A resident of Jaffa has complained to police that officers entered her home on Wednesday and attacked her and her family.
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"The boys were afraid and they don't know Hebrew. They started to beat one of the boys and I asked them, 'What happened? By what right are you raising a hand on my son?' I yelled at my son to come in the house," Saadi said.
She went on to say that a male and female officer seated in one of the cruisers proceeded to enter her home by force, throwing her up against the wall.
"I started to yell that they have no right to come into our home and beat us," she said. "He hit me in the stomach and I'm pregnant, while the woman officer stood on the side and laughed."
Saadi said the officers locked her 14-year old nephew in the bedroom and beat him, ignoring her pleas and her children's cries. When her husband arrived on the scene, she said, he was detained for questioning.
"I don't understand how they can just come into my house, I don't know what for," she said. Saadi added that more officers arrived during the incident, including another police cruiser and a Special Patrol Unit, which she claimed to have seen under her house.
"The children kept crying," she said. "They couldn't go to school the next day. My 12-year old doesn't understand what happened, why they hit him, and he did nothing wrong. Nothing like this has ever happened to me."
Saadi filed a complaint with police against the alleged attack. Police confirmed that the incident would be investigated.
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