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WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHI, ONE OF 25 FATAH TERRORISTS, OPERATIVES, AFFILIATES ON THE ORIGINAL HUMANIZE PALESTINE WEBSITE
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لمشاهدة صور 25 إرهابياً من فتح، وعملاء، ومنتسبين موجودين في معرض الصور الفوتوغرافية لمواقع الإنترنت لـ”أنسِر فلسطين”، انقر هنا.
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THE ORIGINAL HUMANIZE PALESTINE NARRATIVE:
Memorializing Palestinian Terrorists
IN MEMORY: WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHI
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Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, a 15 year old boy, was shot in the back and killed on December 7, 2013, with live ammunition while heading to play football at the UN school at the entrance of the Al Jalazone refugee camp.
THE MEMORIALIZATION OF A PALESTINIAN TERRORIST
(By the original Humanize Palestine Website)
2 THOUGHTS ON “IN MEMORY: WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHI”
- SKYWALKERSTORYTELLER July 24, 2014 at 8:10 am REPLYRest in peace, Om Mani Padme Hum.Like
- ROXANA July 25, 2014 at 7:15 am REPLYHe will not be forgotten. Wishing peace for Gaza.
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THE FACTUALLY CORRECT NARRATIVE:
Identifying Palestinian Terrorists
FATAH TERROR FAMILY: WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHI
THE INCIDENT
THE TELEGRAPH
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Death of Palestinian youth ‘cold-blooded assassination’, says Mahmoud Abbas
A boy of 15 has died after being shot in the back apparently during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank
By Robert Tait, Jalazoun
5:00PM GMT 08 Dec 2013
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy apparently shot in the back as he ran away from Israeli soldiers was the victim of a “cold-blooded assassination” that damages the already faltering Middle East process, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leader has said.
Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi was shot outside Jalazoun refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, eye-witnesses said. He was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) says it is conducting an investigation into Saturday’s incident, partly to establish whether Wajih was short by one of its soldiers.
Mr Abbas put the blame squarely on Israel.
“This was a cold-blooded assassination perpetrated by the occupation regime,” he said in a statement issued by his office. “The Government of Israel bears responsibility for this organized terror against innocent children … This policy is destructive for the peace process.”
There were conflicting accounts of the death at a mourning ceremony on Sunday inside the camp, which is north of Ramallah.
The dead boy’s father, also called Wajih, who works in the PA prime minister’s office, said his son had been shot “like a bird” without pretext by an Israeli sniper outside a supermarket, where he had gone to buy Coca-Cola.
That was contradicted by several youths who said they had been present at the shooting. They claimed Wajih was among a group of 17 youths playing football in the yard of a nearby school, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The youths claimed they had left the school en mass to retrieve the ball after it was kicked outside the yard towards an army watchtower, which guards the nearby Jewish settlement of Beit El. They came under fire from one of a group of soldiers stationed below the tower who began shooting unprovoked, they said.
However, Abdul Aziz Abu Hadba, 29, owner of the Al-Amal supermarket, which is near the school, said the shooting happened during clashes between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinian youths. The confrontations had forced him to close his store, he said, pointing to a bullet hole in the shop front.
“They were throwing stones at the army,” he told The Telegraph, standing near a spot strewn with rocks and the ashes of a recent bonfire . “There are frequent clashes here and I close the door when it happens because the army shoots stun bullets in front of the shop.”
Mohammed Ramahi, 15, the dead boy’s cousin, acknowledged that Wajih “sometimes” threw stones at the army.
An IDF spokesman confirmed soldiers were in the area at the time “on a routine mission to stop Palestinian rock throwers”.
Some 17 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed in violent incidents since peace talks, brokered by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, re-started in the summer.
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Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian teenager dead outside school
By 5Pillars – 9th December 2013
Israeli forces reportedly shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy as he stood outside a school in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp on Saturday afternoon.
