1 aug 2015
The Palestinian Authority has rejected Israel's condemnation of the killing of a Palestinian infant in the West Bank city of Nablus by Jewish settlers as insufficient. The PA is insisting that the illegal settlers must be blacklisted as terrorists, Quds Press reported on Friday.
A group of Jewish settlers threw firebombs and burning material inside a Palestinian house in Nablus on Friday morning, burning an 18-month old baby to death and causing severe burns to three of his family members, including his father, who is now in a critical condition.
"This crime is a shameful stigma on the forehead of the international community," said the PA foreign ministry. "The world has repeatedly ignored the systematic terrorism of Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians."
The ministry stressed it rejection of the official Israeli response, which only condemned the killing. "The Israeli government bears direct responsibility for this terrorist act as it is intentionally keeping silent and is refusing to brand these groups as illegal," the statement said. "Condemnation is no more enough or even acceptable as a response by the international community towards such a crime.
This weak position of the international community will not stop such attacks, the perpetrators of which are protected by official Israeli institutions and supported by Israeli ministers and Knesset members."
A group of Jewish settlers threw firebombs and burning material inside a Palestinian house in Nablus on Friday morning, burning an 18-month old baby to death and causing severe burns to three of his family members, including his father, who is now in a critical condition.
"This crime is a shameful stigma on the forehead of the international community," said the PA foreign ministry. "The world has repeatedly ignored the systematic terrorism of Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians."
The ministry stressed it rejection of the official Israeli response, which only condemned the killing. "The Israeli government bears direct responsibility for this terrorist act as it is intentionally keeping silent and is refusing to brand these groups as illegal," the statement said. "Condemnation is no more enough or even acceptable as a response by the international community towards such a crime.
This weak position of the international community will not stop such attacks, the perpetrators of which are protected by official Israeli institutions and supported by Israeli ministers and Knesset members."
Minister of Justice Counsel Saleem Saqa, Saturday announced the results of al-Khaldi’s postmortem report, affirming that he was shot from behind.
The autopsy indicated that the bullet penetrated through al-Khaldi’s body from behind, where it went through his spine’s first lumbar vertebra and hit the inferior vena cava, a large vein in the abdomen that returns blood from the lower body to the heart, tearing through the intestines and liver, before coming out of the right side of his upper abdomen.
He noted that the bullet wound shows that the bullet came from a long weapon, most likely from an M16 rifle.
The autopsy ruled that the cause of al-khaldi’s death was due to the intensive internal bleeding that resulted from the tearing of the liver and the inferior vena cava of the abdomen.
The minister denounced the killing of al-Khaldi, describing it as an intentional perfidious murder committed in hatred.
Al-Khaldi Saturday succumbed to critical wounds he sustained after being shot by Israeli forces late Friday during clashes at ‘Atara Israeli military checkpoint to the north of Ramallah.
Laith al-Khaldi, 17, a Palestinian from the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, was shot with a live bullet as israeli forces violently quelled a march in protest of the Israeli settlers’ Friday arson attack that led to the killing of an 18-month-old toddler, Ali Dawabsheh, in the Nablus village of Duma.
The autopsy indicated that the bullet penetrated through al-Khaldi’s body from behind, where it went through his spine’s first lumbar vertebra and hit the inferior vena cava, a large vein in the abdomen that returns blood from the lower body to the heart, tearing through the intestines and liver, before coming out of the right side of his upper abdomen.
He noted that the bullet wound shows that the bullet came from a long weapon, most likely from an M16 rifle.
The autopsy ruled that the cause of al-khaldi’s death was due to the intensive internal bleeding that resulted from the tearing of the liver and the inferior vena cava of the abdomen.
The minister denounced the killing of al-Khaldi, describing it as an intentional perfidious murder committed in hatred.
Al-Khaldi Saturday succumbed to critical wounds he sustained after being shot by Israeli forces late Friday during clashes at ‘Atara Israeli military checkpoint to the north of Ramallah.
Laith al-Khaldi, 17, a Palestinian from the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, was shot with a live bullet as israeli forces violently quelled a march in protest of the Israeli settlers’ Friday arson attack that led to the killing of an 18-month-old toddler, Ali Dawabsheh, in the Nablus village of Duma.
