WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Zionist settler has fatally shot a Palestinian youth on suspicion of attempting to carry out an alleged stabbing attack in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil, the latest amid rising violence in the occupied territories.
The young Palestinian man died of his critical wounds early on Friday after he was shot by a Zionist settler in the Tana Omrim settlement, south of Al-Khalil, according to Palestinian media reports.
Palestine’s Ma’an news agency cited the settler as claiming that the Palestinian youth was trying to carry out a stabbing attack inside the illegal settlement, without identifying the Palestinian victim.
The fatal shooting came a day after Zionist troops wounded 13 Palestinian youths and arrested 14 others during a raid on a refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Ariha.
The regime’s forces stormed the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp from several directions, raiding more than 50 homes and firing live rounds at Palestinian youths.
Over the past months, the occupying regime has ramped up attacks on Palestinian towns and cities throughout the occupied territories. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.
Local and international rights groups have condemned the regime’s excessive use of force and “shoot-to-kill policy” against Palestinians.
More than 600,000 Zionist live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Al-Quds. All settlements are illegal under international law as they are built on occupied land. The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
A major European trade union organization has boycotted products made in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, calling on the European Union’s member states to ban import and export of such commodities.
The decision was made on Thursday during the 15th session of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)’s congress in Berlin, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) also affirmed Palestine’s right to sovereignty over Al-Quds, home to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, calling on the international community to force the Zionist regime’s to end its violations in the occupied city.
In a communiqué issued after an extraordinary meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the 57-member intergovernmental organization reiterated that the regime has no sovereignty over Al-Quds and its Islamic and Christian holy sites.
The meeting followed a provocative incursion by the regime’s far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into the al-Aqsa Mosque complex and continued attacks by the occupation forces on the Palestinians in Al-Quds.