23 feb 2014
A man imprisoned in central Israel Sunday was killed by Israeli forces after he shot and injured three prison guards, according to Israeli media.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported that a prisoner in Rimonim Prison moderately injured two guards and lightly injured another after grabbing a gun.
After shooting the guards, the prisoner barricaded himself inside the jail, the report said.
A large group of Israeli forces reported to the scene and attempted to overtake the man. The prisoner was killed and another guard was lightly wounded during the Special Central Unit operation, the report said.
The prisoner was identified as Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli-American in his thirties who was serving a murder sentence.
The Times of Israel reported that in 1997, Sheinbein was convicted for a murder outside Washington, DC. He immediately fled to Israel, where he gained citizenship. He successfully negotiated to be tried in Israel, where he received a lighter prison sentence than he may have in the US, according to the report.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli Prison Service did not answer calls seeking comment.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported that a prisoner in Rimonim Prison moderately injured two guards and lightly injured another after grabbing a gun.
After shooting the guards, the prisoner barricaded himself inside the jail, the report said.
A large group of Israeli forces reported to the scene and attempted to overtake the man. The prisoner was killed and another guard was lightly wounded during the Special Central Unit operation, the report said.
The prisoner was identified as Samuel Sheinbein, an Israeli-American in his thirties who was serving a murder sentence.
The Times of Israel reported that in 1997, Sheinbein was convicted for a murder outside Washington, DC. He immediately fled to Israel, where he gained citizenship. He successfully negotiated to be tried in Israel, where he received a lighter prison sentence than he may have in the US, according to the report.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli Prison Service did not answer calls seeking comment.
16 feb 2014
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
Arian Azarbar says Israeli spy was granted news passport after participating in the 2010 plot to kill Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel. An Israeli Mossad agent living in Canada was secretly provided a new identity and passport by the government, a Canadian-Iranian businessman alleged in an interview, the Canoe website reported Saturday.
Al-Mabhouh was killed on January 14, 2010 when a team of assassins broke into his hotel room and killed him silently, leaving a 'do not disturb' sign on the door. The hotel security cameras caught images of the killers sharing an elevator ride with Mabhouh prior to the assassination.
On the basis of the video clips and the information provided by Dubai police officers investigating the murder at the time, the assassination squad involved 10 men carrying British, French, German and Irish passports. A woman carrying an Irish passport was also captured by the cameras.
The Dubai authorities claimed there were two teams: one carried out surveillance of the target, while the other - which appears to be a group of younger men, at least as far as the camera shots show - carried out the killing.
It later became clear that Israeli Mossad agents used fake British passports in in the operation.
His assassination attracted international attention in part due to allegations that it was ordered by the Israeli government and carried out by Mossad agents holding fake or fraudulently obtained passports from several European countries and Australia.
The photographs of 26 suspects, and the names they used, have been placed on Interpol's most-wanted list. According to Dubai's authorities, there are up to 29 suspects, 12 of whom carried British passports, six Irish, four French, one German, and four Australian, and another two Palestinians who were arrested.
Arian Azarbar says Israeli spy was granted news passport after participating in the 2010 plot to kill Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel. An Israeli Mossad agent living in Canada was secretly provided a new identity and passport by the government, a Canadian-Iranian businessman alleged in an interview, the Canoe website reported Saturday.
Al-Mabhouh was killed on January 14, 2010 when a team of assassins broke into his hotel room and killed him silently, leaving a 'do not disturb' sign on the door. The hotel security cameras caught images of the killers sharing an elevator ride with Mabhouh prior to the assassination.
On the basis of the video clips and the information provided by Dubai police officers investigating the murder at the time, the assassination squad involved 10 men carrying British, French, German and Irish passports. A woman carrying an Irish passport was also captured by the cameras.
The Dubai authorities claimed there were two teams: one carried out surveillance of the target, while the other - which appears to be a group of younger men, at least as far as the camera shots show - carried out the killing.
It later became clear that Israeli Mossad agents used fake British passports in in the operation.
His assassination attracted international attention in part due to allegations that it was ordered by the Israeli government and carried out by Mossad agents holding fake or fraudulently obtained passports from several European countries and Australia.
The photographs of 26 suspects, and the names they used, have been placed on Interpol's most-wanted list. According to Dubai's authorities, there are up to 29 suspects, 12 of whom carried British passports, six Irish, four French, one German, and four Australian, and another two Palestinians who were arrested.
13 feb 2014
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Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26
A Palestinian man was shot dead and another injured on Thursday by Israeli forces east of Gaza city. Spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said that Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26, from an area east of al-Shujaiyeh died from injuries sustained after Israeli forces shot him in the head in nearby al-Montar east of Gaza City. Al-Qidra added that another man, 21, was moderately injured after being shot in the foot. |
Medics told Ma'an earlier that two people were taken to a hospital after the shooting at the border.
A Ma'an reporter said that the two men were collecting pebbles near the border when they were shot.
An Israeli army spokesman told Ma'an that "several Palestinians approached the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and began tampering with (the) fence."
A Ma'an reporter said that the two men were collecting pebbles near the border when they were shot.
An Israeli army spokesman told Ma'an that "several Palestinians approached the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and began tampering with (the) fence."
