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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians
Jerusalem -- Israeli security forces killed two knife-wielding Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday, police said.
| Brought knives to a gun-fight... |
In the West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian was shot dead by a paramilitary Israeli border police patrol after stabbing one of its men in the head and chest, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. The injured policeman was taken to hospital.
| Naturally the Israeli soldier is blamed for defending himself... |
Samri described the dead Palestinian as being around 20 years old. No further details on his identity were immediately available.
Earlier, 17-year-old Palestinian Ali Abu Ghannam attacked Israeli border police with a cleaver at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem and then ran away fled, with troops giving chase and firing warning shots in the air, Samri said.
Reaching a second checkpoint, Abu Ghannam drew another knife and ran toward security guards there. They shot him dead when he ignored their warnings to stop, Samri said.
| Apparently the yout didn't understand Hebrew... |
Abu Ghannam’s family rejected the Israeli account of the incident. One relative, Mohammed Abu Ghannam, said he did not believe the boy had been armed and that he had been on his way back from a friend’s party when he was killed.
| He was at a Boy Scout meeting... |
The family were refusing to receive the body, Mohammed Abu Ghannam said, because Israeli authorities had ordered a limit on the number of people allowed at the burial — a measure often imposed by Israel at the funerals of Palestinian militants in Jerusalem.
| So toss him into an unmarked grave somewhere in the Sinai... |
Stone-throwing Palestinian youts protesters faced off with Israeli riot police in East Jerusalem later on Saturday, Samri said, adding that one policeman had been lightly injured.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted President Mahmoud Abbas’s office saying Abu Ghannam’s killing emphasised “the ugliness of the occupation and its crimes against the defenceless Palestinian people under baseless and incorrect pretexts”.
Clashes broke out in Ghannam's home neighborhood on Saturday as young Palestinians in Al-Tur protested against the killing of the teenager.
Around 50 protesters threw stones and rolled burning tyres at Israeli security forces, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, an Agence France Presse correspondent reported. Five protesters were wounded.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said one officer had suffered minor injuries from a stone to the face and police had used "riot dispersal means" to quell the protest.
She said there were no immediate arrests.
Palestinians in east Jerusalem declared a general strike.
Posted by: Steve White 2015-04-26 |
