27.03.2011

Yesterday, at 4pm, a settler from Ro’i settlement, in the Northern Jordan Valley, came to Hadidiya Bedouin community along with soldiers and policemen in order to arrest and beat Sati and Ghazi Abdelrahim Bsharat (both in their twenties)

Sati and Ghazi, who is the son of one of our volunteers, Abu Saqer, were grazing their animals when one settler, two military jeeps and one police car came across to beat the two young shepherds.

The occupational forces men came with dogs and guns and after they beat Sati and Ghazi on their own land they took them to Almzoka military training area and continued to seriously assault them till 11pm. They were kicked and beaten with guns, qnd dogs were set on them.

This morning when Abu Saqer and his sons tried to cross the wall that prevents them from travelling to Eastern Jordan Valley, the army refused to open the gate, even though Abu Saqer had coordinated the opening of the gate with the District Coordination Officer for the Occupation force and with the Red Cross.

Sati and Ghazi were therefore not able to visit the doctor, although they suffer from severe back pain after the assault they had suffered.