JERUSALEM: Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian male on Monday, declaring he experienced tried to stab officers in the course of a raid in east Jerusalem.
The officers were being conducting a look for for illegal weapons in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, police reported. When officers approached the property, the guy, armed with a knife, tried using to stab them, police alleged. They fired on the suspect and he was later pronounced lifeless, police claimed.
Ibrahim al-Shaham, the man’s father, instructed journalists that troops pounded on the door of their residence at 3:30 a.m. and then applied explosives to blow up the doorway to the home. Al-Shaham mentioned law enforcement fired a few bullets, one particular hitting his son, Mohammed, 21, in the head. Al-Shaham claimed his son was left bleeding on the floor of the residence as police searched the apartment.
He denied that his son tried to stab the officers, and said that the law enforcement identified no weapons in the household.
Human rights groups have accused Israeli stability forces of commonly applying extreme pressure against Palestinians, devoid of staying investigated or held accountable.
The incident came a day right after a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus outside Jerusalem’s Aged City, wounding 8, among them U.S. citizens.
The U.S. Point out Section condemned the Jerusalem assault late on Sunday, and reported at the very least 5 of the victims were being American citizens. “We keep on being in close speak to with our Israeli companions and stand firmly with them in the deal with of this assault,” explained Condition Office spokesman Ned Rate.
The Jerusalem violence followed a tense 7 days involving Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. An Egyptian-brokered stop-fire that was arrived at previous week finished a few times of battling between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that saw at least 49 Palestinians, which includes 17 kids and 14 militants, killed.
A day after the cease-hearth halted the worst round of Gaza combating in much more than a calendar year, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted in the course of an arrest raid in the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
The officers were being conducting a look for for illegal weapons in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, police reported. When officers approached the property, the guy, armed with a knife, tried using to stab them, police alleged. They fired on the suspect and he was later pronounced lifeless, police claimed.
Ibrahim al-Shaham, the man’s father, instructed journalists that troops pounded on the door of their residence at 3:30 a.m. and then applied explosives to blow up the doorway to the home. Al-Shaham mentioned law enforcement fired a few bullets, one particular hitting his son, Mohammed, 21, in the head. Al-Shaham claimed his son was left bleeding on the floor of the residence as police searched the apartment.
He denied that his son tried to stab the officers, and said that the law enforcement identified no weapons in the household.
Human rights groups have accused Israeli stability forces of commonly applying extreme pressure against Palestinians, devoid of staying investigated or held accountable.
The incident came a day right after a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus outside Jerusalem’s Aged City, wounding 8, among them U.S. citizens.
The U.S. Point out Section condemned the Jerusalem assault late on Sunday, and reported at the very least 5 of the victims were being American citizens. “We keep on being in close speak to with our Israeli companions and stand firmly with them in the deal with of this assault,” explained Condition Office spokesman Ned Rate.
The Jerusalem violence followed a tense 7 days involving Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. An Egyptian-brokered stop-fire that was arrived at previous week finished a few times of battling between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that saw at least 49 Palestinians, which includes 17 kids and 14 militants, killed.
A day after the cease-hearth halted the worst round of Gaza combating in much more than a calendar year, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted in the course of an arrest raid in the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
