In a pre-dawn raid the morning of March 22 Israel military forces stormed the Jenin refugee camp, assassinating 3 people and wounding at least 14 others. Ma’an News identified the deceased as Hamza Abu al-Haija, 22, Mahmoud Abu Zeina, 17, Yazan Mahmoud Basim Jabarin, 22.
An estimated 15,000 mourners attended the funeral procession thru the streets of the camp later in the day, many chanting against PA President Mahmoud Abbas. “Where are you Abbas? They killed us while you watched.”
Allegations have been made the operation was carried out in coordination with the Palestinian Authority. According to Ynet “security officials” said after Israeli forces surrounded the building “Palestinian security services in the area were told to stay in their offices.”
PHOTO: 3 Palestinians from #Jenin were murdered today by #IOF in “security coordination” with Palestinian Authority pic.twitter.com/zdpVMbEyI3
— G.C.P.P.P. (@samerissawi1) March 22, 2014
Abu al-Hija was a commander in the al-Qassam brigades, Abu Jabarin was a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Abu Zeina was affiliated with al-Quds Brigades.
According to Israeli military sources Abu al-Hija, the son of a prominent Hamas leader jailed by Israel for the last 12 years, was a “ticking time bomb” and the target of the attack. He was wanted for “shooting and bombing attacks as well as planning future attacks” and the forces enter the camp allegedly in an attempt to arrest him. Al-Hija barricaded himself in his home, a battle ensued, Israeli forces gained entry and killed him.
Hamas information office issued a press release calling for “a new era of challenge and response to the occupation” and an end to negotiations and security coordination with Israel (Google translate):
“occupation unique to our people and our young people continue to be killed in the Judaization of Jerusalem and the settlements in the West , and people do not reap from security coordination only mass devastation.”
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reports Palestinian factions vow to respond to Israeli escalation
GAZA, March 22 (KUNA) — Three Palestinian resistance factions have warned that they will resolutely retaliate against recent Israeli attacks on the West Bank which left three Palestinian civilians dead. The warning was given in a joint statement released Saturday by Ezz Al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wind of Fatah Movement.
…..They vowed that the Israeli attack on Palestinians would not go unpunished and there would be strong retaliation from Palestinian resistance movements.
New York Times journalists Jodi Rudoren and Fares Akram reported Palestinian leaders were “outraged” by the attack and that this “raised to 60 the number of Palestinians killed” since the framework negotiations between Israel and the Palestine began last summer:Israeli Raid Leaves 3 Dead in West Bank Refugee Area
[Palestinian leaders] warned that what they described as a purposeful Israeli escalation in recent days threatened to scuttle the negotiations and spawn a surge of violence in the West Bank.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, condemned the Israeli raid and called on the Obama administration “to move quickly to prevent the collapse of everything.”
The fragile negotiations are at a crucial moment. Washington is pressing for an extension of the talks’ nine-month timetable, but a disagreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the terms for a release of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for this week could cause a breakdown.
Palestinian Martyr killed by Israeli army this morning in #Jenin lies on the floor dressed for work no weapons pic.twitter.com/RRtOKHEWzE
— Tweet_Palestine (@Tweet_Palestine) March 22, 2014
What is it that Zionist Jews say about Arabs and Muslims (since they identify Palestinians as such)?
That they worship a culture of death?
What is it that Judi Rudoren said about those Palestinians in mourning?
Look at how they kill this man and leave him in a pool of his own blood in the middle of a street?
The Israelis have not once in recent memory fought opponents who could fight back meaningfully.
What is this conflict about? LAND
Jewish colonists stole the homeland of another people. That other people, the Palestinians, fought back how they could.
Now, in the present, Zionist Jews and their bought-and-paid-for allies call these men terrorists (who no doubt are in many cases). But these men would not have taken up arms if Zionism had not existed and if it had not driven their ancestors off their land.
You might as well call the Native Americans terrorists too. And you could.
But who has the moral legitimacy in this conflict? The thief or the victim?
The Jewish colonists have always been the villains of this story. Fuck Israel.
And still they did not get the response they needed to accuse the Palestinians of breaking the peace talks. Expect more of these raids.
The other shoe drops. As always. Precise Israeli army/government timing to scuttle any slim hope of coming to any kind of even minimal accord or agreement.
Not that there was much hope anyway. But this is just gratuitous. I don’t even know what to say anymore.
Is this the normalisation the usual suspects are crowing about? I suppose this is what Israel considers normal, certainly there is nothing new here, tragically.
I have been humming this famous Palestinian folklore(will try to render the lyrics into arabic)
“Who should save the Camp of Jenin?
It cried mournfully of destruction.
Who will be there for Balata Camp calling for Muslims?
-Why are you unmindful. silent and indifferent?
– My houses have been shelled by the warplanes of thieves and usurpers.
– My kids have been slain by the shells of the murderers.
– My fields have been burnt down by the hate of the damned Butcher.
– And all the loved ones have been torn apart, crying.
A mother is searching for her kid imprisoned under the rubble.
She runs in agony and calls between the ruins of Jenin:
My son, my darling, my beloved, are you dead or buried?
God, make this plight easy on me–You alone lift all the pain.
Jerusalem is weeping and Alaqsa Mosque is a prisoner.
And Church of the Nativity that has never been humiliated before
now is sieged with cannons, and guns and ambushes.
O, my people, Rise. Dust off the humiliation of the years.
“Who should save the Camp of Jenin?
It cried mournfully of destruction.
Who will be there for Balata Camp calling for Muslims?
-Why are you unmindful. silent and indifferent?”
Listen here
http://www.4shared-china.com/mp3/sEaG0kDI/_76_____.htm