Mansour's body at al-Shifa Hospital
"The soldiers operated in order to distance the suspects and after exhausting all possible means to do so fired at the main instigator," he added.
Recent weeks have witnessed an increase in tensions on the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on Palestinian protests near the border and launched a number of airstrikes. Palestinian militants have responded with rockets, which have not caused any injuries in Israel.
Israeli forces frequently shoot at farmers and other civilians inside the Gaza Strip if they approach large swathes of land near the border that the Israeli military has deemed off-limits to Palestinians.
The "security buffer zone" extends between 500 meters and 1500 meters into the Strip, effectively turning local farms into no-go zones.
According to UNOCHA, 17% of Gaza's total land area and 35% of its agricultural land were within the buffer zone as of 2010, directly affecting the lives and livelihoods of more than 100,000 Gazans.
"The soldiers operated in order to distance the suspects and after exhausting all possible means to do so fired at the main instigator," he added.
Recent weeks have witnessed an increase in tensions on the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on Palestinian protests near the border and launched a number of airstrikes. Palestinian militants have responded with rockets, which have not caused any injuries in Israel.
Israeli forces frequently shoot at farmers and other civilians inside the Gaza Strip if they approach large swathes of land near the border that the Israeli military has deemed off-limits to Palestinians.
The "security buffer zone" extends between 500 meters and 1500 meters into the Strip, effectively turning local farms into no-go zones.
According to UNOCHA, 17% of Gaza's total land area and 35% of its agricultural land were within the buffer zone as of 2010, directly affecting the lives and livelihoods of more than 100,000 Gazans.
12 feb 2014
Haim Bar-Lev and Sharon, 1973
Book: During secret 1972 military operation in Sinai, dozens of children and elderly were expelled in the bitter cold of night, and died.
It was one of the most important, expensive and creative exercises the Israel Defense Forces had ever held - an entire armored division crossing a large obstacle of water. Exercise "Oz" (valor) strengthened the Israeli strategy that envisaged crossing the Suez Canal and fighting on the Egyptian side if war was to break out again in the Sinai Peninsula.
Twenty months later, that was the scenario that played out in the critical stage of the Yom Kippur War. The exercise, the largest the IDF had ever held to date, began in the southern Negev and proceeded deep into Sinai and its center, the crossing of an artificial lake near Abu Agheila, created by opening the Rueifa Dam. It took six days, beginning on February 20, 1972, in the presence of Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General David (Dado) Elazar and was carried out in deep secrecy.
Neither the leaders nor the thousands of soldiers taking part were aware that a few weeks earlier, the man whose idea the exercise was, head of Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, had ordered the expulsion of three thousand civilians, members of two Bedouin tribes whose encampments and grazing grounds were in the exercise area. The expulsion took place without warning, during a freezing desert cold snap, without time for the Bedouin to take their belongings, causing around forty deaths, mainly of children, babies and old people.
The story has not been told for 42 years and even after it was revealed to Lt. Gen. David Elazar who ordered to return the Bedouin to their homes, no-one was ever held responsible. It was published for the first time last month in "Arik," a new biography of Ariel Sharon, written by former Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau. The belated revelation is based on a report written in 1972 by Israel's foremost researcher of Bedouin life, Clinton (Yitzhak) Bailey.
Bailey, an immigrant from the United States lived and taught Hebrew at Kibbutz Sde Boker and was making his first steps in researching the Bedouin tribes of the Negev and Sinai. He heard of the expulsion at the end of February 1972 when he met a sheikh of the Tarabin tribe in El-Arish. The sheikh told him of a large group of his kinsmen who had been expelled from their lands near Abu Agheila and had been forced to walk dozens of kilometers and relocate south of the Jabel Khalal mountain.
"I went out there with my jeep and met them living there in groups in makeshift tents," Bailey told Haaretz this week. "They had been forced to leave most of their property behind. They told me that IDF officers had arrived at their encampments in the night, some with jeeps, others on camels and ordered them to leave at once." The expulsions took place over three nights in January 1972 and at least in one case where the Bedouin refused to leave, the IDF soldiers had fired in the air and began tearing up their tents.
They lead him to two temporary burial grounds where Bailey recorded and photographed at least 28 little graves. "I returned to El-Arish and spoke with a few officers of the military governorship who told me the Bedouin had been removed on Sharon's orders and Arik probably wants to use their land now for Israeli settlement." Bailey, himself a reserve officer in the governorship decided to notify his commander, Military Governor Brig. Gen. Shlomo Gazit. "Gazit said he would look into it" recalls Bailey, "but nothing happened and the Bedouin weren't allowed to go back."
He next turned to Haaretz's veteran reporter in the south of Israel, Mordehai Artzieli, who was a friend of Sharon's and of other senior officers. Artzieli, who died in 2004, chose not to publish the report (it probably would have been blocked by the military censorship due to the secret exercise) but updated the chief of staff instead.
