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Israel tortures Fwd: Israel tortures three Palestinian youths to death (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 01:55:01 -0800
Subject: Fwd: Israel tortures three Palestinian youths to death
>ISRAEL TORTURES THREE PALESTINIAN YOUTHS TO DEATH
>AMJ Urges State Department, Congress to investigate
>
>(Washington, DC, 1/7/2002) – On Tuesday, January 3rd, Israeli military
>occupation authorities delivered the mutilated bodies of three Palestinian
>youths, aged 15, 16 and 16, to the Palestinian Authority. According to
>doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the youths were taken
>alive by the Israelis and tortured to death. Captured on December 30,
>Israeli authorities issued death certificates 3 days later, on January
>2nd. Doctors report that the boys' bodies were severely mutilated, with
>marks of torture all over their bodies. According to Dr. Mu'awyeh
>Hassanain, 16-year-old Mohammad Lubad's body was returned with "no skull,
>no brain, and no eyes, just the skin of his head. It was a scene that I
>cannot describe." (Palestine Media Center, 1/5/2002)
>
>"While the United States remains isolated in its continued rejection of an
>international protection force, Israel has free rein to torture and kill
>Palestinian civilians at will," said American Muslims for Jerusalem
>Executive Director Khalid Turaani. "This inhuman act underscores the
>brutality of Israel's military occupation and its blatant disregard for
>Palestinian life. The time has come for the United States to join the
>international community in condemning these crimes and demonstrating that
>it does not deem Palestinian life less sacred than Israeli," he continued.
>
>The lack of accountability within Israel's military leaves Palestine's
>civilian population at the mercy of an army that has demonstrated it is
>capable of this type of brutality. A recent review by the Los Angeles
>Times of several civilian deaths "reveals a pattern of questionable
>Israeli military action and minimal inquiry into what went wrong, as well
>as little if any disciplinary action." (Los Angeles Times, "Israeli
>Activists Urge Army to Probe Civilian Slayings" by Tracy Wilkinson,
>12/31/2001)
>
>In the past 15 months, Israel has killed more than 900 Palestinians. One
>third of those killed were children under the age of 18. Human rights
>organizations report that more than 85 percent of the Palestinians killed
>by Israel in this uprising alone were civilians. 95 percent were killed
>when no clashes were taking place or while engaged in nonviolent
>resistance activities.
>
>AMJ has contacted the State Department and Members of Congress to urge an
>investigation of this heinous incident and of Israel's record of human
>rights abuses in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
>
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