Palestinian victims of Israeli settler attacks face battle for justice
Occupied East Jerusalem — Sixteen years after Ziad’s death, Moira Jilani still waits to hear the footsteps of her husband sound up the stairs of their home in Shu’fat, occupied East Jerusalem. She still lives at her mother-in-law’s building, where she and their three girls used to wait excitedly for Ziad to return home from work.
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- Fact 1: How China and Russia could hobble Trump’s plans to isolate Iran Palestinians, UK condemn Israel’s ‘destructive’ E1 settlement plan Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections Israel numbers Palestinian detainee foreheads: What we know The first thing Moira remembers about Ziad is his laughter.
- Fact 2: On June 11, 2010, Ziad Jilani was driving his pick-up truck home through the congested roads of Wadi al-Joz on his way home.
- Fact 3: So for me, I call the ones holding the guns the terrorists.” ‘He loved everybody’ August 21 marks the United Nations’ International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism.
- Fact 4: He worked without complaint in the family’s electronics shop, serving Jewish and Arab customers alike with “no discrimination.” “He was 16, but when you looked at him, he looked 12.
Occupied East Jerusalem — Sixteen years after Ziad’s death, Moira Jilani still waits to hear the footsteps of her husband sound up the stairs of their home in Shu’fat, occupied East Jerusalem. She still lives at her mother-in-law’s building, where she and their three girls used to wait excitedly for Ziad to return home from work.
How China and Russia could hobble Trump’s plans to isolate Iran Palestinians, UK condemn Israel’s ‘destructive’ E1 settlement plan Palestinian factions explore broad alliance for November elections Israel numbers Palestinian detainee foreheads: What we know The first thing Moira remembers about Ziad is his laughter. Not the video that Israeli rights investigators pieced together of his final moments, nor the word “terrorist” that Israeli police attached to him hours after he died. An old Christian friend of Ziad had recently dreamed of him and called to check in on her.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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