The faithful man

Name: Abed El-Naser Bahar

Date of Birth: November 1973

Sentence: 17 years

Charges: A member in Hamas , forming military groups and chasing the Israeli spies

Tens of thousands of people were murdered by the occupation over the past century. Each and every one of them is a story of suffering injustice and struggling for freedom so You don’t have to wonder why young man in the beginning of his life  follows  away he knows its  end .

In November, 17, 1973 Abed El Nasser was born in El-buriej camp and grown in conservative family between nine members and he is the fifth. He finished his primary and prep School in the UN Schools, He moved to khaled ibn el waleed high school. Earlier in 1993, he joined the Islamic university but he didn’t continue because the occupation had chased him.

He was known as friend of the mosque and that was just the beginning. In 1988, at  the beginning of the first intifada,  he joined to Islamic resistance movement – Hamas. They participated in the activities against the occupation forces such  as throwing stones. As a  brilliant young ,  he proved his ability to be a Mujahed in the first Qassam groups. He worked with his tow friend's Mosa and Hammed.

Arresting circumstances:

On October 2nd 1993 the Israeli forces surrounded his home at block "7" and called every body to go out.  He went out thought that he is going to recover his friends but he didn’t know that his friends will never make it. The Israeli forces invaded village and shot a number of missiles at the Palestinian houses while the civilians threw stones. After a  while the friends of Abed-El-Naser was  martyred, the Israeli forces destroyed his home and arrested him.

His brother told us that the conditions of arresting were too difficult and the prisoners keep moving them from prison to another. He was detained  in charge of  being a member in Hamas , forming military groups and chasing the Israeli spies.

He was  sentenced  for 17 years, He was moved to many prisons one of them was El majdal and he stayed there  for tow years. And the other is the desert prison, which is  called "Nafha prison" , stayed in it for 8 years and he still in it until now.