Residents of the camp, which is located in between Ramallah and the Israeli settlement of Beit El, told Maan news agency that Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi was standing outside of the camp’s school when he was shot in the back with live ammunition.
According to AFP, al-Ramahi was the 26th Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli army since the start of 2013.
An unnamed Israeli army source told Israeli news site Walla that “a unit from the Givati Brigade was operating in the camp in order to locate stone throwers.
“During the course of their operations, a violent incident developed while soldiers were attempting to arrest a suspect. They shot in the air and for an unknown reason the youth was shot.”
However, residents of al Jazaloun told Maan that there were no clashes or violence that “might have provoked the killing.”
On Twitter, Palestinian journalist and activist Linah Alsaafin remarked: “People stressing how there were no clashes/rock throwing going on, but even if there was so what? Not an excuse for murdering a child!”
While Maan and Walla both report that al Ramahi was 14, AFP and activists on Twitter put the boy’s age at 15 whilst others said he was 13.
Palestinians from the camp immediately began protesting.
A local journalist told +972 that al Jazaloun residents began to protest in Ramallah’s city center and asked storekeepers to close their shops.
The protest was stopped when Palestinian Authority police forces arrived and ordered the refugees from al Jazaloun to go back to the camp; stores remained closed in Ramallah’s city centre.
Palestinian authorities said they would conduct an autopsy Sunday morning.
On Friday, Israeli forces shot two Palestinians in Bethleham near the separation barrier at Aida refugee camp.
DIGITAL DATA
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Palestinian child shot dead by IDF in occupied West Bank
BY BRETT WILKINS DEC 9, 2013
A Palestinian child walking home from school was reportedly shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in the illegally-occupied West Bank on Saturday.
Haaretzreports accounts differ as to the events that led to the shooting of Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, whose age has been reported as 14 or 15 by various Israeli and Palestinian media sources.
According to Palestine’s Ma’an News Agency, al-Ramahi was shot in the back by an Israeli sniper as he walked home from school near the al-Jalazun (Jalazone) refugee camp on Saturday. Family members are calling the boy’s killing an “execution” and “assassination in cold blood.” “The Israeli sniper shot my son as if he hunted a bird,” the slain child’s father told reporters. Locals claimed the shooting was unprovoked and that there “were no clashes or any kind of rock-throwing incidents” when the sniper shot al-Ramahi.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gave a different account of events. IDF officials claimed soldiers from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion were stationed in the area in a bid to catch stone-throwing Palestinians and that children were throwing stones at them. A report from the IDF squad leader involved in the shooting claimed soldiers only shot in the air. The IDF is investigating the incident.
Meanwhile, thousands of mourners turned out for al-Ramahi’s funeral procession, with the slain child’s body carried to his family home amid weeping relatives who gathered there to say their final goodbyes. Al-Ramahi was buried in Jalazone’s cemetery. A gunfire salute accompanied the teen’s interment.
Palestinian children often throw stones at Israeli troops out of anger and frustration over decades of illegal occupation of their homeland and humiliating oppression. A century ago, the territory that is today Israel was populated overwhelmingly (more than 90 percent) by Arabs. Through land purchases, immigration and, later, terrorism and ethnic cleansing, Jewish settlers known as Zionists gained control of Palestine. Some 700,000 Arabs were driven from their homes, often by force and sometimes by massacre, to make way for the modern Jewish state of Israel. More than 200,000 additional Palestinians were expelled after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day War. Despite its overwhelming military superiority, Israel has responded to stone-throwing youth by arresting and torturing them, ordering their bones broken and sometimes by killing them.
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Accounts of Palestinian Teen’s Death Differ
Wajih al-Ramahi, 15, was buried in Jalazun refugee camp after being shot in the back on Saturday.
Dec 08, 2013 7:51 PM
Wajih al-Ramahi, 15, who was killed on Saturday, was buried at the Jalazun refugee camp cemetery, north of Ramallah, on Sunday. An autopsy was conducted early Sunday morning, but the results have not been published.
