Testimony: New intel officer harasses Nablus residents

Ma'an
Stripped almost naked in the January cold, Issam Mismar, 42, a father of five, was introduced to an Israeli soldier claiming to be the new intelligence chief in Nablus district.

"I’m the officer Oren, a new officer in the area, I came to personally get to know you. How are you and how are your kids?” Mismar remembered the man, holding a computer and sitting in a military jeep, telling him......

The ten men were stopped by Israeli forces on the road. "They made us take off our clothes, and then go meet the Israeli intelligence officer who carried a computer and was sitting in a military jeep," Mismar recalled.

Then the officer, who identified himself as Oren, asked Mismar, half naked, about his kids, about the mosque and who prayed at it, how many people there were and what the situation was there in general. Mismar said he asked questions for 5-10 minutes before he was allowed to go......

Yasser Alawneh, with the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) said the practice of making civilians strip "is a clear and flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which explicitly states that the occupying power should uphold the dignity and rights of all the citizens that are under its control.”...  Full story