Following a deterioration in his health over the past several days, Gur Hamel, z’l, passed away on Monday morning in his cell in Ayalon Prison.
Hamel, 52, was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 two years after killing a Palestinian farmer to avenge the murder of two of his friends who were killed by an Arab terrorist as well as an Israeli security guard who was murdered by an Arab earlier that day near Kiryat Arba. Hamel’s brother-in-law was also murdered by an Arab terrorist in a shooting attack in the Shomron.
At the time, he was a resident of Itamar, although residents said he was an extremist whose request for permanent residency had been denied.
In recent days, an attorney from the Honenu legal aid organization had appealed several times to Israel’s Prison Services to provide Hamel with medical treatment and evacuate him for urgent care at the hospital. All of the appeals were denied.
Hamel’s family members claimed that his medical condition was neglected and the Prison Services are to blame for his death.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Gur Hamel OH should have gotten a medal for killing the arab and now those responsible for his death should get the life sentence. Including some Knesset members.
BDE, but if he killed an innocent Palestinian farmer to avenge deaths caused by seemingly completely unrelated individuals, wouldn’t they make him a terrorist?
Israelis treat Arabs with kind kid gloves, but Jews are given harsh treatment.
So that is why we have such problems with arab terrorists.
When you are kind to the cruel, you become cruel to the kind.
Z”L?!? He killed an innocent person purely based on his religion – that makes him a terrorist!
> emesveyashar
Where does it say “religion” in this article? What I see states “to avenge the murder of two of his friends who were killed by an Arab terrorist as well as an Israeli security guard who was murdered by an Arab earlier that day”.
There were actually more murders by Arab, like the murder of Hamel’s brother-in-law.
And I would point out that the trial brought out evidence that Hamel had “borderline personality disorder”. (If you need a source: “Jewish Terrorism in Israel” by Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger page 153)
Other sites point that he had already petitioned previously for medical help, and point to a recording (prisoner conversations are recorded) 11 hours before he was found dead, to quote:
> “I am dying of pain, I am writhing from abdominal pain, call someone, they are not treating me,” Hamel shouted, hours before he was found dead in his cell.
And of interest is the following reports:
> MK Musi Raz of Meretz responded on his Twitter account to the chilling recording that was revealed this morning. “All prisoners, including murderers like Gur Hamel, deserve appropriate medical care and basic rights,” wrote MK Raz,