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Mandy
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 Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: Hamas lets Fatah man who lost two kids in IDF raid visit the |
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A v. sad story :
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=960663&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1
"Hamas lets Fatah man who lost two kids in IDF raid visit their graves"
| Quote: | | Earlier on Tuesday, before Hamas reneged on its warnings, Abu Shabak said "I don't know whom I'm more angry with - Hamas, who won't let me go to my children's funeral, or Israel, who killed them and stopped their mother from coming to see them in the hospital." |
However the above quote, despite it coming from a grieving father, seems as if it is a total loss of perspective to equate the murders of your children with the actions of the legitimate government. |
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major.tom
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:06 am Post subject: |
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This article merits being quoted in full...
| Quote: | Hamas lets Fatah man who lost two kids in IDF raid visit their graves
By Avi Issacharoff , Haaretz Correspondent
Muhammed Abu Shabak holding a photo of his children who were killed on Sunday. (Daniel Bar-On / Jini)
Following Tuesday's Haaretz report, Hamas has decided to let a Fatah activist return to the Gaza Strip to visit the burial site of two of his children who were killed Sunday during an Israel Defense Forces' raid in Jabalya.
Muhammed Abu Shabak, a Fatah activist and rival of Hamas faction, fled to Ramallah last June, at the beginning of the Fatah-Hamas civil war, after repeated threats on his life.
After his children Jacqueline and Iyad were announced dead on Sunday, Abu Shabak was told by Hamas militants that if he tried to come to their Gaza Strip funeral, he would be killed.
However, following report of the story in Haaretz on Tuesday, Hamas reneged on its threats and decided to let Abu Shabak enter Gaza in order to visit his children's graves. Later on Tuesday, Abu Shabak was indeed granted entrance to the Strip and hurried to see his children's burial site.
Abu Shabak and his acquaintances suspect that the Israel Air Force targeted his house and that the attack was not accidental. They said that in recent incidents in the Strip, Hamas men were hiding near the homes of Fatah activists so that the IDF strikes would target these homes.
Hamas' Gaza spokesman, Fawzi Barhum, rejected the claims, saying "this is a lie. Our battle is with the Israeli enemy and it is impossible that we would do such a thing."
Earlier on Tuesday, before Hamas reneged on tis warnings, Abu Shabak said "I don't know whom I'm more angry with - Hamas, who won't let me go to my children's funeral, or Israel, who killed them and stopped their mother from coming to see them in the hospital."
"I didn't say a word to the kids when I left the house," he added. "Only when I made it through the Erez crossing did I call and tell Jacqueline I was moving to Ramallah and promised to see her again soon. I never saw her again."
His house in Ramallah was filled with guests who came to console him, almost all of them, like himself, refugees who have been sentenced to death in Gaza. Some of them escaped assassination attempts. All Fatah's senior officials and former Palestinian Authority officers in Gaza arrived. Many had left their families behind in Gaza, because Israel refused to let the families join their fathers and husbands in the West Bank.
Mohammed sat grieving in a small room. He used to talk to his children and especially to his eldest, 17-year-old Jacqueline, every day. "Every day she told me she missed me. In May, after she and her brother Iyad passed their exams, I planned to bring them to Ramallah. She was an outstanding student, dreamed of studying engineering at university. She was afraid of being teased because of her foreign name. She was always angry with me for choosing that name."
"On Saturday I spoke to her at about 10 P.M. Jacqueline was sick and so was Iyad, who had back problems. I told my wife that I wanted her to take the children and move to her family's house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where it's quieter. Her leg is broken, so she said she'd go the next day. At midnight Jacqueline called. The military operation had begun, and I heard the shelling and bombing. She told me that my little son, Mohammed Ali, kept running to the window every time he heard shooting and asked me to speak to him. I did. He promised not to cause her any problems. An hour later I called her again and asked everyone to gather in the living room. At 2:15 A.M. we had our last conversation. She told me she missed me."
He burst into tears again.
"I told her not to be afraid. I promised her that tomorrow we'd talk on instant messenger and she asked me to talk to Iyad, but I said I was tired and would talk to them later. At about 2:30 A.M. they were killed."
Abu Shabak's friends say that Iyad had left the living room to go to the bathroom when a shell hit the house and he was seriously injured. He called for help and his sister Jacqueline rushed to his side. As she approached him, soldiers shot her. Rescue teams took the two, still breathing, to the hospital, but they died soon after arrival. Their mother remained in the shelled house with a broken leg and three small children. The phone lines were cut off and nobody could approach the house, which was in the center of the IDF's operation site, to tell her of their death.
Meanwhile, one of the neighbors called Abu Shabak's friend Nashet, who also lives in Ramallah, and told him what had happened. Nashet went to Abu Shabak's house. "He woke me up. I asked him what are you doing here, what happened? He told me Jacqueline was killed. Only after I collapsed and was taken to the hospital did my friends tell me the whole truth," says Mohammed.
Asked if he would still try to move his family to Ramallah, Mohammed says, "No, someone must take care of Jacqueline and Iyad's graves, and my wife won't leave them behind." |
I can't blame him for losing perspective. Grief has a way of doing that.
| Quote: | | All Fatah's senior officials and former Palestinian Authority officers in Gaza arrived. Many had left their families behind in Gaza, because Israel refused to let the families join their fathers and husbands in the West Bank. |
This shows quite plainly who is in control of Gaza and the West Bank. "Disengagement" indeed... |
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