By: atheo on: 24.01.2008
The beating and arrest of a human rights worker by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday were a part of "a policy of systematically harassing human rights defenders," the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem said on Sunday.
B'Tselem fieldworker Issa Amro was assaulted, then detained by the Israeli military while filming a group of Israeli settlers while they attacked a Palestinian home.
Witnesses told Ma'an's reporter that four women and two children were also injured when settlers pelted Palestinian homes with stones in Hebron's Wadi Abu Hussain neighborhood.
"Although a large force of soldiers and police were present," B'Tselem said "they did nothing to protect the Palestinians and remove the settlers. Two B'Tselem workers were filming the incident from across the street, where they stood along with a number of Palestinians and international activists.
A lieutenant colonel approached 'Amro and "demanded that he stop filming. A group of settler women then gathered around the B'Tselem workers and two of them tried to grab Amro's camera. A number of soldiers joined in the fray, beat 'Amro and then arrested him. They then took him to an army jeep and beat him again."
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