Killer Watch: Continuing Campaign to Monitor Killers Who Have Taken Refuge in Palestine Authority

Thirty three murderers of more than one hundred Israeli citizens and at least nine American citizens have been awarded asylum inside the areas under the control of Arafat and the Palestine Authority.

These killers include the perpetrators of the most recent heinous crimes against Israel – including the 1994 kidnap/ murder of Nachson Wachsman and the 1994, 1995 and 1996 explosions planted on Egged Buses in Afula, Hadera, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ashkelon.

The story of what happened to Khalil Sharif and Amjad Hanawi, the two killers of our son, David, murdered on May 13, 1996 while he waited for a school bus, speaks for itself.

Khalil Sharif, who was never arrested, detonated a bomb on Ben Yehudah Street in Jerusalem, on September 4, 1997, killing himself and four teenage girls along with a young father who was taking his little boy for an ice cream.

Amjad Hanawi wandered free in the PA until intense pressure on the American and Israeli governments bore fruit, resulting in Amjad’s February 2, 1998 arrest and his February 5, 1998 trial and conviction as an “accomplice” in the murder of our son.

Amjad was sentenced to ten years in a Palestinian jail.

Since the PA has released other killers who have been convicted of murder after a matter of weeks and months, we wonder how long Amjad will remain in confinement.

We therefore have registered Killer Watch, as a non-profit organization, designed to monitor the whereabouts of the murderers who remain welcome guests of the Palestine Authority, while we make sure that Amjad Hanawi remains in prison.

We wish to encourage people to make direct calls to the American ambassador to Israel and the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, to make sure that the murder welcome policy of the Palestine Authority be stopped.

Only if people continue to raise the Palestine Authority “killer asylum” issue will it remain on the agenda of the Oslo process.

Killer Watch will seek funds to hire a team of private investigators who will produce timely reports as to the whereabouts of the killers who have sought refuge inside the areas under the control of the Palestine Authority.

A problem is a problem when someone makes it into a problem.

After all, what nation would tolerate a neighbor that would harbor killers of its citizens?

Respectfully Submitted,

Stanley and Joyce Boim
POB 2265
Jerusalem, Israel
E-Mail: media@actcom.co.il
Fax: (02) 625-9239

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