Israeli occupation soldiers who have recently arrived at a settlement
outpost near the West Bank city of Hebron exposed their rear ends to
Palestinians, Palestinian sources and foreign peace activists claimed
Sunday.
The Israeli internet website Ynet has even published exclusive footage of
the incident, which took place on January 11. Sean, the foreign peace
activist who filmed the Israeli troops, said activists and foreign
volunteers from the Christian Peacemaker Team were escorting Palestinians
in
the south Mount Hebron area to protect them from local Jewish settlers
when
the soldiers arrived. "It was around noon; we were accompanying shepherds
from the village of Tuba to a nearby Wadi, because the settlers regularly
hassle them and throw stones in our direction," he recounted, according to
Ynet.
"The settlers demanded that the shepherds evacuate the area, and Israeli
soldiers who arrived at the scene also attempted to clear the Palestinian
shepherds from their grazing fields; then, in the middle of the argument
and
for no apparent reason, the soldiers pulled down their pants and exposed
their rear ends to us."
On his part Arab Member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Ahmad Tibi
said
the footage was "Abu Ghraib prison (in Iraq), Israeli-style. the soldiers
of
any occupation are immoral by definition, but the Israeli soldiers who
exposed themselves have long been stripped of their humane values.
"It's not surprising that this vile act happened in the (West Bank city
of)
Hebron. The Israeli society should be shamed by this footage, especially
the
families who raised such monsters," added Tibi
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