Israeli border guards filmed beating of 17 year old Palestinian student
From Democracy Now
Israeli border guards have been caught on camera beating a 17-year-old Palestinian student in a West Bank village near Nablus. The incident was filmed by a local resident on Wednesday. The beating occurred after the Israeli guards questioned and detained three Palestinian youths who had just left school. This is Bassem Eid, the head of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group Head.
Bassem Eid: “I think that beating Palestinians today has become as a kind of a disease among the Israeli soldiers and border police and even the Israeli regular police. Our organization almost received a lot of complaints from Palestinians. Not only children, but even elder people, woman that has been beaten at the checkpoints by the Israelis.”
March 27th, 2007 at 7:16 am
I wish that you would recommend a book that has really given a lot of undertanding about the ways Palestinian people suffer. It talks about the psychologic abuse that comes from being raised in a situation of oppression and aparthied and about what happens when people become so desperate about the way they are forced to live. The book is call “An Unordinary Death, the life of a Suicide Bomber.” It is sold on most of the internet book stores like Amazon. The author is Khalilah Sabra and the book is really amazing. None of the other books tell the story this way.
-Sarah
March 27th, 2007 at 7:18 am
It is really sad that the Palestinian people are forgotten by the world.