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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

A video that was captured by local residents, and was broadcast by activists of the nonviolent group Youth Coalition Against Settlements, shows Israeli soldiers kidnapping a nonviolent activist and attacking his mother, who tried to de-arrest him. Eventually the soldiers kidnapped the mother.

The army fist broke into the home of Abdul-Rahman as-Salayma, 20, in order to arrest him for his nonviolent activities against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements.

The soldiers took as-Salayma out of his home, and his mother followed the soldiers screaming “my son, I want my son”.

The soldiers then gathered around her and assaulted her; she fainted and fell to the ground. The soldiers then brought a plastic chair and sat her on it, lifting her from her arms and feet in a degrading way.

Later on, the soldiers cuffed the mother and placed her in a police jeep before driving away.

The soldiers also threatened to kidnap a young Palestinian woman who was filming them, telling her that “this is a military operation”, and that if she does not close the door and stop filming, she will be arrested too.