Israel Kills 3rd Palestinian in Hours

Israeli forces Wednesday fatally shot a Palestinian teenager and injured another one near the village of az-Zawiya, after they allegedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers, according to security sources.

The sources said Israeli troops opened live fire at two Palestinians, killing of them and seriously injuring the other. The killed teenager was identified as 16-year-old Sami Amer, and is from the nearby village of Mesaha.

Local informed WAFA that shortly after the two were shot, Israeli troops left them bleeding while lying on the ground helplessly, and denied access of ambulance teams to the scene.

Soldiers also assaulted a vegetable peddler who was present at the scene.

Large-scale Israeli troops were deployed at the scene shortly after the incident, the sources added.

This came as two Palestinians were shot dead outside Jerusalem’s New Gate area after they allegedly carried out a shooting attack that saw an Israeli settler shot and seriously injured. The attack left a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship shot and critically injured.

This came a day after four Palestinians were shot dead after launching a string of separate fatal attacks that killed an American tourist and wounded at least 12 Israelis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas.

The circumstances surrounding at least one of these attacks remain disputed.

Israeli forces shot a 50-year-old Palestinian woman near al-Qatanin Gate in East Jerusalem, purportedly after she attempted to stab a soldier at the scene.

Fadwa Abu-Teir was left to bleed to death after she was shot in the head and chest.

According to a Middle East Monitor report, an eyewitness said that the woman did not have a knife and did not attempt to stab the soldier. The eyewitness said that the only thing she did was fail to stop walking when soldiers tried to prevent her from going through the gate.

The string of attacks and killings are the latest in the wave of violence that have rocked Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories since October in which a total of 192 Palestinians, 28 Israelis, an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrean.

Source: WAFA