In another violation by Israeli soldiers to innocent Palestinian citizens' rights, student Bashar Fakhri Al-kadri, 23 years, was kept at a checkpoint for hours in a hole dug by the Israeli soldiers, at Beit-Eiba checkpoint near Nablus. The student was leaving Nablus City, where he studies in the Community College of An-Najah National University, to his family house in Seer Village, close to Qalqilia City.
The Martyr’s family mentioned that their son Bashar had been kept since midday until the evening cuffed and blindfolded, without any reason, until he started fainting. When the soldiers noticed that Bashar wasn’t feeling very well they took him and threw him on the ground close to the checkpoint, ignoring his critical health condition. A while later a taxi that was passing nearby noticed Bashar and took him, without knowing his identity, to a hospital in Tulkarem City, where he died.
Bashar is considered martyr number forty six of An-Najah students that have died since the year 2000 at the hands of Israeli soldiers' abuses.
According to Geneva convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, 12 August 1949, Part 1 general provisions, article 4 states: "Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.
Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention are not protected by it. Nationals of a neutral State who find themselves in the territory of a belligerent State, and nationals of a co-belligerent State, shall not be regarded as protected persons while the State of which they are nationals has normal diplomatic representation in the State in whose hands they are."
The provisions of Part II are, however, wider in application, as defined in Article 13.
"Persons protected by the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of 12 August 1949, or by the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of 12 August 1949, or by the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949, shall not be considered as protected persons within the meaning of the present Convention."