Israeli forces kill Palestinian at Bethlehem checkpoint
Israeli forces shot dead one Palestinian and critically wounded another at a checkpoint in Bethlehem, said Palestine’s health ministry in Ramallah.
20 March 2019
The man who was killed, identified as 26-year-old Ahmed Jamal Mahmoud Manasrah, quickly succumbed to his wounds after arriving at Beit Jala Hospital, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Manasrah's death in Bethlehem comes one day after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded more than 10 youths, a Fatah official told Middle East Eye.
Omar Abu Leila was killed when soldiers and border police surrounded a house sheltering the 19-year-old Palestinian, who was suspected of killing an Israeli soldier and a settler two days earlier near the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
Two other young men, Raid Hamdan, 21, and Zaid Nouri, 20, died after being shot by Israeli forces at a religious site near the West Bank city of Nablus.
An Israeli army statement said Hamdan and Nouri were shot after explosives were hurled at a group of Jewish worshippers visiting the site they believe to be the tomb of the Prophet Joseph.
Palestinians in Abwein and Nablus later declared a day of strikes on Wednesday over the deaths.
In the wake of the Ariel attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the assault and the home of the Israeli settler who was killed, a rabbi living in the Eli settlement.
During his visit, Netanyahu promised the swift punitive demolition of Abu Leila’s family home and vowed to push for a change in Israeli policy that would seek the death penalty for any Palestinian who commits an attack against an Israeli.
20 March 2019 The man who was killed, identified as 26-year-old Ahmed Jamal Mahmoud Manasrah, quickly succumbed to his wounds after arriving at Beit Jala Hospital, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Manasrah's death in Bethlehem comes one day after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded more than 10 youths, a Fatah official told Middle East Eye.
Omar Abu Leila was killed when soldiers and border police surrounded a house sheltering the 19-year-old Palestinian, who was suspected of killing an Israeli soldier and a settler two days earlier near the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
An Israeli army statement said Hamdan and Nouri were shot after explosives were hurled at a group of Jewish worshippers visiting the site they believe to be the tomb of the Prophet Joseph.
Palestinians in Abwein and Nablus later declared a day of strikes on Wednesday over the deaths.
In the wake of the Ariel attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the assault and the home of the Israeli settler who was killed, a rabbi living in the Eli settlement.
During his visit, Netanyahu promised the swift punitive demolition of Abu Leila’s family home and vowed to push for a change in Israeli policy that would seek the death penalty for any Palestinian who commits an attack against an Israeli.
