Amsterdam – A 19-year-old Palestinian man is suing a Dutch dog breeder who sold a dog to the Israeli army that the claimant said bit him during a riot in the West Bank.
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Hamze Abu Hashem was bitten in 2014 while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, according to the Telegraaf daily’s report Thursday on the unusual lawsuit. He sued the Four Winds K9 dog breeding company in the southern Netherlands for $13,500 in damages.
The company says it is not responsible for what Israel does with its army dogs.
Liesbeth Zegveld, Abu Hashem’s attorney in the Netherlands, told the Algemeen Dagblad daily that the money is for psychological damage sustained by her client. She is also seeking an injunction outlawing the sale of dogs to Israel.
“My client bears serious scars that will remain with him for the rest of his life,” Zegveld told the daily. “He is also deeply traumatized by the attack. He shakes when he hears dogs barking, he is too afraid to sleep and suffers from sleepwalking.”
Abu Hashem was imprisoned for three months for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. You can’t make this stuff up.
This provided a good laugh…I think the title needs to be changed to “Hashem Stones Israel and Israel Bites Back”
In my opinion, he should sue the dog.
A mazel the dog didn’t bite him on the posterior. Then the Dutch lawyer would be suing for additional damages because of cognitive impairment.
May this Palestinian animal be bitten by many other canines, and may he suffer all the medical and psychological forms of trauma that he and his ilk are persistently trying to inflict on Israelis. This poor dog needed to bite into something so awful, and deserves our pity.
The dog should sue the terrorist for blood poisoning.
The real dog is the filthy terrorist kid who thought he’d be doing the damage-inflicting, not the other way around. LOCK HIM UP!
Who paid to launch the lawsuit? It costs money to file a lawsuit and it costs money to pay a lawyer and it costs even more to when all this is communicated through foreign countries in foreign languages.
what a Joke
The Dutch breeder should counter sue the breeders of this terrorist thug
As usual the Palis refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions. The incident started with the terrorist-in-training throwing rocks. He would not have come into contact with the dog in the first place had he not made the conscious decision to behave in that manner. Only in Pallywood.