An imam of a mosque in the city of Ramla in the occupied Palestinian interior since 1948 ascended to deliver the Friday sermon yesterday, January 13, 2023, when the worshipers were surprised by his descent from the pulpit, about one minute after his ascension.
And Palestinian media broadcasted a video clip of the very short Friday sermon at the Atef Al-Jarushi Mosque in the Al-Jawareesh neighborhood, in which Sheikh Ahmed Abu Obeid spoke about the killing of fifty people working in cleaning the mosque.
Al-Khatib said, denouncing, "If one of you were in my position now, what would he talk about? I have nothing to say, and I cannot speak a word more, except for what happened today and this disaster and calamity."
"I have nothing to say.. A man was killed while he was cleaning the mosque." A minute-long sermon by Sheikh Ahmad Abu Ubaid, hours after Ali al-Jarushi was killed by gunfire in Ramla.
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He added, "Today, Friday, a man responsible for cleaning the mosque is being killed at the door of the mosque. For what? I do not know, O muezzin, perform the prayer."
Ali al-Jarushi, in his fifties, was killed in a shooting in the Jawarish neighborhood in the city of Ramla at dawn on Friday, in a murder that is the fourth since the beginning of this year that has been recorded in the Arab community in the occupied Palestinian interior.
In light of the continued inaction of the Israeli occupation police, murders and violence are escalating in the Palestinian interior, causing a loss of security and social security, and increasing citizens' fears of the proliferation of weapons.
In protest of the killings, marches and demonstrations take place from time to time in the towns of the Palestinian interior, calling for an end to the chaos of weapons and the policy of impunity that makes criminals safe if they shed Palestinian blood.
A sit-in in the town of Majd al-Krum calls for combating arms chaos and reducing crime (Al-Jazeera)
In 2022, 110 murders were recorded, among the victims were 12 women, 7 minors, and 3 children, according to a census conducted by the Women Against Arms movement coalition, while 113 people were killed in 2020.
Since 2000, about 1,700 Arabs have been killed, amid the chaos of arms, the inaction of law enforcement authorities, and the complicity of the Israeli police with the organized crime gangs that intrude and control the aspects of life for the Palestinians of 1948.
According to Israeli police estimates, there are approximately 500,000 weapons in Arab towns without permits.
According to official statistics and the approval of the Ministry of Internal Security, the source of 70% of the weapons in the Arab towns inside is the warehouses of the police headquarters and the warehouses of the Israeli army.