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
I am not particularly eager to hurl the Nazi epithet at Jews. I know that many Jews harbor a great deal of rectitude and would never condone the evil crimes committed in their name.
However, when some Jews think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, we must not hesitate to call the spade a spade, even if the whole world thinks otherwise.
The burning to death last night of an 18-month-old Palestinian child, Ali Saad Dawabsha, at the hands of genocidal Jewish settlers south of Nablus is a Nazi act par excellence.
Therefore, we must not indulge in prevarication or verbal juggling, or make red-herring arguments, in an attempt to dilute the issue or make it look banal.
The incident was by no means an isolated one. A year ago, Nazi-like Jewish settlers burned alive a Palestinian boy after kidnapping him and taking him to a remote place, where they pumped gasoline into his belly before setting him on fire.
Unfortunately, Israeli government officials continued to treat this growing phenomenon as a Hasbara issue rather than a terror issue.
This is why Israeli and Jewish officials are often seen struggling to find extenuating circumstances and excuses in order to mitigate the enormity and brutal ugliness of the crimes.
But this approach ultimately encourages the Judeo-Nazi elements to carry out more heinous crimes against the virtually completely unprotected Palestinian population.
We all know that the Palestinian Authority (PA) can't provide any semblance of protection for the Palestinian people just as the Judenrates (or Jewish councils) under the Nazis didn't provide any protection for European Jewry from the Nazi killing machine.
Israel does have the ability to rein in Jewish terrorists who carry out these evil crimes. But Israel lacks the will and the inclination to stem the tide of Jewish terror against Palestinian civilians.
In fact, one wouldn't exaggerate a bit by saying that the Israeli political and security authorities use Jewish terror in the West Bank as a political tool to expedite sinister Israeli goals and policies.
This is the only inevitable conclusion one would reach in light of the failure of the Israeli government to prevent the perpetration of thousands of attacks and acts of vandalism against Palestinians by fanatical Jewish extremists.
Needless to say, these extremists thrive thanks to a brashly-racist education system permeating through hundreds of Talmudic seminaries in Israel, whereby students are taught that non-Jews are infra-humans or animals walking on two legs and whose lives have absolutely no sanctity.
Hence, the claim that we occasionally hear from Zionist apologists that the Jewish terrorists who commit these Nazi-like crimes represent wild weeds should be taken with not a few grains of salt.
I am not claiming or suggesting that burning Palestinian kids alive is an expression of Jewish morality.
However, we cannot deny the fact that the terrorists have a considerable social base in Israel, including hundreds of rabbis who openly advocate and bless the nefarious acts.
Likewise, we can't ignore the fact that the terrorists and the school of thought they espouse and represent has been part and parcel of successive Israeli governments, including the current one.
The quasi-fascist party, known as ha-Bayt ha-Yahudi (Jewish Home) more or less controls the Israeli government. This is the party of the settlers.
The Israeli state is legally bound by international law to provide protection for the Palestinian people who languish under its occupation.
But as we all see Israel has gravely failed to carry out this task as is evident from the relentless persistence of murderous crimes by Jewish terrorists and Israeli security forces against Palestinians. In fact, Israel excels in and strives to torment and murder the Palestinians, much less tries to protect them.
This is why, the Palestinian people urgently needs a meaningful international protection from the ghoul of Jewish Nazism.
We hear and watch rabbis and other leaders in Israel shamelessly call for sending Palestinians to concentration camps. What is even more shocking is that we see how these genocidal urges fail to raise the eyebrows of the Israeli society.
So what are we really waiting for?
Today, the safety and survival of the Palestinian people in the West Bank in particular depends to a large extent on the good will of the international public opinion.
Should the world, God forbid, goes into a brief moment of slumber, Judeo-Nazi elements could seize the moment and embark on the unthinkable.
We should also remember that the holocaust didn't actually start with concentration camps as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and Dachau.
It actually started with incidents very much like what the terrorists are doing to the helpless Palestinians.
The writings are on the wall.
I am not particularly eager to hurl the Nazi epithet at Jews. I know that many Jews harbor a great deal of rectitude and would never condone the evil crimes committed in their name.
However, when some Jews think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, we must not hesitate to call the spade a spade, even if the whole world thinks otherwise.
The burning to death last night of an 18-month-old Palestinian child, Ali Saad Dawabsha, at the hands of genocidal Jewish settlers south of Nablus is a Nazi act par excellence.
