El Ministerio israelí de Justicia decidió presentar cargos contra uno de los policías que la semana pasada propinaron una paliza a un menor en el barrio de Shuafat.
Tras difundirse un video en el que se observaba a dos agentes deteniendo a un joven enmascarado, el Departamento de Investigación Policial del citado ministerio inició pesquisas que llevaron a la conclusión de que uno de ellos pudo actuar con brutalidad injustificada.
Inmediatamente después del video, antes incluso de que se pusiera la denuncia, el Departamento de Investigación de la Policía abrió una amplia pesquisa durante la que se recogieron indicios, interrogado a testigos e identificado a los dos policías implicados”, explicó.
“Al final de la investigación, se apoya la sospecha de que el policía podría ser culpable de un delito de violencia, cometido tras el arresto del menor, y cuando éste estaba esposado”, agregó.
Ante esta situación, el director del departamento “considera la posibilidad de presentar cargos contra el oficial de policía, y pidió que se le convoque para que declare ante el departamento. Por el momento, fue suspendido de sus funciones durante 15 días”.
La información recopilada será entregada a la autoridad competente por si considera necesario adoptar medidas administrativas contra él”, afirmó.
El adolescente apaleado, Tareq Jedeir, es primo del menor palestino Mohamad Abu Jedeir, asesinado y quemado vivo hace una semana por un grupo de nacionalistas judíos en venganza por el asesinato de tres estudiantes israelíes desaparecidos cuando hacían autoestop cerca de una colonia en Cisjordania.
Tareq, que se halla de vacaciones en Jerusalén Este, fue detenido durante horas sin cargos y sin acceso a un hospital.
Tras ser atendido durante unas horas, regresó a prisión donde estuvo varias horas hasta que un juzgado le impuso una fianza de 600 euros y le impidió regresar al barrio de Shaufat, en Jerusalén Este, donde él y su primo residían.
Desde que se conociera el asesinato de Mohamad, esta lugar fue escenario de duros enfrentamientos entre jóvenes radicales palestinos y efectivos de la Policía y las fuerzas antidisturbios israelíes.
El chico americano golpeado por la policía en Israel es un buen chico – y ahora ¿cómo le explicamos lo que sucedió?
Forward.com – The cousin of a Palestinian revenge attack victim who was beaten by Israeli troops is a fun-loving all-American high school student from Tampa, Fla., relatives said.
Tariq Khdeir, 15, earned a summer vacation to visit relatives in the Holy Land by scoring straight A’s in tenth grade — and was occupied with the soccer World Cup until his cousin was killed in a suspected revenge attack by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem.
Aunt Sana Khdeir said the family was stunned to see the boy beaten senseless by Israeli troops in widely circulated videos on social media.
“I’m all cried out of tears,” said Khdeir, 22, a student at South Florida University. “We haven’t slept since this happened.”
Tariq Khdeir, who played on his high school soccer team and joined the fishing club, had been with his cousin, Mohammed Khdeir, 16, just an hour before the Palestinian was bundled into a car and burnt alive.
Relatives say the Florida cousin was demonstrating with other relatives outside the family’s East Jerusalem home when Israeli soldiers charged at them and attacked the teen.
“He’s not used to this, not used to it all,” the aunt said. “The kids started running and he was caught.”
Videos show troops beating Tariq Khdeir as he lies prone on the ground.
The aunt said there is no doubt that the videos depict her nephew, who was wearing an Ekko shirt.
“We’re 100% sure it is him,” she said.
The boy suffered a broken jaw and nose in the beating and has been taken from a hospital to an Israeli jail, where he is being held pending a court date, she said.
“He’s a good boy, he’s good in school, he loves soccer, loves music,” Salahedeen Khdeir, the boy’s father, told Palestinian journalists. “This is the first time he went to sleep far away from his home. And where does he end up? In a jail next to the people who hit him almost to death.”
Israeli authorities say Tariq Khdeir resisted arrest and was armed with a slingshot.
U.S. authorities demanded a speedy probe into the case and said a consular official visited the boy in jail Saturday.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, who represents the Tampa district where the Khdeirs live, did not return a call for comment.
“We are so angry and frustrated,” said Sana Khdeir, 22. “Bloodshed on either side is wrong, whether Israeli or Palestinian.”
The family was already crushed by the news that Mohammed Khdeir was killed in a slaying that Palestinians believe was a revenge attack by Jewish extremists after the killings of three kidnapped Jewish students. The beating of his younger cousin only deepened their despair.
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going for 65 years,” Sana Khdeir. “I want peace, we all want peace. But we’re never going to come to peace when all we get is more occupation and bloodshed.”
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