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...soldiers, traveling in a civilian car, were chased by Palestinians and sought shelter in the Ramallah police station...
...killing in Ramallah and at the scale of the Israeli response. But the image most troubling to all those hoping to broker a new peace in the region may have been the incident in Ramallah. Palestinian police had apprehended a group of four Israeli soldiers in civilian clothes - on an undercover mission, say the Palestinians; lost on their way to their post, say the Israelis - and had taken them to the police station in the town. But as word spread that Israelis had been captured, a raging mob of up to 1,000 Palestinians converged on the station, brushed past...
...routine, according to a civilian interpreter who accompanied the 3/ 504th on its rounds, that locals, including women and children, would be ordered to lay on the ground for up a half-hour in sub-freezing weather. Guns were trained on them by G.I.s, and any questions would be met with a firm combat boot on the back, applying steady pressure...
...This is not to suggest peacekeeping - where a mistake can kill - is easy. The Army designed its rules of engagement to ensure civilian casualties are kept to a minimum. Soldiers are instructed to call back to headquarters and ask permission to "go red" - prepare to fire their weapons - unless their life is in imminent danger. Locals had been told never to approach soldiers with their hands hidden. Invariably, not everyone gets the message, which led a soldier to throw him to the ground, cuff him and have him taken away to jail. "I later found out," the unidentified private said...
...Serafini himself had this thing about snowballs, common in the Balkans in the winter. "If he saw anyone with snowballs, he would take them from them and step on the snowballs," said an unidentified civilian interpreter. "He said he did this because he hated snowballs...