Gunned down

Human Race | Christian bookstore owner found dead

The body of a prominent Palestinian Christian was found stabbed and shot on a Gaza City street Oct. 7. Rami Khader Ayyad, the 32-year-old director of Gaza's only Christian bookstore, was abducted by unknown assailants near his home on Oct. 6 and his body was found the next morning with a visible gunshot wound to the head and numerous stab wounds. Ayyad ran the store, the Teacher's Bookshop, and was director of the Protestant Holy Bible Society.

He regularly received anonymous death threats from people angry about his work, his family told the Christian Post. In April, the bookstore was firebombed during a wave of attacks by a Muslim "vice squad," and his murder raised fears among Gaza's Christian community, which numbers 3,000 Christians among 1.5 million Muslims in the Gaza Strip, where terrorist faction Hamas successfully took control from the ruling Fatah party earlier this year.

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October 20, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 38

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