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Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank
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JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he and others hurled stones and rocks at their army vehicle, according to the Israeli military. It was the latest in a wave of violent events that has marked the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the area.JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he and others hurled stones and rocks at their army vehicle, according to the Israeli military. It was the latest in a wave of violent events that has marked the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the area.
The Palestinian news media identified the dead youth as Muhammad Hani al-Kasba, 17, and said he was shot as he was trying to scale the Israeli-built wall near the Qalandia crossing point, between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, in an attempt to reach Al Aqsa Mosque for midday prayers.The Palestinian news media identified the dead youth as Muhammad Hani al-Kasba, 17, and said he was shot as he was trying to scale the Israeli-built wall near the Qalandia crossing point, between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, in an attempt to reach Al Aqsa Mosque for midday prayers.
The Israeli military disputed that account, saying a different Palestinian youth had been injured in a separate incident while trying to scale the wall in the same area.The Israeli military disputed that account, saying a different Palestinian youth had been injured in a separate incident while trying to scale the wall in the same area.
The military distributed photographs of the smashed windshield of the army vehicle, which was carrying an Israeli brigade commander. A military spokeswoman said that the forces first fired into the air to warn the stone-throwers to stop, and that the episode was under investigation. The military distributed photographs of the smashed windshield of the army vehicle, which was carrying an Israeli brigade commander. A military spokeswoman said that the forces first fired into the air to warn the stone-throwers to stop, and that the episode was under investigation. The Israeli news media reported that it was the brigade commander who shot the 17-year-old.
Since the start of Ramadan, two Israeli men have been killed in separate shooting attacks by Palestinian gunmen and a Palestinian man was fatally shot after he opened fire at a military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley. Another Palestinian man was shot and wounded this week after he ran at security officers at the Qalandia checkpoint, according to the Israeli authorities. Internal Palestinian tensions also rose on Friday after Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank detained more than 100 members of Hamas, the Islamic group that dominates Gaza and has praised recent attacks against Israelis in the West Bank.
A spokesman for the Western-backed Palestinian Authority security forces, Gen. Adnan Damiri, said the overnight roundup, the largest in years, was meant to prevent Hamas from undermining security and carrying out attacks in the West Bank, according to The Associated Press.
Despite the signing of nominal reconciliation accords, Fatah, the party that dominates the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, which controls Gaza, remain bitter rivals. Hamas, which has criticized the Palestinian Authority’s policy of maintaining security coordination with the Israelis under the terms of the peace accords of the 1990s, denounced the mass arrests, describing them as a “favor” to Israel.
Israeli security officials have described most of the attacks against Israelis over the past year as the work of Palestinian individuals without the backing of an organization. But Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, attributed recent shooting attacks in the West Bank to a Hamas network whose command, he said, was in Turkey.
Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said this week that it had arrested about 40 members of Hamas in the West Bank over the past few months and that they had been trying to build up Hamas’s infrastructure in the area.
Since the start of Ramadan, two Israeli men have been killed in separate shooting attacks by Palestinian gunmen and a Palestinian man was fatally shot after he opened fire at a military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley. A Palestinian woman stabbed and wounded a female Israeli military police officer at the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem and another Palestinian man was shot and wounded this week after he ran at security officers at the Qalandia checkpoint, according to the Israeli authorities. He was found to have been unarmed.
As a result, Israel has canceled some measures that were meant to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement during Ramadan, such as special permits for family visits between the West Bank and Gaza.As a result, Israel has canceled some measures that were meant to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement during Ramadan, such as special permits for family visits between the West Bank and Gaza.