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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Settlers suspected of involvement in killing teen remanded in house arrest</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara Nassar</a></span> -
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">9 August 2023</span></span> </p>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2023-08/230807_-_ramallah.jpg?itok=u55C-PRL×tamp=1691594607" alt="Men carry the corpse of a child on a stretcher, wrapped in flags, during his funeral" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" width="410" height="231" style="margin-right: 25px;"></span><p>Palestinians carry the body of 17-year-old Ramzi Fathi Abd al-Rahman Hamed, who succumbed to wounds on 7 August.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small><p>An Israeli court has <a href="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">released</a> two settlers suspected of involvement in the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/ben-gvir-praises-settlers-who-killed-teen-heroes">killing</a> of a Palestinian teenager last week.</p>
<p>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 <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="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">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Qusai Jamal Mutan, 19, was killed when some 20 settlers raided an area of Burqa village. The settlers fired off guns, <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/pchr-strongly-condemns-murder-of-palestinian-boy-by-settlers-fire-in-ramallah/">according</a> to witness testimony collected by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and were confronted by youths.</p>
<p>Mutan “was cooking food on a fire and was not involved” in any confrontations, when he was shot, PCHR reported.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>Two others were wounded in the attack, according to PCHR.</p>
<p>Though no Israeli settlers were killed, Israel <a href="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">arrested</a> five Palestinians for supposed “involvement” in the case. The five Palestinians remain in custody.</p>
<p>Yered, a settler fanatic who has <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/netanyahu-surrounds-himself-extremists-promoting-violence">openly and repeatedly</a>
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.</p>
<p>“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,” <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="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">said</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Two members of the Israeli Knesset from the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party visited Indore in hospital. But Israeli police <a href="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">barred</a> Palestinian Knesset member Ahmad Tibi from visiting any of the five arrested Palestinians.</p>
<p>Ben-Gvir <a href="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">praised</a> the settlers suspected of involvement in killing Mutan as “heroes.”</p>
<p>Days later, he was posing for photo-ops in his <a href="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">first meeting</a> with an EU official, Anna Koukkides-Procopiou, his Cypriot counterpart, during a vacation to Limassol.</p>
<h2>Extrajudicial execution</h2>
<p>Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians,
including one child, in broad daylight on Sunday in what human rights
groups <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/in-new-crime-of-extrajudicial-executions-3-palestinians-including-child-assassinated-in-jenin/">are calling</a> “extrajudicial executions.”</p>
<p>The three were killed while in a moving vehicle on a road in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday afternoon.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.
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The gray vehicle was left riddled with bullet holes.
<p>When the troops retreated from the area, they towed away the vehicle with the three victims, withholding their bodies.</p>
<p>People at the scene “saw brain tissue scattered on the ground,” <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/in-new-crime-of-extrajudicial-executions-3-palestinians-including-child-assassinated-in-jenin/">according</a> to PCHR.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Local media circulated their pictures following their killings:
</p>
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.
<p>“It is unclear how many bullets struck Bara or their locations, since Israeli authorities confiscated his body,” DCIP <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_special_forces_kill_confiscate_body_of_16_year_old_palestinian_boy">said</a>.</p>
<p>In March, members of Yamam killed four Palestinians in Jenin, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-death-squad-kills-four-jenin">including</a> 14-year-old Omar Awadin, who was shot in the back by undercover forces while riding his bike outside his parents’ shop.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.
</p>
<h2>Another child killed</h2>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/200812_ofra">stolen</a> from Palestinians in the nearby villages of Ein Yabrud and Silwad.</p>
<p>Ramzi Fathi Abd al-Rahman Hamed was in the passenger seat of a car with some friends.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/17_year_old_palestinian_boy_succumbs_to_gunshot_wound_from_israeli_settler">reported</a>.</p>
<p>“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.
</p>
“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.”
<p>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.</p>
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