Funeral Held for Palestinian Teen Shot in al-Quds

Date: 21 September 2019 - 21:56

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Palestinians have held a funeral procession for a 14-year old boy, shot dead by Zionist troops after allegedly stabbing a policeman in al-Quds last month.
Nassim Abu Rumi, from al-Azariya, died on August 15, after he and another boy, attacked an Israeli policeman in the Old City of al-Quds . His body was kept by the occupying regime’s authorities until they released it on Friday.
Video footage from the incident, aired on Israeli television and circulated on social media, showed two young males approaching a police officer at one of the walled Old City's gates, drawing knives and stabbing him before his colleagues shoot them multiple times.
The attack came less than a week after Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at a nearby holy site of the city.
Meanwhile, more than 75 Palestinians were injured as the Zionist troops attacked anti-occupation protests near the fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories.
The Gazan Health Ministry said 74 protesters and two medics were injured during the 75th Friday of protests.
Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesman for the ministry, said in a tweet that 48 of the wounded were hit by live ammunition fired by the regime troops.
Palestinians have been holding weekly rallies in Gaza since last year to protest the siege on the enclave and stress the right to return of the Palestinians who have been externally displaced by Israeli aggression since 1948.
At least 307 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops ever since the anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Over 18,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
In March, a United Nations fact-finding mission found that Israeli forces committed rights violations during their crackdown against the Palestinian protesters in Gaza that may amount to war crimes.
Gaza has been under siege by the Zionist regime since June 2007, which has caused a decline in living standards.
The regime has also launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.