Palestinian teenager shot dead, dozens injured by Israeli forces

Palestinian well being ministry says killing ‘a part of a sequence’ of ‘discipline executions carried out by the occupation forces’.

A confrontation between a person holding a Palestinian flag and Israeli border guards within the occupied West Financial institution city of Hauwara, on Might 27, 2022 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager lifeless close to Bethlehem within the occupied West Financial institution and in a separate incident Israeli forces injured round 90 individuals protesting close to Nablus in opposition to the confiscation of Palestinian flags by Jewish settlers.

A minimum of one Palestinian was shot within the leg and dozens of different protesters sustained accidents from stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets and tear fuel inhalation throughout clashes within the West Financial institution city of Huwara, close to the town of Nablus, the Palestine Purple Crescent Society mentioned on Friday.

Movies posted on social media earlier this week confirmed Jewish settlers and Israeli troopers taking down Palestinian flags within the city. On Friday, Palestinians organised a march of individuals waving flags.

“What is occurring in Huwara is a provocation by the settlers,” Mohammad Abdelhameed, a Huwara council member, informed Reuters.

“We dangle the Palestinian flag, which is an emblem of our id and it'll stay raised so long as we're on this land,” he mentioned.

A Jewish settler holds a Palestinian flag that he eliminated as a member of the Israeli safety forces tries to forestall him from doing so within the occupied West Financial institution city of Huwara on Might 27, 2022 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]

Israeli regulation doesn't ban the Palestinian flag, however police and troopers recurrently take away Palestinian flags from public areas.

Condemning the Israeli forces’ violence as “repression”, the Palestinian International Ministry mentioned in an announcement that locals had been protesting in opposition to increasing Jewish settlements and the confiscation of Palestinian land.

The Israeli army didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.

‘Discipline executions’

Individually, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager lifeless within the city of al-Khader close to Bethlehem, the Palestinian well being ministry mentioned.

The sufferer was the second Palestinian teenager killed this week.

The 15-year-old, recognized by Palestinian media as Zayd Mohamed Saeed Ghoneim, was shot in his neck and again, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.

The killing “is a part of a sequence of crimes and discipline executions carried out by the occupation forces”, the ministry added.

The Israeli army mentioned it responded with stay bullets when quite a lot of suspects hurled rocks and petrol bombs at troopers within the space, including that the incident was underneath evaluate.

It was not clear whether or not the slain teenager was concerned within the stone-throwing.

The killing and damage of Palestinians on Friday comes prematurely of a deliberate “flag” march by Israeli nationalists in occupied East Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis on Sunday.

The controversial march, which is scheduled to go via the Muslim quarter of the town, is staged yearly in celebration of Israel’s seize of the Previous Metropolis within the 1967 Center East warfare.

For a lot of Palestinians, the march is a blatant provocation and a gross violation of one of many few locations within the metropolis, more and more hemmed in by Jewish growth and settlement, that retains a robust Palestinian id. Authorized efforts to ban the march have failed.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has defended a choice by his safety officers to let Sunday’s procession enter the town’s Damascus Gate and go via the Muslim quarter. Some members of his coalition have urged him to rethink the route and steered there may be a last-minute change of coronary heart.

Hamas, the Palestinian resistance motion that governs the Gaza Strip, has mentioned they're prepared for confrontation if the Israeli authorities doesn't hold the march out of Muslim neighbourhoods on Sunday.

“They will keep away from a warfare and escalation in the event that they cease this mad [march],” Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official, informed Reuters in Gaza this week.