Ghazi Shihab, 66, Is Having Coffee in a West Bank Refugee Camp Before Work. Two Shots Ring Out From the Street. He Peeks Out, and Is Fatally Shot by a Soldier. Meanwhile, Army Bulldozers Crush Six Cars and a Few Stands
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Jan. 29, 2021
Standing at the Qalandiyah checkpoint this week, a few steps from where his brother was shot five months ago, Anwar Halawa asked himself which of the security guards did the shooting. And if you did recognize him, we asked. “He has a government to deal with him, not me,” he said. “If the government doesn’t deal with him, maybe he’ll shoot another disabled person? Maybe he’ll kill a Jew? So who loses if he stays on?”
Abdel Nasser Halawa was shot on August 17 and died on December 11 at home in the West Bank city of Nablus, after Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem – where he had been hospitalized for about 100 days – refused to keep him on any longer. He died about two weeks after being discharged. He was deaf and couldn’t hear the guards’ orders. They shot him. What was he doing at the checkpoint? We will never know. His brother thinks that a trip they had taken to the Dead Sea a week earlier fired his imagination – maybe he wanted to go ba
Jan. 22, 2021
Fourteen stitches in the head of Izz a-Din Zinadin, six stitches in the head of his father, Mohammed. Father and son, two farmers on the way to plow their land. Mohammed is 70 years old, the father of 11 children; his son, Izz a-Din, is 43 and has seven children. The father was beaten by settlers in front of his son. He heard his shouts and saw a settler continuing to pound his father with a club even when he had fallen to the ground, but couldn’t come to his aid because he, too, was being beaten.
The hilltop hoodlums, with curly earlocks and the backing of the Israel Defense Forces, did not hesitate to batter an elderly man on the head, knock him down and go on hitting him with clubs as he bled. His son was beaten in every part of his body and also collapsed to the ground, bleeding. The images were broadcast on local Palestinian television in Nablus.