- Israeli occupation soldiers have apparently preyed on
a new Palestinian victim to perform on him the so-called "lottery
game" whereby a Palestinian boy or youngster is forced to chose the
form of torture he must undergo at gunpoint.
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- The Palestinian press on Monday reported that Israeli
occupation soldiers manning an outpost north of Ramallah abducted on Sunday
a Palestinian abducted Firas Sarafandi, 23, and forced him at gunpoint
to choose a folded piece of paper out of many, showing the form of torture
he must experience.
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- According to eyewitnesses, the sadistic soldiers savagely
and mercilessly beat Sarafandi for half an hour, using rocks and the butts
of their guns.
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- Sarafandi, who lives in the nearby Jalazon refugee camp,
was rushed to the Zayed hospital where he was diagnosed with a multiple
fractures in his knee and lower thigh.
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- Sources at the hospital said Sarafandi would undergo
a surgical operation to fix the bone fracture.
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- Several Palestinians were subjected to the brutal "lottery"
practice in the Hebron area last month.
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- The Israeli army promised then to "look into the
matter". However, it seems that the army is giving soldiers free rein
to torture and humiliate Palestinians as a means to crush the Palestinian
uprising.
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- However, it seems that the traumatic experience and other
forms of torture and humiliations meted out to Palestinian civilians are
only deepening Palestinian hatred of Israelis and Jews in general.
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- Two weeks ago, the Israeli Hebrew newspaper Ha'aretz
quoted a recent psychological study by the Israeli army stating that Israeli
repression of Palestinians constituted the chief motivation behind human
bomb attacks against Israelis. First published 1-13-01
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- http://www.ummahnews.com/viewarticle.php?sid=1009
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