Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem

MADRID Dec. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Israeli security forces have killed a Palestinian teenager suspected of throwing stones at several vehicles in the Silwan neighborhood, located in East Jerusalem, without the Israeli authorities having commented for now on what happened.

The Palestinian authorities in Jerusalem have detailed that the deceased is Omar Husam Yaqub Suaiki, 17, who was shot by security forces and taken to a hospital in serious condition, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The teenager was shot by Border Police agents because he was supposedly in the area throwing stones, as reported by the JNS agency, although for now there are no details about the incident.

For his part, Harun Nasseraldin, a senior official in the political arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has denounced that “the people of Jerusalem pay with their blood and that of their children the price of firmness and resistance in occupied Jerusalem.” and confront the occupation’s plans to displace them from their land and homes.

Naseraldin regretted the death of Suaiki and stressed that “the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people will not reduce their determination, but rather will have counterproductive results and lead to more hatred,” according to the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’, linked to the Islamist group.

Palestinian authorities have reported the deaths of nearly 800 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the hands of security forces and settlers since October 7, 2023, the date of attacks carried out by Hamas and other Palestinian factions against Israeli territory.

The attacks, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 250 kidnapped, led Israel to launch a military offensive against the Gaza Strip that has already left more than 44,500 Palestinians dead and more than 105,000 injured, in addition to plunging the enclave into a deep crisis. humanitarian in the face of restrictions on the delivery of aid.