Scenes From the Palestinian Liberation XXXIV
Scenes From the Palestinian Liberation XXXIV
Elections? Check.
Armed militia? Check.
Justice system? Check.
They’re ready for statehood!
Palestinian gunmen said they shot dead a man and a woman accused of collaborating with Israel in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Abu Ala, a local commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Nablus, said the two were killed in separate shootings in the city.
Gunmen killed Jafal Abu Tzrur, 24, in a refugee camp and the woman, 27, outside a hospital. Abu Ala said the two were lovers.
“We carried out the death penalty after we were sure they were both collaborators with Israeli military intelligence,” Abu Ala told Reuters.
He said the couple passed on information that enabled Israel Defense Forces soldiers to kill three Al Aqsa militants in the Balata refugee camp in March.
The gunmen said Tuesday that they handed the woman, a mother of four, to her family. They said she was killed by a group that included her brother on grounds that she shamed her clan.
One of the militants killed by IDF troops was the woman’s husband, he added.
Palestinian militant groups periodically kill people accused of collaborating with Israel.
Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is linked to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement.
Aunt Agatha: “Real insight into the type of society that is being built. This was done by a group affiliated with Abbas, not Hamas. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. I know that there are “honor” killings, i.e., a male relative murders a daughter or sister or cousin because she is having relations with an unapproved man, so this is just another twist to the story. These honor killings are happening with increasing frequency in Europe also.”
BTW, isn’t Abu Ala the nom de guerre of Mahmoud Abbas?