Myriad human rights violations by Israel means we must stop selling them arms

At last some courageous senators in the United States are questioning the many extra-judicial killings being carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinian young people.

Since late September, 199 youngsters have been shot by the Israeli military in controversial circumstances, including an 18-year-old girl at a checkpoint in Hebron in late September.

Others have met their deaths at demonstrations. Last week the cold-blooded killing by an Israeli soldier of a Palestinian young man, who had been shot by soldiers and was already on the ground, was recorded on video by a human rights video recordist from Bethlehem.