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<p><strong>2 January 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_16328" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width:197px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-16328" href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=16328"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-16328" title="Hassan Mohammed Qedeh, age 19" src="https://i0.wp.com/palsolidarity.org/multimedia/2011/01/foto-due2.jpg" alt="" width="187" height="261" /></a>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Hassan Mohammed Qedeh, age 19</p>
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<p>On  Tuesday evening, December 28, 19-year-old Hassan Mohammed Qedeh was  killed by the Israeli military in the village of Khoza’a, east of the  southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. According to the Israeli forces, and  subsequently repeated by various media outlets, he was a resistance  fighter. However, witnesses in the area, as well as relatives, have  confirmed that he had civilian status at the time when he was killed.Sometime before sunset, Hassan had gone into the area of the border  where an Apache had killed two of his relatives, Issa Abu Rok and  Muhammad An-Najjar, two nights before, on December 26—both of them  members of the armed resistance. According to his brother Ahmed Qedeh,  Hassan ventured into the area to examine the place where his relatives  had died. Ahmed says that a sniper sitting in a jeep alongside the  border shot Hassan in the leg.</p>
<p>Ahmed added, “Hassan treated himself, while the IDF let him bleed  slowly for the subsequent two hours, preventing any emergency vehicles,  or his friends, from reaching him. Afterward, they shot munitions from a  border-area tank, decapitating him.” He explained that “the area where  they killed my brother is flat, free of any obstacles that could have  blocked their view. The soldiers must have clearly seen that Hassan was a  civilian, without any weapons, and shot anyway.”</p>
<p>According to Ahmed, five of Hassan’s friends repeatedly attempted to  save Hassan, but came under heavy fire, and were unable to do so.  Eventually they were shelled with a kind of gas bomb which caused them  to faint.</p>
<p>According to United Nations figures, 59 Palestinians have been killed  in Gaza by the IDF this year, 24 of them civilians. The number of  wounded has been ten times that—220. And the count rises daily.</p>
<p>Hassan’s uncle, Abd Alazeer Yousef Abu Rjila’a, adds that the Israeli  army came back to the crime site on the night of the 29th with a  bulldozer that demolished 4 dunams of farming land. The man has not only  lost three family members in a few days, but has lost his main source  of income: most of his olive trees are uprooted and the water tank is  destroyed. The man tried to reach his land twice on December 30th, but  was forced to keep away as the army fired bullets at him to ward him  off.</p>
<p>“Three families are dependent on me and that area: it’s our only  source of income. I was already suffering, both psychologically and  physically; I have high blood pressure and asthma, but now I can’t even  reach my land, so how can I bring food to the table?” says Abd Alazeer  Youssef Abu Rjila.</p>
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<div class="postmetadata2"><span class="date">Updated on January 3, 2011</span><br />
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<p><a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2011/01/16323/">Civilian killed by Israeli military in Gaza | International Solidarity Movement</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong>May Allah Subhana wa Ta&#8217; ala grant the Shaheed </strong><strong>Hassan Mohammed Qedeh</strong><strong> Jannatul Firdaus, and ease it for his family, loved ones  and  anyone around him. Allahumma Ameen ya Rabbil Alameen. &#8216; Inna  Lillahi wa &#8216; Inna &#8216; Ilayhi Raji&#8217;un, Allahu Akbar</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">ஜ۩۞۩ஜ</p>
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