After Five Palestinians Killed in Mass Shooting

Two Palestinians Martyred in Gaza, Ramallah

Date: 09 June 2023 - 22:16

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Friday that a Palestinian citizen was martyred by Zionist troops at the Rantis checkpoint northwest of Ramallah, while an elderly in Gaza also succumbed to wounds sustained in a raid by Zionist troops.
According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry it was notified of the martyrdom of the 29-year-old Mahdi Samir Muhammad Bayadseh on Friday morning.
The Zionist regime’s media, citing the regime military’s statement, said that a Palestinian man was shot dead at a checkpoint in the West Bank early Friday morning.
The Zionist regime’s military claimed that the Palestinian young man was shot dead after allegedly assaulting a soldier and attempting to snatch his weapon.
Meanwhile, an elderly Palestinian citizen, who was wounded in the recent attack by the regime on the Gaza Strip, succumbed to his wounds on Friday and was martyred.
Furthermore, Palestinians have announced general strikes and protests against the Zionist regime’s police’s “inaction” after a mass shooting left five people killed on Thursday.
The attack, which comes amid a record-high murder rate in Palestinian towns and villages inside the occupied territories, is one of the deadliest crime-related shootings witnessed in recent years.
The High Follow-Up Committee, an umbrella civil society organization representing Palestinians, called for strikes and demonstrations on Friday and Saturday across Palestinian towns.
“We hold Israeli authorities fully responsible for the alarming increase in crime in our society, as it is the official body that bears the responsibility and has the ability to eradicate this terrible phenomenon,” the committee said in a statement on Thursday.
Two of the shootings on Thursday happened near Nazareth, in the north of the country, and two more were reported in Kafr Qasim and Umm al-Fahm.
The worst shooting took place in the village of Yafia Nazareth, which claimed the lives of five people, including a 15-year-old. It is believed to be part of a crime family feud.
Another person was killed in Kafr Qasim and a shooting in Kafr Kana village left two people wounded, including a three-year-old toddler who was seriously injured.
Tensions have been running high in the occupied West Bank over the past year, with the Zionist regime’s military conducting violent raids under the pretext of detaining what it calls “wanted” Palestinians.
As a result of these attacks, 157 Palestinians, including 28 children, have lost their lives and many others have been arrested in 2023.
In a recent incident, Zionist troops deliberately shot a Palestinian photojournalist in the head as he was covering the demolition of a Palestinian-owned home during a military raid in the occupied West Bank.
Momen Samreen was hit in the head by a rubber-coated steel bullet despite wearing press attire in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, after the regime’s military stormed the area and started to demolish the four-story house of Palestinian prisoner Islam Froukh, displacing its residents, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
Samreen was covering the demolition process when he was shot and transferred to the hospital in serious condition.
A commission affiliated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights accused the occupying regime of targeting Palestinian human rights groups in order to “delegitimize them and silence civil society”, Anadolu news agency reported.
The Human Rights Council’s “Commission of Inquiry” said in its annual report that the Zionist crackdown on the groups was “unjustified and violated fundamental human rights, including the rights to freedom of association, expression, opinion, peaceful assembly, privacy and the right to a fair trial.”
The commission, led by a three-member team of human rights experts, was established in 2021 following the 11-day Israeli war on Gaza.