Women of Umm al-Khair continue hunger strike for sixth day as Israel refuses to hand over Awdah Hathaleen’s body

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/women-of-umm-al-khair-continue-hunger-strike-for-sixth-day-as-israel-refuses-to-hand-over-awdah-hathaleens-body/

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  1. This article is old (from Tuesday), but I hadn’t seen it discussed really anywhere on this site so I still wanted to share it. Forgive me if I did something wrong.

  2. >According to the family, the army conditioned the return of his body on holding a small funeral with restricted attendance in the evening hours. It also demanded that he be buried outside the village, claiming the local cemetery is illegal.

    This is an act of profound cruelty: withholding the body of a loved one unless the family agrees not to allow the community to mourn his loss. Hathaleen’s only “crime” was being a Palestinian who dared to speak the truth about life under occupation in the West Bank. Meanwhile, his killer walks free — despite a documented history of violence against Palestinians. The message this sends to Israeli settlers is chilling: that the killing of Palestinians will be met not with justice, but with impunity. It signals that hunting season is open, and accountability is no longer a concern.

    >Meanwhile, Yinon Levi, a settler from the area who was arrested by police on suspicion of reckless manslaughter after being seen in a video firing toward Palestinians in the incident, was released from house arrest yesterday and resumed the construction work near the village that sparked the confrontation in which Hathaleen was killed.

    I suppose “construction work” is one way to describe attacking unarmed civilians with a bulldozer. It’s not the phrase I would have picked.

    And in the aftermath of this senseless murder, the IDF is arresting nearly all of the young Palestinian men in the village. An Israeli settler likely would see a stronger penalty for shooting a dog than a man at this point, unless that dog belonged to a Palestinian.

  4. Thank God they returned his body yesterday, and family buried him but not without IDF terrorist declaring the town a military zone and not allowing people to be in the town for funeral.

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