Killing Time

Palestinian gunmen kill ‘collaborator’ in West Bank

“Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shoot a man in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006.

The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm.”

Palestinian Crowd Reaction

 

Above: Young man stomps executed man.

  

Above: Crowd helps old woman desecrate corpse.

“About 500 people were in the square when the unmasked gunmen fired into Malah’s chest. Some were chanting “Allahu Akhbar,” or God is Great, and anti-Israel slogans, witnesses said.

After the killing, some bystanders put shoes on the head of the corpse, as a sign of disgrace, they said.”

 It is interesting that the AP, who reported this story, did not make any value judgements regarding this incident like it did ad nauseum with non-lethal treatment of prisoners at Abu Gharib.

Could you imagine for one moment what the story would be if these were American’s doing this to a Palestinian? Yet this story gets buried.