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Two more Palestinian men, injured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank last week, have told the BBC that Israeli soldiers forced them on to the bonnet of an army jeep and drove them – sometimes at speed – along village roads.

Their accounts came days after footage of 23-year-old Mujahid Abadi Balas clinging to the bonnet of what appears to be the same Israeli army jeep sparked international outrage.

25-year-old Samir Dabaya, now in hospital in Jenin, says he was shot in the back by Israeli forces during the Jabariyat operation, and lay face-down and bleeding for hours, until soldiers came to assess him.

He described “shooting from all sides” and said he tried to run away but was shot in the leg, after which an army unit arrived to collect him and another man. “They ordered us to stand up, and undressed us,” he said, “then they asked us to get onto the front of the jeep.” The car was so hot, it felt “like fire”, he says.

“I was barefoot and undressed. I tried to put my hand on the jeep and I couldn’t, it was burning hot. I was telling them it was very hot, and they were forcing me to get on – telling me that if I didn’t want to die, I should do it.”

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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Khaaamass made the most moral army in the world do it.

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