WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have killed a young Palestinian man in the head in the occupied West Bank during clashes in protest at U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of al-Quds as the "capital” of the Zionist regime.
Ahmed Saleem was shot in the head in Jayyus village near the city of Qalqilyah, close to the so-called separation line between Israeli-held territories and the occupied West Bank, said Palestine’s health ministry in a statement, as a number of Palestinian outlets said the young man was in his mid-20s.
Saleem was the 17th Palestinian to be killed by Zionist troops since Trump's highly provocative declaration of al-Quds as the regime’s capital on December 6, deteriorating the already tense situation in occupied territories. Some 3,000 other Palestinians have also sustained injuries during protests that have ensued the announcement.
On Thursday, Zionist troops separately shot dead two Palestinian teenage boys in the central part of the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank during clashes in anti-Trump demonstrations.
The entire al-Quds is currently under the regime’s control, while the regime also claims the city’s eastern part, which hosts the third holiest Muslim site. The city has been designated as "occupied” under international law since the 1967 Arab War, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
Al-Quds remains at the core of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians hoping that the eastern part of the city would eventually serve as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state.