Therefore, we must not indulge in prevarication or verbal juggling, or make red-herring arguments, in an attempt to dilute the issue or make it look banal.
The incident was by no means an isolated one. A year ago, Nazi-like Jewish settlers burned alive a Palestinian boy after kidnapping him and taking him to a remote place, where they pumped gasoline into his belly before setting him on fire.
Unfortunately, Israeli government officials continued to treat this growing phenomenon as a Hasbara issue rather than a terror issue.
This is why Israeli and Jewish officials are often seen struggling to find extenuating circumstances and excuses in order to mitigate the enormity and brutal ugliness of the crimes.
But this approach ultimately encourages the Judeo-Nazi elements to carry out more heinous crimes against the virtually completely unprotected Palestinian population.
We all know that the Palestinian Authority (PA) can't provide any semblance of protection for the Palestinian people just as the Judenrates (or Jewish councils) under the Nazis didn't provide any protection for European Jewry from the Nazi killing machine.
Israel does have the ability to rein in Jewish terrorists who carry out these evil crimes. But Israel lacks the will and the inclination to stem the tide of Jewish terror against Palestinian civilians.
In fact, one wouldn't exaggerate a bit by saying that the Israeli political and security authorities use Jewish terror in the West Bank as a political tool to expedite sinister Israeli goals and policies.
This is the only inevitable conclusion one would reach in light of the failure of the Israeli government to prevent the perpetration of thousands of attacks and acts of vandalism against Palestinians by fanatical Jewish extremists.
Needless to say, these extremists thrive thanks to a brashly-racist education system permeating through hundreds of Talmudic seminaries in Israel, whereby students are taught that non-Jews are infra-humans or animals walking on two legs and whose lives have absolutely no sanctity.
Hence, the claim that we occasionally hear from Zionist apologists that the Jewish terrorists who commit these Nazi-like crimes represent wild weeds should be taken with not a few grains of salt.
I am not claiming or suggesting that burning Palestinian kids alive is an expression of Jewish morality.
However, we cannot deny the fact that the terrorists have a considerable social base in Israel, including hundreds of rabbis who openly advocate and bless the nefarious acts.
Likewise, we can't ignore the fact that the terrorists and the school of thought they espouse and represent has been part and parcel of successive Israeli governments, including the current one.
The quasi-fascist party, known as ha-Bayt ha-Yahudi (Jewish Home) more or less controls the Israeli government. This is the party of the settlers.
The Israeli state is legally bound by international law to provide protection for the Palestinian people who languish under its occupation.
But as we all see Israel has gravely failed to carry out this task as is evident from the relentless persistence of murderous crimes by Jewish terrorists and Israeli security forces against Palestinians. In fact, Israel excels in and strives to torment and murder the Palestinians, much less tries to protect them.
This is why, the Palestinian people urgently needs a meaningful international protection from the ghoul of Jewish Nazism.
We hear and watch rabbis and other leaders in Israel shamelessly call for sending Palestinians to concentration camps. What is even more shocking is that we see how these genocidal urges fail to raise the eyebrows of the Israeli society.
So what are we really waiting for?
Today, the safety and survival of the Palestinian people in the West Bank in particular depends to a large extent on the good will of the international public opinion.
Should the world, God forbid, goes into a brief moment of slumber, Judeo-Nazi elements could seize the moment and embark on the unthinkable.
We should also remember that the holocaust didn't actually start with concentration camps as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and Dachau.
It actually started with incidents very much like what the terrorists are doing to the helpless Palestinians.
The writings are on the wall.
General Secretariat for Palestinians in Europe Conference called for organizing a wave of large-scale protests and marches in condemnation of the Israeli crime of burning a Palestinian infant child alive at the hands of extremist Jewish settlers.
Majid al-Zir, the head of Palestinians in Europe Conference, said in a statement on Saturday that the settlers’ crimes in the West Bank could not be done unless there is conspiracy by the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) with those extremist settlers as it provides them with required protection and coverage to commit such crimes.
He demanded that those Jewish criminals, who burned the infant Ali Dawabsheh as well as the Jerusalemite minor Mohammad Abu Khdair, who was burned alive almost a year ago, should be prosecuted along with Israeli leaders.
