The new violence took place outside a holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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While a spate of protests and attacks in Jerusalem has eased in recent days, tensions have focused on Hebron, where near-daily clashes pit youths against the Israeli soldiers enforcing the decades-long occupation of the West Bank.
The man has been identified as 23-year-old Islam Rafiq Hammad Ibeido.
Today, an Israeli Border Police officer was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in Hebron, while the Palestinian assailant was immediately shot and killed by the Israeli security forces.
StandWithUs, a pro-Israeli organisation based in the U.S., posted the video with the tongue-in-cheek caption: “Those IDF soldiers are at it again…sharing their lunches with Palestinian children”. Israeli forces did not ask him to show his ID or even ask him to stop.
This is the second cold-blooded murder in the neighbourhood of the Ibrahimi mosque, after 17-year old Dania Arshid was gunned down by Israeli forces yesterday.
The escalation of Israeli Palestinian violence illustrates the one-state reality, US Secretary of State, John Kerry said on 28 October.
An eyewitness, a schoolteacher at the scene said that the boy was heading towards the checkpoint, and when he was close, an Israeli soldier shot him in the shoulder and the stomach. In that time, 57 Palestinians have been killed, 37 of them said by Israel to be attackers, the remainder killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Wednesday’s incident marks the 62nd Palestinian to be killed since the beginning of the month, many of whom have been killed during attacks on Israeli military personnel and civilians.
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In other cases, Palestinians were shot and left to bleed without medical attention, in violation of the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment under global law, according to Amnesty worldwide.
