Palestinian killed by IDF during stone-throwing clashes

A particular person holds a Palestinian flag stained with blood of a mortally wounded Palestinian during a remark against Israeli settlements, in Beit Dajan within the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 19, 2021.

(photo credit score: REUTERS/RANEEN SAWAFTA)

IDF troopers shot tiresome a Palestinian on Friday during stone-throwing clashes within the West Bank, a Reuters witness said.

The particular person, within the initiating identified as Sheikh Atef Yousef Hanaisheh, used to be shot within the head and brought to a successfully being facility discontinuance to the West Bank metropolis of Nablus where he later died, the Palestinian successfully being ministry said.

Hanaisheh, who’s in his forties, used to be involved in a weekly remark against Israeli settlements within the village of Beit Dajan, discontinuance to Nablus.

A neighborhood of Palestinians threw stones in direction of two IDF troopers posted there, and the troopers then opened fire, said the Reuters witness, a photographer.

A neighborhood of Palestinians carried the Hanaisheh from the scene. He used to be buried later within the day in Beit Dajan.

Asked for comment, the IDF said the incident used to be under examination.

An IDF spokesperson outlined that a violet revolt had broken out in that assign, wherein Palestinians threw stones at IDF troops. Troopers had had spoke back with revolt dispersal technique, along side firing within the air.

The Palestinians, who possess restricted self-rule within the West Bank, dispute Israel’s settlements there will grunt them a viable disclose. Most nations take into fable the settlements as unlawful under global law.

Israel disputes this, citing security wants as successfully as biblical and historical ties to the land. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.