AL-QUDS (AP) – Zionist
police shot another Palestinian after a Zionist man was stabbed and wounded in a retaliation operation Saturday near Damascus Gate just outside Al-Quds’ Old City, a crowded area that is often the scene of demonstrations and clashes.
Zionist police said they “neutralized” the attacker, and did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.
Video circulated online appeared to show a Zionist officer shooting a Palestinian man who was lying on the ground. Another video appeared to show police with guns drawn keeping medics from reaching the man. The videos appeared authentic.
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement praised the Palestinian man’s “new heroism,” but stopped short of claiming responsibility for it.
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.
Also on Friday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said at least 30 people were injured in clashes with the Zionist troops during a weekly march in protest at the illegal settlements near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
In a statement on Friday, the Red Crescent said the Palestinian protesters sustained injuries as a result of being targeted with rubber-coated bullets or suffocation with tear gas when they clashes with Israeli soldiers in an anti-settlement rally on Jabal Sabih in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
“Thirty civilians were injured as a result of the repression of the occupation forces, including a boy who was shot in the eye with rubber bullets, who was taken to Rafidia Hospital, an ambulance officer was wounded in the hand, 5 were injured by rubber bullets, and 23 were injured by suffocation due to tear gas canisters,” the PRCS said.
The statement said the occupation forces had dug holes on the roads to obstruct the arrival of demonstrators and impede ambulances from reaching casualties on the mountain.