Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teen throughout a army raid Friday within the occupied West Bank, which has been the stage of rising violence.
Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of {the teenager} recognized as Mahmoud Abu Saan.
In an announcement, the Palestinian Health Ministry stated 18-year-old Mahmoud Abu Saan was “killed this morning by live bullets from the occupation (Israel) in Tulkarm.”
“A citizen was killed by Israeli army bullets in the Tulkarem camp,” the official Palestinian news company Wafa stated.
It added: “The martyr was young man Mahmoud Abu Saan, 18, who was shot in the head by occupation soldiers at point-blank range.”
Clashes broke out between dozens of Palestinian younger males and Israeli forces after they stormed the Tulkarem refugee camp. During the confrontations, Israeli forces used reside bullets and tear gasoline canisters.
Abu Saan’s head was shrouded within the Palestinian flag as his physique was paraded by means of the city’s streets forward of the burial, in keeping with media experiences.
The Israeli military claimed they responded with reside hearth after allegedly coming below assault throughout the raid within the refugee camp.
“Hits were identified,” the assertion added, specifying that no troopers had been damage.
Israel has occupied the West Bank because the 1967 Six-Day War and its forces recurrently conduct armed incursions into areas of the territory that are nominally below the management of the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli violence has this yr killed no less than 206 Palestinians, in keeping with an AFP tally compiled from official sources on either side.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
