Oyoun Qarra Massacre, 20 May 1990
20/05/2010 — reham alhelsi-
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In the early hours of Sunday, May 20th, 1990, a group of 100 Palestinian labourers from the Gaza Strip were waiting at the Oyoun Qarra (Rishon Lezion) bus stop to be transported to their working place. An Israeli occupation soldier, Ami Popper, from nearby Rishon Lezion Zionist colony approached the workers and asked them for their IDs.
After making sure all the workers were Palestinians, Popper lined them up, asked them to kneel down in 3 lines and using his M16 sub-machine gun he opened fire killing 7 on the spot and injuring others.
When the Israeli police finally arrived to the scene of the massacre, they started beating the Palestinians workers who had survived the death machine. On that day, later known as “Black Sunday”, at least another 6 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in subsequent demonstrations while protesting the massacre.
As with all massacres committed by Zionists, the Israeli government rushed to declare Popper deranged. But when it was proven that he wasn’t, he was tried and charged with murder in 7 cases. However, while in detention, the terrorist Popper receives “special treatment”; he was allowed to get married, had 3 children with his wife and is allowed 48-hour furloughs. In 1997, the Israeli government reduced the prison sentences of 4 Zionist terrorists convicted of murdering Palestinians and ordered the release of a fifth Zionist terrorist. Popper’s sentence of 7 life terms was reduced to 40 years.
The 7 Palestinian martyrs were all refugees. Their parents were expelled from their homes and villages in 1948 by Zionist terrorists. To feed their families, these Palestinians were forced to work as slaves for the Zionists who had made refugees out of them. The martyrs of Oyoun Qarra massacre are:
Abdil Rahim Mohammad Salim Baraka, 23 yrs, from Khan Younis
Ziyad Mousa Mohammad Swe’id, 22 yrs, from Rafah
Zayid Zeidan Abdel Rahim Al-’Mour, 33 yrs, from Khan Younis
Suleiman Abdel Raziq Abu ‘Anza, 22 yrs, from Khan Younis
Omar Hamad Ahmad Ad-Dahleez, 28 yrs, from Khan Younis
Zakariya Mohammad Qdeh, 35 yrs, from Khan Younis
Yousif Ibrahim Mansour Abu Daqa, 36 yrs, from Khan Younis
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Palestinian martyrs killed by the IOF in subsequent demonstrations on 20.05.1990:
Iyad Ismail Abdallah Saqir, 17 yrs from Ash-Shati’
Shifa’ Naim Ali Al-Hummus, 23 yrs, from Khan Younis
Mousa Ibrahim Abdel-Hay Hassounah, 27 yrs, from Ash-Shati’
Ali Mahmoud Mohammad Az-Za’amrah, 21 yrs, from Halhoul
Husam Abdel Rahman Abdallah Ghazal, 14 yrs, from Qabatia
Wail Mohammad Al-Badrasawi
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In the early hours of Sunday, May 20th, 1990, a group of 100 Palestinian labourers from the Gaza Strip were waiting at the Oyoun Qarra (Rishon Lezion) bus stop to be transported to their working place. An Israeli occupation soldier, Ami Popper, from nearby Rishon Lezion Zionist colony approached the workers and asked them for their IDs.
After making sure all the workers were Palestinians, Popper lined them up, asked them to kneel down in 3 lines and using his M16 sub-machine gun he opened fire killing 7 on the spot and injuring others.
When the Israeli police finally arrived to the scene of the massacre, they started beating the Palestinians workers who had survived the death machine. On that day, later known as “Black Sunday”, at least another 6 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in subsequent demonstrations while protesting the massacre.
As with all massacres committed by Zionists, the Israeli government rushed to declare Popper deranged. But when it was proven that he wasn’t, he was tried and charged with murder in 7 cases. However, while in detention, the terrorist Popper receives “special treatment”; he was allowed to get married, had 3 children with his wife and is allowed 48-hour furloughs. In 1997, the Israeli government reduced the prison sentences of 4 Zionist terrorists convicted of murdering Palestinians and ordered the release of a fifth Zionist terrorist. Popper’s sentence of 7 life terms was reduced to 40 years.
The 7 Palestinian martyrs were all refugees. Their parents were expelled from their homes and villages in 1948 by Zionist terrorists. To feed their families, these Palestinians were forced to work as slaves for the Zionists who had made refugees out of them. The martyrs of Oyoun Qarra massacre are:
Abdil Rahim Mohammad Salim Baraka, 23 yrs, from Khan Younis
Ziyad Mousa Mohammad Swe’id, 22 yrs, from Rafah
Zayid Zeidan Abdel Rahim Al-’Mour, 33 yrs, from Khan Younis
Suleiman Abdel Raziq Abu ‘Anza, 22 yrs, from Khan Younis
Omar Hamad Ahmad Ad-Dahleez, 28 yrs, from Khan Younis
Zakariya Mohammad Qdeh, 35 yrs, from Khan Younis
Yousif Ibrahim Mansour Abu Daqa, 36 yrs, from Khan Younis
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Palestinian martyrs killed by the IOF in subsequent demonstrations on 20.05.1990:
Iyad Ismail Abdallah Saqir, 17 yrs from Ash-Shati’
Shifa’ Naim Ali Al-Hummus, 23 yrs, from Khan Younis
Mousa Ibrahim Abdel-Hay Hassounah, 27 yrs, from Ash-Shati’
Ali Mahmoud Mohammad Az-Za’amrah, 21 yrs, from Halhoul
Husam Abdel Rahman Abdallah Ghazal, 14 yrs, from Qabatia
Wail Mohammad Al-Badrasawi
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