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Jerusalem September 07, 1998
Another Death in Gaza
Yesterday, 6/9/1998, at around 11 in
the morning, Hussein Abed Abu Ghali (55, from Khan Yunis
refugee camp, married and father of 10 children), went to
Abu Khadra building (PNA offices and ministries) in Gaza
City, to obtain a travel permit to Jordan for himself and
his son Taha (16), who was severely wounded by Israeli
soldiers during the Nakbah incidents on 14/5/1998. For the
known "security reasons," the Israelis refused to issue a
permit for Taha. Abu Ghali headed to the President's office
and asked to see Brigadier-General Ghazi Muhanna. A man
named Jazzar al-Ghul, a presidential security official, met
with him and heard his complaint. After that, al-Ghul and
his guards attacked Abu Ghali, and beat him to death. The
victim was taken to al-Shifa'a hospital and no autopsy was
performed on the body to know the reasons behind the death.
The doctor who saw the body and wrote a death certificate
according to the report released by al-'Abbas police
headquarters, said that the reasons behind the death were
unknown.
The Abu Ghali family told the
Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) that
the victim died because he was attacked. The family has
strong evidence that the victim died as a result of severe
beating.
The number of deaths caused by the
various security forces is increasing. This points out that
the death sentence executed by the PNA against the two Abu
Sultan brothers on 30/8/1998, was not effective, because the
security forces are still attacking civilians. This
situation requires that different measures be taken so as to
put an end to all this corruption.
The victim's body did not undergo an
autopsy. This points out that PNA officials want to hide all
facts and evidence that led to Abu Ghali's death.
The PHRMG condemns this attack
that led to the death of Abu Ghali, and asks President
Yasser Arafat to personally interfere in this case, and
punish those responsible for the death.
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