IslamOnline – Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades held Israel accountable for the killing of one of its cadres Monday, August 4, while claiming responsibility for Sunday gun attack on an Israeli car south of al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) that wounded four Israeli settlers. Israel claimed that Nihad Razeq Qassim, 27, was trying to lay a bomb to ambush an Israeli patrol, which shot him dead. "The man was shot dead by the soldiers (near the village of Farun, not far from Tulkarem and a bomb of several kilograms was found beside him," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted an Israeli army spokesman as claiming. "The body was left on the scene until daybreak for fear that it might have been booby-trapped or that other bombs were nearby," he added.
| Well, damn them. They should have have given him a good talking to and sent him on his way. That's what the Paleo security guys would have done... |
However, the Brigades dismissed the Israeli claims as "groundless," asserting that it was a deliberate assassination. A journalist told IslamOnline.net that Qassim's body was mutilated by Israeli troops, as one witness said that the troops pulled the body over the ground for a long distance. Razeq, who was also a member of a branch of the Palestinian security services, was wanted by the Israeli army over his involvement in anti-Isralei attacks. |