THE SLEEPING GIANT AWAKENS…. SLOWLY

July 1, 2008 at 7:19 am (Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Media, Palestine, Torture, zionist harassment)

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer lies in his hospital bed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip June 30, 2008. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

FINALLY!!!! Almost four days after the news broke about the incidents surrounding the torture and beating of a well known Palestinian journalist, the ’story’ is finding itself on the pages of some of the Corporate Media’s outlets.

OK… it was the weekend, in some countries a Holiday weekend… but that does mean the world gets ‘put on hold’ for a few days? Such actions are to be expected from the Israeli press, but from the major media outlets in the West?

Even the Arab press, including AlJzeera has not printed one word about the incident. WHY???? Also silent has been newspapers that Mohammed Omer has written for in the past. WHY????

Below is the first report from a major news source…. one that in the past has been close to the situation having lost a reporter at the hands of the zionist terrorists. Let’s hope that Reuters will gently nudge it’s fellow journalists to start reporting about this.

Gaza reporter: Israeli security officials broke my ribs

Palestinian journalist says was strip-searched, detained for nearly four hours after crossing into Israel from Jordan; ‘ they wanted to humiliate me. I collapsed in tears,’ Mohammed Omer recounts

Reuters

A Palestinian journalist said from his hospital bed on Monday that Israeli security personnel abused him and broke his ribs on his way home to the Gaza Strip after receiving a journalism award in Britain.

Mohammed Omer, who writes for the pro-Palestinian Washington Report, said he was strip-searched and detained for nearly four hours at the Israeli-controlled Allenby Bridge when he crossed from Jordan into the West Bank, en route to the Gaza Strip, on June 26.

“They wanted to humiliate me. I collapsed in tears … I had to throw up twice and I fainted twice,” Omer said. “They asked silly questions about everything I had done during my trip to London and Europe and they made fun of me.”

An Israeli government spokesman declined immediate comment and said he would look into the incident.

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.

Omer said that at the Allenby Bridge, 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.

After he vomited and fainted, Israeli security personnel summoned a Palestinian ambulance to take him to hospital.

At a hospital in nearby Jericho, 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.

Also from Reuters….
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer lies in his hospital bed ...

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer lies in his hospital bed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip June 30, 2008. Omer said on Monday that he was abused and injured by Israeli security personnel on his way home to the Gaza Strip after receiving a journalism award in Britain. Omer, who writes for the pro-Palestinian Washington Report, said he was strip-searched and 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.


THIS report is from the U.N. Observer

1 Comment

  1. dear omer said,

    July 4, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    its not a movement antiwar that will make peace
    it wil be with a movement pro peace.

    remember us job its to promote peace not war
    so we need to change our vision, its more than 60 year its time to stop
    this bloodnes, and will not be especulatin press that make the diference
    remember more jews and more arabs in the history dead in the pass, that now
    we are close so much to be in peace.

    think about

    beno


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