HRW: Israeli police committed violations against Palestinians in 1948-occupied cities last May
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Human Rights Watch said that the occupation state’s police had used violence and excessive force against native Palestinians in Al Lydd during national protests across Palestine last May.
A report by the international human rights organization stated that Israeli “police appeared to act half-heartedly and unevenly to violence against Palestinian citizens of Israel committed by Jewish ultra-nationalists.”
Public statements senior Israeli officials have even encouraged discriminatory responses by authorities and the judiciary, according to the report, which stressed that discrimination by Israeli authorities’ security forces against native Palestinians has been always systematic.
“Israeli authorities responded to the May events in Lod by forcibly dispersing Palestinians protesting peacefully while using inflammatory rhetoric and failing to act even-handedly as Jewish ultra-nationalists attacked Palestinians,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “This apparent discriminatory response underscores the reality that the Israeli state apparatus privileges Jewish Israelis at the expense of Palestinians, wherever they live and irrespective of their legal status.”
National protests flocked the streets of Palestinian cities in the West Bank and 1848-occupied territories last May following the Israeli crackdown on the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in order to ethnically cleanse it. Gaza took part firing missiles at Israeli interests.
Groups of armed Israelis, including settlers from illegal West Bank settlements, appeared in several video footage lynching native Palestinians and carrying out search campaigns in 1948-occupied cities.
Last week, an investigative report by the Israeli Channel 13 revealed that organized settlers’ lynching militias are being trained in preparation for mass lynching attacks against native Palestinians in occupied Ramlah. Israeli police only issued a mild warning to the militias when the TV. channel reported its findings.
