A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli troops throughout a raid right into a refugee camp within the occupied West Bank early Monday, Palestinian well being officers have stated.
The Palestinian Health Ministry recognized {the teenager} as Omar Khumour and stated he died after being struck within the head by a bullet throughout an Israeli army raid into Dheisha refugee camp close to town of Bethlehem.
Crowds of Palestinians stuffed with rage massed outdoors the hospital the place he died in Bethlehem, chanting in opposition to Israel and praising God.
The Israeli military stated forces entered the Dheisha camp and have been bombarded by Molotov cocktails and rocks. It stated troopers responded to the onslaught with stay hearth.
The loss of life of Khumour brings the toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli hearth within the West Bank thus far this 12 months to 14, together with three individuals underneath the age of 18, in response to a tally by The Associated Press.
Violence and unrest have raged for months within the occupied West Bank, which Israel captured within the 1967 Mideast warfare, together with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – territories the Palestinians need for his or her hoped-for state.
Some half-million Israelis now stay in about 130 settlements throughout the West Bank, which the Palestinians and far of the worldwide neighborhood view as an impediment to peace.
The Israeli army has been conducting near-nightly arrest raids within the territory since final spring. The raids have been prompted by a wave of Palestinian assaults in opposition to Israelis that killed 19 individuals, whereas one other 10 Israelis have been killed in a second string of assaults later final 12 months.
Israel claims the raids are supposed to dismantle militant networks and thwart future assaults. The Palestinians see them as an extra entrenchment of Israel’s open-ended, 55-year occupation of lands they search for his or her future state.
Nearly 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli hearth within the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 2022, in response to figures by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem, making it the deadliest 12 months since 2004.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian envoy in Ankara stated Tuesday that the final 12 months marked the deadliest in seven years for Palestinians, with 230 deaths.
Israel says a lot of the useless have been militants. But Palestinian stone-throwers, youths protesting the incursions and others not concerned in confrontations even have been killed.
