[News] Palestinian Authority opens fire on funeral of Fatah leader beaten to death by Palestinian security officers

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  PA opens fire on funeral of Fatah leader beaten to death by
  Palestinian security officers

Kate - August 30, 2016

*Thousands attend funeral of man beaten to death by Palestinian police* 
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772893>
NABLUS (Ma‘an) 28 Aug — Thousands of Palestinians in the northern 
occupied West Bank city of *Nablus* on Sunday afternoon took part in a 
funeral for Ahmad Izz Halaweh, who was beaten to death in detention 
earlier this week by Palestinian security officers. The funeral set off 
from the Rafidiya governmental hospital and headed to the eastern 
cemetery of Nablus amid maximum security procedures by Palestinian 
security forces. Mourners in the funeral called for Nablus district 
Governor Akram Rujoub to resign from office and for those responsible 
for Halaweh’s brutal killing to be held accountable. Mourners waves 
flags for the Fatah and Hamas movements and raised photos of Halaweh — 
who was a senior member of the Fatah’s armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ 
Brigades. A Palestinian security official told Ma‘an that the 
Palestinian Authority (PA) did not obstruct the funeral, but imposed 
three conditions: not to hold the march in the Old City of Nablus, to 
allow security forces to maintain their presence in the Old City, and to 
refrain from gunfire during the funeral. Halaweh’s death sparked 
widespread outrage among Palestinians, with the UN coming forward to 
denounce the killing as an “apparent extrajudicial execution.” 
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772817> He was the main suspect 
in a shooting by several gunmen 
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772755> last week which left 
two Palestinian policemen dead. Two other suspects were shot dead during 
raids in the ensuing manhunt, while several others were detained. 
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah announced that a special 
committee would be formed to look into Halaweh’s death and publicly 
share the results of the investigation. Hamdallah has meanwhile asserted 
the widespread security crackdown by security forces that had targeted 
Halaweh would continue, for which 30 other fugitives remained at large, 
and vowed to resign <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772883> 
from office if the PA failed to arrest all wanted and armed Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772893

*PA security officers open fire at funeral of Fatah leader beaten to 
death in prison* 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160829-pa-security-officers-open-fire-at-funeral-of-fatah-leader-beaten-to-death-in-prison/>
MEMO 29 Aug — Palestinian Authority security officers opened fire and 
shot tear gas canisters at the funeral of the leader of Fatah’s military 
wing, /Al-Resalah/ reported on Sunday. Colonel Ahmed Halawah of the 
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades was buried in the occupied West Bank city of 
Nablus. A lawyer for the colonel’s family, Mohamed Halawah, told the 
newspaper that the participation of tens of thousands of Palestinian 
citizens in the funeral “provoked” the PA security services into opening 
fire. “The funeral was going according to plan,” he explained, “but the 
PA attacked it. This is not an attack on the Halawah family, but an 
attack on all the Palestinians who rejected the PA aggression on the 
Palestinian citizens in Nablus.” The lawyer accused the PA security 
services and the PA-appointed governor of Nablus of being “illegitimate” 
if this is the way that they deal with people in the city. According 
to/Al-Resalah,/ some of the participants in the funeral procession were 
wounded by the gunfire. It added that thousands of those who took part 
called for Governor Akram Al-Rajoub, as well as the PA Prime Minister 
Rami Hamadallah, to be ousted. They accuse the two PA officials of 
executing Colonel Halawah.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160829-pa-security-officers-open-fire-at-funeral-of-fatah-leader-beaten-to-death-in-prison/



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