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<h1 class="reader-title">Israel's Executions Can't Kill
Palestinian Resistance: Remembering Ashraf Na'alwa, Saleh
Barghouthi, Majd Mteir and Hasan Arda</h1>
December 13, 2018</div>
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<figure><img
src="https://i2.wp.com/samidoun.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/naalwa-barghouthi-mteir-e1544735249544.jpg?w=700&ssl=1"
alt="" width="630" height="450"><figcaption><i>Ashraf
Na’alwa, Saleh Barghouthi, Majd Mteir (l-r).
Graphic: Quds News</i></figcaption></figure>
<p>On 13 December 2018, Israeli occupation forces shot
down four Palestinians, including several resistance
fighters who had evaded their pursuit for months. <a
href="http://imemc.org/article/soldiers-kill-ashraf-naalwa/">Ashraf
Na’alwa,</a> 23, was killed by occupation forces who
attacked the home where he was staying in Askar refugee
camp near Nablus. He had been pursued by occupation
forces since he carried out an armed resistance
operation on 7 October in the illegal colonial
settlement of Barkan in the northern West Bank of
occupied Palestine in which two settlers were killed.<br>
</p>
<p>Na’alwa, a Palestinian worker at a factory in the
colonial settlement, evaded occupation forces for
months. During that time, his entire family was
repeatedly harassed and attacked by occupation forces.
His <a
href="https://samidoun.net/2018/10/palestinian-women-prisoners-escalate-struggle-against-repression/">mother,
sister, brother and father</a> were all repeatedly
detained and interrogated, while his home village of
Shweika near Tulkarem was subjected to ongoing attacks,
raids and intensive surveillance. Many of his family
members remain behind bars as we remember him today.
Occupation forces ordered his family home demolished, a
tactic of collective punishment that the Israeli
occupation continued from the former British colonial
mandate over Palestine. <br>
</p>
<p>Israeli sources reported that Na’alwa’s location was
finally revealed under “harsh interrogation,” usually a
euphemism for torture under interrogation. The
occupation forces deliberately aimed to kill Na’alwa,
who resisted until the last moment; indeed, Israeli
headlines bragged about “eliminating” the “terrorist.”
Occupation forces reportedly chased Na’alwa through the
camp for hours before surrounding him in the building.
Around the bloody scene, occupation forces seized more
Palestinians, accusing them of “providing aid” to the
“wanted” resistance fighter. <br>
</p>
<p>The extrajudicial execution of Ashraf Na’alwa did not
come alone today. <a
href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israelis-palestinians-killed-west-bank-east-jerusalem-attacks-1238233370">Saleh
Omar Barghouthi</a>, 29, the son of former Palestinian
prisoner <a
href="https://samidoun.net/2013/08/longest-serving-administrative-detainee-omar-barghouti-released-from-israeli-prison/">Omar
Barghouthi</a>, who served 25 years in Israeli
prisons, was shot dead near the village of Sarda near
Ramallah. Barghouthi, from Kobar village, carried out an
armed resistance action at Ofra illegal colonial
settlement on Sunday, 9 December, wounding seven
settlers. Occupation forces attacked the his taxi he
drove, seized him and shot him dead, according to
Palestinian witnesses at the scene. <br>
</p>
<p>Barghouthi is also the nephew of <a
href="https://samidoun.net/2017/02/nyc-protest-condemns-resentencing-of-palestinian-prisoner-nael-barghouthi-and-hps-collusion-with-israel/">Nael
Barghouthi</a>, one of the longest serving Palestinian
prisoners, with 39 years in Israeli prison. Saleh’s
brother, Asem, has spent 10 years in Israeli occupation
prisons, while another uncle, Jacir, was deported to
Gaza when released from Israeli prison.<br>
</p>
<p>Also on Thursday morning, Israeli occupation forces in
Jerusalem shot <a
href="http://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-jerusalem-2/">Majd
Mteir</a>, 26, a Palestinian refugee from Qalandiya
camp, ten to twelve times in a row. Witnesses said that
Mteir was left lying on the ground bleeding for 40
minutes before his death. Occupation forces accused him
of attempting to stab Israeli armed “border police” in
Jerusalem. <br>
</p>
<p>These killings were carried out in a coordinated
fashion, alongside the arrest of <a
href="http://asravoice.ps/post/10977/40-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A">dozens
of Palestinians</a> on the same night. Clearly, these
were intended to be a deadly blow not only against these
strugglers, but also the Palestinian resistance as a
whole. <br>
</p>
<p>Nevertheless, ensuing events made clear that the
military power of the occupation and its extrajudicial
executions would only inflame Palestinian resistance
further. <a
href="http://imemc.org/article/two-israelis-killed-in-a-shooting-attack-near-ramallah/">Three
Israeli soldiers</a> at the illegal colonial
settlement of Givat Asaf were shot dead by unknown
Palestinian resistance fighters, who left the scene,
withdrawing from the area, later on Thursday morning.