Zir also emphasized the necessity to offer international protection for the Palestinian people living under occupation. He stressed that the settlers’ violations should be brought to an end by prohibiting them from entering the Palestinian territories.
He called on the international community to pressure the IOA to end the settlers’ violations against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
General Secretariat for Palestinians in Europe Conference underlined that settlers’ offenses constitute an obvious breach of human rights in general and child rights in particular. It pointed out that the Palestinian children have recently become targets of settlers’ repeated attacks and violations.
It opined that the Israeli policy of negligence toward settlers’ offensive actions in the West Bank and refraining from opening investigations in their crimes pave the way for more crimes committed against Palestinians.
Majid al-Zir, the head of Palestinians in Europe Conference, said in a statement on Saturday that the settlers’ crimes in the West Bank could not be done unless there is conspiracy by the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) with those extremist settlers as it provides them with required protection and coverage to commit such crimes.
He demanded that those Jewish criminals, who burned the infant Ali Dawabsheh as well as the Jerusalemite minor Mohammad Abu Khdair, who was burned alive almost a year ago, should be prosecuted along with Israeli leaders.
Zir also emphasized the necessity to offer international protection for the Palestinian people living under occupation. He stressed that the settlers’ violations should be brought to an end by prohibiting them from entering the Palestinian territories.
He called on the international community to pressure the IOA to end the settlers’ violations against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
General Secretariat for Palestinians in Europe Conference underlined that settlers’ offenses constitute an obvious breach of human rights in general and child rights in particular. It pointed out that the Palestinian children have recently become targets of settlers’ repeated attacks and violations.
It opined that the Israeli policy of negligence toward settlers’ offensive actions in the West Bank and refraining from opening investigations in their crimes pave the way for more crimes committed against Palestinians.
Ahmed Ali Dawabsheh 4
Dawabsheh family remain in critical condition; Palestinian officials, including PM Hamdallah, visit family members at hospital.
The parents and four-year-old brother of the Palestinian baby murdered in a Jewish terror attack remain in critical condition on Saturday, as a mourners tent was set up outside the Sheba Medical Center, where they are hospitalized, in memory of the slain baby.
"Burned alive," "The world is heartless" and "Don't burn the children" were some of the banners waved by children and teens that arrived at the mourning tent, and called to bring the killers to justice. Ali Dawabsheh was a year and 10 months old when he died.
Reham Dawabsheh, 27, Ali's mother, is suffering from burns on 90 percent of her body, while her son Ahmad, 4, is suffering from burns on 60 percent of his body. The two are hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center. Saad Dawabsheh, 31, the father, is hospitalized at the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, with burns on 80 percent of his body. Their injuries are life-threatening.
Palestinian intelligence head Majid Faraj, negotiator Saeb Erekat and health minister Dr. Jawad Awaad visited Ahmad Dawabsheh in the hospital on Saturday at noontime.
Faraj and Erekat also visited the mourners tent along with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, while Awaad also visited the father of the family at the Soroka Medical Center.
Nasser, Saad Dawabsheh's brother, who arrived at the Soroka Medical Center, demanded on the Israeli government "to provide us protection as a people living under the occupation, the stop the murderers and bring them to justice."
"This is a government that encourages settlers, that keep saying slogans like 'Death to Arabs', so the government is part of the incitement," he added.
The attack was strongly condemned both in Israel and abroad.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas compared the crime to the 2014 murder of Abu Khdeir. "This is another crime committed by the settlers and the Israeli government," he said.
"The Israeli government continues to build settlements everywhere in the West Bank, and thus encourages settlers to commit these acts. We condemn the Israeli crimes – this is a war crime and a crime against humanity. We will take this to the International Criminal Court and no one will stop us from doing so. We demand that the world act. What does the United States think of these crimes? We don't hear from it. If the Israeli government and the Israeli military wanted to prevent these incidents, they could have prevent them."
Dawabsheh family remain in critical condition; Palestinian officials, including PM Hamdallah, visit family members at hospital.
The parents and four-year-old brother of the Palestinian baby murdered in a Jewish terror attack remain in critical condition on Saturday, as a mourners tent was set up outside the Sheba Medical Center, where they are hospitalized, in memory of the slain baby.
