The rights group B’Tselem decried Israel’s “excessive and unwarranted use of lethal gunfire” as its forces killed seven more Palestinians in the last week, and a woman died of her injuries after being shot at a checkpoint in November.
Abdallah Nasasra, 15, was killed near the Huwwara military checkpoint outside the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, 17 December.
Abdallah Nasasra (via Quds)
An Israeli army spokesperson told the Ma’an News Agency that the boy had charged at soldiers with a knife.
A Palestinian ambulance driver told Ma’an that soldiers prevented medical teams from treating the teen.
“No Israelis were injured during the incident,” the agency added.
The Quds news website reported that Nasasra’s body is being withheld by Israel.
Israel is holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed in alleged attacks, including more than 12 children.
Nasasra was killed shortly before the funeral for 18-year-old Samah Abd al-Mumin Abdallah, who died from her wounds weeks after she was hit by a bullet while sitting in her father’s car at Huwwara checkpoint.
The young woman was shot when Israeli forces opened fire on and killed Alaa Khalil Hashash, 16, who allegedly tried to stab a soldier on 23 November.
Children killed
Two dozen children are among the approximately 125 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces during weeks of increased violence.
Sixteen Israeli civilians and three members of its armed forces were killed during that same period, since 1 October, according to B’Tselem.
More than 70 Palestinians killed since the beginning of October were shot dead during alleged attacks, and many of them were fired on “even after they no longer posed any danger,” B’Tselem stated on Wednesday.
“Some were injured and lying motionless on the ground when they were shot dead,” according to the rights group.
Many of the incidents were recorded on video.
“Some cases were summary executions, without the benefit of law or trial,” the group added, finding blame in the “inflammatory language used by ministers and elected officials” for what amounts to an unwritten “shoot to kill” policy.
Left to “bleed to death”
That policy left three young Palestinians dead after alleged car ramming attacks this week.
A 21-year-old Palestinian man, Abd al-Muhsen al-Husseini, was shot and killed after allegedly ramming his car into a bus stop, injuring several people, in Jerusalem on Monday.
Two other Palestinians – Ahmad Jahajha, 23, and Hikmat Hamdan, 33, were shot dead in separate incidents after allegedly attempting to run over Israeli soldiers who were raiding Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the pre-dawn hours on Wednesday.
Israeli forces fired on Jahajha at close range “after he rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers,” witnesses told the Ma’an News Agency.
Ma’an added: “Israeli forces reportedly left Jahajha to ‘bleed to death’ before taking his body and detaining another resident who had been shot and injured, witnesses said.”
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