Terwijl Israël weer het ene bloedbad na
het andere aanricht in de Gazastrook, zit Ahed al-Tamimi nog steeds
vast voor het slaan van een Israëlische militair, alsof die ook maar
één moment in levensgevaar is geweest door dat slaan……
Het slaan door Ahed was het gevolg van het door Israëlische militairen in het gezicht schieten van haar 15 jarige neef met een rubber omvatte kogel (de jongen is
zwaar verminkt door deze laffe schoftenstreek…..)
Intussen is al een paar keer melding
gemaakt van intimidatie van Ahed door mannelijke ondervragers
(waarbij geen familie of advocaat aanwezig was, dit is tegen de
regels en kinderrechten…….)
Hoe is het mogelijk dat de wereld
blijft toekijken en niets onderneemt tegen de fascistische
apartheidsstaat Israel, terwijl men bij elke leugen over Assad of
Rusland ‘op de achterste poten gaat staan…’
Lees het volgende verslag over de
ondervragingen van Ahed, een totaal overbodige ondervraging
overigens, immers Ahed ontkent niet een militair te hebben geslagen,
haar moeder heeft dit zelfs gefilmd en op het internet geplaatst……
Men wil zogenaamd achter de identiteit komen van de medestanders op
foto en filmmateriaal, alsof deze mensen al niet vaak genoeg zijn
lastig gevallen en gefotografeerd door het psychopathische Israëlische
leger……. (het is al een paar jaar lang wekelijks ellende in de plaats, Nabi Saleh waar Ahed en haar familie wonen)
Ahed werd onder meer slaap onthouden, geïntimideerd door schreeuwen en zelfs seksueel geïntimideerd, zaken die een beschaafd land niet eens zou gebruiken tegen volwassen verdachten, laat staan tegen kinderen……
De moeder heeft voor het plaatsen van
de video op het internet 8 maanden cel gekregen…….
Nogmaals: waar blijft de internationale
gemeenschap met haar verontwaardiging en roep om een boycot van
Israel??
Video
of Ahed Tamimi’s interrogation shows intimidation, harassment
Tamimi
family makes footage public to show tactics used by Israeli
authorities to elicit confession from the teenager
Ahed
Tamimi stands for a hearing in the military court at Ofer military
prison in the West Bank village of Betunia on 1 January 2018 (AFP)
Monday
9 April 2018 12:34 UTC
Last
update:
Monday
9 April 2018 12:56 UTC
The
family of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager who garnered
international attention after being detained and sentenced to eight
months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier, released on Monday
footage of the 17-year-old girl being interrogated by Israeli
officers in the days following the arrest.
Because
she is a minor, Israeli authorities are required to hand over
excerpts of footage of interrogations to Tamimi’s lawyer upon
request. Her family later decided to make public excerpts of the
video they had been provided.
Tamimi’s
lawyer, Gaby Lasky, filed
a complaint with
the Israeli general attorney last Monday in light of the footage
showing an interrogator telling the teen she has “eyes like an
angel”.
Lasky
has accused the interrogators of sexual harassment amounting to a
“gross violation of the law”, made worse in light of
Tamimi’s age.
Video
screenshot of Ahed Tamimi under interrogation by two Israeli officers
in December (video)
“The
video shows Ahed’s defiance and sense of confrontation through her
voice, through her silence and by slapping their soldier,” Ahed’s
father, Bassem Tamimi, said at a press conference in the West Bank
city of Ramallah on Monday. “This defiance is the message of our
new generation. The single purpose of this interrogation was to break
the symbolism of defiance that she represents by trying to have
her let go of her right to remain silent. She did not.”
Bassem
Tamimi said his daughter was interrogated every day during the first
10 days of her detention, with the exception of the day when she was
taken to court, adding that interrogations lasted up to 12
consecutive hours.
He
added that she was subjected to solitary confinement, sleep
deprivation for up to 34 hours, and lengthy and difficult transfers
between prison and the court in the “bosta” – the Arabic term for
the vans carrying prisoners.
