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> “When they spoke to us in Hebrew and we wouldn’t understand, they’d beat us up,” he continues. > “They hit me in the back where my kidneys are and my legs. T
by noworriesnate 3y ago
> “When they spoke to us in Hebrew and we wouldn’t understand, they’d beat us up,” he continues.
> “They hit me in the back where my kidneys are and my legs. They took my family, and I don’t know where they are,” he says, his voice breaking.
> Before they were forced inside the warehouse, Israeli female soldiers came and spat on the men, Mohammed recalls.
> In the warehouse, it was common for groups of five soldiers to suddenly enter and beat one person while the others were forced to listen to his screams of pain. If any of the men and teenagers nodded off from exhaustion, the soldiers poured cold water on them.
> “Their contempt for us was unnatural, like we were lesser beings,” Mohammed says.
For some reason I find this last sentence so utterly beautiful in context it brings tears to my eyes. Here is a 14-year-old Arabic boy being tortured by Jews and STILL he operates from a worldview that viewing other human beings as lesser is unnatural. Thank you, Mohammed. What an image of beauty and horror.
- myth_drannon 3y ago[flagged]
- ngcazz 3y agoThe same Israel who wanted the US to believe a mere calendar was proof of terrorist presence, or that a laminated Al Qaeda poster from 2004 "recovered" was proof said terrorists were prepping chemical weapons, or worse, who keeps telling Gazans they'll be safe in X before bombing the place.
- mcguire 3y agoMight want to check your sources. The released prisoner with broken hands is Mohammed Nazzal; the one greeting his family is Mohammed Shatara. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-misidentifies-palestinian-prisoner-mohammed-nazzal-2023-12-08/ https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-misidentifies-pales... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67581915 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67581915
- myth_drannon 3y agoIn the second link (BBC) they say it is the same person. I saw both videos and clearly, it's hard to confuse, it is the same person.
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- dang 3y agoI don't know that story, but speaking generally: what you describe is an issue (to varying degrees) with every news organization. Moreover the line between propaganda and reporting isn't static—every reader draws it differently, depending mostly on their personal identifications. One can, however, be touched by a story on a human level without agreeing with anything else appearing on the same site, and this is consistent with how HN has handled this question for many years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
- krembo 3y agoSince the source is AlJazeera can you at least take these testimonies with a grain of doubt?
- objektif 3y ago[flagged]
- text0404 3y agowhat's wrong with al jazeera?
- LtWorf 3y agoThey don't blindly repost Israeli propaganda.
- burnerburnson 3y agoThey are state-owned media for an authoritarian government that is hostile to Israel. They are incentivized to make Israel look bad.
- r00fus 3y agoAl-Jazeera has some incredibly great reporting for the past couple of decades across many conflicts. The fact that Israel doesn't like their reporting doesn't necessarily make their reporting less factual.
- edanm 3y agoThey are considered incredibly biased against Israel, certainly by Israelis. (Israelis consider a lot of media slightly biased against them, but Al Jazeera is in a completely different league.)
- akvadrako 3y agoThey are mostly (or fully, based on their banner) funded by Qatar, which is kinda allied with Hamas. For stuff unrelated to Qatar, they are pretty unbiased. But that changes when their owners actually have an interest in the matter.
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- tim333 3y agoAlso a little naive. I mean more than viewing them as lesser human beings they are viewing them as the enemy. Obviously a bit unfair if they don't support Hamas and it's actions but that's war I guess.