This response indicated that Palestinian resistance
forces did not accept that the blood of these young
strugglers should be spilled casually and without cost
to the colonial occupier. <br>
</p>
<p>The assassination raids recall previous attacks, like
those on <a
href="https://samidoun.net/2017/03/thousands-of-palestinians-join-funeral-of-resistance-for-basil-al-araj/">Basil
al-Araj</a> and <a
href="https://samidoun.net/2017/07/israeli-occupation-forces-slay-palestinian-youth-in-dheisheh-camp-during-arrest-raid-seize-former-hunger-striker-bilal-diab/">Moataz
Washaha</a>, Palestinian strugglers targeted for
Israeli “elimination.” The policy of extrajudicial
killings and assassinations by the Israeli state
stretches back years and beyond borders, targeting
resistance strugglers, local organizers and national
leaders: Ghassan Kanafani, Abu Ali Mustafa, Sheikh Ahmad
Yassin, Khaled Nazzal, Fathi Shiqaqi, Abu Jihad,
Abdel-Aziz Rantisi and many others, including some of
the Palestinian people’s brightest writers, poets and
emissaries to the world. Despite decades of
assassinations and killings, the Palestinian resistance
has not been crushed. Instead, it has continued to
adapt, survive and grow, resisting a brutal, colonial
occupation and its imperialist sponsors despite vast
disparities in wealth and resources. <br>
</p>
<p>Israeli occupation forces have imposed a harsh siege on
Ramallah and the surrounding villages. They shot dead <a
href="http://maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=970153">60-year-old
Hamdan Arda</a>, originally from the village of Arraba
near Jenin, in his vehicle near el-Bireh, accusing him
of attempting to run over soldiers. Arda was returning
home from his aluminum factory when he was shot. As he
lay inside his car, the soldiers refused to allow the
Red Crescent ambulance to reach him and provide
treatment. The killing of Arda came alongside attacks by
soldiers and settlers on Palestinian cities and
villages. Six Palestinians were wounded in el-Bireh,
shot by live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Illegal colonial settlers attacked Palestinians and
their vehicles in cities and towns throughout the West
Bank of occupied Palestine, while Palestinians took to
the streets in protest.<br>
</p>
<p>Palestinian political parties, including Hamas, Islamic
Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine and even Fateh called for mobilization inside
and outside Palestine to confront the escalating
occupation attacks. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority
President Abu Mazen attempted to distance himself from “<a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbass-office-condemns-attacks-blames-israel-for-tense-climate/">violence</a>,”
while leaving the PA’s security coordination with the
Israeli occupation intact.<br>
</p>
<p>These events come only a week after the latest effort
by Israel and the United States at the United Nations to
attack and criminalize Palestinian resistance. An
attempt to pass a General Assembly resolution against
Palestinian resistance actions in Gaza failed. This was
only the latest attempt to redefine international
principles in the interests of imperialism, seeking to
undermine the position expressed UN’s General Assembly <a
href="http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/37/a37r043.htm">resolution
34/43 (1982)</a>. This document supporting Palestinian
rights as well as those of African peoples fighting
colonization and apartheid “Reaffirm[ed] the legitimacy
of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial
integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial
and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all
available means, including armed struggle…Strongly
condemn[ed] those Governments that do not recognize the
right to self-determination and independence of all
peoples still under colonial and foreign domination and
alien subjugation, notably the peoples of Africa and the
Palestinian people.”<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity
Network highlights the importance of global solidarity
with the Palestinian people, their liberation movement
and their resistance. We remember and honor Ashraf
Na’alwa, Saleh Barghouthi, Majd Mteir and Hasan Arda,
as we remember the over 200 martyrs of today’s
intifada, the Great March of Return in Gaza. </strong></p>
<p><strong>As we look back on 31 years of the First
Intifada and see its spirit reflected today throughout
occupied Palestine, we urge people of conscience
around the world to organize protests and actions to
stand with Palestinians confronting occupation,
colonization and imperialism. We also urge
communities, municipalities, university groups and
trade unions to escalate the boycott of Israel,
including economic, academic and cultural boycott –
and especially a military embargo of the occupation
state. </strong></p>
<p><strong>The lives of these strugglers shall not be lost
in vain, but will live on as symbols of resistance and
the ability of an indigenous people to struggle by all
means despite the most challenging odds and the most
disadvantageous balance of power. From the river to
the sea, Palestine will be free!</strong> </p>
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