New photos of Israeli soldiers humiliating Palestinian detainees disclosed

[ 25/10/2010 - 11:27 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A Hebrew website unveiled on Sunday new photos showing sadist Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip humiliating and scoffing at blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian prisoners, while Al-Ahrar center for prisoners' studies revealed a picture for a little girl being surrounded by another group of soldiers. The website Walla said that the images were taken inside homes in Gaza and showing Palestinian prisoners being humiliated by Israeli soldiers. The photos were posted on Facebook website as souvenirs. In one of these images two Israeli soldiers were pointing their weapons at a blindfolded detainee, while another one shows a soldier carrying his gun besides a Palestinian woman from Gaza inside a kitchen. A third picture was taken for a soldier as he finished writing "we will come back soon" and below it he drew the star of David. For its part, Al-Ahrar center was able to get a picture for a Palestinian girl blindfolded and handcuffed with her hand behind her back and her knees on the floor as four Israeli soldiers were pointing their guns and laughing provocatively at her. Director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh said that the picture proved how sadistic the Israeli soldiers are and how they find their great pleasure in the suffering of their detainees and appealed to the girl in the photo or anyone knowing her to contact the center so as to take legal action against the Israeli army. Israeli Soldiers Continue Their Facebook Displays Monday October 25, 2010 00:51 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Walla News Website published, on Sunday, several pictures by Israeli soldiers on Facebook showing “memories” while humiliating Palestinians during the war on Gaza. The Website said that the pictures show Palestinian detainees in degrading positions as the soldiers posed next to them. The pictures were taken inside Palestinian homes that were broken into by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. One of the pictures shows two soldiers pointing their guns at the head of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian, another picture shows a soldiers writing “We will be back” and drawing the star of David at the wall of a Palestinian home. A third picture shows a soldier carrying his gun near a Palestinian woman inside her kitchen. A spokesperson for the Israeli army stated that the soldier said that "he is sorry" because the Break the Silence Israeli group “continues to leak such pictures to the media instead of filing complaints to the army”. He claimed that the Military Police will investigate the incidents and will submit its findings to the Military Prosecutors’ Office. Several days ago, the Israeli army decided to ban the soldiers and officers from using social network sites in military bases. Websites like Facebook, Twitter and Gmail were blocked in these bases not because the soldiers are publishing photos of abuse of Palestinians, but because the army of the military bases in question “have classified materials on their computers.” This past August, photos of an Israeli female soldier posing in front of Palestinian detainees were posted on Facebook, were met with anger by Palestinians. The photos were posted by Eden Abergil, a young Israeli woman who finished her military service over a year ago. They show the uniformed officer smiling and posing next to bound and blindfolded Palestinian men. Abergil’s album that was posted on Facebook was titled "IDF...The best time of my life :)". The image of the soldier posing in front of the handcuffed and blind folded Palestinians was compared to those of American soldiers posing in front of Iraqi prisoners being tortured in Abu Ghreib prison in Iraq few years ago. When asked by a CNN host about this comparison, the former Israeli commando and author of a book Brotherhood of Warriors, Aaron Cohen said, what you see are “Palestinians who are handcuffed, sitting down and not stacked up on top of each other.”