The events took place in the refugee camps of Balata and Kalandia. Nine other people were injured.
Le Monde with AFP
Two young Palestinians were killed on Tuesday, March 15, during the operations of the Israeli forces in the West Bank.
Nader Haitham Rayan, 16, one of the two victims, was fatally wounded by several bullets, head, chest and by hand, said the Palestinian ministry without giving other details on the circumstances of the incident. The event took place in the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, as part of an operation of the Israeli army.
A spokesman for Israeli border guards, a unit deployed in the West Bank, explained to the France-Presse agency that “when they [the armed forces] were preparing to leave the camp, a motorcycle is Arrival with a terrorist on board that shot in their direction. The Israeli forces have replied and killed it “. The exchange of shots occurred while the Israeli forces left the Balata camp after arrested “a Palestinian sought after by Israel for terrorist activities,” he said.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, three other Palestinians were injured and were hospitalized, including one in a serious state.
The second victim, Alaa Shaham, aged twenty years, was mortally affected by a ball at the head in the Kalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Ministry and the Agency Palestinian official press wafa. In addition, six other young Palestinians were wounded by bullets, according to the Palestinian Ministry.
The spokesperson for Israeli border guards has reported violence during an arrest operation in the Kalandia refugee camp. When the Israeli forces stopped “two people involved in terrorist activities (…) The riots erupted in the Kalandia refugee camp,” he justified in a statement. “Hundreds of rioters have threw heavy objects from the roofs of houses endangering Israeli forces, who responded by dispersing the demonstrations and pulling,” he added.
Twenty Palestinians killed in the West Bank since 2022
These violence occurs while a senior official of the US State Department for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, Hady AMR, conducted these days a tour in Israel and the West Bank. It aims to “reduce tensions” and “implement specific economic measures” to “improve” in particular the living conditions of the Palestinians, aims the US embassy.
Clashes with the Israeli army regularly burst into the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory since 1967 by the Hebrew State, on the margins of demonstrations against Israeli colonization or arrests in Palestinian localities by the Israeli security forces.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Palestinian, 20 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by the Israeli forces since the beginning of 2022. About 475,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, where more than 2.8 million Palestinians live.