- IMEMC
An Israeli military official confirmed the story of the family of Yasser Tmeizy, from the southern West Bank City of Hebron, who said that Israel soldiers killed their son in cold blood, but Israel never filed charges against them.
Odi Ben Moha, an Israeli military commander in charge of the Hebron district, stated that it is a scandal that no charges were filed against the soldiers especially since the crime took place on January 13 this year.
Tmeizy, 35, was working in his olive orchard, close to the annexation Wall in Ithna town, near Hebron. Israeli soldiers approached him and started hitting him before they forced him into their jeep.
Ben Moha stated that according to army investigation, the soldiers approached Tmeizy was he was working in his land, and that his six-year old son was with him when the soldiers kidnapped him and left the child alone in the orchard.
He added that the soldiers took Tmeizy to Tarqoumia military base, and that he was blindfolded and handcuffed.
A soldier was standing guard next to him; Tmeizy started asking about his son, as he was worried about what happened to his child who was left alone in the field. Ben Moha said that Tmeizy made a sudden move, as he was worried about his son, and the soldier guarding him fired three rounds at the cuffed and blindfolded man; one of the bullets hit Tmeizy in the chest.
The army never filed charges against the soldier, and never investigated the soldiers involved in the whole incident.
Soldiers tried to allege that Tmeizy attempted to snatch a weapon from one of them, but Tmeizy was cuffed and blindfolded, an issue that pushed Moha to discredit the claims.
The soldiers even claimed that the man allegedly "became violent in the jeep, managed to free his hands and tried to steal a weapon from one of the guards".
The soldiers also claimed that Tmeizy, who was working in his own field and accompanied by his child, has no identification card and that they had to arrest him. |
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