Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Adding Torture to Injury

Una terrificante testimonianza su come vengono considerati e trattati i 
palestinesi in Israele: pezzi di carne, a volte utili, a volte inutili.
Questo alla stragrande maggioranza dei bravi cittadini israeliani non 
interessa: ritengono evidentemente più importante il loro tenore di vita 
rispetto alla vita dei palestinesi.  Ma non interessa nemmeno alla 
stragrande maggioranza della Diaspora, per la quale evidentemente sono 
più importanti altre cose rispetto al modo in cui le istituzioni di 
Israele concepiscono e trattano quella certa sottocategoria di 
fastidiosi esseri umani che sono gli arabi palestinesi.
Ora, se persino in un paese come l'Italia, che non brilla certo in fatto 
di civiltà, il caso di un ragazzo morto in seguito alle percosse 
ricevute in una prigione, Stefano Cucchi, tiene per settimane le prime 
pagine dei giornali e suscita ondate di indignazione, cosa si deve 
pensare di una società che non si scandalizza affatto del trattamento 
inumano, dei ricatti odiosi, della ostentazione del potere di vita e di 
morte, che vengono riservati ad una persona due volte disgraziata: per 
essere ferita fisicamente e per essere nata in un paese occupato? Io 
direi che è una società marcia, inumana.
E cosa pensare delle persone che, pur non facendone parte, ma potendo 
conoscere il marcio che corrompe quella società, continuano a dargli il 
loro sostegno?  Io dico che sono complici della cancrena e marci anche loro.
Non so quanti si rendano conto dell'entità della tragedia alla quale 
stiamo assistendo: duemila anni di cammino attraverso mille persecuzioni 
e, infine, questo.  E' terribile.
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Adding Torture to Injury
By Pam Bailey
GAZA, Apr 14, 2010 (IPS) - It was bad enough that Ahmad Asfour was 
severely maimed by an Israeli drone strike outside his house on Jan. 9, 
2009. But, his search for advanced treatment landed the journalism 
student, now 19, in Israeli prison where he remains.
According to Mahmud Abo Rahma of the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, 
not many Palestinians are arrested as Ahmed was, but it is increasingly 
common for patients entering Israel to be denied treatment unless the 
patient or family agrees to collaborate.
Al Mezan has joined the Physicians for Human Rights and the ADALA Centre 
(which defends the rights of Palestinian Arabs in Israel) to charge 
Israel with blackmailing Palestinian patients in Gaza, exploiting their 
need for medical treatment to pressure them into collaborating with its 
intelligence agencies.  
Ahmad and four teenaged cousins were hit by fragments from a missile 
fired by an Israeli drone, east of Khan Younis, in the southern region 
of the Gaza Strip, just 14 days after Israel launched its massive, 
22-day assault on the densely populated strip of land wedged between 
Israel and Egypt. The fragments lodged in his left eye, broke his jaw, 
shattered his teeth, severely lacerated both hands and right thigh, 
destroyed his genitals, and damaged his pancreas and intestines.  
His father, Samir, was in Egypt at the time with one of Ahmad’s 
brothers, who had been injured just eight days before. Due to the siege 
imposed by Israel since Hamas took control in 2007, medical care in Gaza 
is often inadequate. Gazans have been unable to repair the 15 (out of 
27) hospitals and 43 (of 110) primary healthcare facilities damaged in 
last year’s Israeli invasion, because of the ban on importation of 
construction materials.
Treatment in Egypt is not advanced and, according to Abo Rahma, the risk 
of contracting Hepatitis C is significant. Getting permission to enter 
Israel is difficult for Palestinians during normal times, and it was 
impossible during and immediately after the invasion. Even a year later, 
the UN reports that almost a quarter of the 1,103 patients who had 
sought permits for treatment in Israel in December 2009 were denied or 
delayed. As a result, 27 patients died while awaiting referral last year.
Ahmad and his cousins were rushed to the local hospital by his oldest 
brother, and the medical director sent them immediately to Egypt. Ahmad 
spent the next eight months there, but little could be done. In fact, 
because of the damage to his pancreas and the lack of appropriate 
treatment, he soon developed diabetes. 
