Ramallah: Palestinians urgently need international protection against Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, according to a statement released by the cabinet on Wednesday. The call came after the murder of a 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Sarhan, shot dead by Israeli forces in the Al Faria’a refugee camp near Nablus. “This murder clearly shows the deep need of the Palestinian public for the international protection,” said Dr. Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister in an official statement.
Dr. Fayyad said that the Israeli forces opened random fire on the public after they raided Al Faria’a refugee camp where Sarhan was shot dead while on his way to the dawn prayers in the mosque. “I condemn with the strongest terms the murder of Sarhan and the Israeli incursion policy in the Palestinian Territories,” he said.
“There are serious dangers of slipping into violence where the stability which the Palestinian security apparatus has achieved will be completely lost,” he warned.
Commenting on the murder of Ibrahim Sarhan, Dr. Marwan Al Tubasi, the Governor of Tubas and the Northern Areas of Jordan Valley told Gulf News that huge Israeli forces raided the refugee camp of Faria’a early in the morning and opened random fire on the camp’s residents.
He denied the Israeli version that the camp’s residents threw Molotov cocktails on the Israeli soldiers who used this to justify their murder and incursion policy to the Palestinian Territories.
“They shot Sarhan, and arrested him bleeding. The Israeli forces did not provide him with the necessary medical help and prevented the Palestinian medics from reaching him till he passed away,” he said.
He stressed that the Israeli forces arrested at least seven others from the camp and allowed the Palestinian ambulances to reach the martyr only after they were done with their operation.
Ibrahim Sarhan, who is a graduating student at the Engineering Department of Al Najah University, did not belong to any Palestinian faction but he was known as a religious man. Sources from martyr’s family told Gulf News that Ibrahim’s blood will not go unpunished and that the family holds the Israeli government responsible for his unjustified death. The sources stressed that the family is planning to sue the Israeli government over the murder.
