WEST BANK (Dispatches) –
Zionist troops shot and killed a Palestinian man on Tuesday near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the health ministry.
The man succumbed to bullet wounds to the abdomen during alleged confrontations with the Zionist army troops in Nabi Saleh village northwest of Ramallah.
Bilal Tamimi, an activist in Nabi Saleh, said troops fired live bullets, steel rubber-coated bullets and tear gas at Palestinians in the village, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
A day earlier, the occupying regime’s troops shot dead a teenager and wounded several other Palestinians in the occupied West Bank overnight Sunday as troops prepared to demolish the home of a man for alleged of killing a Zionist settler.
The Palestinian health ministry said Mohammad Akram Abu Salah, 17, from the village of al-Yamoun, had succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the head by Zionist gunfire.
At least 20 other Palestinians were reported injured, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Reporting on Tuesday from the occupied Palestinian territories, the Quds News Network said the troops rounded up as many as 18 Palestinians across the territories over the space of the past 24 hours.
The news network, meanwhile, reported that Zionist bulldozers had launched a demolition campaign in the Massafer Yatta area, which is located south of the city of al-Khalil in southern West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA described the targets as “agricultural structures.”
Tensions have flared across the Palestinian territories since Sunday, when Zionist troops and illegal settlers renewed their attacks against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, located in occupied East al-Quds.
Sheikh Jarrah has been the scene of frequent crackdowns by the regime’s troops on the Palestinians protesting against the threatened expulsion of dozens of families from their homes in favor of extremist settler groups.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas warned that the regime’s never-ending aggression and the crimes committed by settlers against the Palestinian people will not go unpunished.
In a statement released on Monday, Ezzat al-Resheq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said demolishing houses, forcing people from homes, and killing young men will not go unanswered. He described the regime’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes as a crime against humanity.
The Hamas official said the current Zionist policy would never make the regime secure, rather it would galvanize the Palestinian people’s resistance.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) censured the recent attacks by regime troops and settlers against the Palestinian residents.
In a statement released on Monday, the 57-member body said the occupying regime’s policy of Judaization of East Al-Quds, its settlement expansion, and the forced displacement of Palestinian families stand in flagrant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions.
The OIC urged the international community to intervene for the good of the Palestinians.
Syria also condemned the brutal practices of the Zionist troops against Palestinians as “war crimes,” calling on international organizations to put an end to the rising acts of the regime’s aggression.
“The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates follows up on ferocious Israeli assaults being committed by Israeli settlers and troops against local Palestinians in the occupied Al-Quds. The attacks have claimed several lives and caused damage to property,” the ministry said in a statement released on Monday.
It denounced the displacing of Palestinian families from their ancestral homes in Sheikh Jarrah as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and a flagrant violation of international law and humanitarian principles.