Security forces have killed 66 Palestinians since the beginning of the year.
The top IDF officials are also concerned about this figure
The army emphasizes that they are trying to avoid harming the uninvolved and insists that every incident is investigated, but the number of Palestinians killed in Judea and Samaria, some of them minors, has been on a significant upward trend in the past year.
Against the background of the killing of journalist Sheerin Abu Akala, the IDF fears another international criticism
Amir Bohbot
05/07/2022
Tuesday, 05 July 2022, 09:30 Updated: Wednesday, 06 July 2022, 22:00
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Palestinian report: Terrorist killed in exchange of gunfire with IDF forces in Jenin (from Arab networks)
A 16-year-old boy from the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, was shot dead by security forces on Monday (Monday) after throwing stones.
He thus became the 66th Palestinian killed and killed by security forces since the beginning of the year throughout Judea and Samaria, some of them minors.
This is after 77 Palestinians were killed in 2021 as a whole.
The Palestinians also report another incident that occurred early in the morning in the Tulkarm area, in which a resident of the village of Anza tried to cross the seam line and was shot by IDF soldiers. Or it is an internal Palestinian event.
The death toll has been a cause for concern in the defense establishment, including criticism of Defense Minister Bnei Gantz in closed talks with senior commanders and Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, who instructed to investigate the incidents. , Left to work in Judea and Samaria contrary to the permits given to him and was shot while crossing the seam line without responding to the warriors' calls.) At the beginning of last month, three Palestinians were killed in one day: A grandson who was injured during an exchange of gunfire, and an activist of the Popular Front in the Daheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem.
Security forces activity in the West Bank, April (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Judea and Samaria military officials responded in a conversation with Walla! Last week the forces and rejected the criticism. "The friction and violence in Judea and Samaria are rising. "Battalion commanders want to give permission after a suspicious arrest procedure and before any shooting at the lower body," they said.
"Every incident is being investigated. Every incident is being studied and lessons are being learned from it," they added.
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Despite this, there is concern at the top of the security establishment, including in the IDF, that the number of Palestinian casualties from Israeli security forces since the beginning of the year will increase in senior Palestinian Authority talks with US President Joe Biden, and Israel will be required to explain Because not everyone is a terrorist, and in some cases these are young Palestinians who did not hold weapons or Molotov cocktails, with the shooting incident of journalist Sheerin Abu
Akala
also echoing in the background.
A visit to Biden in Israel, in which the entrances to the Jenin refugee camp, a prominent terrorist center, were reduced, as well as the scope of the arrests throughout Judea and Samaria.
IDF: "Avoid harming the uninvolved"
The IDF Spokesman also rejected the criticism. .
"IDF fighters act in accordance with the instructions and according to the operational need.
The use of live ammunition is made in accordance with the operational circumstances and after all the possibilities have been exhausted, in accordance with the opening fire regulations that comply with the rules of international law, and in an effort to avoid harming the uninvolved.
Moreover, the IDF is careful to investigate and ascertain incidents with casualties, to produce and apply lessons learned
. As a rule, a criminal investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident, unless the activity was of a real combat nature - then a factual assessment is conducted first.
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