Two Palestinians were killed and another critically hurt during fierce clashes that broke out during an operation by Israeli forces to destroy a Palestinian home in the Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
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According to Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Mohammed Awawdeh, a 21-year-old and a 28-year-old were killed during an exchange of gunfire between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops at the Qalandia refugee camp.
The Palestinian Maan news agency identified the dead Palestinians as Laith Assad Manasra, 21, and Ahmad Abu al-Aish, 28.
The Palestinian death toll since the beginning of October has climbed to 88, including 18 children.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas speaking at a press conference after the arson attack by Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian toddler in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 31, 2015. Israel says 51 of the Palestinians were involved in assaults and the rest died in clashes with security forces.
Palestinians are angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the latter’s attacks on Palestinian properties, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.
Dr. Tzvi Perry from Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba said “five wounded people from the same family” were brought to the hospital.
Apparently his father and brother turned him in due to Israel’s policy of destroying the homes of terrorists.
Israel’s internal security service said it had seized a weapon and a vehicle used in the shooting, and that the suspect had admitted his involvement in Friday’s attack, which killed a rabbi and his son as they were driving with family south of the city of Hebron. Also that day, the military demolished a fourth home belonging to a man who killed an Israeli on his way home from a basketball game.
Recent months have seen a dramatic surge in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian civilian homes, triggering the wrath of a plethora of national and global human rights organizations.
The military says three “hits” were confirmed.
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“Cases of excessive use of force by Israeli forces against Palestinians, including a few which appear to amount to summary executions, continue to be reported and a few have been captured on video”, said the experts in a statement issued Monday.
