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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli soldier executed Gaza teen at
close range: witness</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy">Maureen
Clare Murphy</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
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content="2018-10-13T13:52:18+00:00">13 October 2018</span></span>
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<p>An Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian teen along
Gaza’s boundary when the detained youth tried to
escape, according to a reporter who witnessed the
shooting.</p>
<p>The slain Palestinian, identified as Ahmad Abdallah
Abu Naim, 17, was one of seven killed during mass
protests along Gaza’s boundary with Israel on Friday.</p>
<p>Journalist Muhammad Mahawish said that Abu Naim was
among a group that had crossed the fence along central
Gaza’s eastern boundary with Israel.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A journalist who
eyewitnessed the inciedent of executing the
Palestinian demonstrator, Ahmad Abu Nueem<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatReturnMarch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreatReturnMarch</a>
<a href="https://t.co/86sxhyt1QM">pic.twitter.com/86sxhyt1QM</a></p>
— Palestine Live En (@pallive_en) <a
href="https://twitter.com/pallive_en/status/1050833566907715586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>“The occupation forces fired directly towards them,
which led to the injury of one Palestinian,” according
to Muhawish, who describes the incident in the above
video.</p>
<p>When soldiers tried to detain the wounded protester,
the latter attempted to flee.</p>
<p>“After he tried to escape, he was shot and
immediately executed,” Muhawish stated.</p>
<p>An image appears to show the soldier in close contact
with Abu Naim just before the teen was fatally shot:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">من مسافة صفر... لحظة إعدام
شابٍ على يد أحد جنود الاحتلال شرق البريج وسط
قطاع غزّة، اليوم <a
href="https://t.co/EQyZ5Qx9ht">pic.twitter.com/EQyZ5Qx9ht</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1050818049547390977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>Al Mezan, a human rights group based in Gaza, said
that Abu Naim was shot in the stomach with live fire.</p>
<p>Two others among the group of around 20 protesters
who breached the Gaza-Israel boundary fence and
approached army positions were also killed, the
Israeli military <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-two-palestinians-said-killed-as-1-000-protest-at-gaza-border-1.6551483">told
media</a>.</p>
<p>Israel’s <em>Ynet</em> <a
href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5369392,00.html">reported</a>
that the group had used a bomb to explode part of the
fence. After the group crossed the fence, “soldiers
responded with open fire, pushing them back into Gaza.
However, three Palestinians continued to approach the
[army] post and were shot to death as a result.”</p>
<p>Palestinians carried the bodies of the slain
protesters back to Gaza, according to the military. No
Israeli soldiers were injured during the incident.</p>
<p>In addition to Abu Naim, Al Mezan reported the
killing of three protesters along the eastern boundary
of central Gaza: Ahmad al-Tawil, 22, Abdallah
al-Daghma, 25, and Muhammad Ismail, 29.</p>
<p>Two protesters were also killed east of Gaza City:
Muhammad Abbas, 21, and Afifi Afifi, 18. The health
ministry reported that Tamer Iyad Mahmoud Abu Armana,
22, was killed east of Rafah in southernmost Gaza. All
were injured by live fire, according to Al Mezan.</p>
<p>Graphic video shows the moment when Abu Armana was
shot:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar"><a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#شاهد</a>:
لحظة استشهاد الشاب تامر أبو عرمانة شرقي <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#رفح</a>
جنوب قطاع غزة يوم أمس. <a
href="https://t.co/utwk7X9X4u">pic.twitter.com/utwk7X9X4u</a></p>
— بوابة الهدف (@hadafnewsps) <a
href="https://twitter.com/hadafnewsps/status/1051002764866793477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>More than 160 Palestinians, including 33 children,
have been killed during mass demonstrations along
Gaza’s boundary with Israel since the launch of the
Great March of Return protests six months ago.</p>
<p>Israel is withholding the bodies of 10 Palestinians
slain along the boundary, including two children,
according to Al Mezan.</p>
<p>More than 250 others were injured during Friday’s
protests, some 180 of them by live fire, the rights
group <a href="http://mezan.org/en/post/23248">said</a>.
