George Khoury

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This page is for the Israeli murder victim. For others of that name see George Khoury (author) or George Khoury (music producer).

George Elias Khoury (b. 1983 in Jerusalem - March 19, 2004 in Jerusalem) (Hebrew: ג'ורג' אליאס חורי‎) was an Israeli victim of Palestinian violence who was murdered on March 19, 2004, while jogging in the neighborhood of French Hill in Jerusalem. He was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the son of Elias Khoury, a prominent Israeli lawyer. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military branch of the Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for his death.

After it became clear that the he was in fact an Arab Israeli - and not a Jewish Israeli - Fatah apologized, and offered to declare him a martyr for the Palestinian cause. George's family refused this offer. Ibrahim Kandalaft, Arafat's adviser on Christian affairs, eulogized Khoury on behalf of the PA chairman, describing him as a shaheed (martyr) of the Palestinian cause. But the victim's mother interrupted him by declaring that her son was an "angel, not a shaheed."

George's grandfather, Daoud Khoury, was also murdered in a Palestinian attack in Jerusalem, when a booby-trapped refrigerator exploded at Zion Square.

He was buried in the Christian cemetery on Mount Zion. He is survived by his parents, an older brother, and younger sister.

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