Monday, 2 October, 2000, 11:10 GMT 12:10 UK
‘Boy becomes Palestinian martyr’
Check the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_952000/952600.stm
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I was very disheartened on reading this but you know the boy must be enjoying the pleasures of paradise by now! And I know he is not dead because martyrs don’t die!
Yes offcourse.
I have always considered my self a liberal in outlook but a moderate when it came to Islam i.e. not wanting to get involved in any of the controversies. But last night when I saw the pictures on tv in newscast after newscast of a terrified 12 year Palestinian boy cowering for cover and then killed in cold blood by the murdering Jewish Israeli army - that was a turning point! I have never felt so passionate about the rights of Muslims everywhere especially the Palestinians.
I feel doing what one of my visiting professors Edward Said did a few months ago in South Lebanon - throw stones and rocks at the retreating Israeli army! In fact I feel like doing more - going to Palestine and joining the battle for liberation struggle!
Now according to CNN the Israeli’s have murdered a third Palestinian child - a 2 year baby girl!
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/10/02/israel.violence.03/index.html
The Battle For Jerusalem has begun!
May Allah gran all who die in the Palestinian struggle the path to heaven especially the innocent children…
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*uth key ab bazm-e-jahan ka aur hee andaaz hay
*mashriq o maghrib mein terey daur ka aaghaz hay
aadab arz,
azam.
Agree with you Malik, my Daughter saw the same coverage on ABC yesterday. She was shocked, she saw the boy hidding behind his father and than fell down to his lap. She asked me several times if boy was alive or dead. I walked out of the room, had no answer.
A note for Azam:
I love Urdu as much as you do, but to write Romanized Urdu (urdu words using english alphabets) is a torture for the readers. If you mix a few words here and there to spice up your post, they are fine, but to write complete paras in Romanized Urdu makes it awfully hard. However, if one day, this website or some other offer the facility of Urdu fonts, then may be we can have a "baitbazi" competition!
Adios!
Don't Blame me...
C'est La Vie :)
Every yahoodi will PAY!
Blood for Blood!
Eye for an eye!
Head for Head!
Life for Life!
InShAllah!
We are the Taleban! Resistance’s is Futile!
The second revolution awaits, based on the cries of our sons and daughters,brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers it will flow with raw power as it has once done before so effectively, cleansing, and stopping the grains of time just long enough to bow. It will be driven hard into the even the tiniest cell of the enemy. Then we will be shunned for eternity to come.
o©º°¨¨°º©o LiFe Is An IllUsIoN aNd ReAliTy iS a FiGmEnT oF tHe iMaGiNaIiOn o©º°¨¨°º©o
Dear Allah what did the Palestinian children do that they were so cruelly cut down by the enemies of Islam?
Seeing pictures of young children killed so brutally as little terrified Mohammed was the other day, of youngsters being assaulted by the Israeli thugs, and of old men bravely taking on Israeli soldiers makes want to cry out and join these people in their liberation struggle.
The Israeli's are taking on our brave brothers and sisters by firing live ammunition, tanks, helicoter gunships but to no avail - the Ummah has awoken and Jerusalem will be ours even if we have to die for it!
---Among all the emotion we must remember not to condemn all Jews - for they are people of the book and we must not label all Jews as guilty of such crimes. But we must take on the idealogy of Zionism and defeat it!---
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Firther facts on the case of tragic little Mohammed have come to light and clearly prove that Israeli soldiers murdered him in a cold calculated action in front of the world’s tv camera’s!
Ghalib don’t live up to the drunken habits of your historical namesake and read the full facts on what happened when poor little Mohammed was so brutally killed in front of the world’s tv camera’s - and since his killing 3 other Palestinian children have been killed. Over 50 dead including Arab Israeli’s - citizens of the state of Israel!
Here are all the facts for you to read and digest, and then you can tell us who is to blame for this violence and who is twisting the truth. And then maybe you can answer the question what did poor liitle Mohammed al-Durrah do to desrerve such a horrible fate?
Making of a martyr
On Saturday a 12-year-old Palestinian boy went out to look at used cars and within hours had become a potent symbol of one of the world’s most bitter and enduring conflicts. But was he the victim of stray gunfire? Or was he targeted by Israeli soldiers? Suzanne Goldenberg searches for the truth behind the pictures that rocked the world
A circle of 15 bullet holes on a cinder block wall, and a smear of darkening blood. That is what marks the spot where a terrified 12-year-old boy spent his final moments, cowering in his father’s arms, before he was hit by a final shot to the stomach, and slumped over, dead.
Those last minutes in the life of Mohammed al-Durrah, captured in sickening detail by a Palestinian cameraman working for French TV, have taken on a power of their own. His death, aired around the world on Saturday night, has become the single searing image of these days of bloody rioting.
