20,000 walk Nablus streets with bodies of slain Fatah men

[ProgressiveMuslim]

Published today (updated) 26/12/2009 15:06


Nablus - Ma’an - At least 20,000 Palestinians came out for the afternoon funeral processions of the three Nablus men assassinated by undercover Israeli forces during the early hours of Saturday morning.

The group began to gather outside the Rafediyah Hospital in the west end of Nablus' city center, where the bodies of the three men, Raed Sakarji,38, Anan Subih, 33, and Ghassan Abu Sharkh, 40, were transferred when Israeli forces withdrew from the city.

Mourners denounced the execution of the men in or beside their own homes as a crime, and many were calling on the Palestinian Authority to change its policy toward Israel based on the gruesome incident.

Member of the Fatah Central Committee Mahmoud Al-A’lul attended the march, where he praised those who were killed in Nablus along with three others slain in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza the same morning, saying “the killing of three in Gaza is a clear message that the Palestinian national unity is response to Israeli crimes.”

Israeli officials released statements to the media saying the men assassinated on Saturday were responsible for the shooting death of a settler on Thursday. The men were shot moments after they were detained by the soldiers.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=249734

[Christa]

1. K

Chilling and cruel:

"The men were shot moments after they were detained by the soldiers."

[Ken Burch]

2. So much for "the most moral army in the world".

More proof of the complete immorality of the Occupation.

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[Ozymanithrax]

4. Where is a link to the Isreli statements?

There should be one out there.

[cqo_000]

5. Israeli Military Kills 6 Palestinians

December 26, 2009

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military killed six Palestinians on Saturday, three in the West Bank whom it accused of killing a Jewish settler and three in Gaza who it said were crawling along the border wall planning an attack. It was the deadliest day in the conflict in nearly a year.

Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, called it “a sad day for Palestinians and their National Authority” and condemned the West Bank operation as an “assassination” and “an attempt to target the state of security and stability that the Palestinian Authority has been able to achieve.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/middleeast/27mideast.html?_r=1

[azurnoir]

6. Note the difference between the way these men were

dealt with no detainment no trial just execution as compared to Yaakov Teitel who is accused of killing Palestinians

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799062715&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

Why no trial for these men?

[Violet_Crumble]

8. Yr not the only one who noticed the double standard there...

Israelis get treated very differently to Palestinians...

When it comes to the way Palestinians are treated, the cold-blooded execution of people is totally unacceptable and disgusting. Add to that the massive trauma to the family members of watching a loved one be executed in front of them, and it makes for something that no-one should want to try to defend, though I'm sure one or two here will...

[Scurrilous]

7. Wife, brothers describe Israeli assassinations

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"Family members of three slain Fatah members gave testimony of the last moments of their loved ones' lives on Saturday, hours after the men were assassinated by Israeli forces in their own homes in Nablus.

Raed Sarakji, 38

"Now a widow, Tahani Ja’ara is 32 years old and seven months pregnant. "We were sleeping in our bedroom, not bigger than six square meters, when Israeli soldiers began yelling 'get out, get out.' I thought I was dreaming. When I heard the Israeli soldiers and their police dogs outside the room, that was when I realized it was real."

Tahani said her husband told soldiers he would get out of the house, so they started shooting through the door and the windows. “He fell between my hands bleeding. I started crying 'they killed him, they killed him.' Then soldiers broke the door and got in. He was already dead, but they continued to riddle his body with bullets to make sure he was killed."

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Ghassan Abu Sharkh, 39

"Ghassan's 16-year-old brother Diyaa Abu Sharkh saw him shot dead Saturday morning. “Everything happened very quickly… when we opened the door and saw the soldiers, two masked collaborators pointed to my brother Ghassan who was walking down the stairs. Before I knew it he was being shot. I couldn’t really make sense of what was going on at all. Then an Israeli officer asked me whether the dead man was Ghassan, and I said yes. 'Good, then ask everybody to leave the house,' the officer said."

"I was stading close to Ghassan when they killed him. They could have detained him very easily. He passed to join my brother Nayif who was killed by Israeli forces a few years ago (2004)."

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Anan Subih, 33

"Farid Subih is 45; his brother Anan was killed Saturday morning in the Ras Al-Ain neighborhood of Nablus. “At 3am, dozens of Israeli troops surrounded our four-story building. They blew open the the main gate then started shooting randomly and throwing grenades in all directions. Anan was inside, and he asked everybody to leave the building to avoid being hurt.”

He continued, "We headed to the nearby house of the Al-‘Amoudi family. Then soldiers entered the house with police dogs, and they started throwing more grenades, and a fire erupted in the warehouse full of plastic chairs and sponge material.

"My brother was not armed, but we could see soldiers continue to ransack the house. For three hours, we didn’t know what was going on. After the soldiers left, we found Anan dead … bullets tore all his body and bones. They could have detained him, and he died believing he had been granted amnesty by Israeli forces. He left behind a widow, two sons, and five daughters," added Farid."

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