"Burned alive," "The world is heartless" and "Don't burn the children" were some of the banners waved by children and teens that arrived at the mourning tent, and called to bring the killers to justice. Ali Dawabsheh was a year and 10 months old when he died.
Reham Dawabsheh, 27, Ali's mother, is suffering from burns on 90 percent of her body, while her son Ahmad, 4, is suffering from burns on 60 percent of his body. The two are hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center. Saad Dawabsheh, 31, the father, is hospitalized at the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, with burns on 80 percent of his body. Their injuries are life-threatening.
Palestinian intelligence head Majid Faraj, negotiator Saeb Erekat and health minister Dr. Jawad Awaad visited Ahmad Dawabsheh in the hospital on Saturday at noontime.
Faraj and Erekat also visited the mourners tent along with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, while Awaad also visited the father of the family at the Soroka Medical Center.
Nasser, Saad Dawabsheh's brother, who arrived at the Soroka Medical Center, demanded on the Israeli government "to provide us protection as a people living under the occupation, the stop the murderers and bring them to justice."
"This is a government that encourages settlers, that keep saying slogans like 'Death to Arabs', so the government is part of the incitement," he added.
The attack was strongly condemned both in Israel and abroad.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas compared the crime to the 2014 murder of Abu Khdeir. "This is another crime committed by the settlers and the Israeli government," he said.
"The Israeli government continues to build settlements everywhere in the West Bank, and thus encourages settlers to commit these acts. We condemn the Israeli crimes – this is a war crime and a crime against humanity. We will take this to the International Criminal Court and no one will stop us from doing so. We demand that the world act. What does the United States think of these crimes? We don't hear from it. If the Israeli government and the Israeli military wanted to prevent these incidents, they could have prevent them."
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed six Palestinians in the occupied territories, and kidnapped 316, while Israeli fanatics have killed a Palestinian baby, in July.
Ahrar said the army carried out the majority of abductions in occupied Jerusalem, where they have kidnapped 113 Palestinians, followed by the Hebron district, 57, Ramallah, 42, Bethlehem, 32, Nablus, 31, Jenin, 21, Tulkarem, 5, and 4 in Qalqilia.
Among the kidnapped are 20 children from different parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and sixteen women, mainly from Jerusalem.
The soldiers also kidnapped 11 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including three who were taken prisoner after crossing the border fence, and two on border terminals.
The Navy also continued its violations and attacks against Gaza fishers and fishing boats, and kidnapped six fishers in Gaza waters.
Ahrar further stated that Israeli soldiers, and Israeli fanatics, have killed six Palestinians in the West Bank, and one in the Gaza Strip.
The slain Palestinians are:
1. Mohammad Sami al-Kasba, 17, from the Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah – killed by Israeli army fire.
2. Mohammad Maher ‘Alawna, 21, from Burqin in the Jenin district – killed by army fire.
3. Falah Hamdi Abu Mariya, 50, from Beit Ummar in the Hebron district – killed by army fire in his own home.
4. Mohammad Abu Latifa, 18, from the Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah – killed by Israeli army fire.
5. Ali Dawabsha, 18 months of age, burnt to death after Israeli extremists firebombs his family home.
6. Mohammad Hamed al-Masri, 17, from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza – killed by Israeli army fire.
7. Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, in Ramallah, killed by Israeli army fire.
Ahrar said the army carried out the majority of abductions in occupied Jerusalem, where they have kidnapped 113 Palestinians, followed by the Hebron district, 57, Ramallah, 42, Bethlehem, 32, Nablus, 31, Jenin, 21, Tulkarem, 5, and 4 in Qalqilia.
Among the kidnapped are 20 children from different parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and sixteen women, mainly from Jerusalem.
The soldiers also kidnapped 11 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including three who were taken prisoner after crossing the border fence, and two on border terminals.
The Navy also continued its violations and attacks against Gaza fishers and fishing boats, and kidnapped six fishers in Gaza waters.
Ahrar further stated that Israeli soldiers, and Israeli fanatics, have killed six Palestinians in the West Bank, and one in the Gaza Strip.
The slain Palestinians are:
1. Mohammad Sami al-Kasba, 17, from the Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah – killed by Israeli army fire.
