[Ha'aretz] Avi Issacharoff - Last Thursday Hamas militants killed Sufian Abu Zeida's neighbor and fellow Fatah member Mohammed Gharib, head of Preventive Security in Gaza, in a raid on his home in Jabalya. The same force also blew up Abu Zeida's home. Abu Zeida, a senior Fatah official and former PA cabinet minister, said: "Mohammed Gharib had been my friend since childhood....The Hamas activists executed him with smiles, with pleasure. They laughed and joked among themselves and then shot him to death. Afterwards they tied up his nephew and held him for several hours, a boy of 16. At one point he asked for water. They returned a few minutes later with a suspicious-looking liquid and the boy understood that he shouldn't drink it. Then they poured it on his hands. Do you know what it was? Acid. Do you understand the depths of the hatred?" G., a member of Gharib's family, joined one of the processions of unarmed civilians that were organized in an attempt to create a human barrier between the Hamas gunmen and the house. Then the gunmen opened fire at the marchers, wounding dozens. "Three of them pushed [Mohammed] Gharib into the wall and shot him in the legs, before our eyes....Three more came. They approached Gharib and shot him in the legs again....They took Thar, the teenaged nephew who used to escort him around, sat him next to his Uncle Mohammed, who was still conscious, and shot Thar dead." "In the end they shot him in the head and the back and killed him," G. concluded. At that point, the other occupants of the house began to surrender as well. The gunmen waited for them outside, and each man who emerged was shot in the knees.
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