Official PA news agency calls terrorist who killed 3 a “Martyr” who “ascended to heaven”
Headline: “A funeral was held for Martyr Alyan towards morning”
“Today, Thursday [Sept. 1, 2016], the body of Jerusalem Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan was buried early in the morning… after being held in captivity for 324 days in the [morgue] refrigerators of the occupation… Martyr Baha Alyan ascended to Heaven last Oct. 13 [2015], after he carried out a stabbing and shooting operation together with prisoner Bilal Ghanem on an Israeli bus in the settlement of Armon Hanatziv (i.e., southeastern neighborhood in Jerusalem).”
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Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.
“Today, Thursday [Sept. 1, 2016], the body of Jerusalem Martyr (Shahid) Baha Alyan was buried early in the morning… after being held in captivity for 324 days in the [morgue] refrigerators of the occupation… Martyr Baha Alyan ascended to Heaven last Oct. 13 [2015], after he carried out a stabbing and shooting operation together with prisoner Bilal Ghanem on an Israeli bus in the settlement of Armon Hanatziv (i.e., southeastern neighborhood in Jerusalem).”
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Baha Alyan and Bilal Ghanem – 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct. 13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Chaim Haviv (78) and Alon Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these murders.
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