Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2007-07-27.
Three Palestinian Sisters Slain in possible 'honor killing'
BBSNews 2007-07-27 -- By Mohammed Omer. The Siege is still on! Our borders are closed and life (if one can call this life) is more tragic than ever. Palestinian souls are trying to find a little pleasure in life by going to the beach after having endured bloody weeks in Gaza. With the sanctions in place, nothing can solve the problems of the Palestinians. Israel continues to try to divide the Palestinians in Gaza from those in the West Bank. But we are all one!
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Disputed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Monday July 23, 2007.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2007-07-27. |
The resigned Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh spoke to the press today: "Why this siege? Is it because we ended chaos and anarchy?" He said that food and human rights must not be subject to political blackmail. According to Haniyeh, Palestinian resistance has always been defensive. If the Israeli Occupation were to stop its attacks, then there would be no Palestinian violent reaction.
Due to the closure of the borders, restriction on movement and security measures imposed by the Israeli the Gaza economy is essentially dead with more than 80 percent of the businesses shut down. He also stressed the importance of upholding the law and order, the sovereignty of the judiciary and justice and ending corrupt monopolies.
Many believe that Hamas brings security to Gaza Strip, but the [economy] over here is all but destroyed. The Rafah border to Egypt is still being closed. Egyptian build up of the military on the border has increased from 750 to 900 soldiers, according to Egyptian sources over the phone.
[Monday], an Israeli air strike killed four in the northern Gaza Strip, The violence was the worst in coastal Gaza in 10 days, and came a day before Tony Blair makes his first visit to the region as envoy to the Quartet of Middle East power brokers.
According to eyewitnesses in Gaza, an Israeli air strike helicopter opened fire in northern Gaza, killing two Palestinians. The Islamic Jihad movement said both were members and had been firing home made rockets at Israel.
Seems to be honor killing:
In a different incident in Gaza, three Palestinian sisters from Gaza, the youngest 16 years old Nahed Hija and her sisters, 19 years old Suha and 22 years old Lina, were found dead from multiple stab wounds, buried in a shallow grave in the central Gaza Strip.
Many believed that such killing might came as a result of "honor crimes," in which women are murdered by male relatives because of suspected intimate relations or in other words not necessarily sex - outside of marriage, but could be other reasons behind such killing. The reasons are not known so far, but Executive Force and Palestinian police are investigating the killing of the three sisters.
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. In 2006 Mohammed won the New American Media National Ethnic Media Award for best Youth Voice. On May 18th, 2007, Mohammed was shot at by unknown militants in Gaza yet he continues to report. Visit Mohammed's Web site, or write to him to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience. We are proud to feature articles from Mohammed Omer here at BBSNews, his reporting is some of the only original, on the ground reporting available from the Israeli Occupied Territories.
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