Citizen Omar
A few days ago, the Israeli media published a picture of the elderly martyr Omar Asaad lying on the ground at the site of the crime committed against him by the Israeli occupation soldiers.
In the photo, the martyr appears handcuffed and blindfolded with a red keffiyeh, while four other citizens are detained near him.
Abu Hani (80 years) passed away at the dawn of last January 12, after he was dragged and tortured by the Israeli occupation soldiers in the village of Jaljalia, north of Ramallah.
The distance between the location of the photo and the location where the occupation soldiers stopped him is no less than two hundred meters, and according to the theoretical diagnosis of the martyr’s body, his clothes were full of dust, which means that the occupation soldiers dragged him this long distance, which is a dirt road that leads to a house under construction, leaving the martyr In his yard for several hours and in the height of the bitter cold, he died.
Nazmiya Asaad (82 years old) says that her martyr husband was in good health and with a strong physique, and he could withstand harsh conditions, and therefore she is still searching for an answer about the circumstances of his promotion.
Mamdouh Abdel Rahman Aboud, one of the witnesses to the crime, was only a meter and a half away from the body of the martyr Asaad, as the photo published last Wednesday by the Israeli media shows, but he did not notice the body until several minutes after he was detained with three other sons the village.
He says: They took us to that house, and I saw the car of the late Abu Hani parked at his entrance, and they forced us to sit in the tiled courtyard of the house.
The presence of the car parked next to the house, according to what Abboud believes, indicates that an Israeli soldier drove it from the site of the martyr’s car being intercepted, 200 meters away. In the car, I stayed in it, and the family later found her, while the second person remained at the martyr's feet.
Abboud added: "I fell asleep, and until one of the occupation soldiers alerted me, he kicked me with his foot. I panicked and turned right and left, and I was surprised by the presence of a man lying on my right. I told my friend who was next to me what I saw, but he thought I was hallucinating, as he said they were just sandbags."
A soldier went to the martyr after a few minutes, put his hands on his neck, and after noticing the absence of a pulse, he untied the handcuffs, then went to the soldiers and whispered with them, before they withdrew from the place.
The witness was subjected to investigation by the Israeli occupation intelligence weeks after the martyrdom of the elderly Omar Asaad. According to Abboud, the occupation tried to confirm that Asaad had not died when the occupation withdrew from the village. “Although it was clear that he was dead since we were taken to the detention site, where there were no signs of life on him,” he adds.
According to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, the force that killed the martyr Omar Asaad is called the Netzah Yehuda Brigade, which includes extremist settlers, some of whom live in settlement outposts in the West Bank, and its soldiers carry out attacks against the Palestinians.
The newspaper stated that the most prominent tasks of this division in the occupation army is to stop Palestinian vehicles, take their passengers off them, abuse them, and physically assault them.
This crime aborted the martyr Asaad’s wish to possess a Palestinian identity, which he had been waiting for since he applied for “unification” in October 2010, a few months after his return to Jaljalia, after a long journey to the United States of America that spanned for nearly 40 years.
Asaad had pledged himself to distribute a “sacrifice” to the poor when his identity card was issued, and he was telling his sons who had been deprived of visiting them since his return to his village, that their visit was close. “Blink an eye and I will be among you,” he told them, a few weeks before his death, as his wife said.
Asaad and Nazmia, who were married in 1969, had nine sons, five daughters, and four sons, all of whom are married and live in the United States, but they have not visited their parents since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in early 2020.
Twelve days after his martyrdom, he and his wife were given permission to obtain a Palestinian identity card, but that no longer meant anything for Nazmiya, who said as she was drowning in a fit of crying: "He was waiting for this moment very badly, we longed for our children, we wanted to go for Hajj, But it's all over, I won't leave the village anymore, I need someone to help me, the one who was helping me is gone."
The approval paper for the “unification” will remain in the drawers, and this paper was only printed at the request of “Wafa.” The issuance of this paper authorizes its owner to issue the identity card by the Ministry of Interior, but with Asaad’s martyrdom, it no longer has any meaning, especially since the person For a deceased person, his family shall hand over his identity to the offices of the Ministry of Interior until a death certificate is issued to him.
Umm Hani suffers from persistent shortness of breath and difficulty walking, so she is forced to stay connected to an oxygen generator during sleep, and she has performed several catheterization operations, while her husband is the support she leans on.
Nazmiah's mind does not forget that fateful night, when they were visiting their relatives in the village, and he left her at the house on a hill at ten in the evening, in order to stay up with his cousin whose house is in the middle of the village.
