[News] Settlers suspected of involvement in killing teen remanded in house arrest

[Anti-Imperialist News]

electronicintifada.net
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/settlers-suspected-involvement-killing-teen-remanded-house-arrest>
Settlers suspected of involvement in killing teen remanded in house arrest

Tamara Nassar <https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar> - 9
August 2023
------------------------------
[image: Men carry the corpse of a child on a stretcher, wrapped in flags,
during his funeral]

Palestinians carry the body of 17-year-old Ramzi Fathi Abd al-Rahman Hamed,
who succumbed to wounds on 7 August.
APA images

An Israeli court has released
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-09/ty-article/.premium/supreme-court-rules-israeli-suspect-in-deadly-clash-with-palestinians-to-remain-in-custody/00000189-d95e-d81f-a7fb-fffe81830000>
two settlers suspected of involvement in the killing
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/ben-gvir-praises-settlers-who-killed-teen-heroes>
of a Palestinian teenager last week.

Elisha Yered and Yehiel Indore were released on Wednesday from detention
and are now under house arrest. Indore, who was reportedly injured by a
rock and hospitalized, had “admitted to using a firearm” – but claims that
he only fired “in the air, after he felt that there was a danger to his
life and the lives of others,” Tel Aviv daily *Haaretz* reported
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-09/ty-article/.premium/supreme-court-rules-israeli-suspect-in-deadly-clash-with-palestinians-to-remain-in-custody/00000189-d95e-d81f-a7fb-fffe81830000>
.

Qusai Jamal Mutan, 19, was killed when some 20 settlers raided an area of
Burqa village. The settlers fired off guns, according
<https://pchrgaza.org/en/pchr-strongly-condemns-murder-of-palestinian-boy-by-settlers-fire-in-ramallah/>
to witness testimony collected by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
and were confronted by youths.

Mutan “was cooking food on a fire and was not involved” in any
confrontations, when he was shot, PCHR reported.

“The settler was only five meters away from Mutan when he directly opened
fire at him, wounding him with a live bullet in his neck,” one witness told
PCHR.

Two others were wounded in the attack, according to PCHR.

Though no Israeli settlers were killed, Israel arrested
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-07/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-arrests-five-palestinians-for-suspected-involvement-in-west-bank-clashes/00000189-ce63-ddac-a3cd-ef7369580000>
five Palestinians for supposed “involvement” in the case. The five
Palestinians remain in custody.

Yered, a settler fanatic who has openly and repeatedly
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/netanyahu-surrounds-himself-extremists-promoting-violence>
incited ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians, is believed to
have buried the weapon used by Indore near the woods in the settlement
where he lives. Yered previously worked as a spokesperson for a lawmaker in
Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party.

“Once the police arrived at Yered’s house, he led them to the buried
weapon, claiming that he did not intend to hide it and disrupt their
investigation, but was afraid that if the weapon was left at the scene, it
would be eventually found by the Palestinians,” *Haaretz* said
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-08/ty-article/.premium/israeli-security-orgs-push-detention-without-trial-of-settler-suspected-in-w-bank-killing/00000189-d43d-ddac-a3cd-f57dd8e30000>
.

The newspaper reported that the case against Yered amounts to obstructing
justice and unlawful possession of a weapon, not murder. Indore has a slim
chance of being charged with murder.

Two members of the Israeli Knesset from the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power)
party visited Indore in hospital. But Israeli police barred
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-09/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-reject-mks-request-to-meet-palestinian-suspects-in-deadly-settler-clashes/00000189-d8d3-d81f-a7fb-feff7c260000>
Palestinian Knesset member Ahmad Tibi from visiting any of the five
arrested Palestinians.

Ben-Gvir praised
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-06/ty-article/.premium/israeli-coalition-cabinet-have-not-condemned-the-killing-of-a-palestinian-by-settlers/00000189-c74a-ddac-a3cd-e77b9b5d0000>
the settlers suspected of involvement in killing Mutan as “heroes.”

