Palestinian teen killed by Israel army
Kafr Dan, Palestinian Territories (AFP):
A Palestinian teenager has been killed during a raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. The raid was targeted towards arresting alleged Palestinian suspects linked to an Israeli soldier’s killing.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the victim as Uday Salah, 17, saying he was “killed by a bullet to the head fired by the Israeli occupation soldiers in Kafr Dan, Jenin governorate”, an area that has seen near daily violence in recent months.
The Israeli army said its forces were “mapping out the homes of the ‘terrorists’ who killed Major Bar Falah”, who was shot dead by unknown attackers at a checkpoint near Jenin. Two Palestinian, Ahmed Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed had also been killed by Israeli soldiers in the incident which took the IDF soldier’s life.
The army added that the aim of the mapping exercise was “to examine the possibility of demolishing the residences of the terrorists,” who killed Falah, part of Israel’s illegal and inhuman practice of destroying the homes of Palestinian fighters suspected of having carried out activities
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that soldiers had raided the family homes of both Ahmed and Abdul Rahman Abed, and arrested “Amer Taha Abed, who is the cousin of the martyr Ahmed Abed”.
The army said that “two suspects were apprehended for assisting the ‘terrorists’ who shot Major Bar Falah.” It said six more suspects were arrested in other West Bank locations.
Hamas, the resistance movement that rules Gaza, “saluted” the “heroes of Jenin who fought tonight,” praising Palestinians who “stand up to the daily raids by the Israeli occupation throughout the occupied West Bank.”
Jenin has suffered frequent violence in recent months, part of a deadly flare-up that began in mid-March with Israel launching near nightly raids on West Bank towns and cities killing dozens of Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 when it captured the territory from Jordan.
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