Elderly Palestinian Man Killed by Zionist Troops

Date: 12 January 2022 - 23:00

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RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – An elderly Palestinian was killed on Wednesday, north of Ramallah after being assaulted by Zionist troops.

Fuad Fattoum, the head of the municipal council in the village of Jaljulia, told Anadolu Agency that the elderly Omar Abdel-Majid Asaad, 80 years, from the village, died after being held and assaulted by the occupying troops.

He said a Zionist trooper stormed the village and detained the elderly man after beating and handcuffing him.

The trooper withdrew, leaving the elderly lying on the ground inside a house under construction, where he died.

Local Palestinian officials demanded an international investigation into the brutal killing of the elderly and sick man by Zionist troops.

Violent raids by the troops are a regular practice in the occupied West Bank, during which Palestinians are exposed to live fire, arrests, assaults and killings.

During one of these violent raids Zionist troops fatally shot a young Palestinian man in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

Bakir Hashash, 21, was shot in the head by Zionist troops, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.

The troops conducted hundred of violent raids last year.

Meanwhile, Palestinians have staged a rally in the occupied West Bank and clashed with Zionist troops after the regime raided the Birzeit University campus and arrested several students.

The clashes broke out on Tuesday after Zionist troops fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters who had gathered at the northern entrance of the city of Ramallah.

“Five protesters were hit by rubber-coated metal bullets, one in the head, and dozens suffocated from tear gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli soldiers,” Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said, citing witnesses.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also reported that its staff had dealt with 12 injuries during Tuesday’s confrontations at the northern entrance to Ramallah.

The Red Crescent Society added that five were hit by metal bullets coated with rubber, and seven were hit by tear gas.

Meanwhile, Zionist bulldozers demolished 11 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to a local activist.

Basil al-Adra said five houses inhabited by 18 people, five bars and a water well were demolished in al-Fakheet Bedouin community, south of Al-Khalil city.

He added that Zionist regime authorities cited lack of building permits for the demolitions in Area C.