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IDF kills Chai's murderers, B'Tzelem complains

I should actually say Shavua Tov again, because the previous post was set up on Friday afternoon and this one is live. So Shavua Tov and Chodesh Tov, a good week and a good month since we also blessed the moon tonight.

During the night on Friday night, the IDF killed three terrorists who were involved in the murder of Rabbi Meir Chai HY"D (may God avenge his blood) on Thursday afternoon.

Special forces surrounded the Nablus homes of the three Aksa Martyrs Brigades operatives in an attempt to arrest them. However, when the men did not heed calls to leave their homes, the troops opened fire and killed them.

None of the soldiers were hurt in the operation.

In one of the houses, the soldiers discovered two hidden rifles and two guns. The weapons were transferred to police laboratories to check if they were used in Thursday's attack, Army Radio reported.

The men were identified as 38-year-old Raed Sukarji, 39-year-old Ghassan Abu Sharkh, and 40-year-old Anan Subih. According to the Palestinian news agency, Sukarji's wife was also wounded in the operation.

Ghassan Abu Sharkh's brother, Nayef, was a former commander of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus and was killed by the IDF in 2004.

Good riddance. Well, to me anyway. The terrorist sympathizers over at B'Tzelem are quite upset about this.

Human rights group B'Tselem said Saturday that there was serious concern that troops acted as executioners in the Friday night operation.

According to the organization, evidence found in the homes of the slain terrorists indicated that in two of the three cases, IDF soldiers did not apparently act as if conducting an arrest, but an assassination. The two dead men's families said that they were unarmed and did not try to escape, but were simply shot by troops at close range after the latter discovered their identities. There were no witnesses to the death of the third man, the group said.

B'Tselem said that it would pass on its findings to the army and demanded that a military police investigation be opened to ascertain the truth.

Well, the 'Palestinians' are a bunch of liars. For those who don't realize that already, you will find that out with certainty in the next couple of weeks (something big is happening). And B'Tzelem are a bunch of useful idiots for believing them.

The picture at the top is Rabbi Meir Chai HY"D with some children.

UPDATE SUNDAY 1:01 AM

Israel Radio just reported that weapons recovered from the house where the three terrorists were killed were used in the murder of Rabbi Chai on Thursday.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:03 PM