One officer was disguised as a Palestinian woman in a black niqab, a garment that completely covers the face and body.
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The other Israelis went up to the surgery department on the third floor and detained medical staff.
Four gunshots were heard and the agents left, taking 20-year-old Azzam Izzat Shaban al-Shalalda, a patient in the hospital.
An Israeli father and his teenage son, heading to Sabbath services Friday, were shot to death by a Palestinian gunman as a weeks-old campaign of anti-Israel violence raged on.
Hebron’s deputy governor, Marwan Sultan, condemned the Israeli troops for invading “Area A”, territory in the West Bank that is supposed to be under full Palestinian security control and where Al Ahli hospital is located. Why has the official BDS movement declared solidarity with Palestinians, while Palestinians are murdering Jewish mothers, fathers, grandfathers and children?
Hannah Weisfeld, director of Yachad, said: “Members of the Jewish community should feel confident to stand up and say loudly that the bulk of the community believes that only by creating a Palestinian state, and not by maintaining the status quo, will Israel’s citizens get the security they need and deserve”.
THE prize-winning Psagot Winery in a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem has become a favourite destination in recent years for right-wing Israeli and American politicians, eager not just to quaff Cabernet but also to score political points by highlighting the return of the Jews to their biblical homeland. They were identified as a 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son, and reports said they were sitting in the front seats when they were hit by gunfire.
Earlier in the day, Hassan Jehad al-Baw, 23, died in the southern West Bank city of Hebron’s al-Ahli hospital. It also requires labels on such products specify whether they were produced by Israelis or Palestinians. Israeli forces met dozens of stone-throwing Palestinians marking the anniversary with tear gas.
“They took Azzam and put him on the wheelchair, plastered his mouth and put a black mask on his face”, the nurse said.
Shalalda’s brother Bilal, who was asleep in the room, said he was tied to the bed by the Israeli forces.
Israel’s justice ministry said an indictment was filed Friday against an Israeli teenager who attacked a human rights activist last month.
In Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, the army razed the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli on a West Bank road in June. During the arrest, a man at the hospital attacked the troops, who responded by shooting him, the military said.
His cousin, who was in the bathroom, was shot dead when he suddenly entered the room, Shawar said.
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“A video of the incident shows the auto which she was driving heading towards the soldiers at a speed slow enough to allow the soldiers to jump out of the way and then begin shooting heavily at the vehicle”, Amnesty said. Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency later arrested five Palestinians it said were part of a Hamas cell that carried out the attack.
