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Israeli mayor says “We are the masters”
On Monday, Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinian youths, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since heightened violence erupted on 1 October across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and inside present-day Israel to 27.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have been injured by live ammunition and rubber-coated steel bullets, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry.
In the same period, four Israelis have been killed and 67 injured.
Palestinians have called for a general strike in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and present-day Israel to protest Israel’s escalating repression.
As violence continues, Palestinian children and teenagers make up a large proportion of the dead and injured.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the deployment of up to 2,000 paramilitary Border Police reservists in occupied East Jerusalem.
On Monday evening in central Gaza, Israel claimed that about 20 Palestinians broke through a boundary fence near al-Bureij refugee camp, reportedly managing to enter Israel before the army responded with live rounds and tear gas.
In recent days, 9 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire across the boundary into Gaza and a pregnant mother and her baby daughter were killed in an air strike.
“ISIS-like” cruelty
Mustafa Adel al-Khatib, 18, was shot dead at the entrance to the Old City in Jerusalem.
Israeli police said al-Khatib attempted to stab a Border Police officer, before other officers in the area open-fired on him.
But Palestinian witnesses told Ma’an News Agency al-Khatib had no knife.
Fifteen-year-old Hasan Khalid Manasra was shot by police in the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in East Jerusalem.
He was with his cousin Ahmad Salih Manasra, 13, who was seriously injured. Israeli police allege that boys stabbed and injured two Israelis, an adult and a 13 year old.
Hasan died immediately, while Ahmad remains in critical condition.
A video reported to be of Ahmad gasping for breath as he bleeds on the ground was uploaded to social media by an Israeli passerby.
Onlookers can be heard shouting insults at the bleeding boy, including, “Die, son of a whore!”
Another person tells the police to “give him one in the head.”
The video has generated shock even among Palestinians regularly exposed to the occupation’s violence.
Wattan TV said that it demonstrated the “ISIS-like and terrorist” mentality of Israeli occupation forces and settlers toward Palestinians.
Warning: This video is extremely graphic and disturbing.
A third Palestinian was killed
Monday night after he allegedly stabbed and lightly injured an Israeli
soldier on a bus in Jerusalem and tried to steal his gun. The name of
the person was not immediately available.
The same day, a teenage Palestinian girl was shot and wounded in Jerusalem.
A schoolmate interviewed by Shehab News Agency identified the teenage girl as Marah al-Bakri.
Police allege that she had tried to stab a police officer, who was slightly injured.
On
Sunday, 13-year-old Ahmad Sharaka was killed by a live bullet in the
neck at a protest outside Ramallah in the West Bank, near the Israeli
settlement of Beit El.
A
video filmed in Hebron shows 65-year old Ziad Abu Khalil confronting
Israeli soldiers, shouting that they should be ashamed of themselves for
shooting children.
Abu Khalil showed no fear even as the
soldiers raised their guns. He spoke for some time before he collapsed
on the ground and was rushed to hospital by Palestinian medics.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/10/israeli-mayor-says-we-are-masters.html
