The Israeli army announced that its forces killed a Palestinian youth on Friday near the city of Hawara, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, “after he tried to attack a soldier in a military installation,” despite his later admission that the suspect “was not armed.” With the fall of this youth, the number of Palestinians rises to 36. Killed by Israeli bullets since early 2023 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amid international calls for calm and restraint. Nablus” in the occupied West Bank, and a French news agency photographer saw Kalalwa’s body in a hospital mortuary in Nablus.
The incident is the latest in a series of similar incidents that have occurred almost daily for a year as tensions in the West Bank escalated and violence reached its highest level in more than a decade.
And while the pace of violence between Palestinians and Israel has escalated recently, international calls for calm and restraint continue, for more violence and bloodshed.
