{"id":54049,"date":"2018-01-14T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=54049"},"modified":"2018-01-14T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:51:20","slug":"%d8%a5%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%b7%d9%89-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d8%b9%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a5%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%82%d8%a8%d8%b7%d9%89-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d8%b9%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Martyrdom of a Coptic youth by terrorist militants in Al-Arish after seeing tattooed cross on his rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Coptic citizen was killed in Al-Arish on Saturday night by 3 terrorist militants when he was walking in\u00a0Thursday “elKhamis”\u00a0market in the city.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bassem Shehata, 27, was one of Copts displaced from El Arish in February 2017, along with hundreds of families who fled the city after the targeting and killing of a number of Copts.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bassem and his family were among the families settled in Ismailia in future city housing provided by the government, but he and his older brother Osama did not find a job to help them\u00a0to provide for their families. They moved to Cairo and the church provided them an apartment in Ezbet elNakhl but the problem remained\u00a0in having a job. Bassem and his brother decided to return to Al-Arish six months ago to reopen their shop, thinking\u00a0that the situation became stable and after a period of time they returned their mother and children to settle in Al-Arish\u00a0and they have a good relationship with their neighbors and\u00a0Bassem was a kind and lovable person.<\/span><\/h2>\n

On the evening of January 13, Basem and his brother were walking after\u00a0work in al-Khamis\u00a0market in 6th of October City,\u00a0They were on their way home with their friends,\u00a0one of them is Muslim\u00a0and Three young men carrying two automatic weapons and\u00a0a pistol asked them to stop, he and his brother thought they were policemen as they were unmasked. They approached and asked to see “Bassem” rest and when they saw the tattooed cross they asked him about his religion, he told them he is christian and asked them to leave his brother as he has children so they killed\u00a0Bassem and checked his brother rest and when they didn’t find a cross they left him.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The gunmen were walking in the street without any objection, and their faces were\u00a0shown to everyone. <\/span><\/h2>\n

A friend of Bassem heard the news of his death and called on his phone. One of the terrorists\u00a0answered and said to him: “We are Ansar Bait al-Maqdis,\u00a0death to\u00a0Christians and you are next”. <\/span><\/h2>\n

The gunmen took all the belongings of the martyr.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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A Coptic citizen was killed in Al-Arish on Saturday night by 3 terrorist militants when he was walking in\u00a0Thursday “elKhamis”\u00a0market in the city. Bassem Shehata, 27, was one of Copts displaced from El Arish in February 2017, along with hundreds of families who fled the city after the targeting and killing of a number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":54050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[7623,8645,7707,7228,7300,10568,10567,10562,1567,1189,10563,10565,10564,805,10566],"class_list":["post-54049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-arish","tag-coptic-youth","tag-cross","tag-martyrdom","tag-rest","tag-tattooed","tag-terrorist-militants","tag-10562","tag-1567","tag-1189","tag-10563","tag-10565","tag-10564","tag-805","tag-10566"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54058,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54049\/revisions\/54058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}