Israeli death squad assassinates 22-Year-Old activist Yousuf Al-'Asi, in Nablus 

Israeli under cover force assassinates a Fateh activist, in Nablus

Date: 16 / 09 / 2007 Time: 10:09

Nablus – Ma'an – 

An Israeli occupation forces death squad on Sunday morning ambushed and assassinated a Fateh member in Balata refugee camp, eastern Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

The murdered Palestinian was an activist for the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement.

22-year-old Yousuf Al-'Asi was killed by the Israeli soldiers near his homes in Balata refugee camp. Eyewitnesses reported that undercover forces ambushed him and shot him with several rounds of bullets.

Al-'Asi was transferred to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where he died.

Palestinian security sources informed Ma'an that fierce clashes erupted at Al-Ayn refugee camp, west of Nablus, between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters.

The clashes continued into the early hours of Sunday morning. A Palestinian was seriously wounded in the clashes and then detained by the Israeli forces.

The detainee was named as 34-year-old Ayman Mabrook, from Al-Ayn refugee camp. He was injured in his back and shoulder, and the Israeli soldiers seized him from a Palestinian ambulance.

Israeli occupation army kills a Hamas fighter in Nablus 

Sunday September 16, 2007 12:49 by Rami Almeghari - Rami Almeghari-IMEMC&Agencies rami at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation army soldiers shot and killed on Sunday morning a Palestinian resistance fighter from the West Bank city of Nablus, believed to be a member of the AL-Qassam Brigades Hamas, Palestinian sources said.

Medics identified the killed as Yousuf AL-'Asi, in a time another Palestinian resident was shot and wounded in a separate incident in the city.

AL-'Asi had sustained several bullets riddled into his body, rendering him dead in less than one hour, the medics confirmed.

Witnesses said that the Israeli army had assassinated aL-Asi,22, when he was standing in front of his house.

In a separate incident, clashes broke out early on Sunday between Palestinian resistance fighters and an invading Israeli army troop in the Ein regugee camp in western Nablus city.

The clashes resulted in a Palestinian causality, identified as Ayman Mabrouk, 34 year-old. The Israeli army took Manrouk prisoner shortly after he was shot and wounded.

Israeli army actions continue to take place almost on daily basis in different parts of the West Bank, where Israel maintains a complete control over the area.

 

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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 and at checkpoints, 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.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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