Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Bethlehem

20 Mar

11:06 PM

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man, and seriously injured another, at the Nashash military roadblock, at the southern entrance of the al-Khader, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the young man, Ahmad Jamal Mahmoud Manasra, 22, was shot with live rounds in the chest, shoulder and arm. The slain young man was from Wadi Fukin village, west of Bethlehem.

It added that Palestinians medics rushed to the scene, but the young man was already dead, and moved his body to the Beit Jala governmental hospital.

The soldiers also shot another young man in the abdomen, causing a life-threatening injury, before he was rushed to surgery in the al-Yamamah hospital, in Bethlehem.

The two Palestinians were shot when the soldiers fired many live rounds at a car at the southern entrance of al-Khader.

Ahmad Manasra after the soldiers killed him

The Israeli army only claimed that the “Palestinians were killed in clashes in Bethlehem,” without providing any other allegations.

It is worth mentioning that Ahmad is the fourth Palestinian to be killed by the army in less than 24 hours, after the soldiers killed last night and at dawn, Omar Amin Abu Laila, 19, in Abwein village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, in addition to Ra’ed Hashem Hamdan, 21, and Zeid Emad Nouri, 20, who were killed by the soldiers in Nablus, in northern West Bank.

Earlier on Wednesday, the soldiers invaded the area surrounded the al-‘Arroub College, in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and fired a barrage of gas bombs, concussion grenades and live rounds at students nonviolently marching and protesting the killings committed by the army.

Medical sources have reported that the soldiers caused many Palestinians to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation.