The condolence tent for Maher Thiab Hussein al-Jazi could hardly fit the number of people who came to pay their respects to his family.
“Everyone came to congratulate us,” said his cousin Sheikh Habis al-Jazi at the funeral of the Jordanian truck driver who fatally shot three Israelis at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on 8 September, and was himself killed by Israeli guards.
“Any man would go crazy due to the Zionist massacres, especially against children, they have not spared a stone, or a tree or a child or a woman,” he told Al Jazeera.
“I am blessed and proud that I raised a hero and a lion cub,” said Thiab al-Jazi, the father of the Jordanian who carried out the shooting.
He described his son’s actions as a “defense of Palestine and the Arab and Muslim nations.” ….more