The pictures of Mohammed’s death seemed not just to encapsulate the horror of these last five days but also to have become its motor. Outside the al-Durrah home in a sandy lane of the Bourij refugee camp, children his age and even younger are fighting over photocopied strips of the final eight frames in the boy’s life. Here, the version of his death includes images too disturbing for most broadcasters: the loosening of a dying boy’s grip on his father, Jamal, and his father’s convulsive twitch when he was struck by more rounds.
Though more Palestinians have been killed since Mohammed’s death - including a two-year-old yesterday - it is his image that haunts Israel. For all of the claims of the prime minister, Ehud Barak, and other officials that their soldiers only fire to protect Israeli lives, Mohammed’s death seems an irrefutable reply.
The images of al-Dirreh and his son cowering, vainly, behind a barrel would have been emotive enough if, as first reports suggested, they were caught in the crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police or protesters. But by the end of the weekend the evidence was pointing to a still more chilling conclusion: that the 12-year-old boy and his father were deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers.
For Israelis, the camera footage of Mohammed’s death makes exceedingly uncomfortable viewing. Which might explain why - for all the furore his death has caused worldwide - it has caused barely a ripple here. The English-language edition of the Ha’aretz newspaper, the most liberal of Israel’s press, confined its reporting to 21 lines on the front page, focused on an Israeli army investigation into the killing. For those who have been tracking the pattern of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the location of Mohammed’s death could almost have been predicted.
Over the years, Netzarim junction, where Mohammed was killed, has been a regular point of confrontation between Israeli troops, and Palestinian youths. The source of the friction on an otherwise unremarkable junction on Gaza’s main coastal road is an Israeli army post, a hunkering fortress of armoured steel and concrete with watchtowers on each of its four corners. The post, on the north-west corner of the junction, is the frontline defence for the Jewish settlement of Netzarim to the west. So contentious is the Jewish settlement that its occupants - a mere 60 families - are under strict orders to travel only by military convoys.
For Palestinians, the heavily guarded Netzarim settlement is a symbol of their continued occupation, seven years after the start of the peace process. So, by extension, is the post at Netzarim junction, which any Palestinians from Bourij or the other refugee camps to the south have to negotiate, if they want to visit Gaza City.
“When the people of Palestine are crying out against Israel, they find this place to throw stones. It is a target for all the anger against the people sitting in their belly and in their bedroom,” says Brigadier General Osama al-Ali.
He was speaking from the other installation that played a crucial part in Mohammed’s death. As well as the Israeli position, the junction also houses a small command post of Palestinian security forces who, under interim peace arrangements, are mandated to jointly patrol the area with Israeli troops.
The post, a small hut really, lies diagonally across the junction from the Israeli position, at a distance of perhaps 100 yards.
This was the stage on which the al-Durrahs blundered, father and son, on Saturday morning. Although Mohammed’s uncles feel obliged to describe him as a studious boy, his mother and his six surviving siblings recall a playful child who wanted always to be where the action was. His mother, Amal, says he had wanderlust and would often run off to the beach or, when there were protests, to watch the older boys throw rocks.
On Friday night, in his home in the Bourij refugee camp, Mohammed was watching the rioting on television. “When he saw what happened in Jerusalem on TV, he asked me: ‘Can I go to join the protests in Netzarim?’ I did not dare to answer him. I did not want him to go,” she says.
Which is why on that fateful morning, Jamal al-Dirreh says he took steps to steer his son away from trouble. The two set off for the used car auction in Gaza City. Mohammed was excited at the outing. They started for home by taxi, but, with the trouble already starting, the driver refused to cross Netzarim. Jamal and Mohammed tried to cross the junction on foot; it was a fatal mistake.
Caught in a burst of firing, the pair sought shelter behind a concrete water butt, about 15 yards to the east of the Palestinian post, diagonally opposite the Israeli position. The father gestured frantically towards the Israelis, as if pleading with them to stop firing. They did not.
“They were cleaning the area. Of course they saw the father,” says Talal Abu-Rama, the camera man who watched the horror unfold. “They were aiming at the boy, and that is what surprised me, yes, because they were shooting at him, not only one time, but many times.”
The result of that salvo is visible on the cinderblock wall. Aside from the circle of bullet holes - most of them below waist level - the expanse of wall is largely unscarred. This appeared to suggest that the Israeli fire was targeted at the father and son.
The impression is reinforced by other Palestinians at the scene, including a volunteer in the ambulance which tried to get the pair out. “There was still some breath left in him when we reached the ambulance, but when we opened the doors, they started shooting again,” says Bassam al-Bilbays, who was riding with the ambulance. The driver was shot dead.
