Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Israeli interrogators offer sweets to Palestinian detainee after killing his brother

January 16, 2007

Bethlehem - A Palestinian detainee held in Israeli occupation jails has revealed that Israeli interrogators offered him sweets after an IOF unit assassinated his brother.

The detainee, Maher Sawafta, 29, told the lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner's club that he was arrested on 10/11/2006 and held in Jalama prison since then. His brother Salahuddin and another resistance fighter, Hussam Al-Issa, were assassinated on 19/12/2006, he elaborated.

In a testimony under oath, Maher said that on the eve of his brother's murder the interrogators held him in isolation and told him that they would kill his brother.

The next day they (interrogators) came to his cell with sweets, which they distributed among themselves and offered him some, after telling him that his brother was killed.

Maher has three other brothers, Sa'ed, Noor and Hussam, in Israeli occupation jails.

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