Mohammed Shehadeh Ahmeddiyah Al Makharzah
Date of Birth : 1951-01-01
Place of Birth :
Marital status : Maried
Place of martyrdom / disappearance : Bethlehem Area
Date of martyrdom / disappearance 1967-01-06
Martyrdom / disappearance conditions
Mohammed Shehadeh Ahmeddiyah Al Makharzah was a soldier in the Jordanian Arab Army. During the June War, Mohammed Al Makharzah and a number of his colleagues in the military retreated towards the East Bank. He then decided to return back to Bethlehem to rejoin with his family. Based on two of his colleagues in the military, they have informed his brother, when they met in Irbid after the end of the war, that they have seen Mohammed Al Makharzah climbing a mountain during his return to Bethlehem, where not until an Israeli military patrol suddenly found and took him into a car without a sound of shot fired. Officer Abdul Majeed Khalawi informs, that one of his soldiers heard Mohammed Yahdiyyahs voice on the Israeli Radio to his relatives in Amman, informing on the condition status of Mohammed Makharzah. The general commandment of the Jordanian Armed Forces issued an announcement on March 21st, 1979, that Mohammed Al Makharzah has been retired from his service. The Jordanian Military Retirement Committee issued in the Jordanian Ministry of Finance an announcement, number 199/11526 on August 18th, 1969, that Mohammed Al Makharzah, ranked as Major, with military number 297-88, was considered missing due to the lack of evidence of his death or life. Based on a book presented by a member of the PLO, Abbas Abdul Fattah to the President of the PLO, a signed memo, number A/795, from the Presidents Office on September 25th, 1990, that Mohammed Al Makharzah informed one of the visitors to Ashkelon Prison, that he has been imprisoned in Ashkelon Prison since 1967 with 15 other prisoners that no knows about them.
Source of Information : Jordanian Engineers Association – Freedom Association