Days later, he was posing for photo-ops in his first meeting
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-08/ty-article/.premium/ben-gvir-to-have-first-ever-meeting-with-senior-european-official-while-on-cyprus-vacation/00000189-d3d9-d821-afdd-dbfd4e2f0000>
with an EU official, Anna Koukkides-Procopiou, his Cypriot counterpart,
during a vacation to Limassol.
Extrajudicial execution

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians, including
one child, in broad daylight on Sunday in what human rights groups are
calling
<https://pchrgaza.org/en/in-new-crime-of-extrajudicial-executions-3-palestinians-including-child-assassinated-in-jenin/>
“extrajudicial executions.”

The three were killed while in a moving vehicle on a road in Jenin in the
northern occupied West Bank on Sunday afternoon.

Israeli troops were driving in two cars with Palestinian registration
plates on a road linking the village of Bir al-Basha and the town of Arraba
when they intercepted a gray car with a yellow Israeli license plate,
carrying the three Palestinians.

Israeli troops stepped out of their vehicles and opened fire at the gray
car before being joined by additional troops who blocked traffic and fired
tear gas canisters. Some of this was caught on film.
The gray vehicle was left riddled with bullet holes.

When the troops retreated from the area, they towed away the vehicle with
the three victims, withholding their bodies.

People at the scene “saw brain tissue scattered on the ground,” according
<https://pchrgaza.org/en/in-new-crime-of-extrajudicial-executions-3-palestinians-including-child-assassinated-in-jenin/>
to PCHR.

Two of those killed were identified as Nayef Jihad Abu Sweiss, 27, and
Khalil Nizar Abu Naaseh, 21. They were both from the Jenin refugee camp,
and members of the Jenin Brigade, a group associated with Saraya al-Quds,
the military wing of the Islamic Jihad resistance group.

Local media circulated their pictures following their killings:
Also killed was a 16-year-old child, Bara Ahmad Fayez al-Qerm, according to
Defense for Children International-Palestine. DCIP said it was the Yamam
unit of the Israel Border Police that was part of the Israeli killing
squad, which also included eight Israeli special forces.

“It is unclear how many bullets struck Bara or their locations, since
Israeli authorities confiscated his body,” DCIP said
<https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_special_forces_kill_confiscate_body_of_16_year_old_palestinian_boy>
.

In March, members of Yamam killed four Palestinians in Jenin, including
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-death-squad-kills-four-jenin>
14-year-old Omar Awadin, who was shot in the back by undercover forces
while riding his bike outside his parents’ shop.

The Israeli army, the Shin Bet internal security police and the Israel
Border Police said they worked together to stop a “terrorist cell” headed
by Abu Sweiss from carrying out an attack.

The Israeli military claimed it found an M16 rifle in the car, providing a
picture to back up its claim. It is unclear why a group of three
Palestinian resistance fighters on their way to engage in an operation
would be carrying only a single weapon between them.
Another child killed

On Monday, a 17-year-old child succumbed to wounds he sustained when an
Israeli settlement guard shot him in the chest on 2 August outside Ofra, an
Israeli colonial settlement built on lands stolen
<https://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/200812_ofra> from
Palestinians in the nearby villages of Ein Yabrud and Silwad.

Ramzi Fathi Abd al-Rahman Hamed was in the passenger seat of a car with
some friends.

When they saw the Israeli settlement guard’s car, they tried to turn around
and leave the area. But the guard opened fire from a distance of 10 meters
(33 feet), DCIP reported
<https://www.dci-palestine.org/17_year_old_palestinian_boy_succumbs_to_gunshot_wound_from_israeli_settler>
.

“Palestinian children live in a hyper-militarized context where Israeli
civilians illegally settled in occupied territory are armed by the Israeli
government as a matter of official policy,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish,
accountability program director at DCIP.
“Israeli soldiers, police and private security staff not only protect
Israeli settler populations, but they also aid, abet and perpetrate
violence against Palestinians, including children.”

Since the start of 2023, 40 Palestinian children have been killed in
violence related to Israel’s military occupation, according to DCIP, four
of them since the start of August.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20230810/635d77d0/attachment.htm>