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.”

  • @TheFonz
    6•6 hours ago

    I have a theory that people that willingly post links from this site are doing it on purpose to cause more harm to Palestinians. Hear me out.

    • No other news source has confirmed this act.

    • Everyone in the comments are assuming the literal and first dictionary definition of branding by physical mutilation.

    • People that actually read the article are pointing out that the headline is misleading but they are getting drowned out by pedantic discussions of semantics when it’s clear the implication is physical mutilation.

    • There is so much heinous actions committed by the IDF but here we are talking about made up news. See where this is going?

    There is something fucky going on.

    • @Dasus
      2•25 minutes ago

      Everyone in the comments are assuming the literal and first dictionary definition of branding by physical mutilation.

      Why do you keep insisting this childish bullshit that no-one has argued for?

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brand

      a(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

      b(1)

      : a mark put on criminals

    • @sorval_the_eeter
      3•1 hour ago

      No other news source has confirmed this act.

      1. the domiannace of the big news outlets by zionists is well documented.

      2. notice how Israel has killed all the journalists and the sites that do report carefully use passive lagnuage for israeli actions and active and adverserial language for anything lebanese or gazan people do. Its obvious bias and controlled jouranlism. So why would you think them not covering something is meaningful?

      Maybe you are just lookinbg for confirmation of your own bias?