Israel brands Palestinian detainees with numbers on their foreheads
Israel brands Palestinian detainees with numbers on their foreheads
Troops humiliate Palestinians swept up in West Bank raid by referring to them only by their numbers instead of by name
When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.
They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.
Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.
"The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers."
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Come on... They wrote the number with a sharpie or something, presumably.
Okay I'll grant you, it really isn't great. The de-humanizing is totally real and absolutely disgusting. But it's not a permanent tattoo, ala Nazi concentration camp. People routinely get "stamped" like this when they go to concerts or conventions and everybody understands the logistical need for it.
I'm not saying the logistics of war aren't despicable, but if you're going to do war shit, logisitcal needs arise and that's what that is.
If you can't understand the difference between having your hand stamped at a concert and a fucking military writing "your" number on your forehead in permanent marker then I literally have nothing else to say to you.
That opinion is horrible.