ZGram - 11/26/2002 - "Israelis entertain themselves: Youth stripped naked, made to walk like dog"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

November 26, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This report from Nablus brings back memories - the headline says it all!

At the end of World War II, German civilians as well as authorities 
collected thousands of reports about unbelievable torture and 
humiliations inflicted on German prisoners and even conquered 
civilians.  I pull a German-language book from my shelf, titled 
"Alliierte Kriegsverbrechen" (Allied War Crimes) that document such 
cases.  It is not easy reading.

I am leafing through it at random, and I find such physical and 
psychological tortures as German of highest rank having to kick and 
slap each other, having to bark like dogs, having to crawl on their 
bellies while pushing heavy rocks with their noses. "Chariot races" 
were sometimes staged where soldiers had to race each other on all 
fours across broken glass while carrying a comrade on their backs. 
Others were made to stand in latrines up to their necks etc.  Even 
amputees were subjected to these cruelties. 

Many but not all of these torturers were Jews. 

What happens now to the Palestinians is more of what happened many 
times before out of talmudic vengeance.  The world ought to take 
notice.

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Times of Oman | November 26, 2002

Youth stripped naked, made to walk like dog

VICTIM: Palestinian hospital personnel standing next to the body of Jihad Faqih
at a hospital in Nablus yesterday.

NABLUS (West Bank) - An eight-year-old Palestinian child was shot dead
yesterday when Israeli troops in a jeep opened fire on a crowd of
stone-throwing youths in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, which
is under army occupation and curfew, Palestinian medics said.

Jihad Faqih was standing in the street when he was fatally shot in the chest
as the army fired at a crowd of youths in the centre of the city where
clashes erupt almost daily between army patrols enforcing the curfew and
defiant Palestinian youngsters.

His death raises the toll for the two-year-old intifada to 2,716 people,
including 1,994 Palestinians and 672 Israelis.

Eight other Palestinians were wounded, two of them seriously, in clashes
with Israeli soldiers in the city, Palestinian security sources said.

A 39-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man were seriously injured by
Israeli tankfire as teenagers and children threw stones at armoured
vehicles, the sources said, adding that no Palestinian fighters were
involved.

Meanwhile, three Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian man to strip naked
at gunpoint and walk like a dog in a West Bank city under curfew,
Palestinian witnesses said yesterday.

A Reuters photographer snapped Yasser Sharaf, 25, standing naked in a cold,
muddy street in Nablus on Sunday as two men were handing him clothes to put
on and two Israeli armoured vehicles were pulling away from the scene.

Sharaf declined to comment yesterday about the incident.

Israeli military sources denied that Sharaf was forced to strip, saying
checks with soldiers involved determined that he had been ordered only to
raise his shirt to show whether he was carrying explosives.

"When he saw members of the media in the area, he decided to undress
completely," a military source said.

Witnesses including two Palestinian firemen said Israeli soldiers stopped
Sharaf after spotting him walking in a street in violation of curfew and,
"pointing their rifles at him, ordered him to start stripping".

"Yasser told them he had nothing to hide but they continued shouting and
readied their rifles to shoot," fireman Samir El Lifdawi said by telephone
from Nablus.

"They forced Yasser to take off all his clothes including his
underwear...They ordered him to walk like a dog and then he burst into
tears," Lifdawi said.

He said he watched the incident unfold from a fire station a few metres
away. A colleague, Sultan Al Minawi, provided the same account.

"He kept crying and was in a very stressful situation... "Many residents,
including women, watched him and he was very embarrassed," Minawi said.

Palestinian civilians have often complained of being humiliated and abused
by Israeli troops who have reoccupied Palestinian-administered West Bank
cities to combat an uprising for statehood spearheaded by armed fighters.
The army says strict controls on Palestinian residents are necessary
because militants hide among the population and wear civilian clothing when
they carry out martyrdom attacks.

Scenes of Palestinians rolling up their shirts to prove they are not hiding
bomb belts have become frequent since the Israeli Army swept into West Bank
cities in June after a spate of attacks which have killed scores of Israeli
civilians.

Sunday's incident in Nablus would be the first time a Palestinian was
reported to have been ordered to strip naked in a security operation.
Palestinian civilians have complained of being ordered to strip to their
underwear at roadblocks.

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=19746