(Ha'aretz) Amira Hass - A Palestinian who claimed he was held and beaten for 30 hours at an IDF checkpoint now admits that it was actually the Palestinian security services who held him and beat him. For four days, over and over, Afif Barghouti, 31, told family, friends, and journalists how Israeli soldiers had held him at the Kalandiya checkpoint for some 30 hours, blindfolded and with his hands tied, and beat him, then released him on July 20. The Palestinian press ran prominent photos of his bruised and battered back, and Ha'aretz published his story with the headline "Anyone Who Walked By, Kicked." What really happened, Barghouti now admits, was that Palestinians he recognized as working for the Palestinian security services seized him, held him for almost two days, and beat him. He said that they suspected him of being an Israeli collaborator.
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