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Israelis
Kill Palestinian Ramadan Drummer
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| Palestinians carry the body of Jihad Anatur during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus |
NABLUS,
West Bank, November 27 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli
troops shot dead a Palestinian Ramadan drummer, or mesaharati, early
Wednesday, November 28, near the autonomous Palestinian city of Nablus
as he was waking up Muslims for their pre-dawn meals.
Jihad
Anatur, 24, died when Israeli soldiers opened fire at him in the Askar
refugee camp, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Anatur,
the youngest of five brothers and one sister, was hit by several
bullets as, following tradition, he went from door to door waking up
fellow-Muslims for the Ramadan pre-dawn meal.
He
was accompanied by a colleague, Raed Motab, 28, who said that Anatur
kept bleeding and asking for help, but the Israeli soldiers didn’t
allow anyone to administer first aid to him.
“We
were walking between houses to wake people up, and suddenly around
eight Israeli soldiers who were hiding behind a car attacked us with
their guns and ordered us to stop,” Motab told AFP.
They
shot Anatur, and then did not allow me to move towards him, asking me
to lift my clothes and then they handcuffed me and took my identity
card, he added.
Motab
was then beaten and taken inside the camp. He was later released at 5
a.m., when he went to the same place to find his colleague’s body on
the ground.
“They
killed him in cold blood and without any reason, we not doing anything
but drumming our drums to wake people for suhur,” he said.
Winesses
said that they heard Anatur’s screams for help for almost half an
hour, but no one could approach because the Israelis imposed a curfew
immediately after killing Anatur.
“I
will not work as drummer again, not after the killing of Anatur,”
Motab said.
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