The
footage seen by Middle East Eye shows Tamimi being interrogated on 26
December, a week after her arrest, at a police station in Shaar
Binyamin, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Tamimi,
then 16-year-old, is seen sitting on a chair in a winter coat, with
one Israeli interrogator sitting behind a desk out of the camera’s
range, while another, reportedly from the Aman military intelligence,
sits next to her, at times scooting closer to her during the
interrogation with his legs seemingly open – a stance commonly used
by Israeli interrogators to intimidate women, according to several
former female Palestinian prisoners who
have spoken to MEE.
In
breach of regulations regarding the detention of minors, Tamimi is
interrogated without a lawyer or guardian present, nor is a female
officer seen at any point in the room, despite their presence being
mandated during the interrogation of women.
The
interrogators try in turn intimidation, guilt, and bizarre attempts
at establishing a rapport throughout the video, while Ahed keeps
silent looking back and forth between the two men and occasionally
burrowing her face into her collar, only speaking up to say: “I
hold the right to remain silent.”
In
one particularly jarring instance, the Aman interrogator leans
towards Tamimi and shouts at her that she looks like his sister.
“My
little sister is blonde and her eyes are like yours… When she goes
to the beach, yeah? Like a hamburger,” he says loudly in broken
Arabic, laughing. “For real, how are you in the sun? Like my
sister? Red, red, red?”
The
interrogators also try to induce guilt in Tamimi, telling her that
she would be responsible for any harm that might befall residents of
her village, Nabi Saleh, should she keep refusing to identify people
in videos shown to her.
“We
will take everyone if you don’t cooperate,” the Aman interrogator
says, as Ahed shifts uneasily in her chair. “It’s in your hands.
It’s in your hands.”
“I
don’t want to have to bring those children here. Children. Please,”
he adds. “You say something, maybe we don’t need to.”
Bassem
Tamimi, Ahed’s father, speaks at a press conference on 9 April 2018
(MEE/Chloé Benoist)
Bassem
Tamimi highlighted on Monday that the footage showed tactics used
regularly by Israeli forces on Palestinian children, denouncing them
as violating international humanitarian law.
“This
all comes in the context of the occupation trying to target
Palestinian childhood,” Tamimi said at the press conference,
hailing Ahed’s commitment to staying silent as “confronting the
interrogator without fear entering her heart”.
Ahed
was 16 when she was arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier who
would not leave her family’s property in her hometown of Nabi Saleh,
on the same day as Israeli forces shot
her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed Tamimi in the head with
a rubber-coated steel bullet.
A
video of the incident went viral on Israeli social media, showing her
slapping, kicking and hitting two armed Israeli soldiers. Her
mother, Nariman Tamimi, was also detained and sentenced to eight
months in prison for filming and sharing the aforementioned video.
Ahed’s
trial gained international media coverage and human right groups,
including Amnesty International, have campaigned for her to be
released.
The
international attention prompted the Israeli court to hold hearings
on Tamimi’s case behind closed doors, ostensibly to uphold her
right to privacy as a minor, despite the Palestinian teenager waiving
her right, arguing that public proceedings would protect her from
what she has publicly called an “illegitimate court”.
Several
rights organisations have denounced the incarceration conditions for
Palestinian children over the years – pointing to the systematic
prosecution in front of military courts, with a nearly 100
percent conviction
rate.
According
to Defense
for Children International-Palestine
(DCIP), three out of four minors are subjected to physical violence
during arrest or interrogation. According to Prisoners’ rights NGO
Addameer, 356 Palestinian minors were detained by Israel as
of March.
Reports
by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Israeli rights groups B’Tselem
and HaMoked have found that Israeli forces use unnecessary
force while
detaining children and “routinely” interrogate
them without
the presence of a parent or lawyer. Several minors reported being
slapped, kicked, hit and blindfolded during their arrest or
interrogation, or made to sign documents in Hebrew despite not
speaking the language.
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