Bahar: Assassination of Shelbaya fruit of Abbas-Netanyahu talks - Massive crowds in Shelbaiya's funeral despite tyrannies of PA

Bahar: Assassination of Shelbaya fruit of Abbas-Netanyahu talks

[ 19/09/2010 - 10:06 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has charged that the Israeli assassination of Qassam commander Iyad Shelbaya was a fruit of the direct talks between de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.

He said in a statement on Saturday evening that the crime was a natural result of the "malicious" security coordination between Abbas's authority and the Israeli occupation authority.

Bahar noted in this regard that Abbas's security had facilitated the entry of Israeli occupation forces into Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem to commit the crime.

He hailed the Palestinian masses that took part in Shelbaya's funeral, which, he said, proved the Palestinian people's backing to resistance.

Massive crowds in Shelbaiya's funeral despite tyrannies of PA

[ 18/09/2010 - 02:17 PM ]

TULKAREM, (PIC)-- Despite the repressive acts of the Palestinian Authority and its security apparatuses in the West Bank, more than 15,000 Palestinian citizens and supporters of Hamas marched, after Friday prayers, in the funeral procession of slain Qassam leader Iyad Shelbaiya in Tulkarem city.

The procession turned into a massive angry protest against the PA's security cooperation with the Israeli occupation and could be described as the largest ever in three years because of the ban imposed in the West Bank by the PA on anti-Israel protests in general and Hamas activities in particular.

The angry crowds also chanted slogans in support of Hamas and urging its armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades to avenge the murder of Shelbaiya, the reporter of the Palestinian information center (PIC) said.

The PIC reporter added that the body of martyr Shelbaiya was taken from the hospital of Dr. Thabet to his home in Nur Shams refugee camp before taking him to Abu Bakr Al-Sediq Mosque for funeral prayers that were held after Friday Khutba (sermon).

More than 10,000 citizens at first attended the sermon before about 5,000 others coming from nearby West Bank areas flocked into the mosque to take part in the march, according to the reporter.

Palestinian lawmaker Fathi Al-Qaraawi in a speech ahead of the Friday sermon called on Fatah's authority to stop immediately its security cooperation and direct talks with the Israeli occupation.

Later, preacher Shukri Awad highlighted in his sermon the importance of resisting the occupation as well as the religious ruling against those who conspire against the resistance fighters.

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