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Crushed Skulls!
Jabri Ahmad Hamdan, 44 years old from Dora Al-Khalil, has been found killed
last night, 23 March 2001, near Halmeesh settlement to the north of
Ramallah. He was violently beaten till death by Israeli settlers all over
his body and head. Eyewitnesses have stated having seen bloodstained rocks
in the area. After having examined his body, medical officials stated that
Hamdan has died one week ago, for signs of rottenness and decay were found
around his wounds.
A similar brutal act took place last week, as well. Muhammad Nassar, a
ten-year old Palestinian boy was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Israeli
settlers in the nearby forest of Nabi Ya'coub settlement near Jerusalem. How
beautiful does a forest seem spreading over a number of hillsides! Yet, when
approaching the forest, passing some lines of trees, standing within shades
of myriad bushes and trees, hearing leaves moving and feeling the crawling
of insects, one wishes to retreat, to be exposed to sunlight once again. I
wonder what Muhammad Nassar has felt that day? The innocent child was found
dead, brutally tortured, his skull smashed, crushed and deformed with
stones, left to die within the nearby forest without having the chance to
see the sunlight, to live his childhood, and to avoid deadly torture, which
he and other innocent civilians have been subjected to.
Within gloomy forests, near those Israeli settlements, tortured bodies, soft
skulls, weak bones and innocent souls lay helpless, fearful and hurting. How
could a "civilized", "peaceful", "loving" and "God Chosen" person ever
commit such a brutal act? Isn't it enough that the indigenous child's land
was confiscated, turned into a forest and a nearby settlement, inhabited by
foreign Israeli settlers? How can the "democratic" Israeli State justify
such an act, pretend to overlook it and move beyond it? Isn't this State
terror? Isn't this a barbaric cold-blooded act of lynching? Why are Israeli
killers, soldiers, settlers and high officials granted the right to kill,
end and control lives, while the rightful Palestinian nation is deprived of
its childhood, its right to life, dignity and freedom?
The Women's Affairs Technical Committee strongly denounces such acts of
terror and calls upon all human rights organizations to act against such
viscous, terror and inhuman acts.
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