Penyokong Palestin dengan pemimpin Palestin Fatah memgibar bendera parti Mahmud Abbas 'semasa perhim-punan menandakan ulang tahun ke-49 pergerakan itu pada 2 Januari 2014 di bandar Nablus, Tebing Barat. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
SitiWanMahani - Seorang lelaki Palestin berusia 85 tahun mati selepas terhidu gas pemedih mata yang digunakan oleh tentera Israel semasa pertempuran mereka dengan belia Palestin, yang menyambut ulang tahun Fatah, saksi kepada Reuters. Saeed Jaser Ali mati pada hari Khamis di hospital, di mana beliau telah diambil selepas bejana gas Israel mendarat sehari lebih awal di rumahnya di Kampung Kufur Qaddoum berhampiran Nablus di utara Tebing Barat.
Para saksi berkata adalah salah satu daripada berpuluh-puluh knister gas pemedih mata ditembak oleh tentera Israel, selepas sambutan ulang tahun ke-49 daripada Fatah, parti Presiden Palestin Mahmoud Abbas, menyebabkan pertembungan dengan pihak polis. Per-tembungan itu disahkan oleh seorang jurucakap tentera Israel. “Malam tadi, satu rusuhan ganas berlaku di Kampung Qaddoum di mana penduduk Palestin membaling batu pada pasukan keselamatan, yang bertindak balas dengan cara rusuhan penyebaran,” katanya kepada Reuters.
Lelaki berusia 85 tahun itu, Saeed Jaser Ali, dengan itu telah menjadi mangsa pertama dalam konflik dengan Israel pada 2014. Tahun lepas menyaksikan peningkatan dramatik dalam mangsa Palestin di Tebing Barat, menurut kumpulan hak asasi manusia Israel, B'tselem.
“3 kali lebih banyak orang terbunuh di Tebing Barat pada tahun 2013 sebagai tahun 2012,” membaca laporan kumpulan itu yang dikeluarkan 30 Disember 2013. “Menurut data bagi tahun yang lalu, pasukan keselamatan Israel membunuh 27 rakyat Palestin di Tebing Barat dalam 21 insiden berasingan dan sembilan rakyat Palestin di Semenanjung Gaza dalam 7 kejadian.”
Menurut B'tselem, rakyat Palestin dibunuh 3 orang awam Israel dan 3 anggota tentera Israel pada tahun 2013. Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry tiba di rantau itu hari ini untuk lawatan 4 hari, di mana beliau akan cuba memajukan keamanan US- ditaja bercakap Israel dan Palestin disambung semula pada bulan Julai, berikut terhenti selama 3 tahun.
Lawatan itu adalah 2 hari selepas Israel membebaskan ketiga daripada 4 kumpulan 104 tahanan Palestin yang telah lama menjalankan hukuman ditetapkan untuk siaran di bawah perjanjian melanda pada musim panas lalu. Bagaimanapun adalah dijangka bahawa langkah itu akan kemudian diikuti dengan pengumuman penempatan baru yang didirikan yang diduduki Tebing Barat.
Pihak berkuasa Palestin telah memberi amaran kepada mereka akan bertindak balas terhadap pengumuman oleh mencari keahlian dalam pelbagai organisasi antarabangsa, termasuk Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa, di mana mereka akan memanggil pendak-waan Israel kerana jenayah perang dan pelanggaran undang-undang antarabangsa.
85yo Palestinian man dies after ‘Israeli teargas
canister landed in his home’ . . .
An 85-year-old Palestinian man died after inhaling teargas used by Israeli forces during their clashes with Palestinian youths, who were celebrating the anniversary of Fatah, eyewitnesses told Reuters. Saeed Jaser Ali died on Thursday in hospital, where he was taken after an Israeli gas canister landed a day earlier in his house in the village of Kufr Qaddoum near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said that was one of dozens of teargas canisters fired by Israeli soldiers, after a celebration of the 49th anniversary of Fatah, the party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, resulted in a clash with police. The clash was confirmed by an Israeli military spokeswoman. "Last night, a violent riot took place in the village of Qaddoum in which Palestinian residents hurled rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means," she told Reuters.
The 85-year-old man, Saeed Jaser Ali, thus became the first casualty in the conflict with Israel in 2014. Last year saw a dramatic increase in Palestinian casualties in the West Bank, according to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
“Three times as many people were killed in the West Bank in 2013 as in 2012,” reads the group’s report issued December 30, 2013. “According to the data for the past year, Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians in the West Bank in 21 separate incidents and nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in seven incidents.”
According to B’Tselem, Palestinians killed three Israeli civilians and three Israeli soldiers in 2013. US Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in the region Thursday for a four-day visit, during which he will try and advance the US-brokered peace talks the Israelis and the Palestinians resumed in July, following a three-year hiatus.
The visit comes two days after Israel freed the third of four groups of 104 long-serving Palestinian prisoners set for release under agreement struck last summer. It is however expected that the move will later be followed by the announcement of new settlements being constructed in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian authorities have already warned they would react to the announcement by seeking membership in various international organizations, including the International Criminal Court, where they would call for Israel’s prosecution for war crimes and violations of international law.
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