From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 21:10:03 MDT
While searching for a good map showing the various settlements and borders in Israel/Palestine for a post-in-progress I came across the following at IMAGES OF AN EXECUTION (http://electronicintifada.net/features/articles/020312beithanina.shtml)
Headline: Al-Quds -- This is the way Israeli police executed Mahmoud Salah in cold blood.
Body: Palestinian eyewitnesses said yesterday that the member of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who died last Friday after he was killed by the Israeli police in Bet Hanina in occupied Jerusalem was executed in cold blood 30 minutes after he was arrested. More than ten witnesses told AFP that they saw the arrest of Palestinian Mahmoud Salah, 23, and that the arrest lasted more than half an hour until the last moments of his execution, but many of them refrained from revealing their names to AFP. Yahyia al-Wa'ri, 56, told AFP that Mahmoud Salah, 23, was executed on Friday in cold blood after being under control of the police for at least half an hour. Al-Wa'ri said: At around 4:15pm on Friday, a border guard police patrol came to the Third Project in Nuseibeh Housing Project in Occupied Jerusalem and summoned two youths who were in the street there, one of them was a member of the Nuseibeh Quarter and his name was Randy, and the other youth was saying that his name is Mahmoud from Nablus region. Al-Wa'ri added: Ma
hmoud arrived to them and he was handcuffed and they raised his hands up in the air and they placed him on the car. A few minutes later, special units and police and explosives experts arrived to the scene. He continued: the area was full of kids playing and some youths, but the border guard police dispersed them and started shooting in the air. The members of the special units pushed Mahmoud down on the floor and tore off his clothes until he was kept in his underwear. He added that he and the neighbors saw the execution and that the women started shouting. Jerusalem Center for Economic and Social Rights said the soldiers killed Mahmoud Salah from Bet Wazan village in Nablus in cold blood and the citizens in the area saw all the details and refuted the Israeli story and that there is a videotape recording the crime. (Al-Hayat al-Jadida, March 11, 2002)
The above referenced page contains a number of other reports including eyewitness corroboration and a sequence of images, many of good technical quality which, I think, confirm the original analysis..
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