Doctors caring for Ahmad recommended he travel to Germany. But there was 
a catch: Ahmad needed a visa, and for that he was required to go to Tel 
Aviv - an impossibility for Gazans.
Finally, one physician suggested a hospital in Jerusalem, St. Joseph’s. 
As part of the approval process, Samir took his wheelchair-bound son to 
the Erez Crossing into Israel on Nov. 23. After waiting four hours, they 
were turned away, and told to return two days later. When they arrived, 
they were subjected to a harrowing ordeal.
"Here I am with my injured son, terrified about his health, and we were 
forced to remove all of our clothes so we could be strip searched. Then 
they took my son away from me," recounted Samir through an interpreter. 
"Ahmad needed insulin every two hours, but I couldn’t give it to him…The 
next thing I know he is in shackles! They took the medication I had 
brought for Ahmed and all the money I had collected from charities 
(about US$2,500) and he was gone."
It was 20 days, says Samir, before he finally found out what had 
happened to his son, after he sought help from human rights organizations.
Lawyers from the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights discovered that other 
young men who had gone before Ahmad to Erez and been interrogated had 
apparently implicated him, claiming he had been in possession of a gun 
and an explosive for one of the Gaza-based militias. (Samir claims the 
"explosive" was actually his son’s insulin vials.)
Ahmad maintained his innocence during his four hours of interrogation at 
Erez, and as a result, he was transferred to an Israeli prison in 
Ashkelon. After five consecutive days of further interrogation, Ahmad 
could take no more and confessed. The charges: " membership in a 
terrorist organization, observation of and passing information to the 
enemy, providing services for a terrorist organization and possession of 
firearms."
"He was subjected to practices that we consider torture and ill 
treatment, mainly in the form of forced stress positions for long hours, 
such as sitting on a chair with hands cuffed behind," the Al Mezan legal 
team said in a response to an inquiry. "Torture is unconscionable at any 
time, but it is particularly cruel when the victim is already medically 
vulnerable."
Samir, who receives information on his son from the attorneys and the 
Red Cross, said he learned later that his son had been told that his 
father was in jail as well, and that therefore he must cooperate with 
the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. Meanwhile, Physicians 
for Human Rights learned that Ahmad was being denied all medical 
treatment except for his insulin, and has been advocating on his behalf. 
Samir says the latest news he received is that one of his son’s arms may 
need to be amputated.
Today, Ahmed is still in prison, although he has been transferred to 
Beersheba. Based on his "confession," he was offered a plea bargain of 
33 months incarceration or a shortened list of charges with sentencing 
to be determined. He rejected the "bargain" and at a Mar. 24 session, 
the court set a new hearing for June, to allow the prosecution to call 
its witnesses - the police who conducted the interrogation.
"Every Palestinian has the right to health, which is enshrined in 
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Al Mezan 
stated in a March 2009 report. "This right must be provided without any 
conditions hinged to it, a principle that Israel repeatedly violates. 
The Shin Bet has on numerous occasions pressured Palestinians in need of 
external medical treatment to become informants in exchange for 
permission to leave Gaza.’’
According to Physicians for Human Rights, agents interrogate Gazans who 
want to enter Israel for medical care about their relatives, neighbors 
and friends; those who don't cooperate often don't get travel clearance. 
It has received reports from 32 patients in Gaza who say they were 
denied permission to leave for refusing to cooperate with Israeli 
questioners at the Erez Crossing by answering questions about the 
political affiliations of relatives, friends and acquaintances.
Samir has hired an Israeli attorney to plead his son’s case, but so far 
doesn’t have the money to pay her. He will sell his house, he says, if 
he has to.
"My son is not guilty!" exclaims Samir in frustration and pain. "If my 
son was a militant, would I have tried to take him through Erez? He is 
just a boy who needs treatment, who is being used as part of their game."
(END)
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The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters 
of Israel everywhere to
become cyberspace soldiers "in the new battleground for Israel's image."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378505678&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 palestinesi in Israele: pezzi di carne, a volte utili, a volte inutili.
che a volte risorgono
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-04-07T06%3A42%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=20

 
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-04-07T06%3A4.
..
grazie dell'ennesima dimostrazione che Gesù era palestinese, e non
ebreo...:D