Israeli occupation soldiers abuse Hebron resident, demanding he dance naked

Date: 27 / 02 / 2008 Time: 15:46
Bethlehem – Hebron -Ma'an –

Israeli occupation soldiers in Hebron in the southern West Bank brutally beat a Palestinian man, forcing him to dance naked, the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'arev reported on Wednesday.

When 26-year-old Ziyad Abu Sunaina refused to dance, the occupation soldiers continued to beat and humiliate him, detaining him for three hours.

Abu Sunaina reported the incident, which took place four weeks ago at a military checkpoint near Hebron, to the Israeli humanitarian organization "Yesh Din."

According to Maariv and Yesh Din, Abu Sunaina worked as a middleman at a taxi station near the checkpoint. A military jeep approached him with four soldiers inside. They asked him to evacuate all the taxis from the area in order to avoid traffic jams. After he did so, the patrol's commander asked him to be quiet and take off his sweater. When he refused, the soldiers hand-cuffed him and bound his legs. They also blindfolded him with a Palestinian kufiyya head scarf, before brutally beating him with their fists and rifle butts.

"When I told them I had a surgery in my back, they burst into laughter and started taking photos of my back on their mobile phones," Abu Sunaina told Maariv.

He added that the Israeli occupation soldiers telephoned the Shin Bet official known as "Captain Fathi" and let Abu Sunaina talk to him. When Abu Snaina appealed for help, Fathi told him that the soldiers were doing their job, and he could not interfere with that.

Finally, the soldiers demanded that Abu Sunaina undress and dance naked if he wanted to be freed.

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