ISRAEL KEEPS ATTACKING PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS
Yerusalem, al-Quds,6 Ramadhan 1435/4 Juli 2014 (MINA) – Clashes continue between Palestinians and Israeli forces following the discovery of the bodies of three missing settlers and subsequent killing of a Palestinian.
On Thursday, intense clashes erupted between Palestinian people and Israeli forces in Beit Hanina neighborhood of the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Press Tv quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Friday.
The Palestinians were protesting the killing of Mohammad Abu Khdair, whose body was found in a forest on the western outskirts of the city early on Wednesday morning.
According to the young boy’s family and eyewitnesses, he was forcibly pulled into a vehicle in his neighborhood, Shuafat, while en route to prayers. The Palestinians blame his death on Israeli settlers.
In a separate incident in the village of Anata, which is also in the occupied West Bank near East al-Quds, four Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces.
According to medical sources, one of the injured Palestinians is in critical condition and the rest suffered minor injuries.
Angry protests and clashes with Israeli forces started on Wednesday when reports of Abu Khdair’s death spread in the West Bank. Israeli forces have responded to the protests with tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke grenades.
The incident took place a day after Israel buried the three settlers, whose bodies had been found in a field near the village of Hilhul, north of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the West Bank. Tel Aviv claims the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is responsible for the death of the three. Hamas rejects the allegation.
Israeli forces killed several Palestinians and arrested hundreds of others, including Hamas members and lawmakers, as part of the military operations that were purportedly carried out in search of the three settlers, who Israel claimed had gone missing on June 12.
Israel also attacked the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank hours after the three bodies were found. (T/P012/P04)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
