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It's irrefutable now it's on video
Palestinian family were beaten by colonists because their herd strayed near their colony.
- Gulf News
- Published: 00:01 June 14, 2008
Nothing demonstrates more vividly the depravities to which Israeli colonisers have sunk than the video of a family of Palestinians being beaten up by colonists from the nearby Jewish colony of Susia, near Hebron. The 70-year old shepherd, his 58-year old wife and a nephew, were viciously beaten by a group of four masked thugs, apparently because the Palestinians allowed their herd to stray too near the fence surrounding the township. No regard was observed on the illegality of the actions and, of course, no notice was taken of the age of the victims. The Palestinian shepherd and his family had a perfect right to be on the land as it has been farmed by them for decades. The people who had no right to being there were the attackers, the Jewish thugs.
We have knowledge of this beating because it was filmed on video, one of the first times such an event has been recorded, despite the number of times these incursions take place. It is only because the rights group B'Tselem, has been handing out videos and instructing Palestinians on how to use them, that we have witness to this event. But we can be sure there will be more footage of more beatings.
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