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Abuse of
Palestinians by Israeli troops the norm, not aberration
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, Agencies
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Jerusalem: Israeli reservists
critical of their military's treatment of Palestinians have
released new photos that show Israeli soldiers holding assault
rifles to the head of a blindfolded Palestinian man and
spray-painting "Be right back" on the wall of a Gaza home.
The images, released Monday by the Breaking the Silence group, are
the latest in a series of pictures to surface in recent months
showing soldiers mistreating Palestinians.
Breaking the Silence said it published the pictures on its Facebook page to rebut the military's contention that improper
conduct by soldiers is an aberration.
"We will continue to release photos every so often to prove that
this is the norm, this is how soldiers behave, and this is the
price of occupation," said group member Yehuda Shaul. "We lose our
ability to see Palestinians as our equals."
The military said it "regretted" that the group published the
photos rather than bringing them directly to the army to be
investigated. It said the pictures did not reflect the values of
the military.
Shaul said the group received the photos two weeks ago and was
told they were shot during Israel's war in the Gaza Strip nearly
two years ago. He said he could not absolutely confirm that was
the case, but said details from the photos, like the military
units shown there, supported that claim.
In another development, a Palestinian woman on Monday accused
Israeli troops of burning two copies of the Qur'an when they came
to arrest her husband during an overnight raid in the northern
West Bank.
Sahar Beida, 40, said the troops confined her and her daughter to
a separate room when they detained her husband Ismail in the town
of Jayyus near Qalqilya.
"When I came out I was shocked to find our Qur'ans were on the
front step and had been burned," she said. "They took the Qur'ans
from the house and burned them in the alley. We didn't see it
happen because my daughter and I were in another room. They locked
the door and would not let us talk or move or do anything."
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