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04-17-2006, 09:16 AM
By Luke Baker
Mon Apr 17, 2006
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As far as the Abu al-Hawa family is concerned, the sale of two floors of their home on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives was perfectly legitimate.
Muhammad Abu al-Hawa sold the real estate to a Palestinian businessman nearly a year ago, his brother Mahmoud says, earning $650,000. The money was used to buy another home on the Mount of Olives, a cherished spot overlooking Jerusalem's Old City.
But last week Muhammad's bullet-riddled body was found lying next to his burnt-out car on a road near Jericho. Branded a traitor for selling his property to Jews, he had been shot seven times, including once in the temple, Mahmoud said.
"I saw the body. I had to identify him," he says, sitting in mourning with his brother's wife and the rest of his family at their home -- the ground floor of the same building where the two upper levels were sold, and Israelis are due to move in.
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Mon Apr 17, 2006
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As far as the Abu al-Hawa family is concerned, the sale of two floors of their home on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives was perfectly legitimate.
Muhammad Abu al-Hawa sold the real estate to a Palestinian businessman nearly a year ago, his brother Mahmoud says, earning $650,000. The money was used to buy another home on the Mount of Olives, a cherished spot overlooking Jerusalem's Old City.
But last week Muhammad's bullet-riddled body was found lying next to his burnt-out car on a road near Jericho. Branded a traitor for selling his property to Jews, he had been shot seven times, including once in the temple, Mahmoud said.
"I saw the body. I had to identify him," he says, sitting in mourning with his brother's wife and the rest of his family at their home -- the ground floor of the same building where the two upper levels were sold, and Israelis are due to move in.
In Full
Reuters via Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/wl_nm/mideast_olives_dc)