Besides Israelis, that is, who never get the heartrending passages such as you can read in the AP account of the deaths in Beit Hanoun. No, I’m talking about these civilians, which include a mother of eight, shot in the chest for the crime of being near a clan feud, and an 18-year-old, who in AP parlance would be a “youth.”
On Saturday, 4 November 2006, five Palestinians were killed, including one woman, and seven others were injured, including a woman and a child, in renewed clashes between El-Masri and Abu Taha clans in Khan Yunis.
PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 9:40 on Saturday, armed clashes erupted between El-Masri and Abu Taha clans in Jamal Abdel Naser Street at the intersections with Jala’ and Bahar Streets in the city of Khan Yunis. The clashes erupted after Adnan Yousef Hosni Abu Taha (49) was beaten with a sharp object on the head by members of El-Masri clan. The clashes between both clans resulted in the death of 5 people:
- Abdel Aziz Ahmad Shaker Abu Taha (18), killed by several bullets to the head and chest;
- Bilal Ahmad Shaker Abu Taha (25), killed by several bullets to the head and chest;
- Ashraf Abdel Sami’ Shaker Abu Taha (30), killed by several bullets to the head and chest;
- Salim Mohammad Odeh El-Masri (21), killed by two bullets to the pelvis; and
- Maha Nathmi Abdel Hafith Abu Shammala-Abdel Hadi (33), a bystander and a mother of 8 killed by a bullet to the chest.
What media bias?
Their bodies will probably be iced and then placed in the rubble of a house used for terrorizing Israelis. Then the media will say that these were the Israelis’ fault. The media was suckered by Hizballah in Lebanon in just that manner. I’m sure that the media has no memory of the event.
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Mother of eight at age 33!
The whole Arab world is made up of a bunch of Hatfields and McCoys, or maybe the Campbells and MacDonalds are a more appropriate analogy given the international implications of much of Arab internecine hate. That feud went on for about five hundred years.