Troops humiliate Palestinians swept up in West Bank raid by referring to them only by their numbers instead of by name

When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.

They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.

Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.

“The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers.”

    • teft@lemmy.world
      8·
      29 days ago

      My side is proper use of language and not using rage bait or deception to try and get clicks.

      I have no dog in the israeli/palestinian conflict other than saying the israelis should stop committing war crimes and end apartheid.

      But keep making assumptions. It’s a good look on all of you. /s

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        8·
        29 days ago

        Sure.

        That’s why you gleefully announced you were blocking a person to close in your echo chamber more to ignore reality and why you refuse to look up the definition of brand and use a specific version that you want so you can claim it as wrong?

        1): a mark made by burning with a hot iron to attest manufacture or quality or to designate ownership (2): a printed mark made for similar purposes : trademark

        Cause printed would cover using a marker or tattoo on someone’s body. Literally.

        Or are you just upset people are upset at this and want to excuse it so that people are less so? If you have no fight in this leave and don’t respond to people here anymore. You are off topic and bad at vocabulary anyways and it’s distracting.