{"id":27335,"date":"2024-04-16T00:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/israeli-civilians-kill-two-palestinian-men-in-the-west-bank-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:29:54","slug":"israeli-civilians-kill-two-palestinian-men-in-the-west-bank-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/israeli-civilians-kill-two-palestinian-men-in-the-west-bank-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Civilians Kill Two Palestinian Men in the West Bank, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/13\/multimedia\/15mideast-crisis-west-bank-shooting-top2\/13mideast-crisis-promo9am-ET-hflt-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israeli Civilians Kill Two Palestinian Men in the West Bank, Officials Say\" title=\"Israeli Civilians Kill Two Palestinian Men in the West Bank, Officials Say\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli civilians fatally shot two Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials, as tensions continued to spike in the Israeli-occupied territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry identified the two men as Abdelrahman Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammad Bani Jama, 21. The circumstances of their deaths near the town of Aqraba remained unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military said the two men had been killed during a \u201cviolent exchange\u201d between Israeli civilians and Palestinians that followed a report of a Palestinian attacking an Israeli shepherd. An initial probe indicated that the gunfire \u201cdid not originate\u201d from Israeli soldiers, the military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two Palestinians appeared to have been shot by Israeli civilians on the scene, said an Israeli security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was still underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The killings fed fears that the West Bank could become another front for a country already in its seventh month of war in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About 500,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank live alongside roughly 2.7 million Palestinians under Israeli military occupation. Since the war began on Oct. 7, more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces there and in East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the past few days, a renewed wave of violence has swept through the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, a 14-year-old Israeli teenager went missing, prompting Israeli settlers to riot inside a Palestinian village, Al Mughayir. Jihad Abu Aliya, a 25-year-old resident, was fatally shot during a mob attack, according to the village mayor, Amin Abu Aliya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The teenager, Binyamin Achimair, was found dead on Saturday after an intensive search; Israeli officials said he had been murdered in an act of terrorism and vowed to track down the perpetrators. In response, Israeli settlers, some of them armed, conducted a series of mob assaults in Palestinian towns, torching homes and cars, according to Palestinian witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Israelis to allow security forces to search for Mr. Achimair\u2019s killers, but he did not denounce the mob attacks against Palestinians. Human rights groups have long charged that Israel turns a blind eye to settler violence and rarely brings perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yesh_Din\/status\/1779501559379849229\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">footage<\/a> distributed on Sunday by Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group that tracks Jewish extremist violence in the West Bank, hooded figures can be seen setting a car ablaze while Israeli soldiers watch nearby without intervening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, condemned Mr. Achimair\u2019s killing in a statement on Monday. But he also said Washington was \u201cincreasingly concerned by the violence against Palestinian civilians and their property that ensued in the West Bank after Achimair\u2019s disappearance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe strongly condemn these murders, and our thoughts are with their loved ones,\u201d Mr. Miller said. \u201c\u202fThe violence must stop. Civilians are never legitimate targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/palestinian-men-killed-israel-west-bank.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli civilians fatally shot two Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials, as tensions continued to spike in the Israeli-occupied territory. The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry identified the two men as Abdelrahman Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammad Bani Jama, 21. 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