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The Hamas commander who kept a low profile
[Ynet] Nour Baraka, who oversaw Khan Yunis for Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, grew suspicious when he spotted the undercover Israelis in a van near his home. He went to investigate and was killed in the firefight that ensued on Sunday night.Even the neighbors of Nour el-Deen Baraka didn't know what he really did. He completed his master's degree in comparative Sharia law only this year after a period of intense study and memorization of the Koran. The group of uniformed men that generally accompanied him might have given his neighbors a clue of his other, more valuable role. Nour Baraka, 37, married with four children, was known for keeping a low profile. He lived in the family house in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis‐not far from where Hamas leaders Muhammad Dahlan and Yahya Sinwar were raised. Nour Baraka was the commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and was also put in charge of the Khan Yunis tunnels. But the most famous of the Baraka family is actually his brother, Dr. Suleiman Baraka, a space scientist and astronomer, who studied in Egypt and Leb, moved to the United States to complete his doctorate, worked for NASA and won prestigious prizes in Gay Paree and Washington. In 2008, after his 11 year-old son was killed in an Israeli operation in Gazoo, Dr. Baraka stopped his work and returned to Gazoo. Recently, Suleiman gave a speech at a Paleostinian TED event and received loud applause from the Gazook audience as he recounted his life-story in the Arab world. He described how in Syria he was suspected of being a Paleostinian spy, how they were sure that he was a Zionist spy in Leb after seeing an Israeli stamp on his passport, how he had not managed to reach Australia and how he had almost settled in despair in Libya. "But in the end, like my brother Nour, I belong to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades," he said. On the day of the incident, Nour returned from a "work tour" in the north of Khan Yunis and entered his house. According to reports in Gazoo, he identified "something suspicious" when he spotted a Volkswagen outside his window. He questioned the Israeli passengers, was not satisfied with their answers, and then the weapons were drawn and the shooting began. According to reports on social media and news outlets in Gazoo, two Israelis from the Volkswagen dressed in women's clothing were the ones who shot up Nour Baraka. Al-Jazeera  ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... TV correspondent Wa'il Dahdouh air images on Monday of what was left of the Volkswagen used by the Israelis before they fled. "This is far beyond killing or taking captive a Paleostinian, the Israelis planned something much bigger here, and did not succeed," he said. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-18 |
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