Occupied Jerusalem, Palestine -- The human tragedy of Nasser Abd
al-Qadr, the father of the 14-year-old girl who was shot and
killed by Israeli forces entered a new chapter with his release from Israeli
occupation prison.
The father's case had received particular attention he was in Israeli custody
at the time of the shooting, and an Israeli court refused to allow him to
attend his daughter's funeral or be at home in Tul Karm for the mourning
period.
On Sunday, GOC Central Command Major-General Yair Naveh, who commands IDF
troops in the West Bank, conducted an investigation into the incident. The
probe was carried out at the site of the shooting, beside the separation
fence by the Tul Karm-area village of Faroun. A parallel probe by Investigations
Military Police is continuing.
The Naveh investigation ordered the dismissal of the platoon commander. It
also instructructed that the commander of his company, a part of the Nahshon
infantry battalion, receive an official reprimand. The soldier who shot the
girl has been suspended from duty until further notice.
On Saturday, Abd al-Qadr visited his daughter's grave and met his three other
children, whom he last saw two months ago. "I wanted to see her for the last
time, to kiss her for the last time," he said of his dead daughter.
Nasser Abd al-Qadr will return to the lock-up on Tuesday morning and will
remain there until his trial begins. He said he has no intention of trying
to flee, and that he was merely seeking work in Israel.
An initial investigation into the Tuesday incident showed that the girl and
a 12-year-old friend were in the area of the illegally built barrier fence
when they were spotted by a force of soldiers, who reported two "suspicious
figures" west of the barrier. The force' platoon commander then fired into
the air. As the two girls tried to flee, a soldier who served as a marksman
fired two bullets, hitting the 14-year-old Doaa.
In other news, four Qassams were fired at the western Negev over the weekend,
one Sderot man was lightly injured when a Qassam blew in the door of his
house Friday evening.
On the political front, Mahmoud Abbas called the multi-year truce, or
hudna, proposed by Hamas "a defrauding of the Palestinian people."
He called for general peace negotiations on borders, settlements, refugees
and Jerusalem.
A Hamas PA parliament member, Salah Bardawil, said the hudna did not mean
recognition of Israel, and that "the Palestinian people reserves the right
to all the lands of Palestine."
Israel, since its occupation of Palestine in 1948, committed daily crimes
against the Palestinians, settlement were established illegally
depriving the Palestinians from their homes and land. Palestinian groups
are waging a war of Independence from European Zionists who occupied
Palestine since
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