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A 13-year-old boy has been killed during clashes with the Israeli military in the West Bank, according to a Palestinian hospital official. Israeli soldiers have killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during clashes in Bethlehem, the second Palestinian youth to die in 24 hours amid continuing violence across the occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem.
A doctor at the Beit Jala hospital said Abdel Rahman Shadi died after being hit by a bullet to the chest and another Palestinian protester was wounded during violence at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem on Monday. Abdel Rahman Shadi, a resident of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, was struck near the heart by a bullet. He died in Beit Jala hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.
The Israeli military said it was investigating the report. A surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians led to several fatalities over the weekend, including four Israelis, and two Palestinians accused of attacks. In Israel and other quarters there is concern that the clashes may be the harbinger of a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
The boy was the second Palestinian youth to be killed on Monday in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. An 18-year-old died earlier in the day in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem. On Friday, two Israeli settlers in the West Bank were killed in front of their children in a drive-by shooting. On Saturday evening, two Israelis were killed in a knife attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. Since then Palestinian sources say scores have been injured in confrontations with Israeli troops and police.
Violence has spread after four Israelis were killed and a two-year-old child wounded in two recent attacks. The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has announced new security measures and pledged “a fight to the death against Palestinian terror”. The latest violence came on the last day of the Jewish religious holiday of Sukhot, during which Jerusalem’s Old City was closed to all Palestinian non-residents in a move unprecedented since the Israeli conquest of Old City in 1967.
Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs have confronted Israeli security forces using both live rounds and rubber bullets. Jewish settlers have also clashed with Palestinians. Abdel was the second Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers within 24 hours. On Sunday night, Huthayfa Othman Suleiman, an 18-year-old Palestinian, was killed during clashes in Tulkarem in the West Bank. He died in the operating theatre.
“He is not the first martyr, nor will he be the last, but he died for his homeland,” his father, Othman Suleiman, said at his son’s funeral on Monday, which was attended by hundreds of people.
At the cemetery where he was buried, in the village of Bala, speakers called for Palestinian security forces to back their struggle against Israel and repeatedly cited recent tension between Israelis and Palestinians at the flashpoint religious site in Jerusalem known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary – home to the Al Aqsa mosque – and known to Jews as Temple Mount.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has pledged “a fight to the death against Palestinian terror” and announced new security measures.
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Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs have confronted Israeli security forces using live rounds and rubber bullets. Jewish settlers have also clashed with Palestinians.
Germany has expressed concern about the unrest three days before Netanyahu’s visit to Berlin. “What possibly awaits us here is something like a new intifada,” Martin Schaefer, the foreign ministry spokesman, said. “That can’t be in anyone’s interest – it can’t be something anyone in Israel wants, or which any responsible Palestinian politician wants. That’s why it is … so important to search for ways and means to resume talks in order to reach a permanent solution.”
His comments came after the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, reportedly urged the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, on Sunday to help garner “international protection for the Palestinian people”.