Showing posts with label Conflict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conflict. Show all posts
25 September 2018
10 May 2016
21 April 2015
Reuters: Palestinian teen's name added to Israeli memorial, riling families on both sides
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-teens-name-added-israeli-memorial-riling-families-144634274.html
Palestinian teen's name added to Israeli memorial, riling families on both sides
By Jeffrey Heller9 hours ago
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has added the name of a Palestinian teen to its "Monument to the Memory of the Victims of Terrorism", upsetting the youth's parents and a group representing families of slain Israelis with both demanding his name be removed.
Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Khudair, according to a murder indictment, was burned alive in July in Jerusalem by three Israelis avenging the deaths of three Jewish teenagers killed by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank a month earlier.
Both incidents drew world attention and Israel, citing a nationalist motive for Khudair's death, swiftly declared the Palestinian youth a "victim of terrorism", enabling his family in occupied East Jerusalem to receive Israeli state stipends.
His accused murderers are still on trial, and the case has largely faded from public attention.
But it resurfaced in an outpouring of bitterness on Tuesday, the eve of Israel's annual Remembrance Day for soldiers and civilians killed in decades of conflict, when state-owned radio reported that Khudair's name had been officially inscribed on the stone monument in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery.
The Almagor Terror Victims Organisation, a group founded in 1986 and representing the families of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks, demanded the government remove the plaque honoring Khudair.
"(Khudair's) name on the memorial debases the memory of all the other fallen people," Yossi Tzur, an Almagor member whose 17-year-old son was killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 2003, told Israel Radio.
"He is not part of the Israeli ethos. He is not part of the sacrifice our children made at the altar for the sake of Israel's establishment and existence," Tzur said.
Khudair's parents told Reuters they had not been consulted by Israel about adding their son's name to the memorial, which lists more than 4,000 people.
"We can't accept that his name be included among soldiers who killed his relatives in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank," said Khudair's father, Hussein.
His mother, Suha, said her son was "a Palestinian martyr, and not Israeli", and their family felt shamed.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities as the clock ticked down to the start of Remembrance Day after sundown on Tuesday.
Israel regards the monument as an important national symbol, and Pope Francis visited the site during a Holy Land pilgrimage last May.
(Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
10 September 2014
09 September 2014
21 July 2014
Mehdi Hasan of the Huffington Post, then Daniel Taub, Israeli Ambassador to the UK on BBC 2 Radio.
Me versus Israeli ambassador on Gaza on BBC2's Jeremy Vine Show earlier today - listen to the audio file here:
06 May 2014
05 May 2014
Al Jazeera: UK asks Muslim women to help curb Syria trips
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/04/uk-police-syria-appeal-muslim-women-201442323739408972.html
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UK asks Muslim women to help curb Syria trips
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Police reach out to wives, mothers and sisters in drive to
stop young British men travelling to and fighting in Syria.
Last updated: 24 Apr
2014 05:30
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The campaign was prompted by an
increase in Britons caught travelling or returning from Syria [AP]
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British police will
ask Muslim women to help persuade young people not to fight in Syria, in a
new campaign to halt an exodus which authorities fear could breed fighters at
home.
Hundreds of Britons
are thought to have flown out
to join rebels fighting the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Senior police officers
and security chiefs have said they are worried the fighters could return and
carry out attacks on British soil, the Reuters news agency reported.
Britain's
counter-terrorism police said they were going to appeal to women from "affected
communities".
"We are
increasingly concerned about the numbers of young people who have or are
intending ... to join the conflict," Helen Ball, National Coordinator
for Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a statement ahead of Thursday's
launch.
"We want to
ensure that people, particularly women, who are concerned about their loved
ones are given enough information about what they can do to prevent this from
happening."
Last week a father
living in the English town of Brighton, Abubaker Deghayes, revealed that
three of his sons had gone to fight in Syria, one of whom was killed in a
battle, the AFP news agency reported.
Abdullah Deghayes, 18,
died earlier this month after leaving Britain in January, while his
20-year-old brother Amer suffered a bullet wound to the stomach in the same
clash.
Police will hold
meetings across Britain on Thursday with women from different community
groups, charity workers and government officials involved in preventing
extremism.
A leaflet has been
prepared outlining the risks of travelling to Syria, which will be handed out
at airports and ports.
Monitoring charities
The Charities
Commission is also involved in the campaign, to advise people on how they can
help send humanitarian aid to Syria without the money falling into the hands
of extremists.
The commission's
chairman, William Shawcross, warned
at the weekend that charities should be particularly vigilant
about how their aid is used in countries such as Syria and Somalia.
Three charities are
being investigated for Syria fundraising, while seven others are being
monitored.
Andrew Parker, the
Director General of MI5's domestic spy agency, said in
October a growing proportion of his casework involved Syria,
"mostly concerning individuals from the UK who have travelled to fight
there or who aspire to do so".
Parker led MI5's
response to the 2005 suicide bomb attacks on London which killed 52
civilians. Some of the bombers are thought to have received training in
al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
On Tuesday France announced a
series of measures to stop its citizens from travelling to Syria
to take part in the civil war and to punish those who did.
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