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Testimony: New Israeli intelligence officer harasses Nablus residents

28/01/2010

Nablus – Ma’an – Stripped almost naked in the January cold, Issam Mismar, 42, a father of five, was introduced to an Israeli soldier claiming to be the new intelligence chief in Nablus district.

“I’m the officer Oren, a new officer in the area, I came to personally get to know you. How are you and how are your kids?” Mismar remembered the man, holding a computer and sitting in a military jeep, telling him.

The incident began, according to Mismar, at 5:20am Thursday morning, when Israeli soldiers entered his restaurant in Aybal Mountain on the the northern hill line of Nablus, and told him he was prohibited from going to the local mosque for morning prayers.

After some time had passed, Mismar said he decided to walk to the mosque for a belated prayer. He joined nine other locals on the way.

The ten men were stopped by Israeli forces on the road. “They made us take off our clothes, and then go meet the Israeli intelligence officer who carried a computer and was sitting in a military jeep,” Mismar recalled.

Then the officer, who identified himself as Oren, asked Mismar, half naked, about his kids, about the mosque and who prayed at it, how many people there were and what the situation was there in general. Mismar said he asked questions for 5-10 minutes before he was allowed to go.

As he was dismissed, Mismar said he asked the officer if this was a new policy, if he had to get to know the people naked.

Yasser Alawneh, with the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) said the practice of making civilians strip “is a clear and flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which explicitly states that the occupying power should uphold the dignity and rights of all the citizens that are under its control.”

An Israeli military spokesman said he was unaware of an event matching this description occurring in the area.

January 28, 2010 - Posted by | Illegal Occupation, Subjugation - Torture

1 Comment »

  1. You tend to swallow every falsetinian un-formation “scoops” they spread.

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