PLO Condemns Beheading of Palestinian Boy in Aleppo
PLO Condemns Beheading of Palestinian Boy in Aleppo Abdullah Issa was beheaded by members of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee on Thursday condemned the horrific murder of 12-year-old Abdullah Issa, a Palestinian refugee in Syria, demanding immediate international intervention to bring those behind the beheading to justice. Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, issued a press release in which he addressed a video circulating on social media on Tuesday in which rebel fighters behead a boy after capturing him north of Syria’s second city, Aleppo, where there has been fighting between rebels and government forces. Erekat condemned the “cowardly and cruel action” committed by the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, an independent insurgent groups involved in the Syrian Civil War. He called on the international community and the United Nations to investigate the reason for the beheading and to provide the Palestinian peo...