News, May  2008

3 Israeli occupation soldiers sentenced to "10 days" imprisonment for killing a Palestinian in a picnic

[ 21/05/2008 - 09:15 AM ]
NAZARETH, (PIC)--

An Israeli military court sentenced three Israeli occupation soldiers to ten days behind bars as a disciplinary measure for "killing" a Palestinian man in northern Ramallah during a picnic.

The Israeli occupation army radio said late Tuesday that the three settler-soldiers, all from the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit Eil, had fired at the man in Ein Yabroud killing him instantly.

The soldiers claimed that they came under fire and when they returned fire they killed the unarmed youth. The soldiers had gone on their picnic without a permit from their superiors, the radio noted.

Soldiers abuse a Palestinian youth for three hours

Wednesday May 21, 2008 02:13 by IMEMC News

Palestinian sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Tuesday that Israeli occupation soldiers abused and tortured for three hours a Palestinian youth as he was working in a hothouse.

The sources added that as Abdul-Rahman Al-Arameen, 19, from Sa’ir town, near Hebron, was working in a hothouse when he was attacked by soldiers, who without any cause of provocation, attacked him and started beating him.

One of the soldiers grabbed Al-Arameen from his right leg and dragged him for a long distance while other soldiers were beating and kicking him.

After three hours of abuse and humiliation, soldiers left the area leaving the youth soaking in his own blood.  

Monqedh Abu Roomy, head of the Media Office of Asrana (Our Detainees) Center, slammed the attack and voiced an appeal to international and human rights groups to intervene and stop the ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.

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