Three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old, were shot and killed by Israeli forces in the southern and central West Bank over the past day, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said Friday night. Mustafa Hamad, 22, died early Friday of wounds sustained overnight when Israeli forces opened fire at the entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, also wounding three other Palestinians, one of whom was arrested, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency. Sufian Abu Leil, 46, was reportedly shot in the head by troops who clashed with Palestinians leaving Hamad’s funeral in the adjacent Qalandiya refugee camp on Friday afternoon, WAFA said, adding that another young man was also wounded.
Both Hamad and Abu Leil succumbed to their wounds at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, according to Palestinian reports. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that “in two different incidents over the past day,” troops operating near the central West Bank’s Qalandiya refugee camp opened fire on “key instigators” of “disturbances that included hurling of stones at the forces.” Hits were identified. There are no casualties to our forces,” the IDF said.
The military did not immediately comment on the death of 15-year-old Adham Dahman south of Bethlehem. Dahman succumbed to his wounds at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, where he was rushed late Friday night after being shot by Israeli forces operating in the Dheisheh refugee camp, the PA Health Ministry said. (Ed note: The Dheisheh refugee camp is a densely populated, long-standing Palestinian refugee camp located south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, established in 1949 to house refugees from over 45 villages near Jerusalem and Hebron. Covering roughly 0.33 sq km, it houses over 19,000 residents. Here we definitely have a example of "the tents of Edom" as found in Psalm 83:6. Check it out.) (Read More)
