Palestinians at funeral appeal to Hamas

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a condolence meeting was held for 30-year-old Ahmad Ma'lah, a Palestinian murdered by the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in the al-Baladiyat section of Baghdad two days earlier. At the meeting the father of the murdered man – who was killed after the Jaysh al-Mahdi abducted him from the barbershop where he worked – called on Hamas to take a clear stand on the torture and murder to which Palestinians have been subjected in Iraq.