Yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that a Palestinian youth had been killed by Israeli army bullets in the occupied West Bank.
The ministry said in a statement: “Citizen Ahmed Ibrahim Oveidat (20) died of critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head at dawn in the Aqabat Jaber camp” in the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
And the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that three young men were shot by Israeli forces and four others were arrested during clashes that broke out in the town of Kabatiya, south of Jenin. The Israeli army said in a statement that it carried out an operation in the Aqabat Jabr camp and that “dozens of Palestinians brutally attacked the soldiers”, setting tires on fire, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, stressing that no soldiers were harmed.
The Fatah movement in the Jericho and Jordan Valley areas announced yesterday a comprehensive strike, except in the health sector, to mourn the killing of Oveidat.
Some three million Palestinians live in the occupied West Bank, in addition to some 475,000 settlers in settlements on Palestinian land that the international community considers illegal.
For more than a week, clashes have erupted between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli forces near the Temple Mount in occupied East Jerusalem, where prayers are being held on the occasion of Ramadan. As a result, more than 250 Palestinians suffered.
