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Many others are also targeted, arrested, bogusly charged, imprisoned, and tortured for their legitimate right to resist, including children, one 15-year old explaining:
In January 2010, he was arrested at home, detained and tortured - shackled, blindfolded, beaten, and ordered to confess (to stone-throwing a year earlier), his interrogator saying, "I'll break (and) shock you if you" refuse. "Because of the beating, I had to confess....I wanted him to stop hitting me because" of the pain. He spent three and a half months in prison followed by eight months probation and a 1,000 shekel fine.
He wasn't alone. Defense for Children International (DCI) - Palestine section recorded at least five cases of threatened or actual inhumane treatment and sexual assaults against minors in Israeli prisons.
Violence is official Israeli policy, to intimidate and suppress resistance. "Overwhelming aggression" follows threats, including use of live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, high-velocity tear gas canisters that can harm or disable, sound bombs, and other measures intended to willfully injure or kill.
The UNESCO Chair of An-Najah National University described the murder of two unarmed boys, aged 16 and 19, in Iraq Burin near Nablus saying:
"One Israeli soldier (came) out of one of the army jeeps and position(ed) himself (with one knee on the ground) on the road, directing his weapon toward the western end of the street and crossroad," about 60 meters from the boys. They opened fire, "hit(ting) Abd Qadus in the forehead....As Muhammad Ibrahim Abdel-Qadr Qadus rushed to his cousin (and) reach(ed) down to help him, he (was) shot in the chest...." They were both killed in cold blood. No investigations followed, Israel's usual whitewash, absolving state-sponsored terrorism.
Rarely ever are soldiers held accountable, and almost never their commanders, effectively legalizing the murder of Arabs, even children. "Palestinians are consequently left without remedy or recourse to justice."
Tear Gas to Intimidate and Injure
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