IDF Abusing Palestinian Detainees: "Extremely Unusual"

Soldiers Accused Of Abusing Detainees

By REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Jan 29, 2008 14:21
Updated Jan 29, 2008 22:26
Courtesy Of The JPost

Sources in the IDF said Tuesday night that the disturbing allegations of soldiers' abuse of Palestinian detainees that were first reported Tuesday on Israel Radio were already under investigation by the Military Police, and that the IDF viewed the incident as "extremely serious" and "extremely unusual."

Israel Radio reported Tuesday morning that soldiers from the Kfir Brigade - which specializes in operating in West Bank urban centers - allegedly abused Palestinian detainees.

According to the report, the soldiers beat, kicked and degraded the detainees, scenes that were reportedly documented on the soldiers' cellular phones. In one incident, the report claimed, one of the soldiers exposed himself to the detainees.

The soldiers in the report all belonged to the Duchifat Battalion, which operates under the auspices of the Binyamin Regional Brigade.

...Later Tuesday, Dr. Yishai Menuhin, director-general of the Public Council Against Torture in Israel, said that in the past three years, the committee had addressed hundreds of incidents in which soldiers had allegedly abused bound Palestinian detainees.

Only a day earlier, a Web site affiliated with Hebrew-language daily Ma'ariv ran a damning article that addressed claims that Palestinian complaints of abuse had risen after soldiers from the Givati Brigade began serving in the West Bank.

That report detailed an incident in which a soldier "slammed a Palestinian's head into a wall," but noted that in that case, the soldier's actions were probed by the Military Police and he was sentenced to four months in prison.

"Following the events in Dahariya [in which a small unit of troops allegedly hijacked a Palestinian taxi cab], Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi detailed an action plan for educating and enforcing IDF values," said the IDF spokesman in an official statement regarding the allegations about the Duchifat troops...

NOTE: The following videos were not part of the above article, but were independently included by me.

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