18-year-old Palestinian girl, Salam Kana'an, and her family terrorized by Israeli occupation forces to get original videotape of shooting Ashraf Abu Rahma

18-year-old Palestinian girl, Salam Kana'an, and her family

terrorized by Israeli occupation forces

to get original videotape of shooting Ashraf Abu Rahma

Kanaan: The IOF uses a carrot and stick approach to get my videotape

[ 17/12/2009 - 10:29 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Salam Kanaan, an 18-year-old Palestinian girl, said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blackmailed her and her family through using the carrot and stick approach in order to get the original version of a videotape showing an Israeli soldier shooting at a chained Palestinian youth in his foot.

On July 7, 2008, Kanaan filmed an incident in Ni’lin village where an Israeli commander called Omri Borberg was holding a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian youth's arm called Ashraf Abu Rahma while a subordinate soldier shoots the detainee in the foot.

Kanaan reported Wednesday that an Israeli officer phoned her days ago and told her to determine the amount of money she wants in exchange for the original videotape.

She also said that a large number of Israeli troops encircled her house in Ramallah city and started to fire stun grenades and smashing the windows without saying anything to us except that the house was surrounded.

She added that the Israeli soldiers were pushing her and her family members whenever they tried to ask them what they wanted and took her father and three brothers outdoors and started to beat them.

In a related context, Israel decided to prevent any of its ministers from traveling to Britain in the wake of the arrest warrant issued against war criminal Tzipi Livni for her involvement in war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli deputy minister of foreign affairs Danny Ayalon told Britain that if its parliament did not find a legislative solution to the current situation which allows anyone to file a lawsuit against Israeli officials, Israel will have to prevent its ministers and officials from visiting the UK.

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