In September 23, Essam Kamal Abed Aoudhi, a
37 year old father of 8 children, from the village of Qusra was murdered by the
Israeli army as they fired live ammunition indiscriminately into a crowd of
villagers gathered in their village.
Essam Kamal
A large group of settlers from the nearby
outpost of Esh Kodesh, meaning ‘Holy Head’, built entirely on stolen Qusra
land, left the settlement and entered the village just after 1pm and began
attacking the people and burning the olive groves. As the villagers gathered to
protect themselves and their land the soldiers arrived and stood between the
settlers and villagers, protecting the settlers as they retreated.
Soldiers instantly began to fire tear gas
canisters, rubber bullets and live ammunition directly at villagers, making no
attempt to disperse but intending solely to injure.
Rami Hassan
Mohammad Abdul Odeh, age 16, shot in the
stomach with a high velocity tear gas canister as he stood on his land.
Remi Yusef Faiz Hassan, age 35, was shot
with 4 rubber bullets and one dum dum from 2 meters as he peacefully walked to
soldiers to ask why they allow the settlers to enter his village and burn his
trees.
Sameeh Hassan, age 24, was shot in the
crotch with rubber bullets as he attempted to reach his olive trees and
extinguish the fire destroying them.
Essam Aoudhi was shot with live ammunition
as he joined his fellow villagers protesting the army’s incursion into his
village. According to Dr Sameh Abu Zaroh, a doctor at Rafidia Hospital in
Nablus, the wound on Essam’s body shows that the bullet was shot from just a
few meters away and from below in such a way to insure maximum injury. The
bullet entered the right side of Essam’s chest and exited through the top of
his back, fracturing his vertebrae in multiple places.
After Essam was carried to an ambulance,
the soldiers left immediately, clearly understanding what had just happened.
The people of Qusra returned to the centre of the village where children had
gathered, shouting slogans expressing their anger over Essam’s martyrdom.
As the sun set in Qusra, the punishment
continued, as two teenagers stumbled into the village before collapsing to the
ground in pain. Both Amar Masameer, age 19, and Fathi Hassan, age 16, were
arrested earlier in the day as they made their way towards Qusra’s burning
olive trees. They did not resist arrest yet returned to the village dripping
with blood and faces so swollen they were barely recognisable. Once arrested,
Fathi Hassan explained, settlers from the outpost had asked the soldiers
detaining them for permission to beat the two boys. The soldiers did not
interfere and so the settlers began stoning the boys whilst their hands where
cuffed behind their backs. Amar Masameer was hit directly in the eye with a
stone thrown from just a few meters and is now in Rafidia hospital awaiting
treatment.
Source: Popular Struggle
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