Jerusalem
CNN
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A Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler within the West Financial institution on Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being mentioned, naming him as Mithqal Suleiman Abdel Halim Rayan, 27.
The ministry mentioned he was shot within the head in Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, within the north of the occupied West Financial institution.
Witnesses instructed the official Palestinian information company WAFA that settlers had attacked a gaggle of Palestinians, opening fireplace at them. They mentioned Rayan was critically injured and died quickly after.
The Palestinian Ministry of International Affairs and Expatriates blamed the killing on “terrorist settler militias.”
A neighborhood settler chief mentioned that the settler who shot Rayan had “acted appropriately.”
“He defended his life from a mob of rioting and rampaging terrorists,” mentioned Yossi Dagan, the pinnacle of the Shomron Regional Council, which represents Jewish settlers within the space.
The killing happened on land which Israel captured from Jordan in 1967. Worldwide regulation considers it unlawful for Israeli settlers to reside there.
Dagan mentioned: “We’ll proceed to construct and flourish the wilderness in our nation in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, within the Negev, within the Galilee, and in Judea and Samaria,” the Biblical names for the West Financial institution.
