Ma’an News AgencyBETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian-American teen who was beaten, badly injured, and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in Jerusalem on Thursday is set to be tried Sunday, a rights group said.
Tarek Abu Khdeir, 15, was beaten in the Shufat neighborhood at around 8 p.m. by Israeli police in the yard of his uncle’s home and arrested without charges, Addameer said on its website Friday.
The boy was taken to a police station following the beating, and police delayed treatment of his wounds until 1:20 a.m., when he was taken to Hadassa Hospital.
His family was not permitted to see Tarek until he was hospitalized, the rights group said.
His detention has been extended until Sunday morning, when a hearing will be held at the Court of First Instances in Jerusalem.
The teen is a student at Universal Academy of Florida high school in Tampa, local news website 10 News reported.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the US State Department to secure Tarek’s release, the report said.
Tarek is one of 11 Palestinians who were beaten and arrested in the neighborhood on Thursday, Addameer said.
Widely-circulated video footage
Video footage of Tarek’s beating emerged Thursday.
The video, posted on Youtube by Palestine Today TV shows what appears to be masked Israeli police in riot gear beating, kicking, and stamping on a Palestinian.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld did not answer Ma’an’s calls on Saturday, but he told the New York Times the video was “edited and biased.”
Tarek was born in the US and is a cousin of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the 16-year-old Palestinian who was abducted and murdered Wednesday, in an apparent revenge attack against the killing of three Israeli teens who were buried the day before.
Abu Khdeir’s death sparked mass protests in East Jerusalem, especially the Shufat neighborhood, and other West Bank areas, leading to clashes with Israeli forces in which hundreds have been injured.
“State-sanctioned violence against children is unlawful and unacceptable,” Addameer said in its Friday report.
“Addameer urges immediate action and calls on the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United States consulate and all regional embassies and consulates, human rights organizations and journalists to attend Tarek Abu Khdeir’s hearing on Sunday 6 July to investigate the intensified aggression against Palestinian children.”
Umm…if he’s an American, where is the outrage? Where are the calls for justice and war? Where are the headlines? If this happened to an American Jew, it would be all over the front page. Funny how when it involves the Zionists, all is quiet in the MSM.
Yes, by God, there be monsters. Everything happening and has happened
in Palestine was/is created by these monsters. Who the Hell do they
think they are entering what’s left of Palestine when ever they choose.
And what about the American Embassy, do your job, or are you all jews too.
No kidding. How come no calls to the American embassy? This is ridiculous.
Just sent you an email I received about that.
The Israelis are monsters plain and simple. They have no conscience and are by far for the most part evil monsters.
The day is coming when the World…the non Jew loving World….is going to put a stop to this sort of monstrous Jewish conduct. Those who are aware of this must alert and inform everyone among families and friends and coworkers of what is really going on with these savages.
Get our troops out of that sandbox that for 1000’s of years no one can play well in.You wanna fight for a particular country/belief ect. there go on your own dime.
Gee, wonder what Israhell would have to say about it if the cops did the same thing to a ‘jewish’ student here.
I’m sure they wouldn’t consider it “ANTI-SEMITIC” or anything like that.
“Anti-semitism is a disease. You catch it from Jews.”
We’re all Palestinians now.