Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Release Military Dog to Maim Surrendering Palestinian Teenager

News Agency nabakhabar — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:22:13 +0000

Israeli regime forces used a military dog to attack a Palestinian man during a harsh overnight arrest, despite the man surrendering and holding his hands up.

Newly-released footage that was made public on Wednesday, relates to an incident that reportedly took place on Monday near the city of Ramallah, condemned widely as a “barbaric act.”

It shows 19-year-old Malik Maala holding his hands behind his head while awaiting arrest by the Israeli troops at his workplace in the occupied West Bank city of al-Bireh.

Quite shockingly, as the teenager prepares to be handcuffed, a military dog released by Israeli soldiers standing nearby pounces on him, the UK-based Middle East Eye reported Thursday.

The footage shows Israeli military forces approaching the university student moments after he is attacked by the dog, detaining him and taking him to an undisclosed location.

The Palestinian Authority’s prisoners’ commission, reacting to the incident, termed it “distressful and cruel” and a “barbaric act.”

“It is another proof that clarifies the ongoing methods of the occupation aiming at breaking the will of our people to build a successful and stable future,” the agency said in a Thursday statement.

It blasted the silence of international human rights watchdogs for their failure in “defending the minimum rights of our people in building their future and obtaining freedom.”

The commission also noted that Maala was arrested while working as a guard at an industrial facility in al-Bireh to raise money for his university tuition fees.

Israeli regime news outlets tried to justify the vicious cruelty by insisting that the measure was intended to “frighten” the Palestinian youth and that the dog was held back to prevent harm to the teenager.

The report and the Palestinian agency did not cite reasons for Maala’s brutal arrest.

The development coincided with media reports that the Israeli regime has refused to cooperate with a United Nations team probing the crimes it committed during a full-scale war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, Gaza Strip, last year.

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Palestinian teenager shot by Israeli troops in West Bank dies

News Agency nabakhabar — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:57:57 +0000

Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral on Thursday in the West Bank town of Beita, for a teenager who medical sources said had died after being shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes in the town.

Mourners carried the boy’s body on their shoulders, waved Palestinian flags, and chanted slogans, including “To Jerusalem we go, martyrs in millions.”

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 15-year-old Ahmed Bani Shamsa was shot in the head on Wednesday evening. His death was announced on Thursday at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.

The Israeli military said a group of Palestinians approached the troops and a suspicious object was hurled at them, which exploded later. A soldier fired in the air and then shot the Palestinian who threw the object.

The West Bank has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 and, excluding annexed east Jerusalem, some 475,000 Israeli settlers now live alongside around 2.8 million Palestinians.

A Palestinian woman was also shot dead by Israeli troops on Wednesday, after what the army said was an attempt to ram Israeli soldiers with her car and attack them with a knife.

Local media identified her as Mai Afana, 29, from the town of Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem.

On Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian militants again launched incendiary balloons from Gaza, hours after Israel retaliated for earlier launches.

The violence in Gaza was the first between Israel and Hamas since a ceasefire took effect on May 21, ending 11 days of heavy fighting.

In recent years, Israel has seen a series of shootings, stabbings, and car-ramming attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians in the West Bank. Most have been carried out by Palestinians with no apparent links to organized militant groups.

Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups say the soldiers often use excessive force and could stop the assailants without killing them. In some cases, they say that innocent people have been identified as attackers and shot.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority exerts limited self-rule, as part of a future state along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Israel says Jerusalem is indivisible. Peace negotiations have stalled for many years.

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Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Release Military Dog to Maim Surrendering Palestinian Teenager

Israeli regime forces used a military dog to attack a Palestinian man during a harsh overnight arrest, despite the man surrendering and holding his hands up.

Palestinian teenager shot by Israeli troops in West Bank dies