Account of an Arrest
The following comes directly from a friend of mine. Three friends that I know of were arrested/detained in the past week during the Israeli army's military operation in Nablus codenamed Hot Winter. They have all been mistreated, humiliated, or in some cases beaten. At the least, they have all been unjustly and unnecessarily arrested. This friend is a manager at one of the local youth centers, which he and others founded and maintained to give the neighborhood children a safe and decent place to play. I teach English there three times a week. I will let his account speak for himself.
On Wednesday I was in the isreali prison for one day. As you know , Nablus, and the old city mainly, is now under the israeli operation of (The Hot Winter) The operation started on sunday,and coninued in Monday, stopped just for Tuesday and was resumed yesterday Yesterday the turn of our area (Al-qariown area)in the old city they started at 3:00 in the dawn, told all the families to go out of the houses, containing women, babies and old people
after standing for more than 6 hours not allowed to get any food or even chairs.then they told all women and children to go back to home, also every one whose age is over 30 was told to go back to home and they juts kept us, the youth They put some cloth-masks on our eyes, and tied our hands to back with some-very-painfull plastic ties.
After that, you were moved to some stores in the street, which was opened ,destroyed and converted to prisons we were there for half an hour after that we had to move among large number of staris and bad ways to a very-dirty un-used room , full with dirts that is not suitable even for animals to sit inside. When we were moving, I was the last one of the prisoners, I was catched by one soldier who led me as i could not see anything, then another too soldiers came and started to beat me using thier weapons on my back! note that we still with our hands tied back and the masks are still on our eyes We were kept there for 7 hours(untill 10:00 am), not allowed to go to WC , and when we requisted some food, they brought some bread, through it to the ground, and said that this is food, eat it as you want, they needed us to eat like animals, but we refused that, and continued without food.
We were there untill 4:00 pm then we was taken to an israeli military vehicle, which size is suitable just for 4 persons (inside it one of the prisoners who could remove the mask was able to read,in hebrew, that the maximum number of people is 6) but we were 22!!!!!! we sit one over the other, and it was the worst period of the day we were took through different streets untill they decided to take us to Howwara military base. e arrived there at 5:30 pm , after a period of bad deal they decided to keep us inside a room. lso the room had 6 beds, ut we were inside 28 could go ,wash my hands and pray on the street-like ground hen we realy were hungry , we requisted the army that we are realy hungry, nd after 3 hours they bought us some meals that are suitable for 3 pirsoners o every 4 persons shared a small peice of bread, and for the rice-meal, every one could eat a little some (plz just know that we had to eat rice by our hands, No spoons)
at 9:00 pm we deicded to sleep, because we did not expect that after this time we may go back n every bed, 3 pirsons slept, one slept ordinary, the other slept in reverse(his head near the feet of the first) and the third could sleep in the remaining area of the bed e and other 3, had to sleep on the floor ,under us there is nothing, but every one could has a blanket which was as a bed and a cover in the first time don't know what do you call the peice of furniture that is put head when you sleep, instead of it we used our shoes.
you know it is not possible for an 28 person to be silent directly, we continued chating, I was the last who could sleep at 10:00pm t 10:30pm the soldier knocked the door roughly and said, you will go to the "intellegnce" (I am not sure for the word but it's some militaries like CIA) They do it again to put the masks and tie our hands, put in a military vechile and were drivien for a short distance, then went down of the vehcile.
Here we faced very bad soldiers who asked us to sit down on the rough,ver cold ground for about 30 minutes before one of the human rights workers has requisted the soldiers to remove the masks and untie our hands, we discovered that we are in a large area of ground, surrounded by ( i dont know the expression,but they are the wires with the injuring ends).
at 12:30 they started to enter us one by one to the intellignce colonel ,during the waiting period we requisted some blankets or anything to cover ourselves but they refused.
when it was my turn to meet the colonel, i was inspected,even my shoes and socks were inspected by high-tech machines!
when i entered the office, it was just ordinary questions, they suggest every one to be a spy for them. But the most thing that made me angry, that while we are dying with tempreture less than 8 degrees, the colonel's room was supplied with an LG air conditioner.
After that and as expected as i do nothing agianst them, they sent me back to the same vehicle to send us to some place, don't know were (Also masked) the vehicle moved for 3 minutes ad they ordered us to get down, removed the masks, cut the ties and said, this is Howwara check point( i think you know it well) the time was about 1:30am
We passed the checkpoit , some of the friends said:this is the only time you come to Howwara and pass it quickly
We knocked the door of the first house after the checkpoint to call the Palestinain emergency wo camed with two buses and get us back to home,to arrive at 2:00 am finding my parents waiting and my little brothers Ahmad(12 years) and Abdul-qader(5 years) still crying,and my sister has moved to our neighbours department to sleep the night with our neighbours wife whose her husband and his brother besdie her brother were with us.
just i want to tell you, that when they took us from street, they did not even look at our ID cards to check if we were wanted or not.
