The body of a
young Palestinian lies on the ground after being shot by Israeli forces
near the entrance to the town of Bani Na’im in the occupied West Bank,
September 20, 2016.
Israeli military forces have
shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the southern sector of the
West Bank amid a surge in troop deployments in the occupied territories.
Israeli
media reported that a Palestinian teenage boy was fatally shot near the
entrance to the town of Bani Na’im, located eight kilometers east of
al-Khalil (Hebron), on Tuesday morning as, they claimed, he sought to
carry out a stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli
forces then opened fire, killing the teenager on the spot. The Israeli
military later announced that there were no injuries among Israeli
troopers following the alleged assault.
Bani Na’im’s Mayor Mahmoud Manasra later identified the slain Palestinian as 16-year-old Mahmoud Issa Salem Tarayrah.
On
Monday afternoon, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces after
allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint near the holy
Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces
had shot and injured a young Palestinian man at Herod’s Gate in the Old
City of Jerusalem al-Quds after over an alleged stabbing attack against
two Israeli police officers. A female officer was said to have sustained
serious wounds, and a male officer was allegedly moderately injured.
Separately, on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers arrested 27 Palestinians in separate raids across the occupied West Bank. Palestinian journalist Musab al-Qasim ZayoudMusab al-Qasim Zayoud, a journalist for Arabic-language Dunya al-Watan
newspaper and Ramallah Mix website, was arrested in a raid on his house
in Silat al-Harithiya, located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) northwest of
Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Separately, several Palestinian
students suffered breathing difficulties and had to be transferred to
the hospital after Israeli military forces fired a number of tear gas
canisters to disperse protesting crowds in al-Khalil. A
Palestinian student is being transferred to hospital after suffering
tear gas inhalation in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil
(Hebron), September 20, 2016.The occupied
Palestinian territories have witnessed increased tensions ever since
Israeli forces imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian
worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds in
August 2015.
Nearly 250 Palestinians have lost their lives at the
hands of Israeli forces in the tensions since the beginning of last
October.
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