Lt. Gen. Elazar had only a few weeks earlier been forced to order a high-level investigation into another expulsion ordered by Sharon of Bedouin living in the Rafah Salient. That case had reached the press and caused an uproar in the government and a High Court petition after Negev kibbutz members embarked on a campaign on behalf of the Bedouin. Anxious to prevent another scandal, Elazar summoned Bailey to his office in Tel-Aviv and called Sharon in his presence. "Dado was surprised by what I told him and read my report then and there. I don't think he was putting on an act. His tone when he called Sharon was cold and formal. 'Why haven't they been allowed to return?' he asked. 'Make sure they are back tomorrow.' Sharon asked him how he knew about it and Dado told him about me and my report."
A few days later Bailey was invited to meet Sharon at Southern Command in Beer Sheva. "Sharon was very friendly and told me how much he loves the Bedouin and visiting the Azazme tribe. He said 'I didn't know what happened to those Bedouin' though I knew it was his orders. I realized later he was trying to neutralize me and he had issued an order forbidding my entrance into all IDF bases in Sinai. I had to appeal to Dado to have that order rescinded." Over the years, Bailey, who was to become a lieutenant-colonel in the Civil Administration in the Territories and an advisor on Arab affairs to the Defense Ministry, would meet Sharon a number of times. "A love-hate relationship developed between us," he said. "He was always suspicious of me but he appreciated that I was a field man and wanted to see my maps and reports."
It is still unclear which unit carried out the expulsions. A number of officers who served at the time in Southern Command and in the military governorship told Haaretz they do not remember or were not aware of this case. Maj. Gen. (res.) Gazit, whom Bailey first notified, said this week he has no recollection of an expulsion at Abu Agheila, though he remembers the Rafah Salient case. "I would have to take care of such a thing but I don't remember it. There were various canal-crossing exercises but I don't remember that specific one." It is clear that the senior officers who were aware and the chief of staff who heard about it from Bailey wanted to keep the case under wraps due to the secrecy of the exercise and their desire to prevent another public scandal.
The Sharon family was not interested in commenting. Arik's son, Omri, said "I don't know about it and have no interest in dealing with this."
The IDF also preferred not to comment. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirmed that the case is known and has been documented by the army's history department but since all the officers involved have left the army long ago, it does not want to comment.
Forty years passed between Bailey's first attempt at interesting Haaretz's correspondent in the south in reporting the case to his approaching David Landau who was researching for his biography of Sharon where the story has now been published for the first time. "No-one has ever accounted for what happened to the Bedouin and those deaths," Bailey said.
"I didn't really think about that at the time. I only wanted them to be allowed to go home and I was happy that happened. I'm not proud of this as an Israeli. You have to remember the situation then. No-one criticized the army and Sharon; the hero of the Six Day War was a demi-god, larger than life. I was a thirty-year-old researcher. The treatment of the Bedouin then was awful; they were constantly under suspicion and Sharon was Sharon - a man who always saw whoever stood in his way, especially Arabs, as expendable. He wanted his big exercise and the Bedouin were just an incidental nuisance. He didn't care about civilians getting hurt in the way. They could have been temporarily evacuated in a humane way, with proper transport and shelter. But that just didn't occur to him."
Book: During secret 1972 military operation in Sinai, dozens of children and elderly were expelled in the bitter cold of night, and died.
It was one of the most important, expensive and creative exercises the Israel Defense Forces had ever held - an entire armored division crossing a large obstacle of water. Exercise "Oz" (valor) strengthened the Israeli strategy that envisaged crossing the Suez Canal and fighting on the Egyptian side if war was to break out again in the Sinai Peninsula.
Twenty months later, that was the scenario that played out in the critical stage of the Yom Kippur War. The exercise, the largest the IDF had ever held to date, began in the southern Negev and proceeded deep into Sinai and its center, the crossing of an artificial lake near Abu Agheila, created by opening the Rueifa Dam. It took six days, beginning on February 20, 1972, in the presence of Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General David (Dado) Elazar and was carried out in deep secrecy.
Neither the leaders nor the thousands of soldiers taking part were aware that a few weeks earlier, the man whose idea the exercise was, head of Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, had ordered the expulsion of three thousand civilians, members of two Bedouin tribes whose encampments and grazing grounds were in the exercise area. The expulsion took place without warning, during a freezing desert cold snap, without time for the Bedouin to take their belongings, causing around forty deaths, mainly of children, babies and old people.
The story has not been told for 42 years and even after it was revealed to Lt. Gen. David Elazar who ordered to return the Bedouin to their homes, no-one was ever held responsible. It was published for the first time last month in "Arik," a new biography of Ariel Sharon, written by former Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau. The belated revelation is based on a report written in 1972 by Israel's foremost researcher of Bedouin life, Clinton (Yitzhak) Bailey.
Bailey, an immigrant from the United States lived and taught Hebrew at Kibbutz Sde Boker and was making his first steps in researching the Bedouin tribes of the Negev and Sinai. He heard of the expulsion at the end of February 1972 when he met a sheikh of the Tarabin tribe in El-Arish. The sheikh told him of a large group of his kinsmen who had been expelled from their lands near Abu Agheila and had been forced to walk dozens of kilometers and relocate south of the Jabel Khalal mountain.
"I went out there with my jeep and met them living there in groups in makeshift tents," Bailey told Haaretz this week. "They had been forced to leave most of their property behind. They told me that IDF officers had arrived at their encampments in the night, some with jeeps, others on camels and ordered them to leave at once." The expulsions took place over three nights in January 1972 and at least in one case where the Bedouin refused to leave, the IDF soldiers had fired in the air and began tearing up their tents.
