From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee:
Israeli Border Police Violently Attack Palestinians and Int'ls in Hebron
Twelve were detained and Three were injured after Israeli forces attacked participants of the Bili'n Conference on the Popular Struggle who toured Hebron.Israeli Border Police officers attacked a group of Palestinians and Internationals who participated in the 7th International Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle this afternoon. The incident took place during a tour of the Old City of Hebron. Eight Palestinians and four internationals were arrested and at least three people were injured by the blows they suffered at the hands of police. One Italian woman suffered an injury to her shoulder that required hospitalization.
About 200 Palestinians and Internationals attended the second day of the Bil'in Conference, which today took place at the old city of Hebron. After lunch, which was held at a school off of Shuhada Street, participants began to gather at the entrance of the Old City to begin a tour of the area. Settlers who passed by in their cars noticed the gathering and aggressively honked their horns at the group, but continued without incident. Two minutes later, Israeli Border Police officers arrived in the area and arbitrarily detained a three of the Palestinians. A second group of settlers then arrived at the scene in large numbers and began inciting the police against the conference participants, calling on the police officers to “eliminate” the them. the Border Police officers, now joined by regular police, then began pushing and beating the conference participants – men and women alike.
During the attack, the officers arrested eight Palestinians and four internationals. While most were released without charge shortly after, two Palestinians and two internationals are still held at the Hebron police station. Among those still held are two Italians and Issa Amro, a well known grassroots activist from Hebron, who was clearly arrested for who he is rather than anything he's done. Amro has only recently spent nearly a week in detention after the army evicted Palestinians from a house in the city. The eviction took place despite the fact that the activists had legal claim to the house, which eventually forced the authorities to release Amro unconditionally.
For more on the International Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle see here.
WTF are Israeli thugs, aka police, doing in Hebron and what jurisdiction do they have there? They don’t belong there, are in a foreign country and are acting like skinhead Klan members. Just another day in the day of ‘the only democracy’ that acts like no democracy on earth, but like a fascist teenage moron.
Jewish state *ahem* “border police” attack Palestinians and foreign visitors in a city located smack in the middle of the southern part of the West Bank, far outside the Jewish state
‘s19481967borders. Interesting. And rather déjà vu…The Palestinians have really put a lot of work into their media efforts and it is FAR more powerful than violence . Simple, effective, damaging. Mabrouk !
Israel is slowly tearing its reputation to shreds.
It reminds me of a dog who is unable to stop himself humping chairlegs. Even when there are visitors in the kitchen
lol.
quite an image, seafoid–but it does capture the Likud Zionist reptile mind in action
i’m sure denis will appear any minute now to inform us how, basically, the iof are just doing their jobs and if this had been americans in iraq or afghanistan it would have been worse, and then thank adam for posting the video.
link to mondoweiss.net
That man in the orange ball cap pushed to the ground by the Israeli military is going to have some back problems. Go on a tour of the old city of Hebron and get your ass kicked by Israeli police.
That man in the orange ball cap should have known better than to grab a soldier from behind and grab his side near his gun. I see soldiers trying to arrest someone with as little violence as possible, a crowd attacking them, and the soldiers pushing them away instead of shooting them like U.S. cops (or any handgun carrying police force), would have in a similar situation. What you see is based very much on who you are.
LOL
Is this in H1 or H2? It doesn’t make any meaningful difference because there shouldn’t be an H1 or H2. But if this attack is in H1, it means that the Israelis are acting (and being videoed) like this in Area A, which would punctuate just how dead the Oslo and two-state concepts are.
from an alex kane piece some months back on the treatment of a palestinian activist by shin bet:
Kept in a tiny cell that could only fit a small mattress and subjected to extreme hot and cold temperatures, Othman says psychological terror gave way to physical torture. “At one point they tied me in stress positions for five hours. They showed pictures of my sisters and told me they would rape them. They threatened me with rape.”
so none of this abuse should come as a surprise, although i can’t help but be concerned about the psyches of the israeli police dealing out the punishment. remember the words of golda meier:
we can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us rape yours.
“kill yours” not “rape yours”.
“kill yours” not “rape yours”.
yes, i know. i was taking poetic license to make a point.
Except it’s a wrong point. She was saying “kill yours in self defense”. Saying “rape” has entirely different implications and merely amounts to outright deception about her position. Also, given the biases of the people who post here, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them thought you were accurately quoting. This is one way the phony quotes that I have complained about here get started.
really, fred, you’ll have to try better than that. it’s acceptable to kill, but not to rape under meier’s philosophy? and so what is shin bet doing threatening rape? and what of rabbi what’s-his-name sanctioning any atrocity in defense of eretz israel while at war? clearly it’s acceptable to kidnap and torture children, shoot children dead who have committed the crime of scrounging for scrap metal, isn’t it, since that is what’s done? and this philosophy has been adopted by the nice lads of the IDF, what with their ‘one-shot, two kills’ t-shirts and all, and members of the most moral army in the world using palestinian children as ‘human shields’, defecating in palestinian homes, and on and on. and since you’re here to correct the record, the quote is
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”
so who was it that added in self defense?
Such is the face of the Jewish Empire.
Of Great-Greater-GREATEST Israel.
From AIPAC to the Euphrates.
It has been foretold.
Is it just me or have the words ‘Israel’ and ‘Attack’ become synonyms?
That would be Israel and apartheid.
If someone tries to grab a soldier from behind or even lays a hand on his gun- he would be shot on site. These “peaceful” activists should consider themselves very much lucky. The police weren’t even wearing the riot gear- so much for the attack!
Love the way you zioNUT occupier propagandists in hasbara central try polish your turd