Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers while trying to cross the Separation Wall in East Jerusalem

ISTANBUL (AA) – It was reported that a Palestinian who was injured as a result of fire opened by Israeli soldiers while trying to overcome the Separation (Shame) Wall in the town of Ram, located in the north of occupied East Jerusalem, lost his life. According to the written statement made by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 26-year-old Imad Harun Shtiyye from the village of Salim in Nablus, who was shot in the leg by Israeli soldiers, lost his life.

In the images shared on social media, it was seen that the young man who was shot in the leg lost excessive blood and lost consciousness. – Israeli soldiers opened fire on a vehicle in Tulkerim: A Palestinian teenager was injured. On the other hand, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a vehicle traveling in the city of Tulkarim in the north of the West Bank. According to the statement made by the Palestinian Red Crescent, a young man in the vehicle was shot in the back as a result of the fire opened between the Zennabe region and Es-Salam District in the east of Tulkerim.

The injured young man was taken to the hospital. – Wall of Separation (Shame) After the Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out in Palestine in 2000, the Israeli administration started the construction of the “Separation Wall” between the occupied West Bank and Israel in 2002, claiming “security”. Due to the Separation Wall, nearly 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank cannot cross to occupied East Jerusalem and Israel. According to the Israel-based human rights organization B’Tselem, Jerusalem is surrounded by a concrete wall with barbed wire on it, with a height of more than 8 meters and a length of approximately 202 kilometers, most of which was built on West Bank lands.

While Israel claims that it built this wall for “security reasons”, the Palestinians and the United Nations state that it is part of the plan to annex Palestinian lands to Israel. Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank are trying to reach Jerusalem by crossing the “Separation Wall” near the Palestinian town of Ram, north of East Jerusalem, to find work, especially for economic reasons.