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New Report: Forbidden Families | |||||||||||||||
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Summary of the Report | |||||||||||||||
Eyes Wide Open - Music Video on the Siege Policy | |||||||||||||||
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Bribes and Delays - Testimony of a student at a siege checkpoint | |||||||||||||||
The following is taken from the testimony of Nivin al-Qadumi, 24, a resident of Nablus: About an hour later, one of the soldiers went over to a group of young people and asked them, in Arabic, if they had a cigarette. One man in the group said that he did. The soldier asked what kind, and the guy said “Marlboro.” Another man in the group translated. The soldier said to the guy with the cigarette: “Come here.” ….The guy gave a cigarette to the soldier, and the soldier said to the other soldiers, “Let him pass.” |
“ The guy gave a cigarette to the soldier, and the soldier said to the other soldiers, 'Let him pass.' ” Nivin al-Qadumi |
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Border Police beat Palestinian in East Jerusalem | |||||||||||||||
On 15 November 2003, Border Police officers beat Heysham Harizat, 28, a laborer from Yatta, Hebron District. Harizat, who did not have a permit to be in East Jerusalem, was looking for work when he encountered Border Police officers. In his testimony to B'Tselem, he described what happened: The [Border] policeman came over to me, looked around, and asked where I was from. He wanted to see my ID card. I told him that I was from Yatta and handed him my ID. He did not even look at it. He attacked me, slapping and punching me in the face. He knocked out three of my teeth, and my mouth was bleeding. I saw five or six other police officers standing about twenty meters away. They had apprehended the laborers who were with me. The policeman who assaulted me saw that I was bleeding and that my teeth had been broken. He stopped beating me and took me to where the other men were being detained. I wanted to sit down, but he didn't let me. I stood there about ten minutes, until the police finished checking the IDs of the others… The [same] policeman grabbed each of us by the back of the neck, took us to Salah, and ordered him to tell us that if he sees any of us back there again he would beat us. Salah repeated that to everybody in the group…. The policeman who was in the GMC called out our names and gave us back our ID cards. When he called my name, he threw my card to the ground and told me to get out of there. |
“He attacked me, slapping and punching me in the face. He knocked out three of my teeth, and my mouth was bleeding.” Heysham Harizat |
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