They lead him to two temporary burial grounds where Bailey recorded and photographed at least 28 little graves. "I returned to El-Arish and spoke with a few officers of the military governorship who told me the Bedouin had been removed on Sharon's orders and Arik probably wants to use their land now for Israeli settlement." Bailey, himself a reserve officer in the governorship decided to notify his commander, Military Governor Brig. Gen. Shlomo Gazit. "Gazit said he would look into it" recalls Bailey, "but nothing happened and the Bedouin weren't allowed to go back."
He next turned to Haaretz's veteran reporter in the south of Israel, Mordehai Artzieli, who was a friend of Sharon's and of other senior officers. Artzieli, who died in 2004, chose not to publish the report (it probably would have been blocked by the military censorship due to the secret exercise) but updated the chief of staff instead.
Lt. Gen. Elazar had only a few weeks earlier been forced to order a high-level investigation into another expulsion ordered by Sharon of Bedouin living in the Rafah Salient. That case had reached the press and caused an uproar in the government and a High Court petition after Negev kibbutz members embarked on a campaign on behalf of the Bedouin. Anxious to prevent another scandal, Elazar summoned Bailey to his office in Tel-Aviv and called Sharon in his presence. "Dado was surprised by what I told him and read my report then and there. I don't think he was putting on an act. His tone when he called Sharon was cold and formal. 'Why haven't they been allowed to return?' he asked. 'Make sure they are back tomorrow.' Sharon asked him how he knew about it and Dado told him about me and my report."
A few days later Bailey was invited to meet Sharon at Southern Command in Beer Sheva. "Sharon was very friendly and told me how much he loves the Bedouin and visiting the Azazme tribe. He said 'I didn't know what happened to those Bedouin' though I knew it was his orders. I realized later he was trying to neutralize me and he had issued an order forbidding my entrance into all IDF bases in Sinai. I had to appeal to Dado to have that order rescinded." Over the years, Bailey, who was to become a lieutenant-colonel in the Civil Administration in the Territories and an advisor on Arab affairs to the Defense Ministry, would meet Sharon a number of times. "A love-hate relationship developed between us," he said. "He was always suspicious of me but he appreciated that I was a field man and wanted to see my maps and reports."
It is still unclear which unit carried out the expulsions. A number of officers who served at the time in Southern Command and in the military governorship told Haaretz they do not remember or were not aware of this case. Maj. Gen. (res.) Gazit, whom Bailey first notified, said this week he has no recollection of an expulsion at Abu Agheila, though he remembers the Rafah Salient case. "I would have to take care of such a thing but I don't remember it. There were various canal-crossing exercises but I don't remember that specific one." It is clear that the senior officers who were aware and the chief of staff who heard about it from Bailey wanted to keep the case under wraps due to the secrecy of the exercise and their desire to prevent another public scandal.
The Sharon family was not interested in commenting. Arik's son, Omri, said "I don't know about it and have no interest in dealing with this."
The IDF also preferred not to comment. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirmed that the case is known and has been documented by the army's history department but since all the officers involved have left the army long ago, it does not want to comment.
Forty years passed between Bailey's first attempt at interesting Haaretz's correspondent in the south in reporting the case to his approaching David Landau who was researching for his biography of Sharon where the story has now been published for the first time. "No-one has ever accounted for what happened to the Bedouin and those deaths," Bailey said.
"I didn't really think about that at the time. I only wanted them to be allowed to go home and I was happy that happened. I'm not proud of this as an Israeli. You have to remember the situation then. No-one criticized the army and Sharon; the hero of the Six Day War was a demi-god, larger than life. I was a thirty-year-old researcher. The treatment of the Bedouin then was awful; they were constantly under suspicion and Sharon was Sharon - a man who always saw whoever stood in his way, especially Arabs, as expendable. He wanted his big exercise and the Bedouin were just an incidental nuisance. He didn't care about civilians getting hurt in the way. They could have been temporarily evacuated in a humane way, with proper transport and shelter. But that just didn't occur to him."
9 feb 2014
Site of blast in Tel Aviv, Saturday
An Israeli police official said on Sunday the recent assassinations in Israeli occupation cities and were carried out with the use of ‘IDF explosives’. "The source of most of the explosives is the Israeli Defense Forces," the ynetnews.com reported the statement of the police commissioner.
"No police force in the world knows how to totally prevent these kinds of incidents. I hope we manage to make significant progress in this area. We thwart (such incidents) practically on a weekly basis; (the public) is unaware of most of our thwarting efforts," he said.
The Hebrew edition of the Israeli daily said 12 booby-trapped cars exploded since last Summer.
The daily quoted official statistics as showing that seven Israelis were killed in the recent bombings and dozens wounded in Israeli mafia violence, most recently the southern "Tel Aviv" incident which took place on Saturday evening in which an Israeli was killed.
It added that Tel Aviv yesterday [Saturday] joined the list of ghost towns of Askelan, Ashdod, Petah Tikva and Rehovot, given the police impotence in the face of such crimes.
