Official PA daily interviews "brave" "femaile fighter and leader" who murdered 16-year-old Israeli
Headline: “From brave child to woman fighter and leader: The released prisoner Amna Muna [speaks] from exile in Turkey: ‘I did not surrender. I defeated the jailor and defeated the jail’”
“To ask a fighter about the reason for her arrest is no trivial matter, but it is the Palestinian people’s right to know the reason the Israeli military court imprisoned fighter Amna [Muna] for life in her suffocating, false and fundamentally illegal jail cell…
[Amna said:] ‘They arrested me on grounds of planning to kidnap an Israeli for the purpose of negotiating a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian prisoners. The Ofer military court put me in jail for life…
For them [the Israeli intelligence services], I am responsible for an operation (i.e., terror attack) that hurt the State of Israel. It was a unique operation, in which the Israeli occupation couldn’t fathom [the fact] that a girl like me could use technology and methods that it [the occupation] uses against the Palestinian people. They couldn’t grasp [the fact] that they hadn’t exposed the operation before it was carried out, and especially that the commander of the operation was a young Palestinian woman.’”
Note: Amna Muna was serving a life sentence for participating in the kidnapping and murder of 16 year-old Israeli Ofir Rahum on Jan. 17, 2001. Muna met Rahum in an Internet chat room and initiated an online romance that culminated in his agreeing to meet her. She drove him to Ramallah, where he was murdered by her two accomplices. In October 2011, Muna was released as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. In that deal, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.
“To ask a fighter about the reason for her arrest is no trivial matter, but it is the Palestinian people’s right to know the reason the Israeli military court imprisoned fighter Amna [Muna] for life in her suffocating, false and fundamentally illegal jail cell…
[Amna said:] ‘They arrested me on grounds of planning to kidnap an Israeli for the purpose of negotiating a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian prisoners. The Ofer military court put me in jail for life…
For them [the Israeli intelligence services], I am responsible for an operation (i.e., terror attack) that hurt the State of Israel. It was a unique operation, in which the Israeli occupation couldn’t fathom [the fact] that a girl like me could use technology and methods that it [the occupation] uses against the Palestinian people. They couldn’t grasp [the fact] that they hadn’t exposed the operation before it was carried out, and especially that the commander of the operation was a young Palestinian woman.’”
Note: Amna Muna was serving a life sentence for participating in the kidnapping and murder of 16 year-old Israeli Ofir Rahum on Jan. 17, 2001. Muna met Rahum in an Internet chat room and initiated an online romance that culminated in his agreeing to meet her. She drove him to Ramallah, where he was murdered by her two accomplices. In October 2011, Muna was released as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. In that deal, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.
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