A young man from Jerusalem was killed and others were wounded in the town of Al-Issawiya east of Jerusalem when the Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at them after a protest organized by the residents Thursday evening at the entrance to the town.
The protest was organized in protest against the policy of collective punishment that the occupation forces are subjected to on a daily basis towards the residents of Issawiya.
The member of the Follow-up Committee in Issawiya Mohammed Abu al-Homs of the island Net that violent confrontations broke out in the town after the vigil, during which the occupation army and special forces sound bombs and tear gas in the face of unarmed youths, and then began firing live bullets, wounding the young Mohammed Samir Obaid Chest and heart area.
Abu al-Homs said that he tried with a group of young men to transfer the injured, but the Israeli police kidnapped him despite his critical injury, and then announced his death at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Other young men were also slightly injured during the confrontations at a time when no arrests had been reported to date.
The Israeli police said that during "security operations" carried out in the town of Al-Isawiya, a Palestinian youth fired live ammunition at the security forces, "endangering their lives." They fired at him, wounding him, before the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced his death.
According to the police, the occupation forces are often subjected to attacks by fireballs, adding that if the launch of these crackers "from close range is a threat to life."
In the hospital there was tension within the emergency department, and showed videos of the attack of special forces on the people of Issawiya in the section to check on the injured.
The town of Issawiya is constantly attacked by the occupation authorities, such as semi-daily incursions, mass arrests, the release of arbitrary traffic violations, the distribution of demolition orders and the provocation of young men after their arrest.