Palestinian sources reported early Thursday afternoon that two Palestinians, including a teenager, were killed by Israeli gunfire and five people were wounded in Karawat Bani Zeid village near Ramallah.
The two Palestinians were 18-year-old high school student Faker Arar and Ussama Hamdallah Sharif, 24.
The troops fired at high school students after they began throwing stones at them, Israeli reports said. A military source told Israel Radio that the students had posed a threat to the soldiers.
The taxi driver was hit when he passed by the scene, and died from his wounds.
In addition, Israeli forces have beefed up their presence along the West Bank border after receiving a warning that a potential bomber was trying to cross from Tulkarem into Israel.
Before dawn Thursday, the Israeli army arrested 13 suspects in the West Bank, including a Hamas activist in Bethlehem.
Also on Thursday, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said that its coordinator, Osama Qashoo, and an Italian journalist, Thomaso Besavi, were detained earlier Tuesday by Israeli occupation soldiers in the northern West Bank refugee camp of Nour Shams.
The Israeli occupation army had surrounded the camp and were reportedly detaining a group of Palestinian women and beating a 15-year-old boy, when they detained Qashoo and Besavi.
Both men had cameras and were attempting to document Israeli military abuse of Palestinian civilians when they were threatened with arrest and then thrown into a military jeep, ISM sources said.
Qashoo is currently being held at a police station at the illegal Israeli settlement of “Ariel” and is facing danger of abuse, long-term arrest and maybe even torture, ISM warned. Besavi was released but threatened with deportation if he attempted to enter the West Bank.
Recently, physical and psychological harassment of internationals and journalists by the Israeli military has been dramatically increased. (Albawaba.com)
