WEST BANK (Dispatches) –
Zionist troops martyred a Palestinian man early on Wednesday during an army raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Ahmad Massad, 18, from the village of Burqin, was pronounced dead after he was shot in the head, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Three other teenagers - one aged 19 and two aged 16 - were also wounded by Zionist troops.
The Zionist regime’s army said troops were confronted by a group of Palestinians after they arrested two men from Jenin. Dozens of people threw rocks, explosive devices and opened live fire, the army added.
Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing security and local sources, reported that Zionist troops conducted a predawn raid on the camp.
The troops broke into dozens of homes and violently searched them, causing excessive property damage, before detaining at least three Palestinians.
Massad’s death follows that of another Palestinian killed on Tuesday, when Zionist troops stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat “succumbed to critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head,” during the shooting in Aqabat Jaber camp near Ariha.
On Monday, Secretary General of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad resistance movement Ziyad al-Nakhala said the Palestinian people are more energetic than ever before in their confrontation with the Zionist regime.
Nakhala made the remarks in a conference dubbed “Palestine, the Central Issue of Islamic Ummah,” which was held in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a.
“Our nation is faced with the Zionist regime’s onslaught, which seeks to Judaize Al-Quds and create new realities on the ground,” he said, adding, “The Palestinian nation is creating new equations in its confrontation with the Zionist regime.”
He said the conference was another proof of Yemen’s support for the Palestinian cause and that the aggressors in Yemen are approaching the Zionist regime despite its Judaization moves and destruction of the Palestinian nation’s identity.
“The Zionists use military force and, under the guise of international organizations, exploit the compromising Arab countries that have recognized the legitimacy of this occupying regime. They also cause conflicts with the Palestinian people in order to take advantage of them,” the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad movement said.
Nakhala said Palestinian people are facing plots by an enemy that has never ceased any efforts to dominate Al-Quds through the falsification of history and the massacre of people in Al-Aqsa Mosque.