Full account of Muhammed Omer’s hair-raising encounter with the Shin Beth 
 
from Khalid Amayreh in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

From his hospital bed at the European Hospital in Gaza  and with barely audible voice,  award-winning  Palestinian journalist Muhammed Omer has given a  full account of  the  hair-raising encounter  he had  last week with  Shin Beth agents at the Allenby Bridge border-crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.

Omer, a co-winner of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalistic Excellence,  said  he was abused, assaulted , humiliated, ridiculed, kicked, and strip-searched at gunpoint by undisciplined Shin Beth officers until he had a nervous breakdown in which case he lost consciousness for at least 90 minutes.

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