Saturday, May 2, 2009

A PALESTINIAN WOMAN AFTER SIX YEARS IN DETENTION

" They beat us, they kicked us, they humiliated us. They treated us as if we were animals". Sherine Sheikh Khalil, 24, said." it is really difficult to communicate to you the bestiality and savagery of their behaviour".added the young activist from the central gaza town of Khan Younis.
In 2003, then only 17, Sherine was convicted by an Israeli military court of taking part in an attempted abduction of a jewish settler in West Bank.
She was freed on sunday after the end of her jail term, though Sherine's father , mother and brother live in Ramallah the capital of the occupied west bank .
The Israeli occupation regime decided to expel her to the Gaza strip , apprantly as an act of further punishment.
"I am Happy I am free but I wish I could see my family inRamallah".
According to Human Rights group in Gaza , Israel has deported around 30 west bankers in the coastal enclave scince the beginneing of AL-Aqsa intifada in late september 2000.
Shrine describes the Israeli courts as" a System of retribution and reprisal" rather than a system of justice.
Sherine says you cannot speak about a genuine justice system in Israel", she insists.
We are talking about a country that sanctions the murder of Non Jews , theft of their property and demolition of there houses.
Sherine says the courts were no more than a tool in the hands of the israeli regime to inflict harm on the palestinian people and to give false legitemacy to the military occupation. there are more than 11000 palestenian detaniees. Most of them held for years withot any charge or trail.

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