There’s been a break in the Gaza Bible store manager murder

ICC Note

“The most disappointing aspect of this discovery is that not only is this a Hamas person who committed this crime, apparently, but also that despite the assurances right after the murder that they had nothing to do with it, they haven’t distanced themselves from him and in fact have sent him on a pilgrimage to Mecca.”

13 November, 2007 Palestine (MNN) ― A senior Hamas militant is suspected of torturing and killing the manager of a Christian bookstore in the Gaza Strip who was found dead last month. That’s an alarming development, says Open Doors USA’s Carl Moeller, because Hamas has previously provided a certain degree of protection for the Christian community.

Moeller confirms the reports he’s heard that the person thought to be responsible for Rami Ayyad’s murder was Ashraf Abu Layla, the central Gaza chief of Hamas’ so-called military wing.

“The most disappointing aspect of this discovery is that not only is this a Hamas person who committed this crime, apparently, but also that despite the assurances right after the murder that they had nothing to do with it, they haven’t distanced themselves from him and in fact have sent him on a pilgrimage to Mecca.”