Nazmia's phone rings at four in the morning, with difficulty getting up from her bed and lifting the oxygen mask that stays with her all night. Her bereaved daughter from America: Where are my parents, I want to talk to him. Her brother-in-law, whose house is near the house where her father rose, had told her that the soldiers had assaulted him and that he had apparently passed out.
Nazmiya tried to contact her relatives and her husband’s friends, but no one answered, so she became more concerned, and after a few minutes, there was a knock on the door of the house, and she thought that Asaad had returned, her heart was at ease, but she was surprised by two relatives of her husband who came to tell her of her husband’s death.
"My life has changed a lot, now I am alone within the walls of the house, my children cannot come, and I cannot travel alone, and I will not travel, I will stay here, waiting for my children to return one day."
The occupation re-storms the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and attacks the people and the solidarity activists
Jerusalem WAFA - This evening, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, east of occupied Jerusalem, and destroyed the office of the Jerusalemite activist, Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, in the western side of the neighborhood, and assaulted the residents and solidarity activists in the neighborhood .
The people and solidarity activists performed the Maghrib prayer near the home of the Salem family in the neighborhood. Immediately after the prayer was finished, the occupation forces attacked them and forced them out of the place, while allowing MK Itamar Ben Gvir to stay with a number of settlers.
Our correspondent in Jerusalem reported that the occupation forces closed the entrances to the neighborhood and prevented exit or entry to it .
Erdogan at the end of his visit to the UAE: We do not differentiate between our security and the security of the Gulf
The Turkish president affirmed his confidence that the agreements signed with the UAE will enhance the ground of cooperation between the two countries, adding: "We support the security and stability of the UAE, and we do not differentiate between our security and the security of the Gulf region."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left the United Arab Emirates for his country on Tuesday evening, after an official visit that began on Monday.
The Turkish president said in a tweet posted on his official account on Twitter: "Today we successfully concluded our visit to the sisterly United Arab Emirates. During the meetings we held, we showed a strong common will in terms of developing relations and increasing investments, and we signed 13 cooperation agreements."
He added, "We are confident that the signed agreements will enhance the ground for cooperation between us. We support the security and stability of the United Arab Emirates, and we do not differentiate between our security and the security of the Gulf region."
Erdogan also said, in a speech during his meeting with Emirati investors and businessmen on Tuesday, that "his country's common goal with the UAE is to raise bilateral relations in all fields to a much higher level."
He added that "Turkish-Emirati relations moved to a new stage with the visit of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed to Turkey in November 2021."
He explained that Turkey and the UAE have a common and strong will to develop trade relations and promote investments.
He stressed that his meetings yesterday, Monday, with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, confirm this will, pointing out that the two countries signed 13 agreements in various fields.
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi received President Erdogan in an official ceremony after his arrival on Monday for a two-day visit, and from the airport to Qasr Al Watan, Turkish flags spread on the sides of some main roads in Abu Dhabi.
President Erdoğan was accompanied by a large delegation, whose members included the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Finance, Trade and Industry, Technology, Transport, Infrastructure, Culture, Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry, as well as the Chairman of the Defense Industries Organization.
The visit is the first since 2013, and it follows the visit of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi to Turkey on November 24, 2021, and witnessed the signing of many agreements, especially in the economic aspect.
Anger in Kuwait Forgetting a child in the mortuary for more than a year without burying him
A strange incident sparked outrage on social media in Kuwait, after the lawyer of the family of a stillborn Kuwaiti child announced that he had filed a lawsuit against a hospital after keeping the child for more than a year in the hospital refrigerator under the pretext of forgetting him.
The lawyer for the family of a stillborn Kuwaiti child said that he "sued a hospital after keeping the child for more than a year in the hospital refrigerator under the pretext of forgetting him."
The lawyer stated in tweets and television statements that he had filed a complaint for not burying him for about a year and three months, and for not informing his father and enabling him to receive the body and bury it at that time.
He said, "The director of public relations in the hospital presented the father of the child with a box of chocolates and said to him: We are sorry for forgetting to bury your child. We hope you will accept the gift from us."
He added, "They told the father of the child, who was preoccupied with his wife, who had a breakdown after giving birth to her dead child, that they would bury him as a routine procedure for children who were born dead, which did not happen."
The lawyer wrote in a tweet: "The aim of filing the case is to hold the hospital accountable so that the file is not forgotten. Forgotten a dead body inside the mortuary for a previous year in the history of Kuwait."
The incident sparked outrage on social networking sites in Kuwait, and the hashtag "A child in the hospital refrigerator" was spread, and many social media pioneers demanded that those responsible for the incident be held accountable.