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| Palestinian health ministry says IDF kills protester in West Bank |
| 2021-03-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian was rubbed out by Israeli soldiers Friday when festivities erupted during a demonstration in the West Bank, the Paleostinian health ministry said. "A citizen who was shot in the head with live ammunition died," the ministry said, adding the incident happened in the village of Beit Dajan, near Nablus. The Israeli army said in a statement: "Live fire was shot in the air by IDF forces in response to massive stone-throwing by Paleostinian protesters, but the reason for the protester’s death is unknown. Riot dispersal means were also used." Atef Yussef Hanaysheh, 42, was killed in a clash between Israeli soldiers and Paleostinians demonstrating against Israeli settlement activity, said Beit Dajan Mayor Abdelrahman Hanani. "The soldiers fired when we approached a wildcat settlement near the village," he told AFP, using a term for outposts not officially recognized by the Israeli government. A spokesperson for the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group, Hazem Qassem, said that the incident was a "new Zionist crime, and [part of] the brutal and never-ending terror committed by the occupation against our Paleostinian people." "Zionist crimes will always be [the] fuel for our people’s unstoppable fighting revolution unless the occupier leaves all of our Paleostinian lands," Qassem added. Paleostinians gather on Fridays across the West Bank to protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements, which they claim are illegal under international law. The demonstrations are sometimes marred by festivities with the Israeli army. Excluding Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, around 475,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, a territory with more than 2.8 million Paleostinian inhabitants. |
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