(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - An Israeli intelligence officer forced a Palestinian young man from Beit Ummar town in Al-Khalil to drink a bottle of wine at gunpoint.
The incident happened when Mohamed Abu Diya, a 24-year old young man from Safa area in Beit Ummar, was on his way back home, according to the spokesman for the popular committee against settlement in Beit Ummar Mohamed Awad.
As Abu Diya was walking near the Israeli military tower at the entrance of Beit Ummar town at around 7:15 pm on Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers intercepted him and took him in chain to the tower before they embarked on questioning him about the names of the Palestinians who participated in recent events in Beit Ummar.
Because he was not responding to their questions as they liked, the soldiers called for an intelligence officer known in the area as Captin Sedqi who, in turn, hurled questions at him, showed him some names and asked him to identify them, but Abu Diya insisted on not giving any information.
Then the intelligence officer pointed a gun at Abu Diya's head and forced him to drink a whole bottle of wine leading him to lose his consciousness and stay lying on the floor inside the tower for some time before the soldiers carried him and threw him out.
Some Palestinian passersby, according to spokesman Awad, spotted Abu Diya in poor shape and took him to his house.
The citizens who helped him said they found him near the tower smelling a strong odor of alcohol.
Mohamed Abu Diya had been detained and abused by the Israeli occupation forces before, and he suffered a serious injury to his head in 2009 when jailers in Ashkelon prison brutally assaulted him.
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