Shabak Alleged to Have Murdered Detained 16 Year-Old Israeli Palestinian Boy

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An Israeli source confirms the horrifying news that one of the five Israeli Palestinians detained a few days ago in secret by the Shabak has been killed today (or possibly yesterday) in custody in Jalameh prison near Haifa.  The victim was Ashraf al-Baladi of the northern Israeli Palestinian village of Sachnin.  Here is a description of what happened to him: he was bound to a chair, he either fell over or was pushed onto the floor. The fall cracked his head open, punctured a lung, and broke a rib.  The secret police didn’t know what to do.  They couldn’t bring him to a hospital for treatment since he’d been secretly detained.

A doctor was summoned but he arrived too late.  The boy died shortly thereafter.

I have asked representatives of Israeli and Israeli Palestinian NGOs to demand an accounting from the Interior Ministry and Shabak.  So far to no avail.  I’m going to renew my appeal to anyone who can contact either agency to tell us whether they have these individuals in custody, and if so where they are held, and under what charges.  Allow them to consult with attorneys.  And account for the death of a minor child while in Shabak detention.

Can’t all of us human rights activists put our heads together and unravel this mystery and force the secret police to account for their actions?

This article first appeared at Tikun Olam.

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