Young activist killed in Gaza
A member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)’s ‘Palestinian Youth: Together for Change’ group was killed on 20 July
Quakers around the world are mourning the death of a young activist killed in Gaza on 20 July.
Abdullah Mansour Abu Amara was a member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)’s ‘Palestinian Youth: Together for Change’ group in Gaza.
He was among the sixty-six Palestinians killed during fierce attacks on Shishaiyeh neighbourhood last Sunday. Abdullah was a pacifist who hoped to become a lawyer.
AFSC’s ‘Palestinian Youth: Together for Change’ group includes young Palestinians living in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Israel and Gaza. Growing up under the Oslo accord has isolated them. AFSC is working to bring them together.
‘Together these young people seek creative ways of overcoming the fragmentation that has been imposed upon them’, Patricia Sellick, AFSC regional director for the Middle East, told the Friend.
‘Like Abdullah, the aspiring lawyer, each young person invests much time and energy in the project because they believe that by acting together Palestinians will be able to transform the status quo of occupier and occupied and achieve equal rights’.
Abdullah was twenty-two years old.
