Israelis buried deaf father alive
Maher Salem described yesterday how his 68-year-old father was killed when the Israeli army demolished the house on top of him. When he found his father, Mr Salem said, the old man’s head was “like a bar of chocolate, it was only two centimetres thick”.
The wanted man was at the wake for his father yesterday – the Israeli army would love to get as close to him as we did. A couple of Apache helicopters hovered on the horizon; given the Israeli policy of assassinating militants, waiting around was not a good idea.
The army did not catch Mr Salem – the Israeli newspapers gave his name as Hisham Thab, the family told us it was Salem – on Saturday night. Instead, they demolished his family home. It was a six-storey house: three generations of the family lived here. Yesterday all you could see was a huge, layered mound of smashed concrete, family possessions poking out in places: a bed, a chair, a rug.
“They came at around 10.50 that night,” said Maher Salem. "There were more than 25 tanks. All the men, we escaped from the house minutes before they got to it. We were in my car about 100 metres from here.
Inside the house, he said, were only the women and children of the family and his father, Ashur.
Then the soldiers put dynamite inside the house and blew it up, the women said. There was no time for them to remove any goods.
“We got back at 2.20am,” resumed Mr Salem. “We were asking what happened to my father but no one knew. We started looking for him in the rubble. At 9.20am we found his hand.” The old man’s head had been crushed under a beam.
**Hisham Salem, spoke to us. Did the demolition of the house deter him from further attacks on Israelis? “On the contrary,” he said. “These acts give us new momentum to resist the occupation, and fight till we liberate our holy land.” **
comment: The israeli racist state bomb schools, hospitals, they kill babies, children , women, old people, disabled people and able people they don’t care. Then the west has the nerve to call muslim terrorists when they retailiate!