RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – A Palestinian man shot by Zionist troops last week succumbed to his wounds early on Wednesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Ahmed Seif, 23, was shot in the stomach three times by Zionist troops in the village of Burqa, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on March 1.
He was rushed to hospital in Nablus, where he died on Wednesday morning.
Saif underwent several surgeries and remained in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit in a hospital in Nablus until he passed away.
Medical director of the an-Najah National University Hospital in Nablus, Dr. Abdul-Karim Barqawi, said the young Palestinian man suffered severe bleeding as one of the bullets had severed a main artery. He required intensive treatment because bullets had seriously damaged his internal organs.
AFP reporters in Burqa saw a procession of hundreds march through the village on Wednesday during Seif’s funeral.
The incident comes less than two days after Zionist troops shot dead a young Palestinian man after he allegedly stabbed two officers in the Old City of occupied Al-Quds.
Wafa reported that the incident took place at Bab al-Qataneen neighborhood on Monday evening.
Footage from the scene showed the officers standing over the man, identified as Abdul Rahman Qasim, who appears to be lying on the ground shortly after the attack.
One of the officers opens fire, then stands on top of the alleged attacker, while shouting obscenities.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the killing of a young Palestinian man over an alleged stabbing attack in the Old City of occupied Al-Quds, saying the Zionist regime continues to escalate its repressive measures and attacks across the occupied territories through field execution of youths.
“Israel continues to intensify its aggression in large parts of our land, taking advantage of the international community’s preoccupation with the ongoing Ukraine conflict,” Shtayyeh said at a weekly cabinet meeting in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
He warned of “the dangerous repercussions of the escalation of killings and field executions committed by the Israeli forces in the Palestinian territories.”