Palestinian teenager shot by Israeli forces in West Bank clashes as settlers block Ramallah road

In the latest incident of violence against Palestinians, Israeli forces have shot and injured a Palestinian teenage boy during clashes in the occupied West Bank, local media reports say.

Palestine's official WAFA news agency identified the victim a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was attacked by Israeli soldiers in Kufr Qaddoum area in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Sources and witnesses said that the teenager was shot in the chest with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by the Israeli forces during clashes in the area.

Rights advocates say that Israeli forces have adopted a “shoot-to-kill” policy during clashes with Palestinians, even in clear cases where they could be captured. 

Tel Aviv has been criticized for its extensive use of lethal force and extrajudicial killing of Palestinians who do not pose an immediate threat to its forces or to settlers.

Israeli troops have on numerous occasions been caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians, with the videos going viral online and sparking international condemnation.

Also earlier in the day, fierce clashes erupted after Israeli troops stormed a number of neighborhoods in Ramallah city of West Bank and the Jordan valley. There, Israeli army soldiers used tear gas canisters and stun grenades to disperse angry youth protesters

The Israeli soldiers also forced their way and broke into Palestinian houses during raids on villages around Ramallah and northern Jordan valley.

The Israeli military frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for ‘wanted’ Palestinians.

125 Palestinians injured as Israeli settlers, troops raid village in West Bank

At least 125 Palestinian civilians are wounded in violent attacks Israeli forces after hundreds of Israeli settlers attempted to break into a village.

Israeli authorities have threatened to launch a massive arrest campaign if Palestinian youths do not stop protests against Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied territories. Much of the international community regards the settler units as illegal.

Palestinians: End Israeli settler ‘terrorism’ or expect new intifada

The Palestinian Authority is urging the international community to intervene to protect Palestinians in the face of increasing settler violence that has left hundreds injured in the West Bank in recent days.

Dozens of settlers block Ramallah road

According to Palestinian media reports, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, dozens of extremist Israeli settlers blocked the entrance to the town of Sijnil to the north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday evening.

The setters also attacked several vehicles and houses belonging to Palestinians in the area.

Israeli settlers routinely engage in violence and vandalism against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians are outraged by rising settler attacks on their villages, with backing from Israeli troops.

Israeli rights group B’Tselem has documented hundreds of such attacks this year alone.

However, Israeli authorities rarely prosecute the Israeli settler assaults on Palestinians and their property and the vast majority of the files are closed due to deliberate police failure to investigate properly.

Settler violence includes property and mosque arson attacks, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Pres. spox: Palestinians will not allow settlers attacks to continue, can defend their rights

A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the rising violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank needs to be stopped.

A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday strongly denounced the rising violent attacks by Israeli forces and extremist settlers across the occupied territories, stressing that Palestinians have a lawful right to resist Israel's occupation of their lands.

The Israeli regime occupied the West Bank in 1967 before starting to dot the Palestinian territory with illegal settlements and severely restricting the Palestinians' freedom of movement there.

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital.

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