Eyewitnesses said the boy was shot in the back by an Israel Defense Forces sniper near a school in the refugee camp. He was taken to a hospital in Ramallah, where he was pronounced dead. The question is the circumstances under which he was shot, and the versions do not agree.
His friends from the refugee camp claimed that there were no clashes between children and IDF soldiers at the time al-Ramahi was shot, though eyewitnesses told Haaretz, B’tselem and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that stones were being thrown at soldiers. IDF officials stated that the stone throwing began only after soldiers positioned themselves in an ambush “meant to catch stone throwers.”
Al-Ramahi was supposedly standing near the fence that spans the length of the refugee camp, on the western side of the old Route 60, just before 4:00 P.M. on Saturday. The Beit El settlement is on the eastern side of the road. An eyewitness who asked to remain nameless stated that he noticed two groups of children throwing stones from an orchard that spans the distance between an UNRWA school and a group of houses outside of the camp.
The orchard is located on the east side of the road, roughly 150 to 200 meters from an IDF guard post, and nearly 300 meters from the settlement houses. Another eyewitness stated that he heard “maybe 20” gun shots, which were not preceded by less lethal measures, such as tear gas or rubber-coated bullets, after which he noticed the group of children coming out of the small olive grove while carrying something in their hands.
IDF officials told Haaretz military correspondent Gili Cohen that “the IDF began an investigation this morning into the circumstances surrounding the death of a Palestinian youth shot in the back last night in the village of al-Jalazun.”
IDF officials also stated that soldiers from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion were stationed in the area, in an ambush meant to catch stone throwers. Children began to throw stones at the soldiers, as well as other Israelis nearby. According to reports from the squad leader, the soldiers initiated the protocols for apprehending suspects, and fired only into the air. The IDF is investigating whether or not the child was killed by gunfire.
A different version
But Al-Ramahi’s friends told a different version of the story on Sunday. They stated that they were playing soccer in a nearby schoolyard, after which they went to buy something at a local store. When they returned, they stated, they noticed four soldiers near the guard post, one of whom shot between four and six times, and their friend fell over.
Al-Ramahi’s family was notified that their son was injured at approximately 4:15 P.M, and he was pronounced dead one hour later at the hospital in Ramallah.
A relative, Ayman al-Ramahi, stated that their family is from the ruined village of al Mozriyah, near Lod, and that the family is known to support Fatah and the Palestinian authority. “We all support the Oslo agreements, peace. But what kind of peace is this?”
Wajih al-Ramahi’s father and grandfather have served time in prison due to their activism with Fatah. His father was in prison from 1977 to 1992. The IDF demolished two of the family’s houses, and sealed up two others. Ayman al-Ramahi also stated that between 2000 and 2008, two other members of the al-Rahimi family were killed by IDF gunfire, Mohammed Ahmed, 14-years-old, and Mohammed Jamal, 21-years-old. Wajih’s older brother is currently in custody and awaiting trial, and two of his cousins are also currently being held in Israeli jails.
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MEET THE RAMAHIS, FAMILY OF ‘PEACE’
BY: TAMAR STERNTHAL DECEMBER 9, 2013
Following accusations by Wajdi al-Ramahi that his 14-year-old son Wajih was the victim of a “cold-blooded murder” at the hands of Israeli “soldiers [who] wanted to pass the time and shot at him,” Ha’aretz today publishes a more balanced report examining the contradictory claims regarding the boy’s killing in the Jalazun refugee camp Saturday. Wajdi’s claims that the soldiers shot his son “as if he were a bird” hark back to Chris Hedges’ 2001 debunked incendiary charge in Harper’s that Israeli soldiers “entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.” It is Amira Hass, a longtime critic of Israel, who surprisingly brings more balance to the story today describing the conflicting accounts about Wajih’s activities before his was killed (“Accounts of Palestinian teen’s death differ“). While his friends claim he was playing soccer before his death, eyewitness describes groups of children throwing stones at soldiers. She writes:
His friends from the refugee camp claimed that there were no clashes between children and IDF soldiers at the time al-Ramahi was shot, though eyewitnesses told Haaretz, B’tselem and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that stones were being thrown at soldiers. IDF officials stated that the stone throwing began only after soldiers positioned themselves in an ambush “meant to catch stone throwers.” . . .
