Palestinian killed in Israeli attack (2022)

TUBAS:

A Palestinian man died of his wounds on Friday after Israeli forces shot him, the Palestinian fitness ministry said, throughout what Israel’s army stated used to be an early morning raid in opposition to suspected militants in the occupied West Bank.

Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, 58, used to be shot in the head in the West Bank metropolis of Tubas, the Palestinian ministry said. His nephew stated Sawafta used to be strolling domestic from a mosque when he was once hit.

Videos circulating on social media seemed to exhibit Sawafta the second he was once shot. Gunshots ought to be heard as Sawafta, carrying the standard jalabiya robe, rushed to take cowl inner a bakery earlier than falling to the floor at the entrance.

“Sheikh Salah was once strolling domestic when he known as on Abu Obada (the bakery owner) to enter due to the fact gunshots had sounded,” stated Zakaria Sawafta, 27, an eyewitness. “Seconds earlier than he reached the bakery, they shot him in the head.”

He stated Israeli forces had been placed on pinnacle of a tall constructing close by and that there have been no clashes in that area.

The Israeli army stated Palestinians in Tubas had hurled Molotov cocktails and opened fireplace at its forces, who spoke back by way of firing back.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned Sawafta’s killing and stated in a assertion that Israel’s “terrorism” will proceed as lengthy as it is allowed to act with impunity.

Overnight, the army arrested 5 suspects from Tubas and the close by city of Tammun who have been allegedly concerned in planning “terror attacks”, it stated in a statement.

European states query Israeli action

Nine European countries, together with France and Germany, stated on Friday they have been “deeply concerned” with the aid of the Israeli government’s pressured closure of countless Palestinian NGOs working in occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army performed in a single day raids of seven corporations in Ramallah, the West Bank metropolis the place the Palestinian Authority’s headquarters are located, on Thursday.

“We are deeply involved by using the raids which took area in the morning of Aug 18, as phase of a traumatic discount of house for civil society” in the territory, the overseas ministries of the 9 nations said.

“These moves are no longer acceptable,” Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden stated in a statement.

Six of the Palestinian companies have been labelled closing October as terrorist organizations through Israel for their alleged hyperlinks to the leftist militant crew Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, even though Israeli officers have now not publicly shared any proof of the links.