© AFP Photo / Ahmad GharabliThe mother of Tarek Abu Khdeir (portrait), the 15-year-old cousin of the murdered Palestinian youth Mohammad, shows a picture of her son, she took of him at the hospital after he was assaulted by Israeli police in East Jerusalem on July 5, 2014.
A shocking video,
showing Israeli police officers savagely beating 15-year-old Palestinian-American Tarek Abu Khdeir - cousin of Mohammad Abu Khdeir who was burnt alive in East Jerusalem - has prompted outrage in the Palestinian community.
The video shows two officers striking the detainee, who was
handcuffed and lying on the floor. One of the officers seems to be sitting on the Palestinian, while his colleague is kicking and punching him. The youth is eventually dragged away by the police.
The video of Tarek's beating has surfaced as the funeral was held Friday for his cousin,
Mohammad Abu Khdeir, who was
kidnapped in the same area and burned alive.
The beating, shot from two different angles by people filming from their windows, took place on Thursday evening in Shuafat, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
One of the videos was broadcast on the Palestine Today television channel.
The second video posted on Facebook by Quds News Network shows the same incident.
Tariq has since been arrested and held without charge, according to his family and the rights group Addameer, as reports the Ma'an News Agency.
According to a police spokesman, the incident featured in the video occurred while six "masked rioters" were being arrested. Three of them were
alleged to have been carrying knives.
Comment: It will take a lot more than warnings to make a dent in Israel's ongoing land grabs and indiscriminate murder. It should be isolated from the world as the pariah it is.