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from Btselem, published Oct 23, 2015

On the 6.10, while Ansar 'Aasi, 25, was at work at a cleaning products company in al-Bireh, clashes between soldiers and Palestinian youth took place in the area. At a certain point, as 'Aasi was standing at the entrance to the storage room, soldiers spotted him and began to violently arrest him, kicking and assaulting him with their rifles. The incident was captured on the company's security cameras. 'Aasi required medical treatment and was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital on 7.10.2015.

'Aasi was held in detention for two days before even being taken for interrogation at the Binyamin police station. Police interrogators there told him that three soldiers identified him as a stone thrower. In spite of his denials, the police did not bother to check his alibi claim, in spite of the existence of footage. Only following an arrest extension hearing at the Ofer military court, was the police willing to view the footage, which was brought to them on Friday, 9.10.2015. 'Aasi was released unconditionally on Sunday, 11.10, after five days in wrongful detention.

B'Tselem does not know whether the soldiers who arrested 'Aasi were held accountable for assaulting him and making up false charges.
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by IMEMC News & Agencies, Oct 23 2015

Last Thursday, Israeli rights group B’Tselem released video footage (currently going viral on social media) in which a young Palestinian man is brutally assaulted before being wrongfully detained near al-Bireh, near Ramallah, earlier this month.

The Palestinian man was identified as Ansar Aasi, aged 25. He was working, according to PNN, at a cleaning products shop while confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth were taking place outside the shop on October the 6th.

Suddenly, according to the video, Israeli soldiers spotted him and began violently kicking him, beating him with their rifles and, finally, arresting him. Aasi was taken to Hadassh hospital for medical treatment for injuries sustained in the attack.

According to the military, Aasi was identified by three Israeli soldiers as having thrown stones during clashes, was interrogated and held in detention for two days.

Aasi denied charges of stone-throwing, and was only freed on October 11th, after Israeli police finally viewed the camera footage taken from the storeroom where he worked.

B’Tselem said it does not know whether the Israeli soldiers who beat Aasi and made up false charges have been held accountable.