A Palestinian teenager who was shot and seriously wounded in clashes with police in east Jerusalem earlier this week died on Friday night, Palestinian media reported.
According to a police spokesman, two Palestinians were allegedly involved riots Officers shot in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Wednesday evening.
The spokesman said the suspected rioters were shot after throwing firebombs and fireworks at officers at close range. The injured couple were admitted to the hospital for treatment, in which the condition of one is normal and the condition of the other is critical.
Police said on Wednesday that “at a certain point, a border police officer – who was working at the scene, felt threatened for his life due to firecrackers being thrown directly at him and Molotov cocktails being thrown from a few meters away.” There is danger.” According to the spokesperson, fired accurately at two suspects and neutralized them.
Palestinian media outlets said on Friday that 16-year-old Wadih Aziz Abu Ramoz, who was seriously wounded, had died of his wounds.
Police said they found a utility knife, a Hamas flag and fireworks among the suspects’ belongings.
imperative | Wadih Aziz Abu Ramoz, wadih of the city of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, died as a result of his wounds, which he had suffered several days earlier. pic.twitter.com/ohI4UpwqnH
– Hasan Asli | Hassan (@hassaneslayeh) January 27, 2023
Also on Friday evening, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said three were wounded by gunfire near the northern West Bank town of Beita.
The Kan public broadcaster cited an Israeli security source as saying that two settlement security guards were attacked by Palestinians who were pelting stones while driving through the area. Reports said a guard got out of the damaged vehicle and fired six times.
There was no immediate comment from the army or police on the shooting.
Security factor: 2 Civil Defense personnel traveling towards Yitzhar in Samaria ran into a violent riot during which Palestinians threw stones and broke their vehicle windows. One of the security personnel got out of the vehicle and fired 6 rounds.
Palestinians reported 3 wounded, one of them in critical condition pic.twitter.com/4cGM9OvuaX— Carmel Dangor Carmel Dangor (@carmeldangor) January 27, 2023
events unfolded at about the same time Deadly terrorist attack in JerusalemDuring which a Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israelis near a synagogue, killing seven and wounding three others.
Friday’s deadly attack followed days of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tensions have risen dramatically since Thursday morning, when an Israeli Defense Forces raid against a terrorist cell in the West Bank killed nine Palestinians – most of them gunmen and cell members, though at least one The civilian was also killed.
saw thursday night rocket fire Both sides appeared intent on avoiding escalation into a full-scale war from Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza and Israeli retaliatory airstrikes.
Tensions have risen in the West Bank as the IDF presses an anti-terrorist offensive in 2022 to deal with a series of attacks that killed 31 people in Israel and the West Bank.
The IDF’s operation has made more than 2,500 arrests in almost nightly raids. It also killed 171 Palestinians in 2022, and another 32 since the beginning of the year, many of them in carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, though some were unconcerned civilians.
