Over the same period, at least 3,650 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli gunfire.
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“They held the staff at gunpoint and stormed the room of Shalalda”, Shawar said.
They took away a suspect in a recent stabbing near Hebron after shooting dead his cousin in an altercation. They entered with someone in a wheelchair pretending to be pregnant.
Hospital director Jihad Shawar slammed the raid, saying that relatives of the slain man and his disappeared cousin are “very angry”.
Palestinian medical sources in al-Ahli Hospital also confirmed on Friday that Hassan al-Bo, 21, had died after he was hit in the heart by live ammunition during a demonstration in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) south of the occupied city of al-Quds.
Four gunshots were heard and the agents left, taking 20-year-old Azzam Izzat Shaban al-Shalalda, a patient in the hospital.
Another 500 Palestinian demonstrators gathered on the Israeli border in central Gaza, according to Ezz Zanoun, a local photographer from the protest.
Shalalda was shot during the stabbing attack, but escaped and was being treated in the Hebron-area hospital.
The Palestinian foreign affairs ministry called the raiding of hospitals, opening fire on unarmed Palestinian citizens and detaining medical workers a violation of worldwide law. Attacks on civilians are never justified, but Israeli forces have responded with intentional lethal use of force in many cases where it was not warranted.
In Silwad, northeast of Palestinian political capital Ramallah, the army razed the home of a man accused of killing an Israeli on a West Bank road in June.
The Israelis gunned down one Palestinian during clashes near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Earlier Thursday, scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into east Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where they tried to perform their “Talmudic rituals”, a Palestinian official said.
It states that for products from West Bank or the Golan Heights that originate from settlements, the expression “Israeli settlement” or equivalent needs to be added, in brackets; while for products from the West Bank not originating from settlements could be labelled “product from Palestine” or ‘Palestinian product’.
“The Israeli economy is strong and will withstand this; those who will be hurt will be those Palestinians who work in Israeli factories”.
An Israeli father and son were also killed in clashes yesterday.
The Israeli intelligence services apparently have a somewhat more realistic appraisal. Footage of the attack showed a masked youth attack Rabbi Arik Ascherman and threaten him with a knife as he and other Israeli peace activists helped Palestinians harvest their olive trees in the West Bank. Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency later arrested five Palestinians it said were part of a Hamas cell that carried out the attack.
So discredited is the PA that there was reportedly widespread speculation that it had been complicit in Thursday’s hospital raid.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said: “We will get to these despicable murderers and bring them to justice as we have in the past”.
That reasoning matches with what military intelligence Chief Herzl Halevi who told the Israeli cabinet earlier this month that one reason for the current violence is the anger and frustration felt by Palestinians.
“(The demolitions) are immoral, it is collective punishment and they will ignite the West Bank”, she said.
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While the home demolitions will go forward, the judge who issued the injunction, Uzi Vogelman, has been assigned a personal bodyguard because of death threats from right-wing elements in Israeli.
