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Don’t allow the voices of justice to be silenced…. Raise your own voice to stop this madness.
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| Israel denies mistreating Gaza reporter | ||
| Tue Jul 01 08:46:47 UTC 2008
JERUSALEM, July 1 (Reuters) – Israel denied on Tuesday allegations by a Palestinian journalist that he was abused and injured by Israeli security personnel while on his way home to the Gaza Strip after receiving a journalism award in Britain. Mohammed Omer said from his hospital bed on Monday that he was detained for nearly four hours at the Israeli-controlled Allenby Bridge when he crossed from Jordan into the occupied West Bank, en route to the Gaza Strip, on June 26. Omer said he was forced to strip to his underwear by an Israeli officer who then “snatched it down off me”. He said two officers dragged him by his legs, his head sweeping the floor, in front of other passengers, and that he vomited and fainted. An Israeli security official said a body search and an examination of Omer’s belongings were carried out “because of the suspicion that he had been in contact with hostile elements and had been asked by them to smuggle something in”. The official said Omer received “fair treatment and no irregular action was taken towards him” during the search. “At the end of the search, he lost his balance and fell, for some reason unknown to us. A team of medics, an ambulance and a paramedic were summoned and he was transferred for treatment to Jericho,” the official said. Omer, 24, received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, awarded to journalists who expose “establishment propaganda”, according to its Web site, at a ceremony in London on June 16. While in hospital in Jericho, in the West Bank, he contacted Dutch diplomats who had facilitated his trip to Europe, and they drove him to an Israeli border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Back in the Hamas-controlled territory, he was admitted to hospital where doctors said he had suffered a nervous breakdown and that several of his ribs had been broken. (Writing by Jeffrey Heller, Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Editing by Richard Balmforth) |
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Julie said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I hope Mohammed or the physicians took photos of his injuries in Jericho. Hard to get broken ribs in a fall, unless you “fell” to concrete from a great distance, or “fell” over a steel toed boot perhaps, or “fell” over the back of a hard chair…..Besides, since when do broken ribs induce lapses of consciousness? I broke a rib once, I never lost consciousness.
Do they honestly think they can keep up this charade forever?
desertpeace said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:23 pm
THINK?????
You give these animals way too much credit Julie.
Julie said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I stand corrected……
Julie said,
July 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27692
Reporters Without Borders statement and story. It also appears in French, Arabic and Spanish on their website.
escapefrombushistan said,
July 1, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Israel gov’t is just pissed because they got caught……….again.
Ger said,
July 1, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Unfortunately we cannot give Israel the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the brutality perpetrated against the news gatherers. The fact is that this is a common response by Israel when it comes to suppressing the truth or intimidating those who would seek to spread the truth. To suppose that any Israeli official from their Foreign Ministry or their minister of propaganda would give a rats ass what rest of the world thinks of their criminal behaviour is dreaming in Technicolor. We all know what the real solution is and that is for the Americans and the European Union to pull the plug from their war machine.
Katz Freedman said,
July 1, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I am sickened by the Shin Bet, more than I normally am, which is a usual state.
Get rid of Israel, all you supporters of Russian mafia stooges and toadies.
We need to cut off all aid to Israel.
No more will I look upon Israel, kindly.
Land thieves and murderers are not Jews.
Katz Freedman said,
July 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm
BTW, I won’t quickly forget that Mossad set those charges, on 9/11 via Urban Moving Systems, and then laughed and high five’d each other, lighting BIC lighters……I read that Congress just voted to give them MORE US MONEY.
This horrible Frankenstein, Israel, is no longer a viable place for support, unless you want to support atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Alan Cabal said,
July 1, 2008 at 7:47 pm
There is much more evidence linking Israel to 911 than there ever was or ever will be linking any Arab state to the attacks. Let’s give Israel a taste of our “shock and awe.”
schallb said,
July 1, 2008 at 9:02 pm
The world has to come to some conculsion on what to do about these acts . So what say you world??
Zionism is Dead said,
July 1, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Zionism is as good as DEAD. Zionism ENACTED THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS.
ISRAEL DESTROYED THE USS LIBERTY ON PURPOSE. True Jews would have withdrawn all their support after that day. Blowing up the USS Liberty was an ACT OF WAR AND MASS MURDER (GENOCIDE) something that IS NOT RIGHT.
Zionism is clearly totally dead, destroyed by the hands of the Turkish Zionists who act worse than Hitler himself and ruin the name of the Holy Land.
Google Al Gore Jeff Fisher
Zionist policy is DEAD, all humane people must break ties with this apartheid government and DIVEST from the Israeli companies doing it immediately!!!!!
hANOVER fIST said,
July 2, 2008 at 12:52 am
We need to contact Congress and inform them that they are committing TREASON by giving away a single penny to the state of Israel.
Giuliana Sgrena was nearly murdered by them.
Rachel Corrie WAS murdered by them.
Tom Hurndall was SHOT IN THE FACE WITH A ROCKET.
We should take at face value Israel’s denial?
I think NOT.
Rick said,
July 2, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Israel is a thief, liar and murderer yet as long as they control the U.S. we will continue to live under Israels rule. Exposing them every chance we get is one way of kicking them out of here.
Jack said,
July 29, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Typical AP, they are the most slanted news organization out there. Even now they prop up Bush, and every story comes to McCain’s aid while slamming Obama. Boycott the AP (of course that means boycott the mainstream media but that’s not a bad idea either)