WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The family of a Palestinian man killed by a Zionist settler on Sunday demanded justice for his “cold-blood murder”.
Diyar Omri, 19, from the village of Sandala in northern parts of the occupied territories, was shot dead on Saturday by a settler after an apparent road-rage brawl.
Footage from the incident showed the shooter arguing with Omri on the side of the road before pulling a gun and shooting him to death.
Zionist police said 32-year-old Denis Mukin, who lives in the nearby village of Gan Ner, was arrested for killing Omri. He was found with a gun at the scene and tests showed he was driving without a valid license and under the influence.
The Palestinian Information Center reported that following the killing, dozens of Palestinians staged a protest rally, chanting slogans in condemnation of the execution of the Palestinian youth.
The Gaza Strip-based Hamas resistance movement issued a statement following Omari’s death, asserting, “Our heroic people will not let the crimes of the occupation and its settlers go unpunished.”
Hamas said the occupying regime’s crimes only make Palestinian people “intensify their resistance...and avenge the blood of martyr Omari, adding, “The blood of our people is not cheap, and the enemy will pay the price.”
The Islamic Jihad movement, for its part, said, “This heinous crime is an extension of the enemy’s policy against our people … for which the occupation entity bears full responsibility.”
The new fatality has increased the total number of Palestinians killed by Zionist troops and settlers since the beginning of this year to over 110.
Earlier on Saturday, Zionist troops shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid on a refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The martyrs were both 22 years of age and died of bullet wounds to their chest, neck, and abdomen, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported.
The situation is tense across the occupied territories as well as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following recent death in Israeli custody of Khader Adnan, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, which is based in the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians have been holding demonstrations in condemnation of the Israeli regime’s ill-treatment of Adnan, who died of deteriorating health conditions while staging a drawn-out hunger strike in protest at his detention.