Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian youth in West Bank
Israeli military forces have opened fire and killed a young Palestinian man who they say stabbed two Israeli soldiers close to an illegal settlement in the northern occupied West Bank.
The incident took place near the entrance to the Ma'ale Levona settlement and the Palestinian town of Sinjil, located 21 kilometers (13 miles) northeast of Ramallah, on Wednesday morning, English-language Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
According to the report, one of the Israeli soldiers was seriously wounded in his upper body, while the other was said to have sustained light injuries to his back. The Palestinian youth was shot and killed on the spot.
Both Israeli troopers were initially treated by medics on site, and then transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in al-Quds (Jerusalem).
More than half a million Israelis live in more than 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem al-Quds in 1967.
Settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” policy. Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites. In their last attack, Israeli settlers attacked the olive orchards in the al-Jab’a village outside of Bethlehem late on Tuesday, cutting down more than 150 trees.
The Israeli settlements are considered to be illegal by the United Nations and most countries because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are thus subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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