The video above depicts a woman in Silwan testifying that late at night an Israeli border policeman, who was stationed on her roof, broke the glass window in the video and instructed her to make him coffee. He seems to have thought she was alone in the house, although her husband was there.
Joseph Dana posted the video as well and added:
Recently, I was on the ground and witnessed soldiers urinating and defecating on the roofs of private Palestinian homes, throwing bottles (water and beer) on to Palestinians pedestrians on the street and breaking windows left and right.
From the ground I tweeted:
“Soldiers are trashing roof tops with urine and feces in Silwan. We are cleaning up and putting the waste in front of the settler house”
“The police have no shame at all. They have broken a window now and poked their heads into the house demanding coffee”
Here’s another video that was shot by Israeli activist Sara Benninga:
The video features Israeli police chief Avi Cohen (bald, sitting on the car) and his police force waiting for “a suspect” to return home so they can arrest him. In the meanwhile, a woman comes to visit a sick sister who is inside the house, but she is refused entry by the police, who keep an ominous silence.
Here is a rough transcript:
Sara Benninga:
– 0:40 Her sister is sick, inside, and she wants to come in
– 1:00 [Palestinian man asks Avi Cohen in Hebrew fs the woman can come in. No response.]
– Benninga: Can you speak ? “yes”? “no”?
– 1:05 she’s an elderly woman. Let her in.
-[to Avi Cohen] it seems like you have got the upper hand, it is not likely that she is a threat to any of you. She is an elderly woman.
– 1:25 This is what an arrest looks like in Silwan, East Jerusalem. Silent, the (border) police do not talk or respond and prevent an elderly woman from visiting her sick sister.
– 1:45 This is the face of the Israeli police, the Jerusalem police. Avi Cohen, head of the minorities department is here.
– 2:00 Why won’t you let her in?
-[to Avi Cohen] You are the strong part here. She’s an elderly woman. Are you threatened?
– 2:30 The face of the rule of law 2010
– 2:55 Policeman: Excuse me, you are disturbing me.
– Benninga: No one intends to disturb you
-3:15 You know what is the worst thing about it? That the world can see how you behave, and that is a bigger threat than an elderly woman visiting a sick sister and being denied entry.
-3:33 [to the border policeman at the gate]
-Are you proud of what you’re doing??
-Where’s your name tag?
[policeman reveals tag]
-Thanks
And here’s a third video of Benninga with children in Silwan, a small hopeful sign that the few Israeli activists who are standing in solidarity with the people of Silwan, Bil’in, Nabi Saleh and other villages resisting Israel’s ongoing colonization might be showing the way forward to a more peaceful future in Israel/Palestine:
