Officials said he was asphyxiated by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers near his Bethlehem home Friday.
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The boom of tear gas canisters fired by soldiers at Palestinian stone-throwers reverberated across Hebron. In this context, the Prosecutor stated that her Office will also examine whether any of the newly reported incidents of violence constitute crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the ICC, and for the same objective, will continue to record any new instances of violence or incitement to violence that may occur in the future. During the past month Israeli police arrested more than 200 Palestinian citizens of Israel during protests, according to Majd Kayyal from the legal rights group Adalah. “It is a violation of global humanitarian law to prevent medics from doing work and furthermore preventing the injured from getting medical care”. The wildcat outposts, often little more than a few caravans, are notorious for housing young Jewish hardliners, referred to in Israel as hilltop youth.
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday held funerals in the West Bank city of Hebron for five Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks or attempted attacks on Israelis.
A Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded a civilian in Jerusalem, where the wave of violence first erupted a month ago over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a highly sensitive site sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
The number does not include two elderly Palestinians who died after long delays at Israeli military checkpoints, a Palestinian prisoner who died while under Israeli custody, and a Palestinian man died after a heart attack shortly after his family said he was beaten by Israeli soldiers.
On Thursday, Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian youth in the old city of Hebron in southern West Bank in two separate incidents near military checkpoints. One of the assailants was killed while the second was critically wounded.
In the Bab al-Zawiya area of the city, around 300 protesters clashed with Israeli troops, who used live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.
Many attackers who have targeted Israeli forces come from Hebron, a stronghold of the Islamist movement Hamas.
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces shot dead Mahmoud Talal Mahmoud Nazzal, 18, from the town of Qabatiya near Jenin in the nothern West Bank.
“Israel expects that this attempted manipulation of the ICC be rejected, both for the benefit of the court’s reputation and the hope of advancing coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians”, he said.
Amnesty global says Irsheid is one of several cases it has investigated in which Palestinians were deliberately shot dead by Israeli forces when they posed no imminent threat to life.
Tensions in the occupied territories have dramatically escalated in recent weeks. Palestinians say the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of al-Aqsa.
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On Friday, dozens of protesters outside the shrine condemned restrictions on access imposed by Israel, which has divided it into a mosque and a synagogue. Islam Rafiq Obied, 23, was shot by Israeli troops near an illegal Israeli settlement located in Tel Rumeida area of Hebron old city, southern West Bank.