I just Pray to God to get us away from this situation
The following comes directly from a friend of mine. Three friends that I know of were arrested/detained in the past week during the Israeli army's military operation in Nablus codenamed Hot Winter. They have all been mistreated, humiliated, or in some cases beaten. At the least, they have all been unjustly and unnecessarily arrested. This friend is a manager at one of the local youth centers, which he and others founded and maintained to give the neighborhood children a safe and decent place to play. I teach English there three times a week. I will let his account speak for himself.
On Wednesday I was in the isreali prison for one day. As you know , Nablus, and the old city mainly, is now under the israeli operation of (The Hot Winter) The operation started on sunday,and coninued in Monday, stopped just for Tuesday and was resumed yesterday Yesterday the turn of our area (Al-qariown area)in the old city they started at 3:00 in the dawn, told all the families to go out of the houses, containing women, babies and old people
after standing for more than 6 hours not allowed to get any food or even chairs.then they told all women and children to go back to home, also every one whose age is over 30 was told to go back to home and they juts kept us, the youth They put some cloth-masks on our eyes, and tied our hands to back with some-very-painfull plastic ties.
After that, you were moved to some stores in the street, which was opened ,destroyed and converted to prisons we were there for half an hour after that we had to move among large number of staris and bad ways to a very-dirty un-used room , full with dirts that is not suitable even for animals to sit inside. When we were moving, I was the last one of the prisoners, I was catched by one soldier who led me as i could not see anything, then another too soldiers came and started to beat me using thier weapons on my back! note that we still with our hands tied back and the masks are still on our eyes We were kept there for 7 hours(untill 10:00 am), not allowed to go to WC , and when we requisted some food, they brought some bread, through it to the ground, and said that this is food, eat it as you want, they needed us to eat like animals, but we refused that, and continued without food.
We were there untill 4:00 pm then we was taken to an israeli military vehicle, which size is suitable just for 4 persons (inside it one of the prisoners who could remove the mask was able to read,in hebrew, that the maximum number of people is 6) but we were 22!!!!!! we sit one over the other, and it was the worst period of the day we were took through different streets untill they decided to take us to Howwara military base. e arrived there at 5:30 pm , after a period of bad deal they decided to keep us inside a room. lso the room had 6 beds, ut we were inside 28 could go ,wash my hands and pray on the street-like ground hen we realy were hungry , we requisted the army that we are realy hungry, nd after 3 hours they bought us some meals that are suitable for 3 pirsoners o every 4 persons shared a small peice of bread, and for the rice-meal, every one could eat a little some (plz just know that we had to eat rice by our hands, No spoons)
at 9:00 pm we deicded to sleep, because we did not expect that after this time we may go back n every bed, 3 pirsons slept, one slept ordinary, the other slept in reverse(his head near the feet of the first) and the third could sleep in the remaining area of the bed e and other 3, had to sleep on the floor ,under us there is nothing, but every one could has a blanket which was as a bed and a cover in the first time don't know what do you call the peice of furniture that is put head when you sleep, instead of it we used our shoes.
you know it is not possible for an 28 person to be silent directly, we continued chating, I was the last who could sleep at 10:00pm t 10:30pm the soldier knocked the door roughly and said, you will go to the "intellegnce" (I am not sure for the word but it's some militaries like CIA) They do it again to put the masks and tie our hands, put in a military vechile and were drivien for a short distance, then went down of the vehcile.
Here we faced very bad soldiers who asked us to sit down on the rough,ver cold ground for about 30 minutes before one of the human rights workers has requisted the soldiers to remove the masks and untie our hands, we discovered that we are in a large area of ground, surrounded by ( i dont know the expression,but they are the wires with the injuring ends).
at 12:30 they started to enter us one by one to the intellignce colonel ,during the waiting period we requisted some blankets or anything to cover ourselves but they refused.
when it was my turn to meet the colonel, i was inspected,even my shoes and socks were inspected by high-tech machines!
when i entered the office, it was just ordinary questions, they suggest every one to be a spy for them. But the most thing that made me angry, that while we are dying with tempreture less than 8 degrees, the colonel's room was supplied with an LG air conditioner.
After that and as expected as i do nothing agianst them, they sent me back to the same vehicle to send us to some place, don't know were (Also masked) the vehicle moved for 3 minutes ad they ordered us to get down, removed the masks, cut the ties and said, this is Howwara check point( i think you know it well) the time was about 1:30am
We passed the checkpoit , some of the friends said:this is the only time you come to Howwara and pass it quickly
We knocked the door of the first house after the checkpoint to call the Palestinain emergency wo camed with two buses and get us back to home,to arrive at 2:00 am finding my parents waiting and my little brothers Ahmad(12 years) and Abdul-qader(5 years) still crying,and my sister has moved to our neighbours department to sleep the night with our neighbours wife whose her husband and his brother besdie her brother were with us.
just i want to tell you, that when they took us from street, they did not even look at our ID cards to check if we were wanted or not.
I just Pray to God to get us away from this situation
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