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Red Cross rebukes Israel after lawmaker confronts prisoners' families on bus
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 25, 2017 / 11:29 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Red Cross rebukes Israel after lawmaker confronts prisoners' families on bus
Nidal al-Mughrabi
3 MIN READ
GAZA (Reuters) - The Red Cross said on Monday Israel has a duty to guarantee the safety and dignity of Palestinian families visiting prisoners, after a right-wing lawmaker was filmed shouting abuse aboard a bus taking relatives to a family visit in an Israeli jail.
The legislator, Oren Hazan, boarded the bus at the Gaza border with video crews in tow. He said on Twitter he told the relatives that the prisoners were “terrorists who belong in the ground”. In a video clip on social media, he shouted at one prisoner’s mother that her son was an “insect” and a “dog”.
“An insect?,” she yelled back. “My son is the best of men. A dog is whoever calls him a dog.”
Hazan has a record of staging publicity stunts, including crashing a welcoming ceremony for visiting U.S. President Donald Trump. He once agreed to stage a fistfight at the border with a member of Jordan’s parliament, only to cancel it on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Red Cross rebukes Israel after lawmaker confronts prisoners' families on bus
Nidal al-Mughrabi
3 MIN READ
GAZA (Reuters) - The Red Cross said on Monday Israel has a duty to guarantee the safety and dignity of Palestinian families visiting prisoners, after a right-wing lawmaker was filmed shouting abuse aboard a bus taking relatives to a family visit in an Israeli jail.
The legislator, Oren Hazan, boarded the bus at the Gaza border with video crews in tow. He said on Twitter he told the relatives that the prisoners were “terrorists who belong in the ground”. In a video clip on social media, he shouted at one prisoner’s mother that her son was an “insect” and a “dog”.
“An insect?,” she yelled back. “My son is the best of men. A dog is whoever calls him a dog.”
Hazan has a record of staging publicity stunts, including crashing a welcoming ceremony for visiting U.S. President Donald Trump. He once agreed to stage a fistfight at the border with a member of Jordan’s parliament, only to cancel it on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoners/red-cross-rebukes-israel-after-lawmaker-confronts-prisoners-families-on-bus-idUSKBN1EJ0OU