Terrorfat Death Edition







Palestinian militants angry over Yasser Arafat’s death attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in what they said signaled the start of a new round of clashes against Israel.Israeli soldiers killed two of the gunmen, who launched a multi-pronged attack against the heavily fortified Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip shortly after news of Arafat’s death reached the territory, medics said.Gunmen opened fire at the settlement, detonated a bomb and attempted to fire a rocket-propelled grenade. An army spokeswoman said there had been an exchange of fire with troops and five gunmen had been hit.Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in the late Palestinian leader’s Fatah faction, said it held Israel responsible for Arafat’s death, adding:“Our groups together with brothers from other factions took to the battlefield with the enemy to make it pay the price … The next days will witness violent clashes with the Zionists everywhere.”—-Qusai said Israel was to blame for Arafat’s death, by forcing him to live in primitive conditions in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he was virtually confined by the Israeli army for 2-1/2 years.Israel says Arafat — who suffered for years from tremors symptomatic of Parkinson’s disease — had access to doctors, food, running water and electricity in the compound.
Arafat was born in 1929 to a successful merchant father and a religiously devout mother. His birth name was Mohammed, but he was nicknamed Yasser, which means “easy.”
“With him disappears a man of courage and conviction who for 40 years incarnated the Palestinians’ fight for recognition of their national rights.”
“He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland”
“History will record that President Arafat epitomized that rare breed of leaders whose lives were defined by the unflinching sacrifices they made in the noble and just cause of the struggle of their peoples.”
“[Yasser Arafat was] one of the most outstanding freedom fighters of this generation”
“As the leader of his people, he created an international awareness of, and concern about, the plight of the Palestinian people. He displayed unquestionable devotion to his work.”
“Yasser Arafat was ‘Mr Palestine’ for the best part of 40 years..He rose to prominence as a military figure, but the picture of him as a terrorist hell-bent on Israel’s destruction, which the Israeli Government is fond of painting, is simplistic and wrong.”
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