The Israeli army killed a Palestinian on Saturday morning. Ishaq al-Ajouni was between 17 and 18 years old. He was armed and opened fire at the Qalandiya checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, slightly wounding a guard. The attack was later claimed by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, referring to the young Palestinian as ” of a heroic fighter aiming at the soldiers of the occupation “.
With our correspondent in Ramallah, Alice Froussard
This is the last episode of a bloody week and a chain of violence. Since Monday, sixteen Palestinians – combatants, but also civilians and minors – and four Israelis have been killed in the Occupied Territories.
First there was this raid by the Israeli army in Jenin, with fighting of rare violence. The following day, two armed Palestinians attacked a gas station near a settlement in the northern West Bank. In the evening, settlers attacked two Palestinian villages, before attacking another the following day during the day. On Wednesday evening, three Palestinians were killed in a targeted drone assassination in Jenin, methods more seen since the second Intifada. Until this new attack at the Qalandiya checkpoint.
In all, since the beginning of 2023, at least 176 Palestinians, 25 Israelis have lost their lives. A year that is already shaping up to be a record. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Friday that “ latest killings, violence and inflammatory rhetoric only serve to plunge Israelis and Palestinians deeper into the abyss “.
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