2. Mohammad Maher ‘Alawna, 21, from Burqin in the Jenin district – killed by army fire.
3. Falah Hamdi Abu Mariya, 50, from Beit Ummar in the Hebron district – killed by army fire in his own home.
4. Mohammad Abu Latifa, 18, from the Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah – killed by Israeli army fire.
5. Ali Dawabsha, 18 months of age, burnt to death after Israeli extremists firebombs his family home.
6. Mohammad Hamed al-Masri, 17, from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza – killed by Israeli army fire.
7. Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, in Ramallah, killed by Israeli army fire.
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Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17
Three Palestinians, Including A Baby, Killed In 24 Hours Medical sources have reported that a Palestinian teen died on Friday at night of serious wounds he suffered, during evening hours, in clashes between local youths and Israeli soldiers close to the Atara roadblock, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. Several Palestinians Injured In occupied Jerusalem. The sources said Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17 years of age, suffered a gunshot injury in the chest, and was moved to the Palestine Medical Center in Ramallah, where he died of his serious wounds. |
Doctors tried to save his life, and performed two urgent surgeries, but he succumbed to his wounds.
His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and Israeli extremists to three in 24 hours.
On Friday evening, a teenager identified as Mohammad Hamid al-Masri, 17 years of age, was shot and killed by Israeli army fire in Gaza, while another Palestinian was injured in the same attack.
Late on Thursday at night, a Palestinian baby, 18 months of age, was burnt to death, while his four-year-old brother, his mother and father, were severely burnt, after right-wing Israeli extremists firebombed their home in the village of Douma, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, several Palestinians have been injured, on Friday evening, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Shu’fat refugee camp and the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinians were protesting the murder of the Palestinian baby In Douma village.
Five of the wounded Palestinians suffered head injuries, and two in their limbs, but only one of them required hospitalization after suffering an injury below one of his eyes.
Third Palestinian killed in less than 24 hours
A Palestinian teen died late Friday evening of injuries he sustained during clashes at an Israeli military checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, bringing the total deaths’ number to three in less than 24 hours.
Laith al-Khaldi, 17, from the Jifna village near Ramallah, was shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper during violent clashes that erupted at Atara checkpoint following the settlers’ arson attack in Duma town.
Al-Khaldi was shot and injured during similar clashes nearly a month ago in Jalazoun refugee camp.
Unfortunately, he didn’t survive this time like he did last month.
Earlier Friday evening, a 17-year-old teen was killed and another wounded when Israeli border soldiers opened fire at an angry march east of Beit Lahiya district in northern Gaza Strip protesting the settlers' deadly attack on a Palestinian family in Nablus.
On Friday morning, an 18-month-old baby was killed in an arson attack carried out by a group of Israeli settlers near Nablus. Three of his family members remain in critical condition.
Funeral of martyr Laith al-Khaldi north of Ramallah
Hundreds of Palestinians participated on Saturday in the funeral of the martyr Laith al-Khaldi, 18, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on Friday evening.
Eyewitnesses revealed that the body of the martyr was taken out of hospital in a military funeral until Ramallah city center, then it was transferred by an ambulance to al-Jalazon refugee camp where his family lives.
A number of Palestinian Islamic and national figures along with faction leaders took part in the funeral and stressed that chasing Palestinian activists in the West Bank by the Palestinian Authority’s forces paved the way for increasing Israeli offensive practices and crimes against the Palestinian people.
Palestinian observers pointed out that the Israeli forces were deployed near al-Jalazon refugee camp whereas Palestinian youths set fire to car tires and closed the entrance of the camp in anticipation of any likely clashes.
The camp has usually witnessed several confrontations with Israeli forces and settlers of the nearby Beit El outpost east of Ramallah.
Martyr Khaldi died of his wounds resulting from being shot on Friday evening in the chest at the hands of Israeli soldiers. He was proclaimed dead at dawn Saturday.
His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and Israeli extremists to three in 24 hours.
On Friday evening, a teenager identified as Mohammad Hamid al-Masri, 17 years of age, was shot and killed by Israeli army fire in Gaza, while another Palestinian was injured in the same attack.
Late on Thursday at night, a Palestinian baby, 18 months of age, was burnt to death, while his four-year-old brother, his mother and father, were severely burnt, after right-wing Israeli extremists firebombed their home in the village of Douma, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, several Palestinians have been injured, on Friday evening, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Shu’fat refugee camp and the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinians were protesting the murder of the Palestinian baby In Douma village.
