PLO Suggests Referring Medhat”s Murder Case to International Commission
Palestine Liberation Organization representative Abbas Zaki has suggested to Lebanese authorities to refer the case of his deputy”s assassination to the U.N. commission investigating ex-Premier Rafik Hariri”s murder, a Fatah official told As Safir daily.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said that the Palestinian authority has asked some Western countries, particularly French security apparatuses, to provide satellite images of the crime scene and information about landline and mobile phone communications on the day of the crime.
Medhat was killed, alongside three others, in a massive explosion that tore through his convoy, hurling his car from the road into a field near the Miyeh Miyeh Palestinian refugee camp outside the southern city of Sidon on Monday.
The Fatah official said preliminary investigation revealed that the bomb was made locally and was planted above ground so as to hurl the targeted vehicle into the field nearby.
He said calm returned to Miyeh Miyeh and Ain el-Hilweh camps, but authorities will execute orders to arrest several suspects soon.
Zaki, meanwhile, told An Nahar daily in remarks published Friday that a Palestinian team will arrive in Beirut from Ramallah in the next 48 hours to cooperate with Lebanese investigators probing Medhat”s assassination.
"There are primary leads on the identity of the culprits. We hope (to find more information about them) so that they get the required punishment," Zaki told An Nahar.