Israel executes Palestinian in hospital room

In Budrus, a village in the central occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead 22-year-old Lafi Awwad on Friday afternoon, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Thursday’s incident brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since October 1 to 83, including 18 children and four women.

The officers arrested Azzam al-Shalalda, 20, who is accused of stabbing an Israeli man who exited his ar after coming under attack by rock-throwing Palestinians near Jerusalem.

Shalalda’s brother Bilal, who was asleep in vigil alongside him, said he was tied to the bed by the Israeli forces.

The Israeli Shin Bet security agency said in a statement that Azzam Shalaldeh came from a family of operatives for the Islamist group Hamas. “No one should violate hospitals, but Israel did”. There was another raid on a hospital to detain a suspect last month.

Numerous Palestinians killed were alleged attackers shot at the scene, others died in clashes with Israeli security forces.

“They are firing a lot of live ammunition”, Mohannad Darabee, a photographer at the clashes, said by telephone, adding that at least 25 demonstrators were shot by live ammunition or rubber-coated steel bullets.

The assailants also injured another cousin of Abdullah, who was with him at the time, Press TV reported.

“We heard shots. I didn’t know if they were shooting in the air or if they had shot someone”, said SZ, who remained outside Mr Al Shalaldeh’s room.

Democratic and Republican administrations have opposed Israel settlement activity since 1967, as has most of the worldwide community, deeming it a hindrance to a peace agreement that establishes an independent Palestine alongside Israel.

Three Palestinians were shot dead in Hebron and Ramallah yesterday.

At least 82 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made no mention at a press conference Friday evening of a terror attack that killed an Israeli father and son hours earlier in the West Bank, focusing instead on Palestinian “despair”. The global human rights group Amnesty worldwide said wounds to Abdallah’s head and upper body suggested the shooting was an “extrajudicial execution”.

Just before 3 p.m. on Friday, the Magen David Adom rescue service received a report of gunshots fired at a auto near Otniel Junction in the southern West Bank. The Israeli military’s own regulations allow soldiers in the occupied West Bank to open fire only when their lives are in imminent danger.

The killing of Abdullah Shalaldah is the latest in a pattern of killings by Israeli forces which Amnesty considers to have been unlawful.