Ramallah – Ma'an – Palestinian police sources have reported a sharp rise in crime in Ramallah. The police in Ramallah governorate revealed that they discovered the corpses of two victims of theft and announced that a father sold two of his daughters. The two girls, aged 13 and 15, were sold to two men aged 23 and 25, for 7,000 shekels ($1,800 US). The two men who bought the women were accused of rape and luring minors.
I'm sure they were just having problems in the adoption system, right, pops. You were just trying to help out, right?
Police sources also reported a homicide, in which a man, Ibrahim al-Bayrouti, went to Ramallah to conclude a transaction worth $60,000, but his money was stolen and he disappeared. Later his corpse was discovered with two bullet and several stab wounds and his leg had been severed with a chainsaw.
Yeeeeesh...
Police officers say that crime in the city has risen 200%. The police said they followed-up 260 crimes in recent months. The sharp rise in crime is an indication of the malfunction of social structures, as well as the prevailing political situation creating unemployment and poverty, say the police.
...and, oh, yeah,... psychopaths with lotsa guns.
Gaza - Ma'an - Nine people were injured, one critically, in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, in a dispute between two families around midnight on Tuesday. Palestinian medical sources said that that the injured were taken to Abu Yousef An-Najar Hospital in Rafah city. The injury of Abdullah Al-Hashash, in his twenties, was described as critical due to a back injury while the others' injuries were described as slight.
Could you turn the music down?
BANGBANGBANGBANG...
Nablus - Ma'an - A Palestinian man was shot dead by unknown gunmen in east Nablus city on Tuesday evening, according to Palestinian sources. The sources added that the unknown armed men shot at Salim Al-Sharabi, 32, in one of the streets of Khalet Al-'Amoud, a neighbourhood in east Nablus city, in the north of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical sources said that Al-Sharabi was hit with several bullets in his body which led to his immediate death.
Whaddya think, Quince?
Hmmmmmmmm...might have something to do with these several bullets in his body? Let's do more tests.
Bethlehem – Ma'an – Members of the Palestinian national security services attacked physicians and nurses in the emergency room of the government hospital, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday. The motivation of the attack was to force the medical staff to treat a member of the force.According to the director of the hospital, Dr Husni Al-Atari, who spoke to Ma'an via telephone, a similar incident occurred on Monday; the assailants threatened staff, until they were forced to admit a patient from the military services.
Suspicious device casulty? Mysterious gunfire? Mishandled weapon?
The director added that the doctors checked both cases and decided that it was not necessary to admit them into hospital; however, the security men forced staff to allow the two patients to stay.
Second opinion, doc. They stay, or youze get hurt. Inshallah...
The emergency department closed in protest against the assaults.
Dr Al-Atari said that he informed the minister of health, who sent a report to Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Aw, jeez. Are the boys being mischeivious again? Give them a time out...
Gaza - Ma'an - A 32-year-old Gazan woman, from the Tal As-Sultan area of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, was shot dead by her brother on Tuesday. Palestinian security sources reported that the killer is being interrogated. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that the assassination was a so-called 'honor killing'. PCHR said that when the Palestinian police arrested the murderer, Alaa’ ‘Owaida, on Tuesday morning, he declared that he killed his sister, Khawla Ahmed ‘Owaida, aged 35, "for family honor". PCHR reported that she was killed by a gunshot to the head. Her corpse arrived at the hospital riddled with bullets.
Hmmmmmmm. Alaa must've "lost control of his weapon".