{"id":7052,"date":"2009-03-13T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2009-03-13T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:26:41","slug":"ordinary-palestinians-tortured-by-israelis-until-they-agree-to-spy-then-murdered-by-hamas-for-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary Palestinians Tortured By Israelis Until They Agree To Spy, Then Murdered By Hamas For Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jonathan Cook<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Masterminding this strategy is the Israeli secret police, the Shin Bet, which has recently turned its attention to sick Gazans and their relatives who need to leave the Strip. With hospitals and medicines in short supply, some patients have little hope of recovery without treatment abroad or in Israel.<\/p>\n

According to the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights, the Shin Bet is exploiting the distress of these families to pressure them to agree to collaborate in return for an exit permit.<\/p>\n

Last month, the group released details of 32 cases in which sick Gazans admitted they were denied permits after refusing to become informants.<\/p>\n

One is Shaban Abu Obeid, 38, whose pacemaker was installed at an Israeli hospital and needs intermittent maintenance by Israeli doctors. Another, Bassam Waheidi, 28, has gone blind in one eye after he refused to co-operate and was denied a permit. […]<\/p>\n

As with other occupation regimes, Israel has long relied on the most traditional way of recruiting collaborators: torture. While a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1999 banned torture, the evidence suggests the Shin Bet simply ignored the ruling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what happens once a Palestinian has been forced to collaborate with the human rights abusers ruling their lives? They then get killed by the other <\/em>set of human rights abusers ruling their lives. From Global Investment Watch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As Amnesty International reported in its paper, \u201cHamas\u2019 Deadly Campaign in the Shadow of the War in Gaza<\/a>,\u201d dozens of Palestinians have been killed or badly beaten and tortured by Hamas in the days surrounding the Israeli assault on Gaza. Hamas\u2019 disregard for the rule of law and human rights demonstrate its inability to function as a legitimate governing body and its failure to serve the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

As noted in the AI report<\/a>, Hamas targets include former detainees accused of \u201ccollaborating\u201d with the Israeli army who escaped from Gaza\u2019s central prison when it was bombed by Israeli forces on 28 December 2008. Other targets included former members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces and other activists of the Fatah party.<\/p>\n

Most of the victims were taken from their homes and killed by the Hamas militia. For those victims not summarily executed by gunshots to the head and chest, victims were often kneecapped, severely beaten or otherwise permanently disabled by their attackers. On some occasions, the killings took place in hospitals in the presence of uniformed Hamas officials. […]<\/p>\n

Should an informant fail in his duties, all Shin Bet needs to do is to let it be known that the informant \u201cwas\u201d a spy for Israel. Hamas will then take care of the problem created by its enemy across the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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