Is 'Genocide Joe' Listening To What The Palestinian Children Are Saying?
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
30 November
The
Released Children Of West Bank Recount The Horror Of Their Captivity In Israeli
Prisons
Main
Points:
1. The western
media has not told their stories of pain and torture.
2. The
prisoners were beaten to death.
3. Even old men
were beaten to death in Israeli prisons.
4. Most of them
were put into jails for throwing stones.
5. They were
threatened not to celebrate their release.
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A Red Cross vehicle carrying released hostages
drives towards the Rafah border point with Egypt on Nov. 28.Photographer:
Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
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The
Israel-Hamas war has exposed not only the hypocrisy of the Islamic world but
also the hypocrisy of the West. The US and the UK present themselves as the
flag bearers and upholders of human rights but this war has exposed their
hypocrisy and proved that human rights is only a diplomatic and political tool
for them. The US has long used this tool to further its political interests in
the world. But it has killed millions of innocent civilians in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Syria and Vietnam for its military and political goals. It is now
looking for an opportunity or alibi to destroy Syria, the last post of
resistance in the Middle East. And to achieve its objective, it has destroyed a
large part of the country and killed millions of civilians in the name of finishing
off terrorist organisations active in the region.
In the
ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the US president Joe Biden has
demonstrated his hypocrisy and allowed the Netanyahu government to carry on
with the genocide of the Palestinians winning for himself the sobriquet of
'Genocide Joe'. On the pretext of defending itself, Israel started bombarding
Gaza and destroyed almost half of Gaza and rendered 75 per cent of people
homeless.
Israel
committed large scale violation of human rights and rules of war but the US
president Joe Biden aka Genocide Joe pretended not to see. He ignored the
slaughter of infants in hospitals by the IDF, cutting off electricity to the
patients in the ICU and restricting medicine and treatment to them. The IDF
dropped bombs on women and children gathered at Rafah border in the hope of
exit The IDF bombed Al Ahli Hospital, Jenin refugee camp, Jabalia refugee camp,
Al Shifa Hospital and Indonesian Hospital. It bombed residential buildings in
Gaza without giving warning to the residents killing the whole families
occupying them.
The IDF has
killed more than 50 journalists in Gaza and even hit ambulances carrying
patients. In short, the war crimes of Israel's army and its leaders are
enormous and unforgivable.
The human
rights violations of the Netanyahu government not only during the ongoing war
but also in normal times in West Bank has been documented. The ongoing prisoner
swap between Israel and Hamas has also exposed the human rights violations by
the Israeli forces in West Bank and in the Israeli prisons. The children and
women released from Israeli prisons have narrated heart wrenching stories of
torture and humiliation in the prisons. Most of them had been arrested without
any charge under administrative detention, a common practice in West Bank. Some
of them were arrested just for throwing stones. They were jailed for 8 to 20
years and were forced to live in inhuman conditions. A 16 year old girl was
arrested and sentenced to 9 years in jail. She was released as part of the prisoner
swap after serving 8 years in prison. So the Israeli government released her
because she had already spent 8 years in prison. Another was also released
after 8 years. A woman Isra Jaabis was also released after 8 years. A boy was
spent 20 years in Israel's prison. Among the persons released is,a 14 year boy,
Ahmad Salaymeh was released with the warning that he should participate in
celebrations of his release. He was threatened that he would be arrested again
if he celebrated his released. He was arrested for throwing stones.
Another 18
year old boy narrated his tale of torture in the Israeli jail. He told a
reporter:
"The jailors came in to count us and we
put our hands on our heads (to save our heads). They started shouting on
microphones to scare us before entering. But no one reacted. When they entered,
they began beating me severely. I tried to push one away so he would focus on
some one (else) but he kept beating me. He hit me on the head and left torture
marks on my back and broke my hands. I was in pain on the floor for a week
relying on some one to help me drink water and eat. I was on the floor. They
didn't give me any treatment. They kept coming in and beat us targetting not
just me but others as well until their faces bled. Our room was like a war zone
to them. Every time they entered, it was as if they wanted to kill us. They
beat us with metal bars until they bent aiming at our heads and hands to break
them. They broke my fingers. All the hospital and doctors said my bones were
smashed and needed surgery. They would beat some until he died. Some prisoners
died. No one knows what happened to them. There was an old man (who died).I
forgot his name.”
Other
prisoners released have narrated similar stories of torture and death in
Israeli prisoners. They are kept hungry and are forced to live in inhumane
conditions.
The famous
journalist Gideon Levi says that the people of West Bank are picked up
regularly, at every night under administrative detention. The Israeli Zionists
consider Palestinians animals and consider themselves the chosen ones.
The Israeli
forces have picked up 3200 Palestinians from West Bank since October 7 and this
will continue. This prisoner swap has brought the brutal and barbaric face of
the Israeli and the US and UK governments hidden behind the poster of human
rights to prominent. The Israeli government did not know that it would have to
free them one day and the prisoners would tell their stories to the world. The
mainstream media has not showed their stories but the social media broadcast
all the atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli security forces. The western
media has only showed the 'ordeal' and 'nightmare' the Israeli hostages went
through for fifty days though the released Israelis do not have stories of
torture, starving and humiliation. Yes, some of them have lost weight which is
big news for them. The Jewish channel CNN showed a 7 minutes 17 seconds
interview of the father of the 9 year old Emily who had been kidnapped by Hamas
on October 7. The father is asked several questions but he does not say she was
beaten or kept without food. He tries his best to look very sad though his
daughter is back. Intriguingly, the channel does not interview Emily.
Many
Israelis describe the fifty day captivity of their loved ones as 'hell' but do
not say how the relatives or loved ones of the Palestinians whose sons and
daughters were kept in captivity for 8, 15 and even 20 years on false charges
and tortured, kept hungry and dehumanised every day would have felt.
No matter
what the outcome of this Israel-Hamas war is, the hypocrisy of the US and the
western world has been exposed. The atrocities and the barbaric face of Israel
has become more prominent because the social media has exposed their human
rights violations fully.
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