Australian Documentary - Israel torturing Palestinian Children

SYDNEY – Jewish leaders in Australia have launched a blistering attack on a “quasi-documentary” they claim was a “blanket demonization” of Israel “laced with sensationalism, inadequate skepticism and fact-checking.”


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.574802




http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=55&x_article=2649

She Is 11 Months Old, Israel Just Put Her In Jail

11-month-old Balqis Ghawadra just became the youngest prisoner in the world, when Israeli authorities jailed her after visiting her father in Eshel Israeli prison, occupied Beer Sheva.

Balqis was arrested alongside her sister and mother on Wednesday 26th November 2014 as they arrived for a long awaited visit with the children’s father.

As the International Middle East Media Center reports:

   Nihal Ghannam Ghawadra from Bir Al-Basha village, near Jenin, waited passionately for the permission to visit her husband, Mu’ammar, only to be separated from her two little children, and to see her entire family become prisoners, Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights reports.

   According to the PNN, Nihal headed to the prison on Wednesday, with her daughter Balqis, 11 months, and son Baraa’, age 2. As soon as she arrived, the three were separated.

   Nihal was imprisoned, along with her two children, under the pretext of sneaking a mobile phone to her husband. The entire family has now been imprisoned, as a result.

Local and international human rights agencies are now scrambling to support the family and push for their release.

Mu’ammar Ghawadra was one of many thousands of Palestinians released in 2011, under the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Palestinian resistance, only to be re-arrested without charge over the Summer. He had already served 8 years of a life sentence.

More than 720,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been through the system since Israel began occupying the Palestinian Territories in 1967.

A Unicef report last October, reported that during interrogation by Israeli Security Forces, Palestinian children had been “threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault, against themselves or a family member” in efforts to gain confessions for alleged offenses, most commonly for throwing stones.

Fourteen year old Qsai Zamara says he was taken from his bed, in the middle of the night by the Israeli Army and transported to an Israeli prison.

   “There was this big machine with all the electric wires in it, connected to the electricity. He wanted to give me electric shock with it,” he said

Fifteen year old Fathi Mahfouz says he was arrested under false pretenses and taken to an Israeli prison where he also received electric shocks.

   “Because I didn’t confess he sent me to a room that has a cross in it, and hung me on it. I was hung and he kept hitting me,” he said.

These stories have become achingly familiar to Australian barrister Gerard Horton, who has interviewed hundreds of Palestinian children through his organization Military Court Watch. He says these ordeals are a regular occurrence across the West Bank.

   “[In one incident] someone put food on his genitals and the dog was then made to eat the food off that part of his trousers,” Mr Horton said.

   “[One] particular interrogator specialises in threatening children with rape, and he makes very specific allegations.

   “He will name someone who apparently is waiting outside the interrogation room who will, if the child doesn’t confess, will come in and rape that child.”

Prominent Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky, who specializes in cases of Palestinian children in the Israeli justice system argues that as part of its intelligence gathering process, Israel has begun ‘mapping’ children. This means the systematic kidnap and arrest of children in order to gain an unprecedented level of control and intelligence over the next generation of Palestinians. Of course, they are devastating that generation in the process.

This is the despicable process which has now ensnared 11-month-old Balqis Ghawadra, before her life has even really begun.

The UNICEF report found that:

   “the ill-treatment of children who come in contact with the military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized throughout the process, from the moment of arrest until the child’s prosecution and eventual conviction and sentencing.
   It is understood that in no other country are children systematically tried by juvenile military courts that, by definition, fall short of providing the necessary guarantees to ensure respect for their rights.”

It is inconceivable that a generation of children, broken and traumatized by Israeli Security forces throughout their childhoods, will likely grow into a generation of adults who see peace and co-existence with such brutal an occupier as either possible or desirable. With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future.

http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2014/11/28/she-is-11-months-old-israel-just-put-her-in-jail/


Of course, Israel always hates it when what it is doing is exposed and screams blue murder.  But truth will out, and it comes out more and more.    And thankfully, human rights groups IN ISRAEL are telling it like it is:

An Israeli human rights organisation has accused the government of torturing Palestinian children after it emerged some were kept in outdoor cages during winter.

Web link http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-government-tortures-palestinian-children-by-keeping-them-in-cages-human-rights-group-says-9

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) published a report which claimed children suspected of minor crimes were subjected to “public caging”, threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation.

It came as the government’s Public Petitions Committee held a hearing to discuss the issue, which the PCATI said must be addressed with a change to the law.

The country’s Public Defender’s Office (PDO) recently released details of one particularly shocking visit by its lawyers to a detention facility.

“During our visit, held during a fierce storm that hit the state, attorneys met detainees who described to them a shocking picture: in the middle of the night dozens of detainees were transferred to the external iron cages built outside the IPS transition facility in Ramla,” the PDO wrote on its website.

