66-yr-old Palestinian beaten, killed by Israeli occupation forces

MEMO | October 7, 2024
Sixty-six-year-old Palestinian activist, Ziad Abu Ehlayyel, was killed after being brutally beaten by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on his home in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, south-west of Hebron.
According to security sources, Israeli forces stormed Abu Ehlayyel’s home this morning and violently assaulted him until he lost consciousness. Despite being rushed to Dura Hospital, medical staff were unable to save him and he was pronounced dead due to the extent of his injuries.
Abu Ehlayyel was a respected community figure who had been subjected to multiple assaults by Israeli occupation forces during past raids into the town.
Quds News Network shared an archival video showing Abu Ehlayyel confronting Israeli soldiers, pleading with them to stop firing at Palestinian children. In the footage, he can be heard saying: “We don’t want you to shoot anyone, we don’t want you to kill anyone; this is a nonviolent procession, why do you keep shooting at them? Why don’t you stop your settlers from attacking us?”
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank amid a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 41,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since 7 October last year.
Today marks one year since the Israeli offensive began, leaving over 97,300 wounded and more than 10,000 people still missing, presumed dead under the rubble.
In the occupied West Bank, the violence has also escalated. Since 7 October 2023, at least 742 Palestinians have been killed, more than 6,200 injured and over 11,100 others detained in the occupied territory, according to Palestinian figures.
The Israeli escalation follows a landmark opinion by the International Court of Justice last July that declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land unlawful and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Biblical references now seem apropos; the withered fig tree as a direct result of Jesus angrily cursing it. His cursing of endless recipes for behavior meanwhile permitting usury, murder and envy as a reaction the “parlor tricks” aka miracles performed by Jesus. Further, demands for an earthly King over a heavenly one…Surely that fig tree is symbolic of Judaism today. A ever so gradual decline (over two thousand years) of traditional customs and practices. Examples; the disparate practices of orthodox, conservative and liberal Judaism among others. At the same time and without diminishing the wisdom of Talmudic law, an alter ego appears or better still a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr Hyde the new menace, the wealthy atheist Jew. His heart and motives are fixed here on earth and not on Abba above. The more familiar “Dr. Jekyll” a humble, well educated, meek and stateless wandering Jew is historically recognized as a tradition that until recently, gave way to a political contrivance-Zionism. I’ve concluded that each individual Jew must reexamine this contrivance, an infection within the Jewish traditions, its endless war diatribe that will surely precipitate global nuclear holocaust.
I think it best to start by rejecting the Christian Zionists who are in fact, stoking and end times mantra, by misinterpretation(s) of the Gog-Maggog prophecy. Reject the support and activism connected to legislative lobbying and financing of pro-Zionist law makers and other personages throughout the Western Occident.
Remember, Oh Israel! Abraham had a son through Hagar-Ishmael, an Egyptian mother and Arab. Do not forsake your half brother…
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