A paramedic and four media workers were among those
injured.</p>
<p>Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political wing, was
injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during
the protests:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">قوات الاحتلال تُطلق قنابل
الغاز بكثافة نحو المتظاهرين ورئيس المكتب السياسي
لحركة حماس إسماعيل هنية خلال فعاليات جمعة
"انتفاضة القدس". <a
href="https://t.co/tCo5yON7lG">pic.twitter.com/tCo5yON7lG</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1050800816850919425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Israel to halt Gaza fuel deliveries</h2>
<p>Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman said that
he had ordered a halt to fuel deliveries to Gaza after
the breaching of the boundary fence, a measure of
collective punishment against Gaza’s vulnerable
population.</p>
<p>“Israel will not tolerate a situation in which fuel
tankers are allowed to enter Gaza on the one hand,
while terror and violence are used against [Israeli]
soldiers and Israeli citizens on the other,” Lieberman
<a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-two-palestinians-said-killed-as-1-000-protest-at-gaza-border-1.6551483">stated</a>.</p>
<p>Several truckloads of fuel funded by Qatar were
brought into Gaza via Israel in recent days as stocks
needed to keep essential services running amid a
longstanding electricity crisis depleted over the past
several weeks.</p>
<p>“Over the month, the number of trucks per day is
expected to rise to 15,” Stéphane Dujarric,
spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general,
<a
href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/db181009.doc.htm">stated
on Tuesday</a>.</p>
<p>“In addition to other long-term efforts underway to
increase the energy supply, additional fuel for the
Gaza power plant remains the fastest and most
immediate way to increase electricity to help
alleviate the humanitarian and related public health
needs on the ground,” Dujarric added.</p>
<p>The UN has been brokering indirect talks between
Israel and Hamas in order to pull Gaza back from the
brink of collapse after more than a decade of siege,
repeated military assaults and an impasse between the
Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the West Bank.</p>
<p>Citing Hamas sources, Lebanon’s <em>Al-Akhbar</em>
newspaper <a
href="https://www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/259570/">reported
on Friday</a> that UN humanitarian coordinator Jamie
McGoldrick delivered a list of Israel’s preconditions
for easing the tightened blockade on Gaza and
returning the status quo that followed the August 2014
ceasefire that ended 51 days of bombardment in the
territory.</p>
<p>Israel’s demands include an end to provocations
including the planting of explosives along the
boundary and an end to the launching of incendiary
balloons from Gaza.</p>
<p>Hamas is in turn calling for a 50 megawatt increase
of available electricity as a first step towards
resolving the crisis entirely, according to <em>Al-Akhbar</em>.
Households in Gaza have on average only four hours of
electricity per day.</p>
<p>The resistance group and political party also
reportedly demands the expansion of the permitted
fishing area off Gaza’s coast to 12 nautical miles
initially and then to 20 miles, as is stipulated in
the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Hamas also wants Israel to permit unrestricted
imports and exports from Gaza, permits for 5,000
laborers from Gaza to work inside Israel, and the
establishment of a commercial waterway to Gaza.</p>
<p><em>Al-Akhbar</em> reported that the UN sought to
link improvements in Gaza to the approval of
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West
Bank, but his continued rejectionism prompted the UN,
which seeks to restore Palestinian Authority
governance in Gaza, to implement first steps without
Abbas’ blessing.</p>
<p>Those initiatives include the import of fuel to
Gaza’s sole power plant and the transfer of $25
million to Gaza to pay civil servants’ salaries and
for electricity.</p>
<p>The PA has protested these measures by pressuring the
Israeli company contracted to transfer fuel to Gaza
for power generation into stopping delivery by
threatening to end its contracts to supply Gaza with
gasoline for transportation.</p>
<p>The UN is therefore seeking out Israeli companies
immune to PA pressure for the job, a Hamas source told
<em>Al-Akhbar.</em></p>
<p>Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel is due to
visit Tel Aviv, Ramallah and Amman next week to push a
long-term truce between Israel and Hamas, according to
the newspaper.</p>
<p>The West Bank-based authority also sent a complaint
to the UN secretary-general against Nickolay Mladenov,
who has been leading the indirect talks, alleging that
the UN envoy is undermining Palestinian national
unity.</p>
<h2>Palestinian dies in Israeli prison</h2>
<p>Meanwhile on Friday, Wissam Abd al-Majid Nayif
al-Shalaldeh, 28, from the occupied West Bank town of
Sair, <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=781435">died
in Ramla prison</a> in central Israel.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the cause
of death was unknown.</p>
<p>Al-Shalaldeh, a married father of four, had been held
by Israel since 2015 and was serving a seven-year
prison sentence, the Ma’an News Agency reported. He is
the fourth Palestinian to die in Israeli custody so
far this year.</p>
<p>A photo of al-Shalaldeh circulated on social media
after the announcement of his death:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الرابع منذ بداية 2018..
