Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas requested US intervention
Two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead today in a new raid by the Israeli army in the occupied West Banka day after two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, official Palestinian sources said.
On the occasion of these violent incidents in the West Bank the Palestinian Authority of the president Mahmoud Abbas called on the US to “step up pressure on Israel to stop the all-out war against the Palestinian people”.
Israeli operations “will lead to an explosion, to a point of no return, which will have disastrous consequences for all of us,” warned Nabil Abu Rudayna, President Abbas’s spokesman, in a statement carried by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, two Palestinians were killed and 11 wounded “by bullets fired by the (Israeli) occupation forces in Jenin”, in the northern West Bank. The dead are Ahmad Daraghmeh, 16, and Mahmoud al-Shous, 18.
Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian organization based in the Gaza Strip, presented the two teenagers as “his witnesses”. The other Islamic Palestinian movement, Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, welcomed the “resistance in the West Bank”.
The Israeli military said it carried out an operation in Jenin to arrest a 25-year-old Palestinian man who allegedly is a member of Islamic Jihad and fired on Israeli soldiers. “During the operation, dozens of Palestinians threw explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers, who also came under fire. The soldiers responded by firing live bullets at the suspected gunmen.”noted in this release.
In recent months, Israeli forces have carried out several operations in Jenin and other areas of the West Bank, looking for Palestinian activists or people the military says are involved in attacks. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed, fighters as well as civilians.
In accordance with Wafa, Israeli forces also fired on journalists in Jenin today. On Wednesday, two journalists were injured in an Israeli operation near Nablus that killed a Palestinian. On Friday, two teenagers were killed in another area of the West Bank, and the Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry accused Israel of “trying to drag the region into a cycle of violence.”
The Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah, exercises limited powers over about 40% of the West Bank. Israel, which controls all access, runs the rest of the area. About 475,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, alongside 2.8 million Palestinians. All Jewish settlements are considered illegal by international law.
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