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| Palestinian police question three in killing of 12-year boy and father |
| 2002-12-08 |
| Palestinian police detained three men Sunday for questioning about the killing of a 12-year-old boy and his father last week in Gaza in a clash between opposing Palestinian groups. Palestinian police officials said they planned to question more witnesses in connection with Wednesday's shooting. According to witnesses, clashes erupted in Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City as Hamas and Fatah supporters gathered to write graffiti about the upcoming Eid el-Fitr festival, which signals the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Okay, we got two bunches of Paleostinians, out doing their civic duty by defacing whatever buildings they have left. What happened next? Allam Jabin, 12, and his father, Issam Jabin, a policeman and a Fatah member, were killed in the gunfire, hospital officials said. Mohammed Ahmed, a Hamas supporter, is being treated in a Gaza hospital for shrapnel wounds from a homemade hand grenade. Police said it was still not clear who fired the shots. Witnesses said both were unarmed and that Issam Jabin was trying to break up the fighting. That's probably the surest way to get yourself bumped off in Paleostine... Witnesses said a crowd of about 2,000 Fatah supporters, some of them armed, gathered in the streets following the clash. Some marched past the house of Ismail Abu Shanab, a prominent Hamas leader, firing shots in the air and at the house, according to witnesses. Abu Shanab was not home at the time. Shanab is a "prominent" leader because he's one of the Hamas politburo. He probably wasn't hope because he beat it when he heard the mob coming. Politburo members are too important to the Armed Struggle™ to actually get shot up... A group of masked Fatah supporters also hurled hand grenades at the offices of the Islamic block of the Palestinian Journalist Union after swamping it with fuel, according to Mustafa Sawaf, the office's director. Couldn't find any Jews, so they torched each other. I love pure reason! The latest internal flare-up threatens to undermine recent talks between Hamas and Fatah on ending the wave of suicide bombings against Israel. The talks which ended at the start of Ramadan are set to resume soon in Cairo. Not that they need undermined, mind you... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |