RAMALLAH, West Bank (Dispatches) – Zionist troops raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and shot a Palestinian man dead on Monday, a Palestinian official said, the latest bloodshed in a yearlong wave of violence that has gripped the region.
The governor of Ariha, Jihad Abu al-Asal, told Palestinian media that the man, Suleiman Ayesh, 20 years old, was fatally shot in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the central West Bank, which has repeatedly been the scene of aggression by Zionist troops against Palestinians in recent months.
The Zionist military said it was ‘operating’ in the area when two Palestinians were spotted fleeing. Soldiers opened fire and struck at least one of the Palestinians.
In another incident, at least eight people were injured when a car rammed into them in central Al-Quds Monday.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said the injured included a 70-year-old man who was left in a “serious condition”, as well as a 30-year-old woman.
A “suspect was neutralized” at the scene, Zionist police said without elaborating on the suspect’s identity, adding that reinforcements were “called to the scene”.
The incident took place near the usually bustling Mahane Yehuda market in west Al-Quds.
At the site of the incident, medics loaded a body bag into an ambulance, according to two AFP journalists.
Violence by the Zionist regime has spiked over the last year. So far this year, 95 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist fire in the West Bank, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
Tensions have been particularly high over the last month, as Muslims marked the holy month of Ramadan.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League have strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s escalations and repeated assaults on sacred Muslim and Christian sites in the occupied Old City of Al-Quds, particularly the recent incursion into a prayer area at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The general secretariat of 57-member OIC, in a statement, deplored such attacks as a flagrant violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and international resolutions, saying the attacks amount to incitement and a serious provocation to the feelings of some two billion Muslims worldwide.
The organization held Zionist regime authorities fully responsible for the dire repercussions of daily assaults on sacred places in Al-Quds, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities and put an end to repeated Zionist violations, which would fuel religious conflict and extremism and lead to instability throughout the region.
Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories in the Arab League, Saeed Abu Ali, also censured Zionist assaults on Muslim and Christian sanctities as an act of deliberate desecration and vandalism, warning against the adverse consequences of such measures.
Abu Ali noted that Zionist troops resumed their assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, by breaking into the Bab al-Rahma (The Gate of Mercy) prayer area.