Raed Moussa - Gaza
The family of a Palestinian national killed in Yemen said unknown gunmen kidnapped her son Salim Ahmed Maarouf on a bus he was traveling in a security barrier in the city of Marib last Sunday, before his body was found on Friday morning. Israeli media reports indicated the involvement of two UAE agents in killing him.
Abu Anas Marouf, Salim's brother, told Al Jazeera.net that his brother has been living in Yemen for 15 years, works in the office of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Sana'a, enjoys good relations with all parties and has no enemies.
On the details of what happened, Abu Anas said, "My brother Abu Abd al-Rahman was an independent bus on his way to the airport to travel on a mission to Sudan. On the seventh Sunday of this month, when the bus passed a security checkpoint in Marib, gunmen stopped him and took him away. Unknown body, until his body was found on Friday morning. "
"The office of the movement in Sanaa lost contact with my brother Salim from the first day, but as a family in Gaza we did not know the news of his loss and his abduction only four days later, and the news came to us like a shock and a thunderbolt."
He explained that the Hamas office in Sana'a, the Yemeni authorities, the Palestinian embassy and several parties have all made intensive efforts to search for him, but to no avail, until he was found dead in a hospital in Marib.
He pointed out that the first medical examination of the body showed no trace of bullets, but traces of torture, likely to be killed under severe torture during interrogation.
He pointed out that the Hamas movement and the family waiting for forensic report to find the truth is complete.
Who killed Salim?
Hamas issued a statement calling the well-known and demanded the Yemeni security forces to open an investigation into the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice as soon as possible, and erected a tent of condolence crowds of mourners arrived in the past hours.
Hamas officials in Gaza, in contacts with al-Jazeera Net, preferred to make a statement of the movement's obituary demanding that the Yemeni security forces open an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice as soon as possible and not make further statements about the incident.
Although Hamas did not mention the circumstances of the actual killing, Palestinian militants confirmed in social media that he was killed and tortured by UAE intelligence agents after he was kidnapped on the way to a Yemeni airport.
It is the same premise that some Israeli media have reported that Israeli agents kidnapped, tortured and killed a Palestinian militant.
"Who is behind this heinous crime, and whether my brother Abu Abdel Rahman was killed just because he is a Palestinian?" Asked Abu Anas. Calling on the competent authorities in Yemen to investigate seriously and impartially to uncover the threads of crime and arrest the criminals in order to receive their punishment.
Selim Maarouf has been living in Yemen for 15 years and was preparing for a master's degree after obtaining a bachelor's degree in Sharia and law from a Yemeni university.
His last visit to his hometown of Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip) was eight years ago, when he married his cousin and took her to Yemen, where he had two sons and a daughter.
Abu Anas, who also studied at Yemeni universities, said that he is a good student more than once to leave Yemen and return to Gaza, especially after the security chaos and the country witnessed in the years following the revolution. He refused and showed great affection for Yemen and its people.