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Israeli Soldiers Carved Star Of David On Palestinian Man’s Arm
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JERUSALEM, June 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Palestinian
man from Jerusalem said that Israeli border guards beat him and
carved a Star of David into his arm with a knife, a Palestinian rights
group and the man's brother said Monday, June 3, news agencies.
Bakr
Naji Allan, 19, said four Israeli border police detained him as he was
heading to work at 7:00 am Saturday, June 1, along a dirt road from
his home in Beit Hanina, in northeast Jerusalem, the Palestinian
rights group LAW said in a statement.
His
brother Samir told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the four men asked
him if he was carrying a weapon, and told him to put his hands up and
to pull up his shirt to make sure he was not carrying explosives, and
then took him away for questioning.
“They
started to beat me and pulled me on top of a hill,” Allan told LAW.
“They first scarred the Star of David on my left arm, then an X on
my right cheek and they also scarred my forehead and kept on beating
me until 10:00 am.”
According
to the Israeli daily newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, one of the four
ordered him to put his head on the ground, and, using a razor blade,
cut the Star of David on his left arm, and then began cutting his
face.
“I
saw the blood dripping from my arm, but the border policeman warned me
not to look, or he said he would kill me,” Allan said Sunday, June
2, his neck still in a brace and his arm and face still bearing the
cuts, reported the Post.
His
brother Samir, 28, said the men used a broken razor to inflict
the wounds.
He
said the police finally left him when they saw some other Palestinians
and gave chase.
Samir
said he was notified by his mother that he had not turned up for work.
For the next several hours, he tried in vain to locate his brother.
“I
called the Russian Compound to see if he had been arrested, and he
hadn’t. I called the Neveh Ya'acov police station, and he wasn't
there either. I began to think he must be dead, only my brother has
never done anything or been involved in any violence, so I couldn't
understand it,” Samir said.
Finally,
at about 3 p.m., he saw his haggard and bruised brother making his way
back to their home. He immediately took him to an east Jerusalem
hospital.
The
Israeli border police were not available for comment Monday, although
a spokeswoman told the Jerusalem Post that Allan should officially
file a complaint so that they could investigate the allegations.
The
family said last night they have yet to make an official complaint
with police, in part because Bakar said that he never saw the faces of
his alleged tormentors, who were wearing helmets, reported the post.
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