Israeli forces kill 19-year-old in clashes
Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old in the occupied West Bank during clashes that broke out early Monday during an Israeli arrest raid, Palestinian officials said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the young man, Taher Zakarneh, was shot in the head, the foot and thigh in a town near the West Bank city of Jenin, a bastion of armed struggle against Israeli rule, which has been a focus of the Israeli raids.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club, which represents current and former Palestinian prisoners, said Israel arrested three Palestinians in its raid in the town of Qabatiya.
The Israeli military said it encountered violent protests during its operation and responded to firebombs and rocks thrown at troops with live fire. It said 17 Palestinians were arrested overnight in raids throughout the West Bank.
Israel has been conducting near-daily arrest raids in the West Bank for months, which were prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis earlier this year that killed 19 people. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed during that time, many of them militants or people involved in clashes, but some civilians have also been killed, including one who inadvertently drove through a battle zone and a veteran Al Jazeera journalist covering the raids.
Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks. The Palestinians say the operations are aimed at maintaining Israel's 55-year military occupation of territories they want for an independent state.
While the initial bout of violence largely subsided, attacks against Israelis have ticked up recently. On Friday a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier before being killed. On Sunday, Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying a group of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, wounding five soldiers, one of them seriously, as well as the civilian bus driver. Also Sunday, the military said an explosive device was hurled at soldiers at a post in the West Bank, lightly injuring four.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want those areas for their hoped-for state.
06 September 2022, 12:49
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"Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war"
So who did Israel capture it from? The Jordanians after they themselves occupied it after the Israel War of Independence, or Naqba, in 1948. Jordan never incorporated the West Bank into the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, so in effect the West Bank was not occupied from them.
Only one fact is certain, neither in 1948 nor in 1967, was there a side to this problem which called themselves Palestinians.
06 September 2022, 14:10
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Thats a lie and you know it. The Palestinians were called Palestinians from the early 1900s. And you know darn well that jordan ruled it only because of what happened when the foreign jews were given 80% of palestine. Your attempts to deceive are pathetic. You know very well that what is certain is that the foreign jews were not called 'israelis' until the state of israel was declared. And you know very well that these "israelis" are russians, yemenis, iraqis, ethiopians, polish etc who all have a different culture and different ethnic ancestors from eachother. Going by your pathetic attempt to deceive, neither palestinians nor lebaneae nor syrians nor any arabs exist as nation considering that these states did not exist in their current form 100 years ago. But heres the thing, the people living there existed and they have distinct dialects, traditional songs, recipes and cultural habits because they have lived in that land for 1000s of years.
06 September 2022, 14:14
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Unlike you "israelis" who stole land, recipes and even songs yet still til this day are seperated between ashkenazis, sephardi, mizrahi and ethiopian despite claiming to be one people descending from the ancient israelites. Zionist propagamda follows the way of narcissism. One of the tricks narcissists use is to falsely accuse their victims of things that are actually the truth about the narcissist. I doubt that you believe in God being the zionist that you are but the day will come when you will be forced to stand eye to eye with all the evil you have done. Never think that God will let your evil be without consequences.