The daily wondered whether Israel would launch 'Operation Defensive Shield' anew against the mafia gangs after Israelis got their security lost, referring to so-called ‘Operation Defensive Shield’ against West Bank cities in 2002 during Second Intifada, which claimed the lives of some 250 Palestinians.
An Israeli police official said on Sunday the recent assassinations in Israeli occupation cities and were carried out with the use of ‘IDF explosives’. "The source of most of the explosives is the Israeli Defense Forces," the ynetnews.com reported the statement of the police commissioner.
"No police force in the world knows how to totally prevent these kinds of incidents. I hope we manage to make significant progress in this area. We thwart (such incidents) practically on a weekly basis; (the public) is unaware of most of our thwarting efforts," he said.
The Hebrew edition of the Israeli daily said 12 booby-trapped cars exploded since last Summer.
The daily quoted official statistics as showing that seven Israelis were killed in the recent bombings and dozens wounded in Israeli mafia violence, most recently the southern "Tel Aviv" incident which took place on Saturday evening in which an Israeli was killed.
It added that Tel Aviv yesterday [Saturday] joined the list of ghost towns of Askelan, Ashdod, Petah Tikva and Rehovot, given the police impotence in the face of such crimes.
The daily wondered whether Israel would launch 'Operation Defensive Shield' anew against the mafia gangs after Israelis got their security lost, referring to so-called ‘Operation Defensive Shield’ against West Bank cities in 2002 during Second Intifada, which claimed the lives of some 250 Palestinians.
4 feb 2014
Tal Nachman 21
An Israeli officer was killed overnight Monday by friendly fire near the northern Gaza border, Israel's army said.
"The IDF confirms an IDF officer was killed overnight following misidentified discharge during routine activity adjacent to the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated," an Israeli army spokeswoman told Ma'an.
An Israeli soldier mistakenly shot the officer after believing he was a "terrorist," Israeli news site Ynet reported.
The officer was on top of an armored personnel carrier when he shot and was no more than 20 meters from the other soldier, Ynet said.
An Israeli officer was killed overnight Monday by friendly fire near the northern Gaza border, Israel's army said.
"The IDF confirms an IDF officer was killed overnight following misidentified discharge during routine activity adjacent to the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated," an Israeli army spokeswoman told Ma'an.
An Israeli soldier mistakenly shot the officer after believing he was a "terrorist," Israeli news site Ynet reported.
The officer was on top of an armored personnel carrier when he shot and was no more than 20 meters from the other soldier, Ynet said.
31 jan 2014
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“There is no other way to describe his murder, but as a crime, a coldblooded crime, they shot him dead, claimed he tried to attack them, and thought they had the perfect story”, Mohammad al-Awawda of Palestine 24 News website said.
“A perfect setup, a justified crime, the occupation thought”, al-Awawda stated, “But the soldiers forgot, or ignored, the fact that there is no perfect crime…” We are talking about Mohammad Mahmoud Mubarak, 22, the young Palestinian man who was shot |
and killed, on Wednesday before noon [January 29, 2014] near the new junction, close to the Ein Senia village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Similar to thousands of crimes committed by the army against the Palestinians and their lands, the soldiers claimed Mubarak was not only armed, but “opened fire at a military post”.
Of course, that is a perfect excuse to “justify” the cold-blooded crime committed by the soldiers. Especially when you ignore the fact that the only shots heard were the shots that penetrated his body, and killed him.
Mubarak, the son of the head of the Popular Committee in the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, was killed after three criminal rounds of live ammunition struck him in the back, when soldiers, based on a military town near the junction, opened fire on him, not once, or twice, but at least three times, to ensure he was dead.
The young Palestinian man was not armed, was not protesting, was not obstructing traffic, he was working, wearing clearly marked clothes, he was a flagger directing traffic while repairs were being conducted on the road.
The army alleged the slain Palestinian was armed, and opened fire at the soldiers in their post, close to Ein Yabroud village, northeast of Ramallah. The “shooting” did not lead to any injuries or damage…
However, eyewitnesses and coworkers all testified Mubarak was working, did not attack or even try to attack anybody, testimonies that prove the lies of the Israeli military, prove the fabrications that we all became accustomed to hearing from the military whenever they commit a cold-blooded crime…
Mubarak works for a construction company, he and his coworkers, were wearing the company uniforms, clearly marked, and he was directing traffic… he was a flagger…
The workers said the army executed him in cold blood, the soldiers had no justification for this crime, but… since when they need a justification, anyone who lives under Israeli occupation, under any sort of military occupation, knows the fact that occupiers get away with most of not all of their crimes, especially with the deadly international silence, aka complicity…
As ugly as this crime is, as criminal and cold blooded any crime can get, that fact is Mubarak was executed for working, for trying to put food on his family’s table. Where is the alleged weapon he “carried”?!, the soldiers were all over the place, he carried a flag to direct traffic, that is his “crime”.
Not a single person saw a gun, not a single person saw or heard the slain Palestinian threatening the life of anybody, he was working, and trying to earn some living… but it seems he had to die, because a soldier, or more, said so… or thought so….
At the end of the day, Mubarak is dead, his family, his friends, his loved ones lost him, forever… and the army is trying to claim “he was there to get them”.. Another lie to justify another crime and the list goes on…
--- Although pictures, showing Mubarak in his work uniform, are not time stamped, those were the same clothes, same uniform he had on when he was shot and killed. The same jacket can be seen on the ground after the shooting.
