AL-QUDS (Dispatches) –
Zionist forces on Friday shot and martyred a young Palestinian man amid tensions over the occupying regime’s settlement expansion and forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East al-Quds.
Palestine news agency WAFA said Israeli troops fatally shot the man and injured another on Friday morning after opening fire at a passenger car in the Arab-majority city of Umm al-Fahm, 20 km northwest of Jenin.
Identified as Fathi Muhammad Fathi Jabrin, the victim succumbed to his wounds on the spot, the report said. The other man was detained by Zionist forces in an injured state for interrogation.
The Israeli military said in a statement that two officers were injured in a car-ramming attack in Umm al-Fahm.
The development came hours after gunfire in the Aghbariya neighborhood of Umm al-Fahm, where multiple buildings were set ablaze in response to the murder of a 33-year-old man on Thursday.
Israeli troops have on numerous occasions been caught on camera brutally killing Palestinians, with the videos going viral online and sparking international outcry.
The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive use of lethal force against Palestinians as well as their extrajudicial killings.
A report released on Thursday accuses the Israeli military of improperly investigating its own policies and practices during the Great March of Return, when hundreds of people were martyred as Palestinians in Gaza rallied along the fence separating the enclave every Friday for nearly two years.
The protest campaign called for an end to the blockade on Gaza, imposed by the occupying regime of Israel and Egypt in 2007, and for Palestinian refugees’ right of return to the lands that their families fled or were forced out of during the establishment of Israel in 1948.
The Zionist regime’s response with live fire was lethal, leading to the deaths of more than 250 people and tens of thousands of wounds, according to the UN.
The report, entitled “Unwilling and Unable: Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests,” was compiled and released by the Palestine Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza and B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group.
It details how the military implemented an illegal policy of using live fire, mostly carried out by snipers, against unarmed protestors.
At the time, frontline doctors told Middle East Eye the snipers had intentionally maimed protesters, creating a generation of young people with disabilities and overwhelming the territory’s already crippled medical system.