During the video, Melt, a photographer by profession and as mentioned a former boy from the hills, tells how, thanks to a simple photo on the phone he had at the time, a Nokia c2, he was able, together with the Honnu organization, to get the policeman who harassed him and his friends fired, while during a search he began to grope their bodies, including in places humbled “At the end of 2017 at the Shiloh intersection, around 12 at night, I and two other friends were hitchhiking, and a police car arrived, stopped on the road in a place that endangers traffic. I knew from past experience that the first thing when you see a policeman is to take out a camera, because a policeman is something really unexpected and you can’t tell with What a breeze he will come today. So I took out a small, simple Nokia C2 camera that I had and started taking pictures in the dark.”
“In the photo,” says Mellet, “you can see that the policeman is asking to search us. We asked why it was illegal to just do a search. The policeman said that if we didn’t consent to the search, he would detain us at the station. We tried to resist, but the policeman wouldn’t let us. We were in the middle of the night at the Shiloh intersection, In the cold of about 0 degrees, the cold of Benjamin and Samaria and we had to take off our clothes and have him touch us, and who are we?” asks Melt.
Watch Melt’s testimony in which he describes the severe injury he suffered:
“Two days after this story, I decided to go to Honnu’s lawyer to show him the videos. The lawyer was very shocked by the videos he saw, and we decided to file a civil lawsuit and complaint.” Mellet describes that the police persecution does not leave him even today and that he suffers from traumas. “I hear a walkie-talkie, my pulse explodes. It’s sad but I just can’t see policemen. I can’t, I see a policeman it’s flashbacks, it’s trauma from policemen, and I’m not the only one either, there are so many people who And the police scratched their lives and they can’t function.”
“When you’re a Givaot boy, you’re kind of transparent. You have no rights. Ever since President Rivlin said the sentence “My people chose terrorism”, actually from there he took the heads of all the Givaot boys, put a pile of bills on their heads and said go grab the bills just collect them them”, concludes Shlomo Melt with great pain.
In his testimony, Melt also refers to the story of the death of her beloved godfather from the angle he sees things. “The writing was on the wall and the blood of the hill boys has been splattered on a million walls for years. I believe that it doesn’t matter if they murdered him or not, they murdered us already a few years ago, they murdered the soul and murdered our lives. It’s scratches, when I’m sitting in a car at the age of 13 and the two policemen on both sides are elbowing and punching… They know how to work very well in places where there are no cameras, in places where no one sees.”
As mentioned, following the photograph of Melet, the Honnu organization filed a lawsuit on his behalf and on behalf of other victims. The court accepted the claim and ordered to compensate Melt and the other claimants. In this case the officer was also fired from the police force. The Honnu organization and the ‘A Jew does not kill a Jew’ headquarters, which produced the video, point out that at the same time the police officers involved in the killing of Ahovia Sendak have never been prosecuted and continue their duties in the police force to this day. The organization also notes that in the coming weeks, more evidence is expected to be published about the attitude of the police and the Shin Bet to settlers in Judea and Samaria. Behind the filming and direction of the videos are Avraham Shapira and Han Klein, and the investigation by Elhanan Gruner.