Friday, March 14, 2014

 



B'Tselem field researchers Manal Ja'abri and Musa Abu Hashhash
encountered soldiers detaining two eight-year-old boys at the entrance
to al-'Arrub refugee camp: Ahmad al-Ghreidi and Hilmi al-Ghreidi. Manal
Ja'abri began documenting the incident with her video camera and
insisted on her right to do so, after soldiers initially tried to
prevent her from filming. The children were released some ten minutes
later. A lieutenant who was on the scene spoke to the children
throughout the incident, although he had been explicitly told that they
do not understand Hebrew. Speaking ostensibly pleasantly, clearly acting
for the camera, he then proceeded to insult Ja'abri. After that, he and
another soldier had their photographs taken with her, without her
consent - as one said, "just like in the zoo".

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