   Graffiti is only words... 18:39  |  David 28/01/09
      26.   This is the way the IDF was trully trained Look at the killing of 18:54  |  US person 28/01/09
      27.   Jackie and Gee are delusional conspiracy theorists 19:08  |  Tarik 28/01/09
      28.   Phil 19:09  |  from Montreal 28/01/09
      29.   Its just good old fashioned MUTUAL hatred not a story 19:14  |  zionist forever 28/01/09
      30.   What the graffiti says 19:26  |  Gee 28/01/09
      31.   IDF has no class! 19:35  |  Ted 28/01/09
      32.   OMG-GRAFFITI !!! Quick,call UN! A war crime has been committed!!! 20:59  |  bat yam 28/01/09
      33.   Who cares about a bit of graffiti..... 21:13  |  Larry 28/01/09
      34.   Not the first time 21:48  |  Janice 28/01/09
      35.   IDF probing racist graffiti left by soldiers in Gaza 22:01  |  Angry woman 28/01/09
      36.   Wake Up IDF - Racism Hurts You/Us Even More 22:04  |  Your Brothers 28/01/09
      37.   To Tarik #27 22:08  |  Arturo 28/01/09
      38.   To Tarik # 27 22:13  |  Rana 28/01/09
      39.   #29, actually, zionist forever, there is a difference... 22:18  |  Silvienne 28/01/09
      40.   It`s ethnic, not racist 22:18  |  sociologist 28/01/09
      41.   Avi 22:32  |  Janice 28/01/09
      42.   Lest you think public opinion doesn`t matter... 22:46  |  fellow zionist 28/01/09
      43.   #2 100% - Haaretz fails readers by not also reporting Hamas crime 23:08  |  someone 28/01/09
      44.   And how are Druze & Bedouin IDF to feel when see this graffiti?!? 23:11  |  TheyFightForUsToo 28/01/09
      45.   OMG, GRAFFITI!!! Quick, call UN -a war crime has been committed!! 23:37  |  bat yam 28/01/09
      46.   GRAFFITI 23:50  |  CRAIG W 28/01/09
      47.   ISF graffiti violates code of conduct & promotes anti-semitism 00:56  |  ThinkFirstActMorally 29/01/09
      48.   yeah right 03:47  |  ralph 29/01/09
      49.   I repeat the censored postion 05:20  |  Mark Lincoln 29/01/09
      50.   how should Druz and Bedu feel? 05:22  |  Mark Lincoln 29/01/09
      51.   training and "moral values"? 09:57  |  eric 29/01/09
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