8 aug 2020
Siraj Smoudi, 18 months, orphaned at an early age after Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead his mother
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said today it was following up with the International Criminal Court on the cold-blooded murder of Dalia Sammudi, 23, a mother of two who was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces yesterday in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was doing the necessary preparations to file this crime and its details to the ICC, calling on the later to promptly declare its decision regarding the applicability of its powers to the land of the State of Palestine, and to open an official investigation into the crimes of the Israeli occupation.
"The international community is called to break its silence and take urgent action to provide international protection for our people," said the ministry as it vehemently condemned yesterday's cold-blooded murder of the mother.
It also held the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the heinous crime, perpetrated with the full support of the US administration of Donald Trump.
Dalia, a mother of two children, departed this world after she was hit by an Israeli bullet
By Thayer Abu Bakr
“I am hit, Bassem. Take care of the children.” These were the last words that Dalia Smoudi, 23, yelled to her husband before she fell on the ground, bleeding after she was hit by a fatal Israeli bullet in the chest that penetrated the liver, pancreas and artery.
Friday at dawn, when Dalia, the mother, was preparing a feed for her child, a bullet surprised her. She did not know that her yelling to close the windows of her house for fear her 4-month-old baby, Iyas, and his brother, Siraj, who is a year-and-a-half, would inhale the toxic teargas fired by the Israeli occupation forces during confrontations that broke out in their neighborhood in the northern West Bank city of Jenin will be her last.
Dalia's father, Ahmad Istiti, himself a former prisoner who spent several intermittent years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, told WAFA, with pain in his heart: "I had Dalia while I was a prisoner in the occupation jails in 1996, and I named her Dalia (grapevines) as a reflection of my belonging and love for Palestine, its land and its grapes."
He added, "The cold-blooded murder of my daughter is not the first and it will not be the last. It is a systematic policy by the occupiers against our women, children and elderly people while they are in their homes without any real deterrent that would stop this tragedy that is repeated continuously."
Dalia did not pose a threat to the occupiers when she was shot, he said, adding that, the unruliness of the soldiers was evident when they opened fire at the Red Crescent ambulance that came to save her life, hitting it with two bullets.
"Why was my niece murdered?" wondered Dalia's uncle, Omar. "She was martyred while holding her two children, trying to protect them from the bullets of the occupation forces and the teargas canisters they were madly shooting everywhere, as usual, without any consideration for anyone's life."
Dalia's grieving mother, still under shock, had only to call on her daughter not to leave them. "Don't go away, Dalia. Stay with us," she said as she wept by her side while getting ready to bury her.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said today it was following up with the International Criminal Court on the cold-blooded murder of Dalia Sammudi, 23, a mother of two who was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces yesterday in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was doing the necessary preparations to file this crime and its details to the ICC, calling on the later to promptly declare its decision regarding the applicability of its powers to the land of the State of Palestine, and to open an official investigation into the crimes of the Israeli occupation.
"The international community is called to break its silence and take urgent action to provide international protection for our people," said the ministry as it vehemently condemned yesterday's cold-blooded murder of the mother.
It also held the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the heinous crime, perpetrated with the full support of the US administration of Donald Trump.
Dalia, a mother of two children, departed this world after she was hit by an Israeli bullet
By Thayer Abu Bakr
“I am hit, Bassem. Take care of the children.” These were the last words that Dalia Smoudi, 23, yelled to her husband before she fell on the ground, bleeding after she was hit by a fatal Israeli bullet in the chest that penetrated the liver, pancreas and artery.
Friday at dawn, when Dalia, the mother, was preparing a feed for her child, a bullet surprised her. She did not know that her yelling to close the windows of her house for fear her 4-month-old baby, Iyas, and his brother, Siraj, who is a year-and-a-half, would inhale the toxic teargas fired by the Israeli occupation forces during confrontations that broke out in their neighborhood in the northern West Bank city of Jenin will be her last.
Dalia's father, Ahmad Istiti, himself a former prisoner who spent several intermittent years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, told WAFA, with pain in his heart: "I had Dalia while I was a prisoner in the occupation jails in 1996, and I named her Dalia (grapevines) as a reflection of my belonging and love for Palestine, its land and its grapes."
He added, "The cold-blooded murder of my daughter is not the first and it will not be the last. It is a systematic policy by the occupiers against our women, children and elderly people while they are in their homes without any real deterrent that would stop this tragedy that is repeated continuously."
Dalia did not pose a threat to the occupiers when she was shot, he said, adding that, the unruliness of the soldiers was evident when they opened fire at the Red Crescent ambulance that came to save her life, hitting it with two bullets.
"Why was my niece murdered?" wondered Dalia's uncle, Omar. "She was martyred while holding her two children, trying to protect them from the bullets of the occupation forces and the teargas canisters they were madly shooting everywhere, as usual, without any consideration for anyone's life."
Dalia's grieving mother, still under shock, had only to call on her daughter not to leave them. "Don't go away, Dalia. Stay with us," she said as she wept by her side while getting ready to bury her.
