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Israeli police announced yesterday that it had killed a Palestinian suspected of running over a military checkpoint at the entrances to occupied East Jerusalem.
Police said in a statement that a car driven by an East Jerusalem resident arrived at the Al-Zaeem checkpoint that separates the city of Jerusalem from Jericho and the Maaleh Adumim settlement, and while examining the documents, a soldier from the Military Police suspected that the driver’s documents were falsified.
“The suspect quickly walked away and struck the policeman who was at the scene of the accident,” police said.
Police added: “The guards shot him and took him away for medical treatment at Hadassah Hospital,” where his death was announced.
Police did not immediately describe the incident at the al-Zaim checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, as a terrorist attack.
The Hadassah hospital statement said he arrived at the hospital’s trauma unit “without a pulse and with a severe stomach injury.”
And last June, Ahmed Erekat was killed at a West Bank checkpoint, the nephew of Saeb Erekat, a veteran Palestinian negotiator who died from the new Corona virus this month, after Israeli police said he drove his car quickly. towards a policewoman.
His uncle said at the time that Ahmed, 27, had been “executed.” He denied police accusations of an attempted car hit-and-run, describing it as “impossible”, adding that Ahmed was getting married later that week.
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested four Palestinians from the city of Beit Awa, southwest of Hebron.
According to local and security sources in Hebron, the occupation forces stormed the city of Beit Awa, southwest of Hebron, and arrested Nidal Yasser Mahmoud Masalmeh, Sajid Ismail Masalma, Samih Abdel Qader Masalma and Youssef Hassan Masalma, after registering their houses and alter their content.
On the other hand, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qadura Fares, confirmed the existence of Israeli and international pressure on the Palestinian Authority to “stop paying the salaries of Palestinian prisoners and freedmen” from Israeli prisons.
“There is international US, European and Israeli pressure on the Palestinian Authority to stop paying the salaries of Palestinian prisoners and freedmen,” Fares said in a press interview at his office in Ramallah, noting there is “great concern” For this.
Fares said: “What is required of the world is not to align with the position of the occupier,” considering that “its freedom to pressure the occupier to stop the torture of prisoners and administrative detention.”
He added that the Palestinian president “decided to integrate 7,800 released prisoners into the security and civil services of the Palestinian Authority. He also formed a committee of Palestinian officials to discuss the mechanism for paying wages to more than 4,200 prisoners who still languish in occupation prisons.
He pointed out that “there are around 450 prisoners who are employees of the Authority, so they receive their salaries as employees and not the salaries of the prisoners.”
Qaddoura Fares expressed fear that Palestinian leaders will continue to be pressured to cancel the Prisoners and Former Prisoners Law, which was passed by the Palestinian Authority in 2004 and amended in 2014.
“We absolutely reject the transfer of the prisoners’ salaries to salaries for social affairs,” he said, referring to the pressure also on the banks that deal with these salaries.
(AFP-SPA)
