Mervat Sadiq-Ramallah
Aiders from outside the village of Kuper (northwest of Ramallah) arrive at the home of Father Omar Barghouthi (known as Abu Assif) to comfort his family with the martyrdom of his son Saleh after he was kidnapped by an Israeli force on Wednesday night.
In the house of the martyred, his family tells about her normal life, which has not changed in recent days. Her second son, Saleh, was returning and returning from normal work until news of his abduction and his death from Israeli forces was heard on charges of involvement in the operation. Which led to the injury of seven Israelis.
The mother, Suheir Barghouthi, spoke as she embraced his only son, Qais, with tears in her mouth. She said, "They did not bother you. I wanted to raise my son with my eyes." She and his five brothers were killed in the absence of their father for more than 25 years in Israeli jails.
"He laughs and laughs," says his mother, who loves life and makes people laugh in the village, active in his work and very connected to his family. Who was deprived with his brothers to grow up in the hands of his father, who was absent 25 years captive in the prisons of the occupation, in the absence of his uncle and the only dean of Palestinian prisoners Nael Barghouthi.
| Qais son of the martyr Saleh Barghouthi carrying the image of his father and the middle of his peers after the assassination of his father on Wednesday evening (Al Jazeera) |
Abduction and assassination
He was told that he had been arrested after a special force attacked the car, which was hit by two bullets in the windshield and one of its seats, but without blood in the vehicle or in the surrounding area.
Eyewitnesses told the Barghouthi family that Saleh was abducted from the car, and then arrested and detained by the Special Forces without injury.
His cousin Ubaida Barghouthi, who arrived shortly after his abduction, said Saleh got out of the car and threw him on the ground and tied him up without being injured. The family therefore believes that the young man was executed in retaliation after his arrest. His mother said he was in the village at the time of Operation Aufra last Sunday and denied his connection to the operation.
Saleh is the only young man who has not been arrested in Israeli jails or in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority. He has no political activity, unlike his brothers, his father and all his relatives.
His mother said when they came to arrest his father Omar Barghouthi months ago, he was laughing, the officer told him, "You are a government worker, you do not care about anything."
Saleh married six years ago and has a 3-year-old son named Qais. He was traveling among the mourners at home carrying a "plastic weapon" and said, "Tell the Pope your safety."
| The relatives of the martyr Saleh Barghouthi Ybkina after his assassination by an Israeli unit north of Ramallah (Al Jazeera) |
Break into the probe
Following the announcement of his arrest on Wednesday evening, a large Israeli force stormed Barghouthi's house, surrounded dozens of his family members inside the house and subjected his father to an investigation before an officer told him: "Who is Sirbi Qais now, Abu Assif?" He responded to them "just as his father did without a surpese father." The father, his eldest son and five of his relatives were arrested after being abused and beaten.
In the house, Fakhri Barghouthi, who spent three decades in Israeli jails, was the father, uncle and elder brother after all the men in the house were absent.
He said Saleh, 29, and for the first time since his youth had been meeting in recent months with his father and brothers all at home without the absence of one, said he had been deprived of his father for the rest of his life.
Fakhri spent many years in detention with Abu Asif and his brother, the dean of prisoners Nael Barghouthi. The three were arrested in 1978 on charges of killing an Israeli soldier and was released in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal for the prisoner exchange in 2011.
Open arrests
Barghouti's family spent the last four decades in Israeli arrests open to all its children. Fakhri gave his two brothers two martyrs: one in a clash on the Lebanese-Palestinian border in the 1970s and the second during the al-Aqsa intifada in 2000.
During the mourning period, the family received reports of an armed Palestinian attack east of Ramallah. Hundreds of people who participated in the march of anger in the center of Ramallah after the death of Saleh Barghouthi and the assassination of Ashraf Na'alwa, From Kalandia refugee camp, claiming that he carried out a stabbing operation in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation announced the imposition of a comprehensive security cordon on the cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, after the operation that occurred near the Beit El checkpoint before noon on Thursday, killing three Israeli soldiers and seriously wounded a female soldier, and closed most of the entrances. A spokesman for the army of occupation, Avichai Adrei, it was decided to pay large military reinforcements to the areas of the West Bank.