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PA TV interviews female relatives of terrorists sentenced for life

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, a conversation at the solidarity tent in El-Bireh with mothers and wives of hunger striking prisoners

Official PA TV reporter: "Now we turn to the mother of the prisoner Um Muhammad Musleh (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 8). Hello aunt, how are you?"
Mother of prisoner Muhammad Musleh: "Hello, good morning, be well."
Reporter: "Tell us, how much time was your son sentenced to?"
Mother of prisoner Muhammad Musleh: "My son was sentenced to 9 life sentences and 50 years."
Reporter: "How much [of it] has he served?"
Mother of prisoner Muhammad Musleh: "He has served 15 of the years, and now this is his 16th year."

Text on screen: "Mother of prisoner Muhammad Musleh" […]

Reporter: "Introduce yourself."
Mother of prisoner Raed Abu Zaher: "[I am the] mother of prisoner Raed Abu Zaher (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1) from Um Al-Sharait (i.e., an area of El-Bireh)."
Reporter: "Be well. Tell us how much time your son was sentenced to."
Mother of prisoner Raed Abu Zaher: "Raed was sentenced to life."
Reporter: "And how much has he served of it?"
Mother of prisoner Raed Abu Zaher: "Sixteen years."
Reporter: "May Allah release him and all of them."
 Text on screen: "Mother of prisoner Raed Abu Zaher"

Wife of prisoner Nasr Abu Hmeid: "Good morning, I am the wife of prisoner Nasr Abu Hmeid (i.e., terrorist, involved in two attacks) who was sentenced to 5 life sentences. He has been imprisoned since 2002 and has served 15 years of his sentence. However, Nasr was imprisoned in the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, 1987-1993) [for] 10 years. In other words, he has spent 25 years of his life in prison. He has four brothers), all of them sentenced to life sentences and all of them having spent more than 25 years in prison (sic., 3 serving life sentences, one dead, referred to as a ‘Martyr’)."

Text on screen: "Wife of prisoner Nasr Abu Hmeid"

Muhammad Musleh - a Palestinian terrorist, a member of Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) who was involved in the murder of 8 Israelis and injuring of over 50 in shooting attacks, and took part in the Ramallah lynching on Oct. 12, 2000, in which a Palestinian mob brutally murdered and mutilated the bodies of two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, who accidentally entered Ramallah. Musleh is serving 9 life sentences and an additional 50 years.

Raed Abu Zaher  – Palestinian terrorist and Hamas member who planned a suicide bombing on Nevi'im St. in the center of Jerusalem on Sept. 4, 2001, injuring 11, and a car bombing in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem on July 29, 2001, injuring 2. Zaher is serving a life sentence.
Nasr Abu Hmeid was a member of Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) and is serving 5 life sentences for involvement in two terror attacks and arms dealing.
Muhammad Abu Hmeid is serving 2 life sentences and 30 years for involvement in terror attacks.

Nasser Abu Hmeid - Palestinian terrorist and a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing) in Ramallah who was responsible for the murder of 7 Israelis: Eli Cohen in a shooting attack on Route 443 in central Israel on Dec. 21, 2000; Binyamin and Talia Kahane in a drive-by shooting attack near Ofra, north of Jerusalem, on Dec. 31, 2000; Gadi Rejwan in a shooting attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Atarot on Feb. 27, 2002; and Yosef Habi, Eli Dahan, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat in an attack at the Seafood Market and Mifgash Hasteak restaurants in Tel Aviv on March 5, 2002. Abu Hmeid is serving 7 life sentences and an additional 50 years.

Sharif Abu Hmeid - Palestinian terrorist and Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) member who was involved in two terror attacks: an attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov on Feb. 25, 2002, in which Israeli policewoman Galit Arviv was murdered; and an attack at the Seafood Market and Mifgash Hasteak restaurants in Tel Aviv on March 5, 2002, in which 3 Israelis were murdered - Yosef Habi, Eli Dahan, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat. Abu Hmeid is serving 4 life sentences.

Abd Al-Mun'im Muhammad Yusuf Naji Abu Hmeid, the son referred to as "Martyr," was a member of the Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas’ military wing) who planned and carried out the ambush and murder of Israeli intelligence officer Noam Cohen on Feb. 13, 1994, in Ramallah. Abu Hmeid was killed on May 31, 1994, by Israeli military undercover agents.

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