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"We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a fashionable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet.

"I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's the color of the soldiers who came to arrest me for the interrogation that did all this to me."

What does the interrogator Maimon tell his children when he goes home? What do Eldad and Sagiv tell their wives about their daily labors before they turn in? That they tortured another helpless prisoner until they turned him into a cripple? That they beat this charming young man brutally and that at the end of the interrogation he was tried for only marginal offenses? And where is the Supreme Court, which in 1999 prohibited precisely the chain of torture that Luwaii Sati Ashqar, 30, who was married three years ago, underwent in the Kishon detention facility?

Ashqar is not alone. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has just issued a new report containing the testimonies of nine torture victims (English version: www.stoptorture.org.il//eng ). As the authors of the shocking report say, the testimonies "paint a dismal picture in which can be discerned various categories of secret-keeping collaborators, who, in keeping silent, protect the [Shin Bet] system of torture." ...

On the wall is a picture, a fine drawing of a kneeling prisoner, his head between his knees. The caption: "I am in the darkness of the prison, living on your memory. I am far from you, lying in my bed, my spirit cruising your land all night. God will release all the prisoners, the strong will triumph."

Ashqar is sitting in his wheelchair, his left leg completely enclosed in a cast, his right leg shaking nonstop. When he tries to get up and lean on his crutches, he threatens to topple over. "I was married in 2004, and I started to work in aluminum in the village to provide for my new household. On April 22, 2005, at 2:30 A.M., the soldiers came and started to throw grenades and to shout for everyone in the house to go outside. They blindfolded me with whatever they use and handcuffed me. I was taken in a jeep to prison and I was examined by an army doctor. He looked over my body - no operations, doesn't take medication, no illnesses. Again I was taken in a military jeep, this time to Kishon. 'Yehuda, incoming,' the warder said and transferred me to the interrogation office. They opened my eyes: Good morning. An excellent morning. One of the interrogators, Maimon, told me: I am responsible for your file. What file? The one you were arrested for. This is the major, and this tall guy is the colonel, this is Sagiv and this is Eldad. Eight interrogators.

"They sat me down on a square chair without a back, which was attached to the floor and had sharp metal ends [sticking up]. My legs were tied to the legs of the chair with metal cuffs and my hands were tied behind my back with metal cuffs. One interrogator sat behind me and the other in front of me. The interrogator opposite me said: We have to give you a little sports, so you will be able to hold out in the military interrogation. The sports was that they pushed me backward by the chest, a backward somersault, and I would hold myself so my bones would not break. After a minute or two I would automatically fall on the floor, but the interrogator behind me would put his foot on my chest and press, and the interrogator in front would grab my hands and pull and pull behind the chair. They kept on like that until I don't know what happened to me, heat in every part of my body, puking everything I had in my stomach and it would go into my nostrils. I would wake up when they poured water on my face. When I woke up, we went back to the same situation. It went on like this 15-20 times an hour.

"He said to me: Stand on your feet. I felt that my legs were cold, like pins and needles in the legs. I said: I can't. He said: Now you are paralyzed. I said: I guess I am. He said: That is what we promised you and that is what you want."

Read the rest at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7609

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  • Torture is cruel.

    Hate and revenge are no solutions.

    Love and understanding are the only solutions.

    There is no other way.

  • every one of you that says some bullshit about that israel is the agressor and stuff shit like this knows nothing and dont try to prove it u cant especially if you are arabian or muslim because they tell you one thing and what happen is other thing so all i can say is peoples go to israel and see what is going on there before u judge or passing the blame on someone on the bouth sides of the story.

  • That is horrible.

  • god will revenge all of this

  • Like, utterly sick. Those cruel ones who inflicted such grievous injuries should themselves have their spines hosed, as would be appropriate because they are already spineless. Pray that this unfortunate victim can be restored to at least a semblance of functionality. So sad, babes!

  • Having experienced the Holocaust does not give the right to violate the Geneva Convention. I have deep and genuine respect for Jewish culture, but Israel and especially Mossad have a despicable and provocative behavior. Do not mix politics and religion: this region is a cultural melting pot.

  • Why is everyone being mean?

  • U ARE SUCH AN IDIOT... Israel is a COUNTRY...thats why they have their own military...7 milllion people.... and the term "state" is equivalent with "country" for them...so dont talk shit....i hope ur husky shits all over ur face when ur sleeping...."i love you"

  • Lol yeah you dumbfuck that's why the official name of the Israeli occupation is "The State Of Israel" YOU DUMBASS BITCH. Please don't open your dirty mouth with your verbal diarrhea unless you have something useful to say.

  • give me the address you vagina I'm coming right now

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