JERUSALEM: Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man on Monday, claiming he had tried to stab officers throughout a raid in east Jerusalem.
The officers have been conducting a seek for unlawful weapons within the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, police mentioned. When officers approached the house, the person, armed with a knife, tried to stab them, police alleged. They fired on the suspect and he was later pronounced lifeless, police mentioned.
Ibrahim al-Shaham, the person’s father, advised journalists that troops pounded on the door of their home at 3:30 a.m. after which used explosives to explode the door to the house. Al-Shaham mentioned police fired three bullets, one hitting his son, Mohammed, 21, within the head. Al-Shaham mentioned his son was left bleeding on the ground of the home as police searched the house.
He denied that his son tried to stab the officers, and mentioned that the police discovered no weapons within the dwelling.
Human rights teams have accused Israeli safety forces of continuously utilizing extreme pressure in opposition to Palestinians, with out being investigated or held accountable.
The incident got here a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fireplace at a bus outdoors Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, wounding eight, amongst them U.S. residents.
The U.S. State Division condemned the Jerusalem assault late on Sunday, and mentioned not less than 5 of the victims have been Americans. “We remain in close contact with our Israeli partners and stand firmly with them in the face of this attack,” mentioned State Division spokesman Ned Worth.
The Jerusalem violence adopted a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Financial institution. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire that was reached final week ended three days of preventing between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that noticed not less than 49 Palestinians, together with 17 kids and 14 militants, killed.
A day after the cease-fire halted the worst spherical of Gaza preventing in additional than a yr, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted throughout an arrest raid within the metropolis of Nablus within the occupied West Financial institution.
The officers have been conducting a seek for unlawful weapons within the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, police mentioned. When officers approached the house, the person, armed with a knife, tried to stab them, police alleged. They fired on the suspect and he was later pronounced lifeless, police mentioned.
Ibrahim al-Shaham, the person’s father, advised journalists that troops pounded on the door of their home at 3:30 a.m. after which used explosives to explode the door to the house. Al-Shaham mentioned police fired three bullets, one hitting his son, Mohammed, 21, within the head. Al-Shaham mentioned his son was left bleeding on the ground of the home as police searched the house.
He denied that his son tried to stab the officers, and mentioned that the police discovered no weapons within the dwelling.
Human rights teams have accused Israeli safety forces of continuously utilizing extreme pressure in opposition to Palestinians, with out being investigated or held accountable.
The incident got here a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fireplace at a bus outdoors Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, wounding eight, amongst them U.S. residents.
The U.S. State Division condemned the Jerusalem assault late on Sunday, and mentioned not less than 5 of the victims have been Americans. “We remain in close contact with our Israeli partners and stand firmly with them in the face of this attack,” mentioned State Division spokesman Ned Worth.
The Jerusalem violence adopted a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Financial institution. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire that was reached final week ended three days of preventing between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that noticed not less than 49 Palestinians, together with 17 kids and 14 militants, killed.
A day after the cease-fire halted the worst spherical of Gaza preventing in additional than a yr, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted throughout an arrest raid within the metropolis of Nablus within the occupied West Financial institution.