Similar to thousands of crimes committed by the army against the Palestinians and their lands, the soldiers claimed Mubarak was not only armed, but “opened fire at a military post”.
Of course, that is a perfect excuse to “justify” the cold-blooded crime committed by the soldiers. Especially when you ignore the fact that the only shots heard were the shots that penetrated his body, and killed him.
Mubarak, the son of the head of the Popular Committee in the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, was killed after three criminal rounds of live ammunition struck him in the back, when soldiers, based on a military town near the junction, opened fire on him, not once, or twice, but at least three times, to ensure he was dead.
The young Palestinian man was not armed, was not protesting, was not obstructing traffic, he was working, wearing clearly marked clothes, he was a flagger directing traffic while repairs were being conducted on the road.
The army alleged the slain Palestinian was armed, and opened fire at the soldiers in their post, close to Ein Yabroud village, northeast of Ramallah. The “shooting” did not lead to any injuries or damage…
However, eyewitnesses and coworkers all testified Mubarak was working, did not attack or even try to attack anybody, testimonies that prove the lies of the Israeli military, prove the fabrications that we all became accustomed to hearing from the military whenever they commit a cold-blooded crime…
Mubarak works for a construction company, he and his coworkers, were wearing the company uniforms, clearly marked, and he was directing traffic… he was a flagger…
The workers said the army executed him in cold blood, the soldiers had no justification for this crime, but… since when they need a justification, anyone who lives under Israeli occupation, under any sort of military occupation, knows the fact that occupiers get away with most of not all of their crimes, especially with the deadly international silence, aka complicity…
As ugly as this crime is, as criminal and cold blooded any crime can get, that fact is Mubarak was executed for working, for trying to put food on his family’s table. Where is the alleged weapon he “carried”?!, the soldiers were all over the place, he carried a flag to direct traffic, that is his “crime”.
Not a single person saw a gun, not a single person saw or heard the slain Palestinian threatening the life of anybody, he was working, and trying to earn some living… but it seems he had to die, because a soldier, or more, said so… or thought so….
At the end of the day, Mubarak is dead, his family, his friends, his loved ones lost him, forever… and the army is trying to claim “he was there to get them”.. Another lie to justify another crime and the list goes on…
--- Although pictures, showing Mubarak in his work uniform, are not time stamped, those were the same clothes, same uniform he had on when he was shot and killed. The same jacket can be seen on the ground after the shooting.
30 jan 2014
Violent confrontations took place at noon Thursday between dozens of Bir Zeit university students and Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed at Ofer prison near Ramallah. The PIC reporter said that students boarded buses that took them to Ofer where they got out of the buses and started throwing stones at the soldiers.
He pointed out that IOF reinforcements and police forces arrived to the scene and started firing rubber bullets and teargas at the students, but no casualties were reported.
The students were protesting the IOF cold-blooded murder of Mohammed Mubarak, 20, while he was working near Ramallah in a road maintenance project on Wednesday.
He pointed out that IOF reinforcements and police forces arrived to the scene and started firing rubber bullets and teargas at the students, but no casualties were reported.
The students were protesting the IOF cold-blooded murder of Mohammed Mubarak, 20, while he was working near Ramallah in a road maintenance project on Wednesday.
Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Al-Barghouthi said that the killing of Mohamed Mubarak, a 20-year-old young man from Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, brought the number of the Palestinians killed by Israel to 35 victims since its peace talks with the Palestinian Authority started. In press remarks on Wednesday, Barghouthi, who heads the Palestinian national initiative, stated that the Israeli occupation state uses its talks with the PA to continue its aggression and settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands.
He added that the cold-blooded shooting of Mubarak by Israeli soldiers who also prevented paramedics from taking him to hospital vindicated further that Israel deliberately persists in its crimes against the Palestinian people without any international accountability.
The lawmaker called for bringing Israeli leaders to international justice and hold them accountable for their crimes.
For his part, senior Hamas official Wasfi Qabha strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for abusing a Palestinian citizen as he was en route to his workplace before shooting him dead on Wednesday afternoon, describing the incident as a premeditated crime.
Qabha stated that what had been reported by eyewitnesses about the execution of Mohamed Mubarak was terrifying, reflecting the sadism of the IOF.
He said that this crime was another Israeli reward for the Palestinian Authority for its loyalty and its commitment to the negotiations and the security coordination.
In a related context, thousands of Palestinians marched on Wednesday in the funeral procession of the slain young man Mohamed Mubarak and attended his burial in Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, amid angry shouts calling for avenging his death.
The killed young man was working for a construction company that was contracted about two months ago to rehabilitate the Nablus-Ramallah road, and he was known by the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint where he was murdered because they watched him go to his workplace every day.
He added that the cold-blooded shooting of Mubarak by Israeli soldiers who also prevented paramedics from taking him to hospital vindicated further that Israel deliberately persists in its crimes against the Palestinian people without any international accountability.
The lawmaker called for bringing Israeli leaders to international justice and hold them accountable for their crimes.
