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Friday, October 30, 2015
Israeli jeep runs over Palestinian protester near Ramallah
Israeli jeep runs over Palestinian protester near Ramallah: Video
A video frame grab on October 30, 2015, shows
Israeli forces clashing with Palestinian youths after a military jeep
ran over a protester in the northern entrance to the city of al-Bireh in
the occupied West Bank.
An
Israeli military jeep runs over a Palestinian protester north of the
city of al-Bireh, near Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, as
Palestinians step up their protests against Tel Aviv's violence and
provocations.
The Palestinian news agency Ma’an said on
Friday that a Palestinian youth was run over by an Israeli military jeep
before the injured young man was nabbed by the Israeli forces.
Footage
of the incident aired by the al-Aqsa TV showed the military vehicle
speeding up at a group of youths who were protesting weeks of Israeli
aggression against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces apparently blocked and assaulted medics who were attempting to reach the hit person, the video showed.
A
number of other people, including some journalists who were filming the
incident, were assaulted and arrested, Ma’an said. Israeli forces also
fired tear gas and live bullets, prompting more clashes in the
demonstration which started after Friday prayers in Bireh.
At
least four medical personnel and one journalist were injured as a result
of inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces and were transferred to
hospital, according to the Palestinian news agency Watan. More Palestinian blood spilled
The
scuffle came amid continued unrest in the occupied Palestinian
territories where Israeli forces have been engaged in acts of aggression
against Palestinians since early October.
Palestinians are angry at Israeli settler violence and a plan by Tel Aviv to change the status quo of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Hours
before the clashes erupted near Ramallah, a 23-year-old Palestinian was
shot by Israeli forces in al-Quds (Jerusalem) with Israelis claiming
that the young man had stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli soldier.
That was the first direct clash between Palestinians and Israelis in the
city in two weeks.
Earlier
on Friday, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians in the West
Bank city of Nablus after accusing them of carrying out stabbing
assaults. The killing brought to 71 the total number of Palestinians
killed since the beginning of October. Some 7,200 others have been
injured either in direct confrontation with the Israelis or during
protests. The
father of a 21-year-old Palestinian protester, who was shot by Israeli
troops during clashes in Beit Forik village, mourns after his son was
pronounced dead at a hospital near the West Bank city of Nablus October
16, 2015. (Reuters)
Meanwhile, Israeli
media said numerous Palestinians have been wounded in clashes with
Israeli forces along the border fence which separates the Gaza strip
from the Israeli-occupied territories. The Jerusalem Post said
demonstrations have been reported in various areas along the border. A
wounded Palestinian protester is evacuated during clashes near the
border between Israel and Gaza Strip October 30, 2015. (Reuters Photo)Exposing Israel’s war crimes
Reports
said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was to meet Friday with the
prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to brief
authorities in the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal on the
surging Israeli violence against Palestinians.
The Palestinian
Authority joined the ICC in January despite strong criticism by Israel
and the United States as the joining could facilitate the trial of
Israeli leaders for their crimes against the Palestinians. Palestine has
yet to gain a full membership at the United Nations and be recognized
as a sovereign state.
An official with the Palestinian mission in
The Hague said Abbas, who is in the Netherlands as part of a European
tour, would meet Fatou Bensouda “in the context of the grave Israeli
escalation in occupied Palestine.”
The Palestinian Authority has
already submitted a request by the ICC urging the court to investigate
Israel’s war crimes during the 2014 war on the Gaza Strip, which left
more than 2,200 Palestinians killed.
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