Thousands mourn two Palestinians killed by Israel in Hebron

The city is a frontline of the conflict, with 500 Jewish settlers living under military protection in the centre of a city of 200,000 Palestinians. Palestinians massacred 67 Jewish residents in 1929. Altogether, more than 270 Palestinians were treated during clashes on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, around 100 with bullet and rubber bullet wounds and the rest after inhaling tear gas.

One officer was disguised as a Palestinian woman in a black niqab. Then came Friday’s killings.

A Palestinian man, who was visiting his cousin at the hospital, was fatally shot by the Israeli military forces.

Last month, the Israeli government ordered an intensification of punitive home demolitions in response to a wave of stabbing and shooting attacks and other deadly unrest.

The southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron was the second city on the list of the most detentions, with 70 Palestinians detained, including 50 minors.

Palestinians and Jews in this city see no end to the bloodshed. “So, I feel a little more liberated to do what I think is necessary”, he said.

“The situation is very bad here”, Issa Amro, coordinator of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements activist group, said by phone.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The demolitions in Nablus prompted clashes between protesters and the Israeli army in which nine Palestinians were wounded, two of them by live ammunition, Palestinian medical sources said. In another incident, soldiers clearing militant camps killed four insurgents, arrested one, and freed 61 captives, the Defense Headquarters said in a Facebook post.

Every incident merely worsens the feelings of distrust.

An Israeli father and son were killed after Palestinian gunmen fired on the auto their family was traveling in near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported Friday.

Hassan Jihad al-Baw, 23, died after being shot in the heart, doctors at Hebron’s al-Ahli Hospital told the Ma’an news agency.

“This is an outright crime”, Shawar said.

According to two witnesses Amnesty has spoken to, the soldiers and police entered a room on the third floor of the hospital where 20-year-old Azzam Azmi Shalaldah was a patient, to arrest him on suspicion of stabbing an Israeli civilian on 25 October.

CCTV footage from Hebron’s al-Ahli hospital showing Israeli undercover forces during their raid to detain Abdullah al-Shalaldeh. They promised to take the latest raid up with Israeli officials “at the appropriate level”.

“The security establishment will not allow for safe refuge for terror operatives, anywhere”, the statement said.

The protests followed the funeral of Abdallah al-Shalalda, executed by Israeli forces in a hospital the day prior, attended by thousands in the village.