UN calls for probe into Israeli killing of Palestinians
The United Nations (UN) has called on Israel to investigate the recent deaths of four Palestinians, including a teenage boy, in the occupied West Bank.
The world body’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded through a statement on Tuesday that Tel Aviv “conduct a prompt and transparent investigation into the incidents, including whether the use of force was proportional.”
The 13-year-old teen, identified as Abdel Rahman Abdullah, was killed at the Aida refugee camp north of the city of Bethlehem on Monday after Israeli army fire hit him in the chest.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said in a statement late on Sunday that at least three Palestinians had been killed and 400 others wounded in clashes with Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied territory during the previous 24 hours.
According to the statement, some 234 others were hospitalized due to excessive tear gas inhalation or beatings by Israeli security forces or settlers.
Warning of unbridled violence
Ban said that the latest clashes were “yet another worrisome sign of violence potentially spiraling out of control.”
The clashes also come amid increasing confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians triggered by Tel Aviv’s imposition on August 26 of sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of al-Aqsa Mosque – the third holiest site in Islam – and Israeli settlers’ repeated stormings of the mosque.
The UN chief also took issue with the move by Israeli forces to raze down the homes of two Palestinians who had been killed by Israeli forces in November 2014, in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) earlier in the day.
Ban “does not believe that the demolition of Palestinian houses or the construction of new Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land will do anything other than inflame tensions still further,” read the statement.
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