B’Tselem: Israeli forces abuse Palestinian, force him to say ’Muhammad is a pig’
June 13, 2017 6:16 P.M. (Updated: June 13, 2017 6:16 P.M.)
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(...) Kanan added that soldiers finally stopped, at which point one said to Kanan “You’re a big-time terrorist. I’m going to shoot you.” Kanan said that he heard the soldier load his gun and felt the gun be placed on his head. “I was sure he was going to kill me,” he said.
Kanan said that the soldiers then beat him again, and “covered his legs with earth and then removed it.”
According to B’Tselem, he was also transferred to a tent and made to sit on the floor. The soldiers’ removed his blindfold and “forced him to say ‘Muhammad is pig’ and ‘Muhammad is a dog’, and snipped off bits of his hair with scissors.”
After the soldiers finally returned his identity card and removed his plastic cuffs, they left Kanan in an area unknown to the youth, after Kanan had told the soldiers he did not know how to get back to Nabi Saleh.
“Go on, go home. But there are Jews out there,” the soldier reportedly told Kanan. “If you run into them on your way back, they’ll beat you up even more. But you go to Nabi Saleh and tell them what happened to you.”
Kanan was then forced to hitchhike back to Nabi Saleh.
Kanan’s father, meanwhile, was only allowed a few seconds to speak with his son during Kanan’s detention, and was not informed by the soldiers where he was being held.
When Kanan’s father took him to the hospital in Salfit, he was “diagnosed with injuries to his upper torso, head, back, left knee and upper limbs,” and was kept in the hospital for a day and a half to treat the injuries.
“This abuse did not take place in a vacuum. It is part of a broader context,” B’Tselem concluded in their report. “Over the years, B’Tselem has documented many similar incidents of violence and abuse, which could not have taken place had the abusive soldiers not been aware that they would have the full support of senior military and government officials, and would not be held accountable for their actions.”