For his part, senior Hamas official Wasfi Qabha strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for abusing a Palestinian citizen as he was en route to his workplace before shooting him dead on Wednesday afternoon, describing the incident as a premeditated crime.
Qabha stated that what had been reported by eyewitnesses about the execution of Mohamed Mubarak was terrifying, reflecting the sadism of the IOF.
He said that this crime was another Israeli reward for the Palestinian Authority for its loyalty and its commitment to the negotiations and the security coordination.
In a related context, thousands of Palestinians marched on Wednesday in the funeral procession of the slain young man Mohamed Mubarak and attended his burial in Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, amid angry shouts calling for avenging his death.
The killed young man was working for a construction company that was contracted about two months ago to rehabilitate the Nablus-Ramallah road, and he was known by the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint where he was murdered because they watched him go to his workplace every day.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday stormed Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah city, and raided the house of the 20-year-old young man Mohamed Mubarak who was murdered by Israeli soldiers yesterday. Local sources reported that the IOF ransacked the house of Mubarak's parents and confiscated personal computers and phone sim cards belonging to him and his family.
They added that the IOF also raided the mourning hall where his family receive condolences from visitors and tore off pictures of Mubarak before withdrawing from the camp.
They added that the IOF also raided the mourning hall where his family receive condolences from visitors and tore off pictures of Mubarak before withdrawing from the camp.
Israel's intelligence minister has said President Mahmoud Abbas is the world's most anti-Semitic leader following the departure of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's president last year.
"Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison," Yuval Steinitz told a Tel Aviv security conference Wednesday, using the name by which Abbas is popularly known in Arabic.
"Under Abu Mazen the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the (Palestinian) Authority has reached new highs, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel," said Steinitz, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
"As someone who denied the Holocaust in his youth, he today denies the very existence of the Jewish people and their right to their own state," he told the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, according to a transcript on the INSS website.
"As long as we do not see substantive change in the (Palestinian) educational system and media, a peace agreement is an illusion."
Abbas' spokesman hit back at Steinitz on Thursday, saying Israel's own incitement was manifesting itself in the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army.
In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeina insisted that Palestinians would do nothing to undermine US efforts to push peace talks forward, and called on the US and Israel's government to condemn inflammatory rhetoric against Palestinian leaders.
"After serial Israeli incitement against Abbas, with the latest incident being Steinitz's comments, Netanyahu's government, as well as the US administration, must take an official stance on this attack," Abu Rudeina said.
"The Israeli army's killing of Palestinians, including Mohammad Mubarak yesterday (Wednesday), is the natural progression from (Israel's) policy of incitement through its ministers and officials," he said.
Israeli troops shot dead 19-year-old Mubarak near the West Bank city of Ramallah, with the army alleging he had opened fire at them although witnesses insisted he was unarmed.
In his doctoral thesis at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, Abbas questioned the figure of six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, suggesting the number could have been "fewer than one million."
But, he added, "the controversy over the figure cannot minimize in any way the atrocious crime committed against the Jews."
"Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison," Yuval Steinitz told a Tel Aviv security conference Wednesday, using the name by which Abbas is popularly known in Arabic.
"Under Abu Mazen the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the (Palestinian) Authority has reached new highs, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel," said Steinitz, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
"As someone who denied the Holocaust in his youth, he today denies the very existence of the Jewish people and their right to their own state," he told the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, according to a transcript on the INSS website.
"As long as we do not see substantive change in the (Palestinian) educational system and media, a peace agreement is an illusion."
Abbas' spokesman hit back at Steinitz on Thursday, saying Israel's own incitement was manifesting itself in the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army.
In a statement, Nabil Abu Rudeina insisted that Palestinians would do nothing to undermine US efforts to push peace talks forward, and called on the US and Israel's government to condemn inflammatory rhetoric against Palestinian leaders.
"After serial Israeli incitement against Abbas, with the latest incident being Steinitz's comments, Netanyahu's government, as well as the US administration, must take an official stance on this attack," Abu Rudeina said.
"The Israeli army's killing of Palestinians, including Mohammad Mubarak yesterday (Wednesday), is the natural progression from (Israel's) policy of incitement through its ministers and officials," he said.
Israeli troops shot dead 19-year-old Mubarak near the West Bank city of Ramallah, with the army alleging he had opened fire at them although witnesses insisted he was unarmed.
In his doctoral thesis at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, Abbas questioned the figure of six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, suggesting the number could have been "fewer than one million."
But, he added, "the controversy over the figure cannot minimize in any way the atrocious crime committed against the Jews."
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Palestinians on Wednesday gathered for the funeral of Muhammad Mubarak, a 22-year-old man who was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier in the day.
A Ma'an reporter said a funeral procession brought Mubarak's body from Ramallah Governmental Hospital to a cemetery in al-Jalazun refugee camp, where the man was laid to rest. A group of masked men fired shots into the air during the procession. Mubarak's father said he was shot dead without reason, denying army claims that he was armed and fired at Israeli forces. |
He said his son worked daily in the area where he was shot dead, near the village of Ein Siniya.
Eyewitnesses in the area told Ma'an that Mubarak was a laborer working with the al-Tarifi company on a USAID funded project to refurbish the main road in Ein Siniya.