An eyewitness who asked to remain nameless stated that he noticed two groups of children throwing stones from an orchard that spans the distance between an UNRWA school and a group of houses outside of the camp. . . .
Another eyewitness stated that he heard “maybe 20” gun shots, which were not preceded by less lethal measures, such as tear gas or rubber-coated bullets, after which he noticed the group of children coming out of the small olive grove while carrying something in their hands. . . .
Family of ‘Peace’
In a separate noteworthy element about the article, Hass provides an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the al-Ramahi family background. She writes:
A relative, Ayman al-Ramahi, stated that their family is from the ruined village of al Mozriyah, near Lod, and that the family is known to support Fatah and the Palestinian authority. “We all support the Oslo agreements, peace. But what kind of peace is this?”
Wajih al-Ramahii’s father and grandfather have served time in prison due to their activism with Fatah. His father was in prison from 1977 to 1992. The IDF demolished two of the family’s houses, and sealed up two others. Ayman al-Ramahi also stated that between 2000 and 2008, two other members of the al-Rahimi family were killed by IDF gunfire, Mohammed Ahmed, 14-years-old, and Mohammed Jamal, 21-years-old. Wajih’s older brother is currently in custody and awaiting trial, and two of his cousins are also currently being held in Israeli jails.
If the family supports peace, as relative Ayman says, they sure have a unique way of expressing it. Wajih’s brothers Mohammed Ahmed, 14, and Mohammed Jamal, 21, were not killed while peacefully playing soccer, picked off “like birds” by cold-blooded Israeli murderers seeking to “pass time.” (Note: Other than Hass’ report, we find no additional confirmation of the fact that the other two al-Ramahi casualties are Wajih’s brothers.)
As was widely reported in Western media, 21-year-old Mohammed Jamal was killed Oct. 15, 2008 as he was attacking Israeli soldiers. As Isabel Kershner reported for the International Herald Tribune (Oct. 17, 2008):
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man during a clash in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, the third killing in three days, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli Army asserted that all three were holding or about to throw firebombs when they were shot. . .
On Wednesday, another Palestinian, Muhammad Ramahi, 21, died from wounds sustained in a clash with Israeli troops at the Jalazoun refugee camp that abuts Ramallah.
Similarly, the Los Angeles Times reported Oct. 17, 2008 (Ashraf Khalil and Maher Abukhater):
The incidents on Tuesday and Wednesday occurred near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, outside Ramallah and near the Palestinian refugee camp of Jalazoun. In each case, the Israelis say that the Palestinians were wielding lighted firebombs, while Palestinians assert that they were only throwing rocks. . .
On Wednesday, camp residents staged a protest that turned violent after Zeid’s funeral. The soldiers opened fire again, fatally injuring Mahmoud Ramahi, 22.
As for the younger Mohammed, just 14, he too was killed as he was attacking an Israeli — apparently a civilian, not a soldier. Contrary to Hass’ report, he was killed during the Oslo years, in 1995, long before the 2000 to 2008 period of heightened Intifada violence. According to the Associated Press (“Report: Settler Kills Stone-throwing Palestinian Teenager,” Nov. 3, 1995):
Muhamed Ramahi, 14, joined a group of youngsters hurling stones at a Jewish car driving through Jalazoun village, family members said. The driver stopped and opened fire, hitting Ramahi in the chest, they added.
