The documentation from Manchester Airport, March 26, 2024/27A to the copyright law
"The two Israeli brothers who were subjected to aggressive interrogation by an 'anti-Semitic' team of border controls when they arrived in Britain are heroes who saved dozens of people during the murderous terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7," is how the British newspaper "Daily Mail" describes the two, whom they first revealed by name , Daniel and Naria Sharabi.
"They protected about 30 people during the massacre at the festival, while hiding behind a tank, using an unfamiliar weapon against the terrorists when a reserve commander gave them instructions over the phone."
In an interview the two gave to the newspaper's website, the 23-year-old brother Daniel said that he wants an apology from the British government for the treatment he and his brother received upon their landing on Sunday night.
"I have no doubt that we were detained because we are Israelis," he said in a conversation from Manchester. One of them said that they don't want us to do in the United Kingdom what was done in Gaza. We were shocked by the way they treated us. When someone comes to you in a country overseas, you expect a friendly welcome and treatment, not like this."
He said that he was glad that British Home Secretary James Calverley opened an investigation into the matter, "I hope that the people who investigated us will learn some lessons from this."
He told the newspaper reporter that the two told the border guards "exactly who we are and what we've been through", and that they were on a trip designed to raise awareness of the abductees, "but it seems they didn't listen".
"Maybe we both have post-traumatic stress," he added.
"I'm not sure, but this kind of experience does bring back the horror of that day that we'll never forget. In the end, we were allowed to go through the airport. None of us slept much because of the way we were treated."
Neria Sharabi/documentation in social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
Daniel Sharabi/Documentation in social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
Brother Neria Sharabi, 22 years old, said: "They just started asking us what we came to do here, and I told them that I survived the massacres on October 7 and I'm here to share."
According to him, "The second I said that, he just turned around. From that moment he just started questioning us. He told us, 'Sit there, don't move, we have to question you.' They just started asking us a lot of strange questions, if we are still in the army, how Our time served, what are we doing."
He said that "in the end they didn't find anything, and the police started to get angry and upset because it didn't lead anywhere."
I said to him, "Why are you doing this. Is it because I'm Jewish? And then he got mad and told me, 'Shut the hell up. I'm the boss, you listen. We want to make sure you're not going to do what you're doing in Gaza.' When I heard that, I just I kept my mouth shut and realized that if I said more things he might arrest me. When I heard that, I understood how people are so brainwashed. I don't feel safe."
"I think at first he thought I was Muslim, because he asked me what my religion was. After I said I was Jewish, everything changed and I could see it in his face. They separated us from everyone else, and we waited an hour, an hour and a half, for the investigating officer."
He explained that he feels less safe in Britain than in Israel, saying: "In Israel, not even one policeman would say such things to me."
The letter of complaint sent by the Jewish community following the incident at the airport/official website, JRE
When asked by the newspaper reporter how he felt following the incident, he said: "I don't feel safe. If this is how the police treat citizens, I don't want to be here. People here ask us to stay a little longer, but I don't feel safe staying here. I want to go back home, and we will take our flight home today. This is my first time in the country and my last time in the country. I don't want to experience what I experienced again."
The newspaper notes that this is not the first time that the hungry have experienced harassment.
Last month when the two were in New York on a similar mission to raise awareness about the abductees, they confronted a man who was arrested for trying to vandalize posters of the abductees in Times Square.
The brothers held up signs that read "My best friend was kidnapped in Gaza" and "I survived the massacre on October 7th", and when a friend started filming the man tearing up the signs, he looked directly at the camera and shouted "Why don't you go blow up another hospital? Why don't you Kill another 10,000 children?".
The man was recorded on video spitting in the direction of the officers and was immediately arrested.
The Sharabi brothers waved their signs in front of him, confronted him, and defied him, "Where do you get these lies from?".
"I have a video of our friends being raped, kidnapped to Gaza," Neria added.
"We're here to stand up to them and tell them they're liars. If they think it never happened, they're just being brainwashed."
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