A heartbreaking video that exposes two Israeli police officers terrorizing a defenceless and confused 8-year-old Palestinian girl has been posted online. The video, which was filmed last week and posted online Tuesday, shows two heavily armed Israeli border officers bullying a terrified 8-year-old Palestinian girl, Anwar Burqan, on Hebron’s al-Ibrahimi Street, demanding she stop on the roadside. When the first officer confronts the girl he stomps on her bike, breaking it, and barks at her until she runs away crying. After the girl runs away, another officer appears, grabs her broken bike and throws it into the bushes. According to Haaretz, large sections of al-Ibrahimi St. are closed to Palestinian traffic. Apparently, the girl’s bicycle was confiscated because she was playing on a side of the street closed to Palestinians. The Free Thought Project reports: This tyrannical policy gives these officers no reason to act in such a manner. Anwar Burqan is an innocent child, she does not deserve to be terrorized by cops because she happened to be born Palestinian. According to the report in Haaretz, Ranya, the girl’s mother, told Haaretz that since the incident took place her daughter refuses to leave the house, is scared, and shouts. [...]