If Wajih al-Ramahi was killed Saturday as he was engaged in stone-throwing, and if Hass is right that the two slain Mohammeds are his brothers, then he’s the third son in his family to die while engaged in violence against Israelis.
INCIDENT SUMMARY
On December 7, 2013, Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi was shot outside the Jalazoun refugee camp during clashes between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinian youths. IDF soldiers were in the area on a routine mission to stop Palestinian rock throwers.
A unit from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion was operating in the camp in order to locate stone throwers. During the course of their operations, a violent incident developed when soldiers attempted to arrest a suspect. Children began throwing stones at the soldiers. An eyewitness stated that he saw two groups of children throwing stones. The soldiers then initiated the protocols for apprehending suspects, shots were fired in the air and for “an unknown reason” 15 year old Ramahdi was shot and killed.
WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHI’S FATAH AFFILIATION
YOUTUBE #1
وجيه الرمحي
Wajih Al-Ramahi
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SCREEN GRAB FROM VIDEO
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YOUTUBE #2
الشهيد البطل وجيه وجدي الرمحي
The martyr hero Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi
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FATAH INFO
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استشهاد الطفل وجيه الرمحي برصاص الاحتلال في رام الله والرئاسة تدين
07 ديسمبر 2013 – 18:20
حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني – فتح:
رام الله – دائرة الإعلام والثقافة- أعلنت مصادر طبية مساء اليوم، استشهاد الطفل وجيه وجدي وجيه الرمحي (15 عاما) من مخيم الجلزون شمال رام الله، برصاص قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي.
وقال شهود عيان إن الطفل الرمحي استشهد إثر إصابته برصاصة حية في ظهره، أطلقها عليه جنود الاحتلال خلال مواجهات اندلعت على مدخل المخيم الجنوبي.
وذكر شهود العيان أن جثمان الطفل نقل إلى مجمع فلسطين الطبي في مدينة رام الله.
من ناحيتها أدانت الرئاسة اغتيال قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بدم بارد للطفل وجيه وجدي وجيه الرمحي.
وحملت الرئاسة الحكومة الإسرائيلية مسؤولية هذا الإرهاب المنظم ضد أطفال عزل، معتبرة أن هذه السياسة مدمرة لعملية السلام.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Child Wajih Al-Ramahi was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Ramallah, and the presidency condemns
December 07, 2013 – 18:20
Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah:
Ramallah – Department of Information and Culture – Medical sources announced this evening, that the child Wajih Wajdi Wajih Al Ramahi (15 years), from Al Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah, was killed by the Israeli occupation forces.
Witnesses said that the child, Ramahi, was killed by a live bullet in the back, which was fired by the Israeli soldiers during clashes that broke out at the entrance to the southern camp.
Eyewitnesses stated that the child’s body was taken to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
For its part, the Presidency condemned the cold-blooded assassination of the Israeli occupation forces for the child, Wajih Wajdi Wajih Al-Ramahi.
The presidency held the Israeli government responsible for this systematic terrorism against defenseless children, considering that this policy is destroying the peace process.
PATENTLY FALSE NARRATIVE, ORIGINAL HUMANIZE PALESTINE WEBSITE
ORIGINAL HUMANIZE PALESTINE WEBSITE
“…killed on December 7, 2013, with live ammunition while heading to play football at the UN school….”
THE FACTS
Abdul Aziz Abu Hadba, 29, owner of the Al-Amal supermarket, which is near the school, said the shooting happened during clashes between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinian youths. The confrontations had forced him to close his store, he said, pointing to a bullet hole in the shop front.
“They were throwing stones at the army,” he told The Telegraph, standing near a spot strewn with rocks and the ashes of a recent bonfire . “There are frequent clashes here and I close the door when it happens because the army shoots stun bullets in front of the shop.”
Mohammed Ramahi, 15, the dead boy’s cousin, acknowledged that Wajih “sometimes” threw stones at the army.