الأسير الشهيد وسام الشلالدة (28 عامًا) الذي
استشهد في سجن الرملة الاسرائيلي. <a
href="https://t.co/hd7coVgfGz">pic.twitter.com/hd7coVgfGz</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1050718273564753921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>A Palestinian woman, Ayesha Muhammad Rabi, 48, was <a
href="https://www.qudsn.co/article/160663">reported
to have died from head injuries</a> after the car in
which she was traveling was attacked by stone-throwing
settlers near Zaatara checkpoint south of the West
Bank city of Nablus on Friday.</p>
<p>A photo published in local media showed the seats of
the car covered in blood and debris following the
attack.</p>
<p>Photos of al-Rabi and her husband Yaqoub, who was
also injured during the incident, were published after
the announcement of her death:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيدة عائشة محمد الرابي
(48 عاماً) من بلدة بديا غرب سلفيت، والتي ارتقت
جرّاء رشق مستوطنين لمركبةٍ فلسطينية بالحجارة قرب
حاجز زعترة جنوب نابلس، قبل قليل <a
href="https://t.co/cL6PWJs5Mb">pic.twitter.com/cL6PWJs5Mb</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1050855886137241601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>متابعة| يعقوب رابي زوج الشهيدة عائشة أصيب
بحجارة المستوطنين ويخضع للعلاج في أحد مستشفيات
مدينة نابلس</p>
<p>(صورة للشهيدة وزوجها المُصَاب) <a
href="https://t.co/ecxhVjt7Qx">pic.twitter.com/ecxhVjt7Qx</a></p>
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— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1050860304735846402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din published
video of Israelis from the settlement of Yitzhar,
south of Nablus, throwing stones at cars on Friday as
soldiers stand by without intervening. It was not
clear if the video shows the incident in which which
Rabi was killed.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This afternoon, a <a
href="https://twitter.com/YeshDin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YeshDin</a>
field researcher documented about 15 Israelis
descending from Yitzhar & throwing stones at
vehicles. The perpetrators are then seen fleeing
in escape vehicles as police arrive, all as
soldiers stand idly by. Film: <a
href="https://twitter.com/YeshDin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YeshDin</a>
<a href="https://t.co/9YlwjSeCKT">pic.twitter.com/9YlwjSeCKT</a></p>
— Sharona Weiss 💮 هيذر شارونا (@sharona_weiss) <a
href="https://twitter.com/sharona_weiss/status/1050388681515778049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here is more of the film by
<a
href="https://twitter.com/YeshDin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YeshDin</a>
including the stone throwing <a
href="https://t.co/YUyDMLYvm1">pic.twitter.com/YUyDMLYvm1</a></p>
— Sharona Weiss 💮 هيذر شارونا (@sharona_weiss) <a
href="https://twitter.com/sharona_weiss/status/1050419626562252800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>Late Thursday, Israeli forces <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-nabs-palestinian-suspected-of-stabbing-army-reservist-in-west-bank-1.6551480">arrested
a 19-year-old Palestinian</a> suspected of stabbing
and moderately wounding a soldier near the West Bank
city of Nablus earlier in the day.</p>
<p>A woman bystander was lightly injured when Israeli
forces opened fire.</p>
<p>A Palestinian suspected of <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-arrests-siblings-alleged-settlement-shooter">shooting
and killing two Israelis</a> at his place of work in
a West Bank settlement industrial zone on Sunday
remains at large.</p>
<p>Referring to Ashraf Walid Suleiman Naawla, the
suspected gunman, Israeli defense minister Lieberman
said, “The account with him will be settled quickly.”</p>
<p>Israeli forces have arrested Naawla’s family members,
<a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-forces-raid-hometown-of-west-bank-attacker-make-arrests-1.6544968">including
his mother</a>, and mapped his family’s home in
preparation for destroying it.</p>
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