On one of my early morning walks through Jerusalem (and early morning is the best time for such a thing) I got into a conversation with one of the local shopkeepers. He was relatively annoyed at someone who was habitually using the loading/unloading area as a private parking stall, thus hindering the shopkeeper's operations. "What can I do?", he said. "If I complain to the Israeli police and have him issued a parking ticket, perhaps I will be beaten as a collaborator."
a Palestinian family has killed its 15-year-old son in the West Bank after accusing him of "collaboration" with Israel. The boy's body was discovered near Kalkilya on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Authority security forces announced that they have arrested a number of the boy's family members in connection with the killing. The victim was identified as Raed Wael Sawalha.
PA security sources said the suspects confessed to the killing, claiming that they decided to kill Masalha because of his alleged connections with the Israeli authorities. Sawalha is the youngest Palestinian to be killed on suspicion of "collaboration" with Israel.
Hundreds of other suspected collaborators have also been killed by Palestinians over the past few years. The boy's body was discovered in the basement of a house in his village of Hijjah in the Kalkilya area. A preliminary investigation launched by PA security forces revealed that Sawalha had been brutally tortured before he was hanged to death.
Life on the ground in the Holy Land. Story here.
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