Israeli occupation soldiers who have recently arrived at a settlement outpost near the West Bank city of Hebron exposed their rear ends to Palestinians, Palestinian sources and foreign peace activists claimed Sunday.
The Israeli internet website Ynet has even published exclusive footage of the incident, which took place on January 11.
Sean, the foreign peace activist who filmed the Israeli troops, said activists and foreign volunteers from the Christian Peacemaker Team were escorting Palestinians in the south Mount Hebron area to protect them from local Jewish settlers when the soldiers arrived. "It was around noon; we were accompanying shepherds from the village of Tuba to a nearby Wadi, because the settlers regularly hassle them and throw stones in our direction," he recounted, according to Ynet.
"The settlers demanded that the shepherds evacuate the area, and Israeli soldiers who arrived at the scene also attempted to clear the Palestinian shepherds from their grazing fields; then, in the middle of the argument and for no apparent reason, the soldiers pulled down their pants and exposed their rear ends to us."
On his part Arab Member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Ahmad Tibi said the footage was "Abu Ghraib prison (in Iraq), Israeli-style… the soldiers of any occupation are immoral by definition, but the Israeli soldiers who exposed themselves have long been stripped of their humane values.
"It's not surprising that this vile act happened in the (West Bank city of) Hebron. The Israeli society should be shamed by this footage, especially the families who raised such monsters," added Tibi.