“It turns out that this procedure, under which prisoners waited outside in cages, lasted for several months, and was verified by other officials.”

According to the Jerusalem Post, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called for the practice of keeping children in cages to be stopped as soon as she learned of it, and the prison service issued a statement saying the situation had been improved following the “criticism”.

The PCATI said this was not enough, and called for the country’s relatively high threshold for what can be classed “acts of abuse” to be lowered in the case of children.

Their report argued: “Torture is a means of attacking an individual’s fundamental modes of psychological and social functioning” as described in the Istanbul Protocol. Furthermore, “torture can impact a child directly or indirectly. The impact can be due to the child’s having been tortured or detained, the torture of parents or close family members or witnessing torture and violence.”

It said the incident in Ramla was just one example of a broad range of abuses being suffered.

Yesterday the Knesset committee said Israeli law as it currently exists was being violated by the manner of arrest and detention conditions of Palestinian children, the Post reported.

The committee also took issue with the fact that the government appeared not to keep records of the frequency or scope of disputed practices like midnight arrests.

The PCATI said: “The majority of Palestinian child detainees are charged with throwing stones, and 74 per cent experience physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation.”

It said Israel was the only country to systematically prosecute children in its military courts, and added that “no Israeli children come into contact with the military court system”.



FURTHER INFORMATION:

   Visit CRIN's page on Occupied Territory of Palestine
   Read more about CRIN's campaign to end the inhuman sentencing of children.

Yet more jackanory.

Brasidas wrote:Yet more jackanory.

Why don't you believe it?

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:Yet more jackanory.

Why don't you believe it?

Believe what Eddie?
A woman who sole purpose is to make people hate Israel?
Who sole purpose that this nation ceases to exist?

Most of what she posts is mere hearsay claims and what do you think happens to the view of Jews held by people by such claims to make out they as a nation are monsters?
You need to understand what is going on, Sassy does not care one bit to the reprecussions of the propaganda she backs or its consequences, all shes wants is for the Palestinains to have control of the whole are as she thinks wrongly that the whole land belongs to them.
She is obsessed, she sees only one side and end to this, that is the stupidity of her goal.
I want to see peace and by both sides, she fails to see what hate she creates

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:Yet more jackanory.

Why don't you believe it?

Believe what Eddie?
A woman who sole purpose is to make people hate Israel?
Who sole purpose that this nation ceases to exist?

Most of what she posts is mere hearsay claims and what do you think happens to the view of Jews held by people by such claims to make out they as a nation are monsters?
You need to understand what is going on, Sassy does not care one bit to the reprecussions of the propaganda she backs or its consequences, all shes wants is for the Palestinains to have control of the whole are as she thinks wrongly that the whole land belongs to them.
She is obsessed, she sees only one side and end to this, that is the stupidity of her goal.
I want to see peace and by both sides, she fails to see what hate she creates

Okay, you have that view of sassy, that's your perorgative.....but why did you not believe the article?
An 11 month old baby put in to jail?

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Believe what Eddie?
A woman who sole purpose is to make people hate Israel?
Who sole purpose that this nation ceases to exist?

Most of what she posts is mere hearsay claims and what do you think happens to the view of Jews held by people by such claims to make out they as a nation are monsters?
You need to understand what is going on, Sassy does not care one bit to the reprecussions of the propaganda she backs or its consequences, all shes wants is for the Palestinains to have control of the whole are as she thinks wrongly that the whole land belongs to them.
She is obsessed, she sees only one side and end to this, that is the stupidity of her goal.
I want to see peace and by both sides, she fails to see what hate she creates

Okay, you have that view of sassy, that's your perorgative.....but why did you not believe the article?
An 11 month old baby put in  to jail?

Do you believe everthing you read failing to understand if their is an agenda b ehind it and it fails to back an validity to any truth Eddie?
Was an 11 month old baby really put in jail?
Is that what you truly want to believe or is there even a case to answer that?
Seriously, why would anyone need to incarcerate a baby?
It is a lie, nothing more short of it. Was the baby taken for a reason no doubt for its own protection, I, of that I have no doubt but to claim the child was imprisoned is sheer bollocks Eddie, those twisting words to instill hate. You still cannot graps that can you?
If you really believe that was the case then it shows how powerful the ability is of persusaion is on you.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Believe what Eddie?
A woman who sole purpose is to make people hate Israel?
Who sole purpose that this nation ceases to exist?

Most of what she posts is mere hearsay claims and what do you think happens to the view of Jews held by people by such claims to make out they as a nation are monsters?
You need to understand what is going on, Sassy does not care one bit to the reprecussions of the propaganda she backs or its consequences, all shes wants is for the Palestinains to have control of the whole are as she thinks wrongly that the whole land belongs to them.
She is obsessed, she sees only one side and end to this, that is the stupidity of her goal.
I want to see peace and by both sides, she fails to see what hate she creates

Okay, you have that view of sassy, that's your perorgative.....but why did you not believe the article?
An 11 month old baby put in  to jail?

