A video footage on Wednesday confirmed an Israeli police canine mauling a Palestinian man throughout his arrest, Anadolu Information Company studies.
In an announcement, the Palestinian Fee of Detainees Affairs accused Israeli forces of intentionally letting the canine maul the younger Palestinian, though he was not resisting arrest.
“The occupation military intentionally let a police canine maul the younger man, Malik Mualla, and terrify him,” the fee stated.
It famous that the incident befell on 14 February, when Israeli forces arrested the 19-year-old in Umm Al-Sharait neighbourhood within the metropolis of Al-Bireh within the occupied West Financial institution.
The Fee stated the arrest befell when Israeli forces raided an industrial facility the place the detainee works as a guard.
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The video, filmed at night time, reveals the younger man elevating his palms as an indication of not resisting the arrest, whereas troopers aimed their rifles at him however but the troopers allowed the canine to briefly assault him earlier than they shielded him.
Qadri Abu Bakr, the Fee’s chairman, condemned the “repeated barbaric and prison assaults towards the Palestinian individuals whereas being arrested and brought away by occupation forces.”
He accused the Israeli military of “intentionally utilizing extreme pressure and extreme abuse” when conducting arrest operations in varied Palestinian cities, estimating that 99 per cent of these detained as being “subjected to a number of types of torture, repression, and bodily and psychological abuse.”
Based on Palestinian estimates, there are 4,500 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, together with 34 girls and 180 youngsters, and round 500 being held beneath Israel’s administrative detention coverage, which permits holding Palestinians with out cost or trial.
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