Five of the wounded Palestinians suffered head injuries, and two in their limbs, but only one of them required hospitalization after suffering an injury below one of his eyes.
Third Palestinian killed in less than 24 hours
A Palestinian teen died late Friday evening of injuries he sustained during clashes at an Israeli military checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, bringing the total deaths’ number to three in less than 24 hours.
Laith al-Khaldi, 17, from the Jifna village near Ramallah, was shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper during violent clashes that erupted at Atara checkpoint following the settlers’ arson attack in Duma town.
Al-Khaldi was shot and injured during similar clashes nearly a month ago in Jalazoun refugee camp.
Unfortunately, he didn’t survive this time like he did last month.
Earlier Friday evening, a 17-year-old teen was killed and another wounded when Israeli border soldiers opened fire at an angry march east of Beit Lahiya district in northern Gaza Strip protesting the settlers' deadly attack on a Palestinian family in Nablus.
On Friday morning, an 18-month-old baby was killed in an arson attack carried out by a group of Israeli settlers near Nablus. Three of his family members remain in critical condition.
Funeral of martyr Laith al-Khaldi north of Ramallah
Hundreds of Palestinians participated on Saturday in the funeral of the martyr Laith al-Khaldi, 18, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on Friday evening.
Eyewitnesses revealed that the body of the martyr was taken out of hospital in a military funeral until Ramallah city center, then it was transferred by an ambulance to al-Jalazon refugee camp where his family lives.
A number of Palestinian Islamic and national figures along with faction leaders took part in the funeral and stressed that chasing Palestinian activists in the West Bank by the Palestinian Authority’s forces paved the way for increasing Israeli offensive practices and crimes against the Palestinian people.
Palestinian observers pointed out that the Israeli forces were deployed near al-Jalazon refugee camp whereas Palestinian youths set fire to car tires and closed the entrance of the camp in anticipation of any likely clashes.
The camp has usually witnessed several confrontations with Israeli forces and settlers of the nearby Beit El outpost east of Ramallah.
Martyr Khaldi died of his wounds resulting from being shot on Friday evening in the chest at the hands of Israeli soldiers. He was proclaimed dead at dawn Saturday.
Deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya expressed his condolences during a phone call with Dawabsheh family who lost their baby in a settlers’ arson attack.
Haneyya strongly condemned the heinous crime carried out by a group of settlers against a safe Palestinian family in Nablus.
"We stand behind you as we share your pain," he said during the phone conversation.
Haneyya expressed wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured family members who are still receiving treatment in hospital.
On Friday morning, a Palestinian toddler was burned to death while three of his family members were injured after a group of settlers deliberately set fire in two homes in Duma town south of Nablus.
Haneyya strongly condemned the heinous crime carried out by a group of settlers against a safe Palestinian family in Nablus.
"We stand behind you as we share your pain," he said during the phone conversation.
Haneyya expressed wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured family members who are still receiving treatment in hospital.
On Friday morning, a Palestinian toddler was burned to death while three of his family members were injured after a group of settlers deliberately set fire in two homes in Duma town south of Nablus.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, held the Israeli occupation leaders fully responsible for the consequences of the settlers' arson attack on a Palestinian home, which rendered a Palestinian toddler dead in Nablus yesterday.
In a press release on Friday, spokesman for the Brigades Abu Obeida said that the Palestinian people and their resistance would not stay passive towards what he described as the heinous crime of killing Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsheh and wounding his family.
"The resistance has the right to burn the ground underneath of those who burned toddler Ali Dawabsheh," the spokesman warned.
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers at dawn Friday torched two Palestinian house on the outskirts of Duma village, south of Nablus city, killing Ali Dawabsheh, 18 months, and seriously injuring his parents and four-year-old brother.
In a press release on Friday, spokesman for the Brigades Abu Obeida said that the Palestinian people and their resistance would not stay passive towards what he described as the heinous crime of killing Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsheh and wounding his family.
"The resistance has the right to burn the ground underneath of those who burned toddler Ali Dawabsheh," the spokesman warned.
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers at dawn Friday torched two Palestinian house on the outskirts of Duma village, south of Nablus city, killing Ali Dawabsheh, 18 months, and seriously injuring his parents and four-year-old brother.