Do you believe everthing you read failing to understand if their is an agenda b ehind it and it fails to back an validity to any truth Eddie?
Was an 11 month old baby really put in jail?
Is that what you truly want to believe or is there even a case to answer that?
Seriously, why would anyone need to incarcerate a baby?
It is a lie, nothing more short of it. Was the baby taken for a reason no doubt for its own protection, I, of that I have no doubt but to claim the child was imprisoned is sheer bollocks Eddie, those twisting words to instill hate. You still cannot graps that can you?
If you really believe that was the case then it shows how powerful the ability is of persusaion is on you.

Whoa! Hold on mister! I'm only asking you why you called the story "jackanory"???
Why are you using me as your kicking post?

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Do you believe everthing you read failing to understand if their is an agenda b ehind it and it fails to back an validity to any truth Eddie?
Was an 11 month old baby really put in jail?
Is that what you truly want to believe or is there even a case to answer that?
Seriously, why would anyone need to incarcerate a baby?
It is a lie, nothing more short of it. Was the baby taken for a reason no doubt for its own protection, I, of that I have no doubt but to claim the child was imprisoned is sheer bollocks Eddie, those twisting words to instill hate. You still cannot graps that can you?
If you really believe that was the case then it shows how powerful the ability is of persusaion is on you.

Whoa! Hold on mister! I'm only asking you why you called the story "jackanory"???
Why are you using me as your kicking post?

Do not ask me a very stupid question, if you are not going to like the answer.
Is that simple enough?

Because that is what he does when things are posted that beat his views into the ground and show him up for the prejudiced little racist he is. So many Jewish people are now fighting for the Palestinans because they are disgusted at what is being done in their name. Thousands took to the streets in American cities because they understand the terrorism that is perpetually unleashed on people in Gaza and the West Bank and they have no wish to be associated with it. Israel is now a terrorist state. Israel, not Jews. Jews make up a large number of the people fighting it, bothing inside and outside Israel.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Do you believe everthing you read failing to understand if their is an agenda b ehind it and it fails to back an validity to any truth Eddie?
Was an 11 month old baby really put in jail?
Is that what you truly want to believe or is there even a case to answer that?
Seriously, why would anyone need to incarcerate a baby?
It is a lie, nothing more short of it. Was the baby taken for a reason no doubt for its own protection, I, of that I have no doubt but to claim the child was imprisoned is sheer bollocks Eddie, those twisting words to instill hate. You still cannot graps that can you?
If you really believe that was the case then it shows how powerful the ability is of persusaion is on you.

Whoa! Hold on mister! I'm only asking you why you called the story "jackanory"???
Why are you using me as your kicking post?

Do not ask me a very stupid question, if you are not going to like the answer.
Is that simple enough?

Who said I didn't like the answer?
I didnt like your tone.
And my question wasn't stupid either.

But I will avoid you tonight mate as you're obviously wound up.

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Do not ask me a very stupid question, if you are not going to like the answer.
Is that simple enough?

Who said I didn't like the answer?
I didnt like your tone.
And my question wasn't stupid either.

But I will avoid you tonight mate as you're obviously wound up.  

It was very stupid if you believe the Israeli's would imprison a baby.
You see this is why I will belittle you when you come out with crap claiming I am wound up?
Not at all, it pains me to have to dumb down things to someone so utterly naive.

He is also racist in the way he will not accept anything that a news outlet that is not Western says. Apparently, only Western news services tell the truth.

How fucking racist is that!

Belittle me?
Wow.

eddie wrote:Belittle me?
Wow.

Penny dropped then?

risingsun wrote:He is also racist in the way he will not accept anything that a news outlet that is not Western says.   Apparently, only Western news services tell the truth.

How fucking racist is that!

Oh do pipe down you utter Nazi, you hate the Jews because of your utter stupidity you portay Israel as one with Jews with your hate for a Governement and fail to see how this creates more antisemtism.
The Israel government rightly deserves criticism, but you do not as do the press portray stories that way and you fail to see how you create further hate against the jews, mainly as you are so self obsessed.

Do you want to know what I am annoyed about Eddie?
How Stassi continues to posty lies daily like this video not giving one care that it is a lie and it is what is used by those who wish to wipe out the Jews.
She is that utterly stupid she fails to see the consequences of the lies she backs and promotes and does it in such a way it is the Jews who are claimed.
Again Israel is not without blame and has done wrongs, but her hate campaign is something I am never going to tolerate. Some has utterly ignorant as she is needs to be countered, because she sows the seeds for further hate.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:Belittle me?
Wow.

Penny dropped then?

Man I am going totally have to up my arrogance game to compete with you Brasadis

veya_victaous wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:Belittle me?
Wow.

Penny dropped then?

Man I am going totally have to up my arrogance game to compete with you Brasadis

He is incredibly rude sometimes. Hey ho.