In an event that seems more like karma through divine intervention, the Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, was killed at noon on Saturday in a car accident south of Nablus after attending an event that glorified terrorists. According to the reports, two more Palestinian Authority residents were also killed in the accident.
The report of the accident was received at 3:00 PM by the Israeli emergency ambulance service Magen David Adom (MDA) call center. Two Palestinian cars collided on road 505 between Ariel and the Tapuh intersection, and three more injured were evacuated by the Palestinian Red Crescent teams to hospitals in the PA territories after being treated, among others, by Israeli MDA teams.
Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Dies in Tragic Car Accidenthttps://t.co/CvLHxufHdF
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Abu Baker, a member of the terrorist organization Fatah, was killed on his way back from a celebration organized for the children of Palestinian terrorists locked up in Israeli prisons on the occasion of the Muslim holiday earlier this week. Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen spoke at the event, saying that "You [the children] are our hope and our future, and together with you we will establish our independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital."
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Major General Qadri Abu Bakr - a Fatah minister in the Palestinian Authority - was killed in a ‘car crash’.
Sources claim he was part of a faction trying to oust Mahmoud Abbas from power.
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Abu Baker has served as the head of Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority since 2018. He previously spent 17 years in an Israeli prison at the end of which he was exiled to Iraq. In 1996 he returned to the West Bank, and in 2019 he was appointed minister.
Watch: #Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr has died in a car accident in #Nablus in the occupied #WestBank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.https://t.co/ImtdgSsIHu pic.twitter.com/IqRL62ntTL
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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud 'Abu Mazen' Abbas paid tribute to him: "Abu Baker, the great national warrior, dedicated his life to being a steadfast fighter in the defense of Palestine, its people, and its independent national decision." Abu Mazen added that Abu Baker "stood at the front, and defended his country and its people in the national arenas of action, and in the international arena".
Due to years of neglect in many parts of Judea and Samaria on behalf of the ruling Palestinian Authority which is on the verge of bankruptcy after mismanaging its funds over the years, along with Israeli fears of receiving international condemnation for restoring or even repairing roads, the roads in the mountainous region are known as the most dangerous in Israel. As a result back in April, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Transport Minister Miri Regev put 160 million NIS into the budget base for infrastructure upgrades in Judea and Samaria - a move which as feared, drew international criticism and claims of annexation.
By the way, Jews & Arab use the same roads in Judea & Samaria, I've been there. There are also shopping centers there used by Jews & Arabs & many, restaurants frequented by both, industrial zones that employ both. You call that apartheid? It's the opposite of apartheid.
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The huge budget is included in the base of the budget, and the meaning is that every year the same amount will be allocated for paving and improving the roads beyond the so-called 'green line'.
In the meantime, work has been continuing on the Judea and Samaria roads, which are in poor condition, to say the least. The construction of the Huwara bypass was accelerated, due to its security importance, and the IDF Chief of Staff is personally supervising its construction.
