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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Even in Death Palestinians Don’t Have a Sanctuary!<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Prof. Hatem Bazian - May 13, 2022<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><div role="button" tabindex="0"><p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/560/1*53QO5zus78kf7jAl17s24A.jpeg" role="presentation" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="400" height="266"></p></div>Image from <a href="https://apnews.com/article/shireen-abu-akleh-journalist-funeral-west-bank-bb71e2ec64dd034066bc6df4a9aa2fb3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/shireen-abu-akleh-journalist-funeral-west-bank-bb71e2ec64dd034066bc6df4a9aa2fb3</a><h2 id="gmail-0a69">Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Shireen Abu Akleh’s Funeral</h2><p id="gmail-4e8d">Even
in death, Palestinians have no sanctuary from Israeli occupation
violence and dehumanizing treatment. Israeli occupation forces, who are
responsible for killing Shireen Abu Akleh , came out to beat
Palestinians participating in her funeral procession, even those that
are carrying her casket. The Israel occupation forces and apartheid
regime killed Shireen, lied about the cause of death, created diversion
to their crime, enforced checkpoints limitations on people trying to
mourn the senior journalist, attacked her home to force the family to
remove Palestinian flags, attempted to arrest people, prevented people
from coming to Jerusalem to mourn, then physically attacking and beating
those carrying her coffin.</p><p id="gmail-1bac">The
morning images and videos coming out of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral is
shocking and Israeli occupation forces have reached a level of moral
bankruptcy by attacking the procession and those carrying the coffin.
The despicable display of brute Israeli Apartheid violence did not even
take a day or a moment off in heaving abuse and insult on Palestinians
as they mourn and tried to carry Shireen’s coffin in Jerusalem.</p><p id="e079">Israeli
occupation government and forces have always pushed the limits and used
all types of methods to attack Palestinians and deny them the basic
human right of mourning and honoring the dead. In Palestine, Israel has
the propensity of holding onto the bodies of Palestinians that its
occupation forces have killed with hundreds are still in its own
possession. Israel has setup its own cemetery for Palestinians that it
refuses to return their bodies to their families, thus denying the basic
human dignity of a loved one grave to visit, offer a prayer and place
flowers during religious holidays.</p><p id="gmail-8003">Israeli
occupation forces attack funeral procession and burial gatherings at
cemeteries which often ends up in despicably killing more family members
of a Palestinian who was about to be laid to rest. Tear-gas are often
fired at funeral processions, attacks on mourning tents and/or homes to
further intimidate, threaten and arrest people. Limits are imposed on
the number of people who can attend a funeral and also the time of the
day that a burial can take place. Often, the body of a dead Palestinian
is handed to the family with imposed restrictions on not opening the
casket and a late night burial for a selected number of individuals from
the family. Adding to this insult is attacks on media coverage of such
burial events and confiscation of video or even phone recordings from
the grave site.</p><h2 id="gmail-0ec5">Even in death Palestinians don’t have a sanctuary.</h2><p id="gmail-54d9">If
their was a moment for decency and proper conduct for Israeli
occupation forces, the Apartheid government and the Zionist settler
colonial movement, it would have been to stand aside and let Shireen Abu
Akleh’s funeral procession and people mourning to pass without
interference. But no, no, no, Israeli Apartheid and settler colonialism
violence is atmospheric and it can’t even entertain basic human decency
for a moment-the whole enterprise never misses an opportunity to sink
lower in depth of moral bankruptcy and ethical depravity that to expect
otherwise is purely delusional. Even in death, Israel settler
colonialism can’t bring itself to offer a moment of sanctuary for
Palestinians.</p></div></div></div>
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