The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Tuesday, the death of two Palestinians after they were shot in the chest by occupying forces during their incursion into the city of Jericho in the West Bank. The Ministry, in its statement, confirmed that “Israeli occupying forces opened fire on the child Qusai Omar Suleiman Al-Walji (16 years old) and the young man Mohammed Rabhi Najoum (25 years old), resulting in their deaths during the aggression on the ‘Aqaba Jaber’ camp in Jericho this morning.”
Last Thursday, a Palestinian youth was killed by the gunfire of the Israeli army during an incursion of the occupying forces into the Zawata area, west of Nablus. Security sources told the Palestinian “Wafa” agency that Israeli forces invaded the Zawata area, leading to clashes in the region. This resulted in the injury of the young man Amir Ahmed Mohammed Khalifa (27 years old) by live bullets to the head. His death was subsequently announced, indicating that he resided in the Ein Beit Al-Maa camp west of Nablus.
Earlier, Israeli media reported last Tuesday that the Israeli internal General Security Service “Shin Bet” arrested a Palestinian cell intending to carry out “terrorist operations.” The Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” stated that the Israeli army, in coordination with Shin Bet, arrested a Palestinian “cell” affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, active in the cities of Jenin and Nablus in the West Bank, planning operations. The newspaper detailed that the Israeli army permitted the publication of the “cell’s” case despite their arrest in recent months, alluding to their planned attacks directed by a person named Allam Al-Kaabi, who was deported to the Gaza Strip. He is a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a released prisoner in the deal for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, signed in 2011, and is currently in Lebanon.
In a related context, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli courts provide protection to Jewish terrorists, following the release of two settlers accused of shooting a Palestinian youth dead in the West Bank. The foreign ministry strongly condemned in a statement “the Israeli court’s decision to release the extremist terrorist Yehiya Andor, who the Israeli police arrested as a suspect in the killing of the martyr boy Qusai Ma’atan in the village of Barqa near Ramallah, and limited to placing him under house arrest,” as reported by the official Palestinian “Wafa” agency.
