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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 22 december 2018
Israeli army says Palestinian killed at West Bank roadblock

By ISABEL DEBRE Gaza Strip. in the air when the driver ig- basi, told The Associated and striking Qasim in the
Associated Press The army said it opened nored orders to halt but car Press that he, Qasim, and back.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Is- fire on the car after it sped up instead. The army a friend were driving out of Abbasi said he and his
raeli military on Friday con- broke through a West Bank said it responded with live the Palestinian city of Ra- friend, who was driving,
firmed shooting a Palestin- checkpoint. The military fire, killing one passenger. mallah when an Israeli sol- were not injured. He said
ian car passenger dead in said it was on high alert in The Palestinian Health Min- dier told them the road was they were released after
the West Bank, while a sec- the area after shots were istry identified the dead closed. Abbasi said when being interrogated by po-
ond Palestinian teenager fired from a Palestinian vil- passenger as Qasim Abba- they tried to make a U-turn, lice.
was killed in a weekly bor- lage late Thursday. It said si, 17, from east Jerusalem. a soldier fired at their car, The West Bank saw a spike
der demonstration in the soldiers fired warning shots His cousin, Mohammed Ab- shattering the rear window in violence last week after
a pair of deadly shootings
targeting Israeli soldiers
and settlers. The army has
arrested scores of Hamas
activists as it ratchets up its
manhunt for a Palestinian
assailant.
Meanwhile in Gaza, health
officials said that Israeli
gunfire killed a 16-year-old
Palestinian during a weekly
protest in east Gaza City
near the Israeli border.
Mohammed Jahjouh was
shot in the neck, Gaza's
health ministry said, add-
ing that 70 other protesters
were wounded.
In the evening, the ministry
announced that two more
Palestinians, aged 28 and
40, died of wounds they
sustained earlier in the day.
It said they were shot by Is-
raeli live fire.
Since March, thousands of
Palestinians have protested
along the perimeter fence
separating the Hamas-
controlled Gaza Strip from
Israel. The demonstrations
have been staged by the
territory's Hamas rulers
against a crippling Israeli-
Egyptian blockade.
More than 175 Palestinians
either protesting or present
at the rallies were killed, in-
cluding 28 minors, accord-
ing to the health ministry
and a local rights group.
An Israeli soldier was killed
in July.q