Corpse of missing Palestinian man discovered in former illegal Israeli settlement of Netzarim

Date: 19 / 08 / 2007 Time: 12:11

Gaza – Ma'an – 

Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday that they discovered the corpse of Palestinian man Kareem Abu Muhady, aged 44, in empty land in what used to be the illegal Israeli settlement of Netzarim in central Gaza.

The sources said that the body was riddled with bullets.

Abu Mhady's family received an anonymous telephone call telling them that he was dead and his body was in Netzarim.

Abu Mhady went missing seven days ago from An Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. His family launched an appeal to find their missing relation.

The family said that Abu Mhady received a call from an Israeli mobile a week ago on Saturday night. He left his home in An Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday at noon and called his family to say he was in Al Zahra' area, west of Gaza City.

He was not seen or heard from since then.

Abu Mhady's brothers searched for him and found his car with his mobile in Al Zahra', with no signs of attempts to steal the property.

In the beginning his brothers phoned his mobile phone and it was answered, but nothing was said. The phone then ran out of battery.

Al Mezan Center demands a probe into the death of a Gaza resident 

Sunday August 19, 2007 12:31 by IMEMC Staff saed at imemc dot org

The Al Mezan Center of Human Rights issued a press release on Sunday demanding a probe into the death of a Palestinian resident who went missing last week, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and his body was found on Sunday morning bearing torture marks and a gunshot injury.

Initial investigations by the Center revealed that the family of Nimir Abul-Karim Abu Mhadi, 44, received a phone call on Sunday at dawn, and the caller informed them that their son is near the evacuated settlement of Nitzarim, in the southern of the Gaza Strip.

When his family went to the location they found their son bleeding and took him to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City where he died of his wounds.

The investigation also revealed that an unknown caller phoned Abu Mhadi on his mobile at 2 a.m on Sunday August 12, as he was in his house in Al Nusseirat refugee camp. Abu Mhadi then left the house in a rush and went missing since then. Earlier the same morning, his family went out looking for him and found his vehicle parked near the coastal road north of Gaza Valley Bridge, but he was not in it.

Medical sources reported that after forensics examined the body of Abu Mhadi they revealed that he was tortured and that he was shot in his left knee.

He was also tied for a long period which caused bleeding in his tissues.

The Al Mezan Center slammed the killing of Abu Mhadi, the torture he was subjected to, and demanded an immediate probe into the incident in order to arrest the assailants and prosecute them.

 

 

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Note to readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.  

 

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