WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Palestinian man succumbed on Saturday to wounds that were inflicted by Zionist troops last week north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian ministry of health.
Samih Jamal Amarneh, 37, was hit by the Zionist troops’ gunfire during an army raid in the town of Yabad near Jenin on 1 June that had set out to demolish the home of a Palestinian.
In confrontations with the Zionist troops during the raid, 24-year-old Bilal Kabaha was killed and six others were wounded. Three of them were left in critical condition, including Amarneh.
The occupying regime frequently destroys the homes of individuals it blames for attacks on Zionsits.
The practice, which often fuels tensions, has been condemned by critics as a form of collective punishment.
In recent months, the occupying regime has been continuing to conduct regular raids in and around Jenin.
The northern West Bank city, particularly its central refugee camp, is known as a stronghold for a re-emerging Palestinian armed resistance movement.
At least 20 Palestinians have been martyred in Jenin by the occupying regime’s fire this year, out of a total of over 65 killed in the West Bank and other parts of the occupied territories.
Meanwhile, the European Union missions in Al-Quds and Ramallah has voiced concern over a Zionist group’s takeover of Greek Orthodox properties in the occupied East Al-Quds’ Old City.
“Attempts by settlers to take over Christian property in the Old City of Al-Quds must be halted as they jeopardize the heritage and traditions of the Christian community,” the representative office of the European Union in Palestinian territories said in a statement.
Earlier, the occupying regime’s supreme court rejected an appeal by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate against the takeover of Christian properties by settler organization, Ateret Cohanim.
Such a ruling by the regime’s court poses “a threat to the peaceful co-existence of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem, as well as to the established religious equilibrium,” the statement added.