The family of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, the young Palestinian who was burnt alive by Israelis on July 2 last year, protests that the teen’s name has been added to Israel’s list of terror victims recognised by the National Insurance Institute (NII), and that it appears on Jerusalem’s Har Herzl memorial for terror victims.Abu Khdeir will be also memorialised during Israel’s official Remembrance Day ceremonies on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem.
Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 16, was brutally tortured and murdered by Jewish extremists last summer who claimed revenge for the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli settler teens in the West Bank.
Yossi Haim Ben-David and two minors confessed to killing Abu Khdeir.
âHow can anyone do such a thing without consulting the family?â said Abu Khdeirâs father, Hussein, in an interview with NRG, an Israeli right wing news portal in Hebrew. He added that Israelâs decision to add his sonâs name to a list of terror victims is tantamount to âhypocrisy for the purpose of propagandaâ.
âIsrael is trying to make itself look good in the eyes of the world after the horrible crime in which three settlers burned my son to deathâ, Abu Khdeir said. âThey are trying to show that they are a democratic country.â
âWe have no interest in receiving recognition from the state of Israel or in receiving National Insurance Institute payments. We want the three individuals who burned Muhammad to death to receive the punishment that they deserve,â he said. âWe want justiceâ.
âWe reject placing our son on the terror victims list because it wonât change a thing about the racism of the Israeli occupation as expressed by all of its institutions,â he said.
Hussein Abu Khdeir also complained that last November the Israeli police forced the family to remove a mural of Mohammad from the entrance to their home in the East Jerusalem neighbourhod of Shuafat.
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