Wrath of Israeli offensive unleashed on Palestinians in West Bank

Five Palestinians, all civilians, were killed Friday while participating in two different protests, called in the Day of Anger called by the main factions in the West Bank to protest the siege of Gaza. With them are eight deaths in the area, the other major Palestinian enclave, east of Israel.  The march of the night from Thursday to Friday at the Qalandia checkpoint, where more than 20,000 people gathered and two young died, was the most important convened on Palestinian soil since 2005.

As confirmed by the Palestinian authorities, two of the dead were reported in Huwara, a crossroads just south of Nablus and surrounded by Jewish settlements. The protesters, about 200, faced with stone a settler drew his weapon and fired into the chest of a boy of 18, who died instantly. Then the settler fled. A reinforcement of Israeli troops moved into the area to control the situation but ended up shooting another man of 22 years. There were three more wounded by bullets and dozens of people were poisoned by tear gas. The police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Israel Radio before attacking, warning shots into the air were fired, a claim which a witnesses denied according to the Palestinian news agency Maan. “They fired because their lives were in danger, but the case is being investigated,” military sources added, also investigating the use of live ammunition.

The other three deaths occurred near Hebron, in the village of Beit Ummar, where three men were shot 30, 35 and 47. The latter was a worker of the NGO International Organization for the Defense of Children, as confirmed by the Hebron hospital where he was treated.

Ten people are admitted in serious condition in Ramallah, following the clash between youths and Israeli soldiers last night, of which two are in critical condition. It’s the same situation in which a wounded Palestinian in his twenties is in the head by a rubber coated bullet near the entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Israel ‘s grip on the steps that connect the West Bank with East Jerusalem prevented thousands of Palestinians entering city on Friday on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. At the Temple Mount entry only women and men over 50 years were allowed. The others could not cross the checkpoints, while residents in East Jerusalem drew their rugs outside and prayed  between the police fences and under makeshift awnings.

Ramzi Khatib, a law student at Al Quds, who went to the Damascus Gate, claimed that Israel vetoed them “to the minimum right to practice religion freely.” ” In the West Bank and Jerusalem suffer their control, direct occupation, their abuses. Now our brothers in Gaza killed by them in mass. The least we can do is pray and protest ” justified.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the West Bank strengthened in recent months after the death of several of its members similar to the Friday protests, issued a statement explaining that these riots are ” a natural extension of resistance in Gaza ” will remain so as long as the Israeli offensive.

During the day, the Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, and the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki -Moon, have come together to propose a motion for a humanitarian ceasefire. The Israeli security cabinet has rejected the government not have been given to know the details of the proposal. However, sources said the U.S. administration, Israel has agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza 12 hours from 06:00 CET Saturday

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