Micaela Miranda, Nabil’s wife, describes the abduction of The Freedom Theatre’s Artistic Director Nabil Al-Raee, in the early hours of Wednesday June 6th. Please continue to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to release Nabil by calling and e-mailing your local Israeli Embassy or Consulate.
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\n“We were sleeping and the dogs woke up my brother-in-law who went out to see what was going on. He came to wake me up saying the army was there. We thought at the time that the army was in the area and just I got up to check why the dogs where making such a noise.
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\nI come out of our house and I see more than 6 soldiers at our front gate and surrounding wall, all pointing guns with flashlights on at me. One of our dogs was jumping on them like mad and I was afraid they would shoot her, so I continued walking in their direction and took her inside to close her in the stairway.
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\nAs soon as I took the dog out of the way they rushed into the limits of our house and directed themselves towards the front door that was open. I ran before them and closed the door in their face. \u201cThere are women getting dressed here\u201d – at this moment my sister-in-law had woken up and was covering her head. They waited a little while and then knocked on the door strongly. My brother-in-law answered, they asked for his name and said \u201cWhere is Nabil?\u201d
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\nWe called Nabil, they sat him down in the sofa on our veranda and asked us to bring his shoes, his coat, his phone and some money: \u201cfor him to be able to come back\u201d.
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\nAt this point it was clear they were going to take him – I started asking them in Arabic, because they spoke Arabic: \u201cWhy are you taking him? Where are you taking him?\u201d
\nThey answered \u201cYou will know later, go inside.\u201d
\nI continued to insist: \u201cYou invade my house, you are taking my husband, it’s my right to know, this is not acceptable, its 3.30 am, if you want to interrogate him you call him in.\u201d
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\nThe responsible commander told them to take Nabil and Nabil tried to calm me down, he said \u201cdont worry, I\u2019ll be back soon.\u201d He got away from the soldiers to kiss our daughter Mina goodbye and said \u201cI\u2019ll go on my own feet, you don\u2019t need to push me\u201d and he walked with them into the dark. We did not see any jeep or car, they walked away from our sight.
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\nThree soldiers stayed on the veranda continuing to insist for us to go inside the house, and one of them took the lead and told us \u201cIf you don\u2019t go inside I will make you go in by force.\u201d
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\nI told him \u201c We will not go in and you go out, you got what you want.\u201d
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\nHe threatened us with his body language and directed himself to my sister-in-law, I stood in front of her and told him \u201cDon\u2019t you dare to touch the woman.\u201d He stood back and said, \u201cSo then don’t go out of this veranda\u201d and he went back to the rest of his group that were now standing by our gate, pointing their guns at us.
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\nAt this moment I could only tell them: \u201cYou don\u2019t have anything else to do? What do you feel when you do this kind of things? Are you happy you did a good job? Why don\u2019t you go and do something better? Go and read some books, surf the internet all night long… are you happy and proud you obey your commander? This man is an artist!\u201d
\nThey mocked me from afar and told me \u201cYou are wasting your words.\u201d
\n\u201cYou are wasting your lives\u201d we told them.
\nNabil was calm and cooperative, as all Palestinians he knows that he had no choice and I felt he was trying to avoid any kind of conflict. We all believed in that moment that he would be back soon.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Micaela Miranda, Nabil’s wife, describes the abduction of The Freedom Theatre’s Artistic Director Nabil Al-Raee, in the early hours of Wednesday June 6th. Please continue to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to release Nabil by calling and e-mailing your local Israeli Embassy or Consulate. “We were sleeping and the dogs woke up my […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}