Inevitably, the Israeli army version of Mohammed’s death is rather different. Although the army expressed regret about the boy’s death, it said the soldiers in their armoured post had been under fire. “I am sorry for this kid. But we are sure that this kid and his father were not there by accident. They were there like the others throwing stones, and throwing Molotovs [petrol bombs],” Major-General Yom Tov Samia told Israeli radio.
But in an interview with Israeli television, General Samia suggested the boy had not been killed by Israelis at all, but by Palestinian police, or rioters: “I have no doubt that the gunfire, as it appears in the television close-up, was not from Israeli soldiers.”
That explanation is also difficult to sustain. During the fury of these clashes, Palestinian forces have turned their guns on Israeli troops - rather than try to contain their own people. The Palestinian General al-Ali admits his men did open fire at the Israelis. However, he claims that his men did not try to exact revenge until much later on that bloody afternoon.
“We saw our kids dying and we could not help them,” he said. “Of course, some people went mad later in the afternoon, when they saw what happened.”
Palestinians at the scene - including the cameraman - also cast doubt on the Israeli claim that father and son were caught in the crossfire between the two security forces. “At the beginning of the clash, there was some shooting from the same area, but after five minutes they [the Palestinians] ran away from there. Nobody was shooting from the base,” says Abu Rameh. He says he heard fire from only one direction - the Israeli camp.
Abu Rameh also believes it unlikely that the Israeli fire could have been directed further down the road from the water butt where the al-Durrahs sought shelter. “In that whole area, there was nobody except me, the boy and his father,” the camera man says.
Whatever the truth about the circumstances surrounding his death, Mohammed’s terrified face has now entered the grim gallery of images that have come to symbolise - and often to powerfully influence - a conflict. That is of little comfort to his mother, Amal al-Durrah. She keeps imagining he will walk in the door to check on the love birds in their pink cage.
“Nothing good will come of this. We will have many more martyrs, and nothing will change.”
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,376639,00.html
innah lillah hey wa innah elaihay rajiun
Update about Innocent Palestinian Killings:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_957000/957482.stm
The Holy War for Palestine cannot be won by paris conference or any such thing because the aggressor (Israel) is not willing to give up our occupied territory. The only solution to this is Armed struggle against the oppressor. My salam to my dear Palestinian brothers sacrificing their lives and doing 'wudu' with the drops of their innocent blood.
Inshallah, they all will pay, I think 21st century is and will be the dark age for Islam. Inshallah, until we all grasp Islam like we should, with the help of Allah, we will come back to glory once again.
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Inshallah.
It is said that all acts of tyranny and oppression in old times with which Muslims were subjected to were due to age of ignorence or is the exaggrations of historians; but in the present modern times everyone has seen with his/her eyes that has happened to Musilms in many parts of the world, (i.e. Kashmir, Palestine, Bosnia, Chechniya etc).
It has surpassed all the cruelties done in the old times. The most civilized nations, as they call themselves, remained silent and kept watching dumbly the killing of Muslims. The champions of human rights, who take notice of even the smallest breach failed. They engage Muslims with sham talks(Like that one in paris now - peace talks ca-ca) in order for the non-muslims and tyrants to carry out the massares of innocent Muslims like it has never happened.**
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There cannot be greater evidence of grave cruelities and atrocities than what has happened in Kashmir, Bosnia, Palestine, etc.
V~V~VHe came, He saw, He conqueredV~V~V**
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Salam-a-lekum brothers and sisters,
Here are two useful links regarding the struggle to liberate bait-ul muqaddas. The sites gives a true picture of Israeli torture and genocide against innocent Labenese and Palestinian civilians:
http://www.lubnan.com/south/
http://www.almanar.com.lb/
Wassalam,
Shair.
While the likes of Clinton and Albright talk peace more Palestinian children are being killed by the Israeli occupier - 8 in total killed now. And overall 74 killed including 5 today, as the Palestinians continue their rage against the enemies of Islam!
Palestinians die on 'day of rage'
Palestinians protest in Gaza on the 'day of rage'
Five more Palestinians have been shot dead in fighting with Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in a week of violence to at least 74.
The reports said the deaths occurred in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza on what the Palestinians declared to be a "day of rage".
In Jerusalem, a young Palestinian was killed and several others injured as violence erupted immediately after the Friday prayers near Lion's Gate, one of the entries to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The Islamic authorities in charge of the mosque have been trying to contain the violence which have continued despite a ceasefire accord reached between Israeli and Palestinian security officials on Thursday.
Palestinian flag
Muslim worshippers raised a Palestinian flag on the mosque in direct challenge to Israeli sovereignty claims over the compound.
