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Killings in Qalandia cause Palestinians to cancel talks set for today

Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli forces in the Qalandia refugee camp. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images / August 26, 2013)
Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli forces in the Qalandia refugee camp. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images / August 26, 2013)
Killings in Qalandia cause Palestinians to cancel talks set for today
(photo: Ma’an News)

Undercover Israeli forces  raided Qalandia refugee camp around 5 a.m. this morning killing three Palestinians. According to Ma’an News, Israel’s occupation forces were wearing civilian clothes and opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians in the camp during an incursion to arrest a recently-released prisoner, Yousef al-Khatib.

al-Khatib had previously spent 10 years incarcerated in an Israeli prison. The dead were identified as Robin al-Abed, 32, Younis Jihad Abu al-Sheikh Jahjouh, 22, and Jihad Asslan, 20.

Ma’an News, Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in Qalandia camp:

At least 15 Palestinians were injured by live fire, with six said to be in a critical condition. Most of the injured were shot in the head, chest and upper body, medics said.

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Dozens of camp residents quickly surrounded Israeli forces, who opened fire.

Another Israeli military patrol then entered the camp.

Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah strongly condemned the incident, calling it a crime against the Palestinian people. The killings show Israel’s true intentions towards the peace process, he added, calling upon the US to intervene and prevent peace efforts from failing…

An Israeli army spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.

BBC and AFP say the killings caused the breaking off of peace talks.

Scheduled peace talks will not go ahead with Israel after IDF officers shot dead 3 Palestinians in a border clash, Palestinian officials have said. Negotiations have come under threat recently in light of Israeli plans to expand their settlements.

“The meeting that was to take place in Jericho…today was cancelled because of the Israeli crime committed in Kalandiya today,” an official from the Palestinian Authority told AFP, adding that there would be “repercussions” for the incident.

This action echoes the pre-dawn raid by Israeli forces at Jenin Refugee Camp last Tuesday, when Israeli forces killed Anis Lahlouh, 22, with a bullet to the heart, under similar circumstances– according to Al Jazeera apparently seeking to arrest a local resident.

Palestinian youths threw stones at the soldiers, who responded with live gunfire.

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Oh hum, Israel arrested a Palestinian they had just released to show good faith in the peace talks, and when they came to arrest him again now that Brand Israel had a PR boost, some young Palestinians were outraged by this typical Israeli duplicity, so they threw stones, or I imagine whatever they could get their hands on, maybe they dropped down an old flat iron on the Israeli jeep, and the IDF, protecting the Israeli cops, opened fire with live bullets, killing 3 and wounding 15 more Palestinians.
Is that about it?

So predictable.

Elicit a violent response and call off the talks
Build more settler homes
Repeat ad binational state.

Non-uniformed gunmen attempt to kidnap a man and open fire on a crowd of civilians. Time to call it what it was: a terrorist attack.

Not a mention (that I could find) of this incident in the US MSM… Think if the roles were reversed, the crying would be endless…

For the nth time… Abbas needs to hand over everything to Israel so that they are de iure charge of the occupied territories and not just de facto with the PA acting as their proxy. Time for the world to see the charade.

PS:
just found this on the NYT website…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/world/middleeast/israeli-raid-on-palestinian-camp-turns-deadly.html?ref=middleeast&gwh=27A587B073830C35E070F301E4D706A5

needless to say… Israeli are the good guys here…

These under cover Israelis, they carried arms openly? Had a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance? http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague04.asp#art1