An Israeli army statement said: "A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at an IDF (army) post near Ofra. The soldiers responded immediately in order to eliminate the imminent threat to their lives and fired towards the terrorist, identifying a hit."
Palestinian housing and public works minister Maher Ghneim condemned what he described as the "cold-blooded killing" of a laborer who was working on a project run by the ministry in coordination with USAID.
Ghneim also lashed out at Israel's attempts to "distort the story" by saying Mubarak had opened fire on troops, claiming the youth had been "carrying a sign to direct the traffic" when he was shot.
He called for an independent inquiry into the shooting by international rights groups.
Last year, Israel's army killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to UN statistics.
Eyewitnesses in the area told Ma'an that Mubarak was a laborer working with the al-Tarifi company on a USAID funded project to refurbish the main road in Ein Siniya.
An Israeli army statement said: "A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at an IDF (army) post near Ofra. The soldiers responded immediately in order to eliminate the imminent threat to their lives and fired towards the terrorist, identifying a hit."
Palestinian housing and public works minister Maher Ghneim condemned what he described as the "cold-blooded killing" of a laborer who was working on a project run by the ministry in coordination with USAID.
Ghneim also lashed out at Israel's attempts to "distort the story" by saying Mubarak had opened fire on troops, claiming the youth had been "carrying a sign to direct the traffic" when he was shot.
He called for an independent inquiry into the shooting by international rights groups.
Last year, Israel's army killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to UN statistics.
Muhammad Mahmoud Mubarak 22
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man near the Ramallah village of Ein Siniya on Wednesday.
A Ma'an reporter identified the victim as Muhammad Mahmoud Mubarak, 22, from al-Jalazun refugee camp.
Israeli forces in the area denied Palestinian ambulances access to the body before medics were eventually allowed to transfer the man to Ramallah Medical Complex.
A Palestinian official in the military liaison department told Ma'an that Mubarak was shot dead by a soldier positioned in a military watchtower.
"A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at an IDF (army) post near Ofra. The soldiers responded immediately in order to eliminate the imminent threat to their lives and fired towards the terrorist, identifying a hit," Israel's army said.
Eyewitnesses in the area told Ma'an that Mubarak was a laborer working with the al-Tarifi company on a USAID funded project to refurbish the main road in Ein Siniya.
Earlier, he had been directing traffic in the area with a handheld sign.
"While he was doing his job, a number of Israeli soldiers arrived and started to harass him," witnesses told Ma'an.
"They forced him to take off his clothes, then put them on again. Then they ordered him to take a few steps forward, then walk back, and finally they shot him and left him bleeding preventing ambulance and medics from reaching him."
Coworkers and an executive from the al-Tarifi company were close-by when the shooting took place.
Last year, Israel's army killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to UN statistics.
IOF soldiers gun down Palestinian youth in Ramallah
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man near the Ramallah village of Ein Siniya on Wednesday.
A Ma'an reporter identified the victim as Muhammad Mahmoud Mubarak, 22, from al-Jalazun refugee camp.
Israeli forces in the area denied Palestinian ambulances access to the body before medics were eventually allowed to transfer the man to Ramallah Medical Complex.
A Palestinian official in the military liaison department told Ma'an that Mubarak was shot dead by a soldier positioned in a military watchtower.
"A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at an IDF (army) post near Ofra. The soldiers responded immediately in order to eliminate the imminent threat to their lives and fired towards the terrorist, identifying a hit," Israel's army said.
Eyewitnesses in the area told Ma'an that Mubarak was a laborer working with the al-Tarifi company on a USAID funded project to refurbish the main road in Ein Siniya.
Earlier, he had been directing traffic in the area with a handheld sign.
"While he was doing his job, a number of Israeli soldiers arrived and started to harass him," witnesses told Ma'an.
"They forced him to take off his clothes, then put them on again. Then they ordered him to take a few steps forward, then walk back, and finally they shot him and left him bleeding preventing ambulance and medics from reaching him."
Coworkers and an executive from the al-Tarifi company were close-by when the shooting took place.
Last year, Israel's army killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to UN statistics.
IOF soldiers gun down Palestinian youth in Ramallah
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunned down a Palestinian youth from Al-Khalil while working in Ein Seiniya area to the north of Ramallah on Wednesday. Relatives of the 20-year-old youth Mohammed Mahmoud Mubarak told the PIC that IOF soldiers fired at the young man without prior notice.
They said that Mohammed was working on maintaining the main road in Ein Seiniya when IOF soldiers stationed near the area and in military watchtowers opened fire at him at the pretext that he was shooting at military targets.
The sources said that the IOF delivered the body of the martyr, the nephew of MP Ahmed Mubarak, to the Palestinian liaison office.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed or wounded in similar incidents in the West Bank in which the IOF claimed that the soldiers were foiling shooting or stabbing attempts.
They said that Mohammed was working on maintaining the main road in Ein Seiniya when IOF soldiers stationed near the area and in military watchtowers opened fire at him at the pretext that he was shooting at military targets.
The sources said that the IOF delivered the body of the martyr, the nephew of MP Ahmed Mubarak, to the Palestinian liaison office.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed or wounded in similar incidents in the West Bank in which the IOF claimed that the soldiers were foiling shooting or stabbing attempts.