Israeli officer forces Palestinian to drink alcohol

An Israeli intelligence officer forced a 24-year-old Palestinian to drink a whole bottle of alcohol under gunpoint for refusing to answer his questions, causing him to faint for an hour, a local activist said Wednesday. Muhammad Awad, from the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, said that soldiers stationed at a military watch tower at the entrance of the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, stopped Mohammad Abu Deyyeh, 24, and asked him about Palestinians who participate in Beit Ummar confrontations. When Abu Deyyeh refused to answer their questions, the soldiers called an intelligence officer who continued to ask him questions and when Abu Deyyeh insisted on not answering the officer held him under gunpoint and forced him to drink a bottle of alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam, causing him to faint for an hour. Forces left Abu Deyyeh on the ground of the tower for an hour before waking him up, carrying him and throwing him out.