A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli forces Sunday in occupied East Jerusalem, in keeping with Israeli police, Anadolu Company reported.
Israeli police launched a press release saying the 19-year-old injured two cops in an alleged knife assault in Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis.
On Twitter, Public Safety Minister Omer Bar-Lev additionally confirmed that the Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli police, who he stated acted “shortly and resolutely” after the alleged assault.
The Palestinian state information company Wafa, citing eyewitnesses, stated the Palestinian youth was “left bleeding helplessly on the bottom till he died of his crucial wounds in a couple of minutes.”
Wafa recognized the lifeless Palestinian as Samer Qawasmi, 19, including that the incident occurred in Bab Hutta in Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis.
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Israeli forces sealed the entrances to the Previous Metropolis following the incident and arrange checkpoints on the roads resulting in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Dozens of Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces in current months for allegedly trying to hold out stabbing or car-ramming assaults. Palestinian rights teams, in the meantime, accuse Israeli forces of intentionally killing Palestinians with no threat to their lives.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem in the course of the 1967 Arab-Israeli warfare. In 1980 it annexed your entire metropolis, in a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide group.
