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Forced to Drink Urine, Drink or Die
IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday, 24 May 2005
After the horrific story of soldiers abusing two Palestinian workers, and forcing one of them to drink the soldiers’ urine until he fainted, one of the soldiers stood in court and admitted to the hidden truth which even the press was shy to say, “What we did was inhuman”.
The extreme brutality which revealed a hidden face of the Israeli army was revealed during the trial of the soldiers who abused the workers and forced one of them to drink their urine.
The event took place on September, 2004 when soldiers based at a military checkpoint in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, stopped Sameeh Rahhal, 22, from Bethlehem, and Firas al-Bakry, 22, from Hebron, and other workers.
The soldiers claimed that the workers were ‘illegally’ staying in Jerusalem and decided to “punish them”. And took them to an abandoned hotel, which the army was using as a military post.
There, at the ‘hotel’ the abuse and cruelty of the soldiers was exposed on its highest level.
Sameeh said in his testimony that soldiers forced him to choose between having his hands and legs broken or drinking the soldiers' urine.
“Soldiers at first stopped us, along with dozens of workers, then they drew a lot on our card, randomly choosing two, and released the other workers”, Sameeh said.
Sameeh and Firas were forced – in what Israeli soldiers called 'entertainment' – to choose one from three paper notes inside a box.
The “Game’ which soldiers chose to play, included three sorts of punishments; breaking hands, legs and drinking from bottles filled with the soldiers' urine.
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