AT-TUWANI: Shepherd tortured for five hours by Israeli soldiers and police

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CPTnet
12 January 2010
AT-TUWANI: Shepherd tortured for five hours by Israeli soldiers and police

 

On 7 January 2010, soldiers detained Musab Musa Raba’i after attacking him and members of his family as they were complying with the soldiers’ order to move their flocks off their family-owned land.(See 8 January 2010 release, AT-TUWANI: Israeli soldiers attack and injure Palestinian shepherds and CPTers; arrest Musa Raba’i)

The same eight soldiers who arrested Raba’i and attacked his family took him to a military base at the nearby Suseya settlement.  For four hours, soldiers struck him in the back, in the face, and slammed him into walls.  The soldiers questioned him about his brothers.  Raba’i refused to give any information and refused to speak Hebrew with the soldiers, which infuriated them.  The soldiers told him that they would come to his house in the following days and beat or kill him and his brothers.  They tried to force him to say that they were the best soldiers in the IDF and beat him when he would not.  Raba’i told CPTers the soldiers tied his hands and feet, blindfolded him, and sat him on a chair.  Raba’i put his head in his lap, in an attempt to protect his head and his genitals, and refused to lift it.  He said that at one point, a soldier cocked his rifle and told him to lift his head or he would shoot him.  Raba’i refused.  When another soldier tried to bring him food and water, as the military is legally obligated to do in such situations, the soldiers who were torturing him swore at the soldier and told him to leave.  The soldiers also refused to allow Raba’i to pray.

After four hours of this interrogation and torture, they took Raba’i to Israeli police station in Kiryat Arba settlement. The Israeli police told him that they usually offer detainees food and water, but were giving him nothing because they wanted to punish him.  They said that if they ever saw his face again, they would kill him.  After thirty minutes, the police tied his hands and feet, blindfolded him, drove him to a location unknown to him and threw him out of the jeep.  Fearing that soldiers, police or settlers might see him, he hid in a bush until he saw his family’s car.

Raba’i was able to call his family, who, accompanied by CPTers, found him and brought him home.

For photos of Raba’i’s injuries click here.

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