ISRAEL CONTINUES HARASSMENT OF THE FAMILY OF KILLED DOWN SYNDROME YOUTH ARIF JARADAT
Israel's occupation forces have today broken into the family home of Arif Jaradat(22) for the fourth time in a month, confiscating photographs from his relatives, reports @PalinfoAr.
DOWN SYNDROME YOUTH KILLED BY ISRAEL
Arif Jaradat, who had Down Syndrome, was shot in abdomen by Israel's occupation forces on May 4th in his home town of Sa'ir in the Hebron district on the occupied West Bank.
The occupation forces offered no medical aid for him but left him bleeding on the ground, but he survived initially, dying of his wounds month and a half later, on June 19th.
Arif became extremely distressed during Israeli occupation raids on Sa'ir, screaming "No, my brother Muhammed!" each time, as the occupation had detained his brother several times. So it was also on the day he was shot, standing alone and harmless, fearing for his brother's safety.
After Arif's death, Israeli occupation detained his brother Hayran on July 16th for 'incitement, and soon after their father died. Israel didn't allow Hayran to take part in his funeral.
BROTHER IMPRISONED FOR WRITING ABOUT ARIF'S DEATH ON FACEBOOK
The 'incitement' was writing about the loss of his brother on Facebook:
"Facebook was his psychological release. What did he do? He missed Arif so much that he wrote about it. Arif was so pure and innocent and the soldiers killed him" the remaining Jaradat brothers commented to Haaretz' Gideon Levy.
Expressing sorrow is forbidden for Palestinians, feeling loss for a murdered relative is forbidden for Palestinians under Israel's occupation. Every hit, ever loss from the occupier's hand must be taken in silence, accepted without a single bitter word, an utterance of anguish against the killer.
Facebook, which seemed to offer a way for occupied Palestinians to reach the world on their own terms, ended being just another way for Israel to trap them and punish them for being human.
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