2 Palestinians shot dead at Nakba rally
by alethoMa'an - 15/05/2014
RAMALLAH
- Israeli forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man and a teenage
boy Thursday during a protest rally marking the 66th anniversary of the
Nakba west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Witnesses
and medical sources identified the victims as 22-year-old Muhammad
Audah Abu al-Thahir from the Ramallah-area village of Abu Shukheidim and
17-year-old Nadim Siyam Nuwarah from al-Mazraa al-Qibliyya village in
Ramallah district.
The
victims, according to medical sources, were shot by live ammunition in
the chest. Their bodies were evacuated to Ramallah Medical Complex.
Medics
said three teenagers were also injured by live bullets. One was struck
in the chest, one in the foot, and one in the leg. Doctors say they are
in stable condition.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return calls.
Participants
in the rally near Ofer detention center said they also wanted to show
solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held without trial who have been
on hunger strike for 22 days.
Palestinians
across the occupied territories and elsewhere were commemorating the
Nakba, or catastrophe, of the founding of the State of Israel on
Thursday.
During
the Nakba, more than 760,000 Palestinians -- estimated today to number
more than 5 million with their descendants -- fled or were driven from
their homes in 1948.
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