organization:palestinian people's party

  • Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during predawn raid in al-Faraa
    Jan. 10, 2017 9:42 A.M. (Updated: Jan. 10, 2017 11:18 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=774838

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces during an overnight raid in the al-Faraa refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tubas on Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian sources reported, although they widely diverged over the circumstances of the man’s death.

    A member of the politburo of the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), Khalid Mansour, told Ma’an that an Israeli intelligence officer “executed” Muhammad al-Salihi, 32, during a raid in his home.

    Al-Salihi and his mother were surprised when Israeli forces entered and ransacked their homes, Mansour said.

    “Muhammad started to shout at them because he thought they were thieves, and the soldiers immediately showered him with bullets at point-blank range, before the very eyes of his elderly mother,” Mansour recounted.

    According to the PPP official, medical sources at the Turkish hospital in Tubas said al-Salihi had been shot at least six times, including in the upper body.

    An Israeli army spokesperson, meanwhile, told Ma’an that a Palestinian advanced towards Israeli troops holding a knife during an army detention raid in al-Faraa. She said that al-Salihi did not heed calls by the soldiers asking him to halt, leading the soldiers to shoot and kill him.

    The deadly altercation did not take place inside a home, the spokesperson said, contradicting Palestinian accounts.

    The army added that no Israelis were injured in the incident.

    Al-Salihi’s funeral was set to be held after midday prayer on Tuesday.

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    • Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp
      January 10, 2017
      http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8684

      In an extra-judicial execution crime, on Tuesday dawn, 10 January 2017, Israeli forces shot dead in cold blood a Palestinian civilian in al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas, in front of his mother. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) stresses that this crime was committed after the Israeli political and military leaders gave the Israeli soldiers the green light to shed the Palestinian blood and tolerated the soldiers for their crimes against Palestinian civilians.

      According to PCHR’s investigations and the mother’s testimony, Fawziyah Mahmoud Khamis Salhi (67) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that at approximately 02:00 on the abovementioned day, Israeli forces moved into al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas. They surrounded the family house of Mohammed Subhi Ahmed Khamis Salhi (33) near an UNRWA School for Girls and the camp sports club, seemingly in order to arrest him. A number of Israeli soldiers jumped from the outer wall of the 1-storey house. Mohammed and his mother then heard noise in the corridor and went out of their bedroom. When his mother saw the soldiers, she stood between them and her son. An Israeli soldier then ordered her to sit on a plastic chair there, but when she refused, the soldier forcefully seated her. She then twice stood between the soldiers and her son. However in the third time she stood, the soldier forcefully pushed her and seated her on the chair. The soldier then pulled out a gun with a silencer and directly fired 5 bullets at Mohammed at point-blank range. As a result, the bullets penetrated his neck, chest, hand, armpit, pelvis and thigh from the left side of his body and killed him in front of his elderly mother. The mother said that she did not hear any sound of shooting, but saw sparkles coming from the gun. After that, her son swayed and fell on the ground. His body was put on a litter and then taken by an ambulance belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) to Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital in Tubas, where medical sources announced him dead. It should be mentioned that the Mohammed previously served a 3-year sentence in the Israeli prisons.

    • L’armée israélienne abat un Palestinien qui a tenté de poignarder des soldats
      AFP / 10 janvier 2017 17h01
      http://www.romandie.com/news/Larmee-israelienne-abat-un-Palestinien-qui-a-tente-de-poignarder-des-soldats/767429.rom

      Jérusalem - Des soldats israéliens ont abattu dans la nuit de lundi à mardi en Cisjordanie occupée un Palestinien qui, selon l’armée, avait tenté de les attaquer avec un couteau, une source palestinienne donnant une autre version des faits.

      Mohammed al-Salhi , âgé de 32 ans, essayait d’empêcher les soldats d’entrer dans sa maison quand il a été abattu de six projectiles, a déclaré Khaled Mansour, un responsable du camp de réfugiés palestiniens d’al-Fara, au nord de la ville de Naplouse (Cisjordanie), où les faits se sont produits.

      Selon l’armée israélienne, « un agresseur armé d’un couteau a tenté de poignarder des soldats en opération pour arrêter des suspects ». « Les soldats ont demandé à l’homme de s’arrêter, mais alors qu’il continuait à avancer, ils lui ont tiré dessus, le tuant », a-t-elle affirmé dans un communiqué.

      Les soldats ont essuyé des jets d’engins incendiaires et des tirs d’autres habitants du camp au cours de l’opération, a ajouté l’armée.

      Aucun soldat n’a été blessé, a-t-elle dit.

      L’organisation Centre palestinien des droits de l’Homme (PCHR) a accusé l’armée israélienne dans un communiqué d’avoir « exécuté » Mohammed al-Salhi à bout portant chez lui en présence de sa mère, dont l’organisation cite le témoignage.

      Interrogée par l’AFP, l’armée israélienne n’a pas commenté ces informations. Elle s’est contentée de dire que le Palestinien n’avait pas été tué chez lui.

  • Leftists hold rallies across West Bank rejecting negotiations

    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=668054

    Leftist Palestinian parties on Saturday held demonstrations across the West Bank in opposition to negotiations with Israel and US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework proposal that will serve as the basis for future negotiations.

    Leftist rallies in Hebron and in Nablus brought hundreds to the street to reject the negotiations proposals from the US leader, which they claimed were intended to “liquidate the question of Palestine and prolong the Israeli occupation.” (...)

    Member of the central committee of the Palestinian People’s Party Fahmi Shahin delivered a speech during the rally, calling upon the Palestinian Authority to “immediately stop peace negotiations and to reject the US sponsorship to these talks.” (...)

    Shahin urged the Palestinian Authority to reject any move to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and called upon them to demand the implementation of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return to the villages from which they were expelled in 1948. (...)

    Participants stressed that the agreement represents a blow to the Palestinian national consensus, as it comes not from international guidance but under US supervision, and is being brought forward without a halt to Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land.

    Member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ramzi Rabah said that Kerry’s repeated visits to the region have served as a way to give Israel more time to continue settlement activities, in the process imposing a new status quo that is destroying the possibility of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.

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