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Border policemen due to testify in disguise before Or Commission Members of the police anti-terror squad of the Border Police are due to testify in disguise this morning at a hearing of the Or Judicial Commission of Investigation into the Israeli Arab disturbances last fall. Meanwhile, the police withdrew their request for permission to allow all policemen and border policemen to testify behind a screen and for the commission to issue a ban on the publication of their names. Police Inspector-General Shlomo Aharonishki told Supreme Court Justice Theodor Or that the police would request that testimony be heard behind closed doors in individual cases where they deemed it necessary to protect the policemen. Yesterday the testimony of five policemen scheduled to appear before the commission was canceled because of the original police request. The commission is currently hearing testimony regarding events in Umm el-Fahm on October 1 and 2, when two Israeli Arabs and a Gaza Strip resident were killed. Dr. Afu Agbariya, a surgeon at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava who also runs a clinic in Umm el-Fahm, told the commission members that two-thirds of the wounded who arrived in his clinic on October 1, during clashes between police and local residents, were wounded in the upper part of the torso. According to official open-fire instructions, police are supposed to aim at the lower part of the body. Agbariya said 46 people came for treatment on the first day of the disturbances, including 20 who had been hit by rubber bullets and 26 suffering from tear gas inhalation. Two Umm el-Fahm youths died that day. Ahmed Jabarin was shot in the eye by a rubber bullet which apparently lodged in his brain, said Agbariya. Mohammed Jabarin was killed some two hours later, hit by a live bullet, according to the doctor who treated him, Agbariya added. The following morning, during riots in which Misleh Abu Jarad was killed, Agbariya admitted six or seven casualties to the clinic with serious wounds. He said the large bullet entry holes and smashed bones indicated that the police had used live ammunition. 'I am not a neurosurgical expert, but from what I saw and know, rubber bullets would not cause such wounds,' he said. 'It was live ammunition.' Following today's hearing, the commission will recess for two weeks because of the Moslem Id el-Adha holiday.
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