Yoela Chen went out on a cold evening in early 2002 to a wedding in Jerusalem with her 70-year-old aunt. When they stopped to refuel at a gas station, two men approached them. “Are you Jewish?” they asked.
When they received an affirmative answer, the men opened fire. Yoela fell onto her aunt. She died of her wounds the next day.
Her murder was personally directed by Marwan Barghouti, as was the attack at Tel Avis’s Sea Food Market restaurant in 2002, and the murder of a Greek monk on the road between Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem a year earlier. Due to evidentiary difficulties, he was acquitted of 32 additional murders committed by his subordinates in the murderous Tanzim organization.
But now, over 200 celebrities—including Mark Ruffalo, Annie Lenox, Ian McKellen, Naomi Klein, and Benedict Cumberbatch—are calling for Barghouti’s release from Israeli jail.
