AT-TUWANI: Israeli police, accompanied by Israeli settlers, arrest Tuba resident
July 6th, 2009
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CPTnet
6 July 2009
AT-TUWANI: Israeli police, accompanied by Israeli settlers, arrest Tuba resident
[Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.]
In the early evening of Friday, 3 July, Israeli police detained a Palestinian from the village of Tuba, located in the South Hebron hills. Mohammed* was on his way to Yatta for a doctor's appointment. He stopped to speak with his brother, who, accompanied by members of the At-Tuwani team, was grazing the family flock on private Palestinian land beside the nearby village of At-Tuwani.
At 5:00 p.m., three Israeli settlers, accompanied by an Israeli police officer, approached the brothers. The police officer asked whose flock it was and Mohammed went forward to speak with him. A few minutes later, a police jeep arrived. One police officer told a member of the At-Tuwani team that the settlers had informed them that the Palestinians were “on Israeli land.”
Mohammed explained to the police officer that Palestinians owned the land on which his brother was grazing the sheep, but the police officer ignored him. The police officer then threatened to arrest an At-Tuwani team member videotaping the incident if she continued to film.
The police spent considerable time consulting with settlers and at 6:30 p.m. took the Palestinian shepherd to Kiryat Arba police station.
On 25 June, Israeli police, accompanied by Israeli settlers, arrested two Palestinian youth from Tuba who were grazing their sheep. They held Ahmed Omar Jundyye, age 15, and Redwan Ibrahim Jundyye, age 16 at Kiryat Arba police station for nearly five hours.
*Name has been changed
6 July 2009
AT-TUWANI: Israeli police, accompanied by Israeli settlers, arrest Tuba resident
[Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.]
In the early evening of Friday, 3 July, Israeli police detained a Palestinian from the village of Tuba, located in the South Hebron hills. Mohammed* was on his way to Yatta for a doctor's appointment. He stopped to speak with his brother, who, accompanied by members of the At-Tuwani team, was grazing the family flock on private Palestinian land beside the nearby village of At-Tuwani.
At 5:00 p.m., three Israeli settlers, accompanied by an Israeli police officer, approached the brothers. The police officer asked whose flock it was and Mohammed went forward to speak with him. A few minutes later, a police jeep arrived. One police officer told a member of the At-Tuwani team that the settlers had informed them that the Palestinians were “on Israeli land.”
Mohammed explained to the police officer that Palestinians owned the land on which his brother was grazing the sheep, but the police officer ignored him. The police officer then threatened to arrest an At-Tuwani team member videotaping the incident if she continued to film.
The police spent considerable time consulting with settlers and at 6:30 p.m. took the Palestinian shepherd to Kiryat Arba police station.
On 25 June, Israeli police, accompanied by Israeli settlers, arrested two Palestinian youth from Tuba who were grazing their sheep. They held Ahmed Omar Jundyye, age 15, and Redwan Ibrahim Jundyye, age 16 at Kiryat Arba police station for nearly five hours.
*Name has been changed
