PA daily columnist: Israeli soldiers followed Ziad Abu Ein’s “every move in order to kill him"
Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the official PA daily and a member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza
“The last time I saw the national Fatah leader Ziad Abu Ein was on Sunday, the 7th of this month [December 2014], during a ceremony held at the Mahmoud Darwish Center, at which the extraordinary writer Ahmad Ghneim presented his book, Sheikh Rihan – Jerusalem Stories. Ziad reminded me of the Palestinian poems I had written during the first Intifada (i.e., the first Palestinian wave of violence against Israel, 1988-1993). I promised him I would return to my poems, but I did not know the occupation soldiers were lurking Ziad Abu Ein’s every move in order to kill him. He resisted their terror in [the West Bank town of] Turmus Ayya, and disproved their false memories through a brilliant plan of action: by planting olive trees in the crevices of the cliffs of our eternal Palestinian hills, so that our Palestinian narrative blossoms, while the false Zionist narrative recedes and is disproven.”
Note: Ziad Abu Ein - Fatah Revolutionary Council member and head of the PA Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall. Abu Ein died on Dec. 10, 2014 at a demonstration in the West Bank that turned violent. Immediately following his death, PA and Fatah leaders claimed that Abu Ein was murdered. Footage from the event shows Abu Ein in an altercation with an Israeli soldier who grabbed Abu Ein by the neck, and later shows Abu Ein on the ground clutching his chest in pain. The autopsy, which was overseen by Israeli and Palestinian pathologists, revealed that the cause of death was a heart attack, but disagreement remains over the extent to which the altercation with Israeli forces may have caused the heart attack. Palestinians have continued to describe Abu Ein's death as a "murder" and "assassination" by Israel.
“The last time I saw the national Fatah leader Ziad Abu Ein was on Sunday, the 7th of this month [December 2014], during a ceremony held at the Mahmoud Darwish Center, at which the extraordinary writer Ahmad Ghneim presented his book, Sheikh Rihan – Jerusalem Stories. Ziad reminded me of the Palestinian poems I had written during the first Intifada (i.e., the first Palestinian wave of violence against Israel, 1988-1993). I promised him I would return to my poems, but I did not know the occupation soldiers were lurking Ziad Abu Ein’s every move in order to kill him. He resisted their terror in [the West Bank town of] Turmus Ayya, and disproved their false memories through a brilliant plan of action: by planting olive trees in the crevices of the cliffs of our eternal Palestinian hills, so that our Palestinian narrative blossoms, while the false Zionist narrative recedes and is disproven.”
Note: Ziad Abu Ein - Fatah Revolutionary Council member and head of the PA Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall. Abu Ein died on Dec. 10, 2014 at a demonstration in the West Bank that turned violent. Immediately following his death, PA and Fatah leaders claimed that Abu Ein was murdered. Footage from the event shows Abu Ein in an altercation with an Israeli soldier who grabbed Abu Ein by the neck, and later shows Abu Ein on the ground clutching his chest in pain. The autopsy, which was overseen by Israeli and Palestinian pathologists, revealed that the cause of death was a heart attack, but disagreement remains over the extent to which the altercation with Israeli forces may have caused the heart attack. Palestinians have continued to describe Abu Ein's death as a "murder" and "assassination" by Israel.