Sniper Killer of 11 Israeli Soldiers : Thaer Hamad's Father Interviewed

On 3rd March 2002, 22-year-old Palestinian, Thaer Hamad from the Ramallah-area village of Silwad, armed with an old WW2, M1 carbine shot 24 Israeli occupation soldiers and their reinforcements at a checkpoint sited in an old British police post on the road between Nablus and Ramallah - before his gun blew up - killing 11 of them in the process in the space of 24 minutes. Hamad hid behind mountain shrubs and olive trees and picked off the soldiers one by one - but spared the lives of an Israeli "settler" woman and her two children who chanced upon the killing zone shouting at them to speed away from his killing field. His sharpshooting skills were so supernal and deadly that the unnerved, lying Israelis bruited it abroad that he was either a Provisional IRA or Chechnyan sniper specially imported for the task. Palestinain national hero, Thaer Hamad, fondly known as "The Sniper" throughout Palestine and further abroad was arrested on Oct 5th 2004 and is now serving multiple life sentences for his resistance to the, inhuman, Israeli occupation of his land, two, it is reported, commuted for the mercy shown to the "settler" woman and her children.? As editor-in-chief, Hafez Barghouti of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida put it: "This young man should be our top priority, since he entered the history of the Intifada as having carried out the most successful military action, alone... Thaer Hamed deserves freedom because he is the hero of the Intifada, and he is the only Palestinian resistance fighter who belongs to his people and to his land, spurning the factions, for had he been factional, he would not have succeeded in his action. He acted alone, going out to play solo on the M-1, and did what tens of brigades and platoons, and hundreds of missiles and heroic stories, failed to do. He is made of the same stuff as those who carried out the capture of Shalit, a military action that was successful by any military yardstick, and now he should be freed." See Philip Weiss's article on Mondoweiss's : The legend of the Silwad sniper http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/the-legend-of-the-silwad-sniper.html#more-26199

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[PalestineCommercials]

Awsome bro. Allah MaAlk.

[planxtysumoud]

@PalestineCommercials Shokran jazeelan.

[outskool100]

the palestinians need snipers like the red army had in ww2

thumb up if u agree

[darrinmagnus1]

Zionism spelled sideways is Naziism. These modern-day Zealots are the same people who would profess themselves to be the Chosen of God, & yet unashamedly practice what they condemn as extreme Hitlerian actions. The ethnic apartheid in Isreal today brings ghettos & pogroms to Palestinians who are second-class citizens dispossessed of their land, denied not only the right to vote but to intermarry into the Jewish populace. As a Christian I denounce such hypocracy & inhumane hatred by the Israelis.

[terceiraxxi]

and its time for you tyo star reading the corao usiing the head ,and stop think in 40 virgins or werever,peace and love says maome

[terceiraxxi]

you have to be united, because the jews have the money and control the american finances.The americans are tired from israel but for now ,they cant do nothing ,if the war stops millions of americans lose his jobs ,the war its a job fos israel and unfurtunatlly for usa too

[fyvelnews]

the jews paid judas to go get jesus, then they killed jesus. he wasn't a brainwashed idiot and they didn't really need that. hey if the native americans are denying my right to decide if I want a state of my own, I don't know what to tell you. everyone knows what the jews did.

[myowngenesis]

@Zhoram To deny a people their right to decide whether they wnat a state of tehir own or not is more or less dehumanisation. So in one side you cry about how some palestinians destroy for the others by doing bad things and the israeli retaliation encompasses them all and is in some weird out of this world way justified. Genocide is ok, as long as it's israel who's doing it right? How many times many many human rights activists have been imprisoned by israel? Murder them? Hah, God's ppl indeed!

[TRifai1]

@Zhoram And its called Jordan not "Jordania" u fucking idiot! When u know how 2 fucking pronounce names of countries properly then u will be taken seriously. I stand correct that "israelia" r ocupieing "Palastinia". Learn 2 talk bitch!

[TRifai1]

@Zhoram Wait I thought Palastinians mythological according 2 u. U're the crazy 1. How can u support isreal they killed Jesus. So u like some 1 who killed u're prophit. Makes perfect sense 2 me like the "fact" that Palestinians. U retard. U're Mom told me that I have a bigger cock than u'rs and that I'm better @ fucking her than u. I even made the bitch squirt. And when u're dad walked in I beat him up and shot him and pissed on the body. Sort of like what isreal r doing 2 Palastine right now!

[Zhoram]

@Zhoram And, zionists began to install in Palestine province of Otoman Empire by 1860. When IIWW happen, National Jewish Home was a brilliant reality, with cities like Tel Aviv (established in 1910), universities like Technion fo Haifa (where oil process was discovered by scientists in 1890), and more than 500 Kibbutz that fertilizase land and make that desert a paradise.

[Zhoram]

@TRifai1 Palestina IS NOT A STATE. Why would they reclame to be a state in the UN in september if they were a state???? Are U crazy??

[Zhoram]

@TRifai1 By 1850, there were less than 1.5 people by square mile in the region, less than 25 000 people, the region was EMPTY. Most of them lived in tents and moved here and there. All them were TURKISH, because Palestinien Province belong to Turkey. All people named as palestinien of today, are in vast majority INMIGRANTS FROM EGYPT OR JORDANIA. JORDANIA has more palestinien than Palestine. Go to books before write!!