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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Pulver" |
| Date: |
27 Aug 2003 10:40:57 AM |
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Nablus' Residents Are Not Afraid of the Israeli Defense Forces |
Nablus' Residents Are Not Afraid of the Israeli Defense Forces
Some residents in Nablus admit that they welcomed the
curfew that the IDF troops enforced in their city last
Thursday, and that they are not afraid of them. In
their point of view, the curfew prevented a collapse of
internal order and security in the West Bank.
Some local residents in Nablus admit that they had been
convulsed by a series of killings and murders and by
shooting sprees on the street perpetrated by gunmen who
claim that they belong to the Fatah movement. These
gunmen's aim is to intimidate the locals or to carve
out turf for themselves.
Three Palestinians were killed by Palestinian gunmen
during August. Nablus' residents ask some Palestinian
leaders to do something about these gunmen and the
violence that grips the city. The local residents said
that the Palestinian security system had to use all its
power to prevent this collapse of internal order.
On Monday august 18, Shua'ib Shakshir, who was a worker
in a factory, was murdered by masked men who broke into
the factory and opened fire before security men could
respond. Shakshir was killed, although he was not the target.
After few days, masked men also killed Ziyad Abu
Hamdan, who was a guard at a cell phone store owned by
the target. A flyer circulated by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades declared that the shooting attacks came as a
result of various power struggles between rival families.
Following the murders, armed groups started to attack
one another in the city, cars and houses burned, the
brother of Nablus' governor was kidnapped for several
hours, and a restaurant was destroyed. About 10 people
were wounded by the street shootings. Armed masked men
erected checkpoints in the city.
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organization working to end human rights violations
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Strip, and East Jerusalem, regardless of those
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