Israel politicians including allies of Prime Minister Ehud Barak expressed outrage and criticised the Israeli police for keeping away from the violnece.
"What were the people of the Palestinian Authority doing on the Temple Mount"? said Dan Meridor, a senior Israeli legislator.
"This is what the political (with the Palestinians) is all about.
Police post attacked
The Israeli police and armed forces had been put on full alert for a possible confrontation after the Muslim militant group Hamas called for a "day of rage" on Friday.
Eyewitnesses said that once again, immediately after the prayers finished, hundreds of Palestinians began hurling stones down at the Western or Wailing Wall.
The security forces quickly evacuated the handful of Jewish worshippers at the Wall and Muslim prayer leaders appealed for calm.
"Please don't provoke them and make them come back again. You are in a holy place, you are in Al-Aqsa," said a message broadcast over loudspeakers.
The Israeli army had sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip early on Friday, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel.
The army said the closure would remain in force until Monday evening, the end of Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the Jewish year.
Arab summit set
Reflecting Arab anger over the recent violence, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced that leaders from the Arab world would meet on 21 and 22 October in Cairo to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories.
The week of unrest was sparked off by a visit on 28 September by Israel's right-wing opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, to the disputed area of Jerusalem which includes Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest Islamic site.
It is known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary or Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Arab and Muslim governments reacted furiously to what was seen as provocation by Mr Sharon and an attempt to assert Israeli sovereignty over the area, which Israel annexed in 1967, in defiance of international law
“SG tells Palestinians: Hezbollah with you, develop your intifada”
Thursday, Oct 5, 2000.
Hezbollah Secretary General his Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Wednesday underlined the great value of Holy al-Quds (Jerusalem) to Moslems, in general, and to Palestinians, in particular.
“Al-Quds and the holy sites mean a lot to this people, therefore, they cannot take any provocation, they storm even if their lives are at stake. To them, al-Quds and all that it contains are red lines that are defended by red blood,” Sayyed Nasrallah said during a massive Hezbollah rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs to show the party’s support to the Palestinian people’s intifada.
“What happened was a message to the Zionists, who are taking about Yerushalayim, a message to the world and to anyone who imagines or thinks that he represents this people and has the right to concede a neighborhood, wall or stone in al-Quds.”
His Eminence encouraged Palestinians to have faith and fight Israeli occupying forces with martyrdom attacks and even knives.
“Palestine could be liberated by armed struggle, knives and martyrdom operations,”
He said liberating Palestine does not require “armies,” reminding how Hezbollah resistants fought Israeli occupation forces in south Lebanon for years and forced their withdrawal from south Lebanon last May after 22 years of occupation.
“We did so (in Lebanon) and you can do the same,” Sayyed Nasrallah said as massive crowds shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is Great).
He told the Palestinian people to find “Israel’s” “weak point,” as Hezbollah did in south Lebanon.
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"The priority in south Lebanon was not destroying a tank as Israelis can bring thousands of tanks,‘’ he said. “Their (Israelis) principal weak point is the Israeli human being who is not ready to make sacrifices and is not ready to die. We, in Lebanon and Palestine, adore martyrdom and we can defeat them (Israelis).”
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Sayyed Nasrallah said the Palestinians can move “from the Intifada of stone-throwing to martyrdom operations.”
“You have to move from the stone-throwing Intifada to the phase of real Jihad (holy war) operations,” he told the rally that gathered in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
He told the Palestinians to “save the bullets you are firing into the air or at the walls … save them for the chests of the Zionist soldiers and settlers.”
“Let a (Palestinian) reach a settler, let him stab him fiercely and let him die afterwards. They (Israelis) love worldly matters, we love martyrdom. Hit them in their weak points,” he shouted as thousands chanted: “Allahu Akbar”.
Sayyed Nasrallah said “the rule is: you kill and then you die. You will see that the results will be different.”
“The formula should not remain that they kill our children but should be to kill their soldiers and settlers,” he said. “If you don’t have bullets, everyone of you has knives and can use them to kill Israeli soldiers and settlers.”
He said if attacks were successful, no Jewish immigrant would stay in occupied Palestine and would surely prefer to go back to the country he came from, whether Ethiopia or Russia.
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The secretary-general promised the “great and struggling” Palestinian people assistance from Hezbollah, refusing to disclose how.
“We will be with you and we will not abandon you. We will be at your side and you can bet on this and that is enough,” he said. “We should have big faith and trust in Allah.”
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Source: http://www.almanar.com.lb/news.htm
Regards,
Shair.
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Well with all the Jewish parties in Israel talking about a national unity government there maybe no option for the Palestinians but to go to war like Hezbollah. I believe a firestorm will break out in the next couple of weeks if Israel does not give up East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
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Allah-o-akbar!