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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank, wound one in Jerusalem

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank, wound one in Jerusalem
Earlier on Sunday Israeli police captured two Palestinians who killed three Israelis in a stab attack on Thursday.
4 min read
09 May, 2022
Since mid March, Israeli forces have killed 27 Palestinians. [Getty]

Two Palestinians were killed by  late on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry announced.

They were identified as 17-year-old Motasem Atallah, killed inside the of Tekoa, near the village of Taqoa , and 27-year-old Mahmoud Arram killed at an Israeli checkpoint south of Tulkarem, north of the West Bank.

Atallah was a high school student from the neighbouring village of Harmalah, near Taqoa. The local high school mourned him as one of its students.

, Atallah had climbed the fence of the carrying a knife, and was shot dead by an Israeli settler armed with an automatic rifle, whom the Israeli interior minister, Aylet Shaked ".

"Motasem was a good student, always smiling and befriending all his classmates," his school's social instructor told °®Âþµº. "He had a calm and polite behaviour. He was the eldest of his siblings and wanted to help them after graduation." 

Atallah's father described him as "a calm, polite young man" to °®Âþµº. "He had big dreams and loved , traditional of our region, and even began to learn it beside the school," he said.

"He didn't talk much politics at home, but like all his age-peers he was moved by the situation," the victim's father added.

Meanwhile, , Israeli forces also shot and killed 27-year-old Mahmoud Arram near an Israeli checkpoint separating the occupied West Bank and Israel.

The Israeli army said in a brief statement that a Palestinian,  in Israel, tried to climb the fence into Israel before being killed by Israeli forces.

Arram was originally from . His family told Palestinian media that he had travelled to the West Bank two years ago after obtaining an Israeli exit permit from the Gaza Strip, for medical treatment.

"He received treatment in his eye for an injury caused by a work accident," his uncle .

"He worked in construction in the West Bank and sent money ," the uncle said, adding that the family was "in a state of shock, hoping to receive a phone call that denies the news."

Also on Sunday, Israeli police shot and critically wounded a Palestinian at in Jerusalem. He was identified as 19-year-old Natheer Marzouq, from the village of Abwein near Ramallah.

A video circulating social media shows incidents of violence inside an Israeli police watch cabin overlooking  and gunshot can be heard.

According to Israeli police reports , Israeli policemen had taken the young man into the watch cabin for interrogation, when he stabbed and wounded one of the policemen in the neck.

Marzouq's lawyer that he was in a critical condition and was detained at the Israeli Hadassa hospital in Jerusalem.

Israeli forces increased control measures in the West Bank following the , east of Tel Aviv, in a stabbing attack by two Palestinians from the West Bank on Thursday.

Israeli forces captured the two Palestinians on Sunday and raided the village of Rummanah west of Jenin, the hometown of the two men.

The situation in the West Bank and escalated during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in April, with Israeli extremist settlers staging , and Israeli police violently evacuated Palestinians from the sanctuary.

While Israel by Israeli settlers during Ramadan's last week, Israeli settlers , raising fears of a new escalation.

On Thursday, the Palestinian foreign ministry called in a statement on the UN security council to "stop Israeli escalations".

"The UN Security Council's abandonment of its responsibilities and failure to fulfil its obligations has become a cover for the Israeli racist and colonial violations and crimes against our people," he added. 

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