Israeli settler shoots Palestinian teenager
An Israeli settler has shot and injured a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank.
On Monday, 17-year-old Muhammad Yusuf Burqan suffered gunshot wounds in Wadi Yasul area of the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan while tending to a small herd of sheep.
His cousin, Suheib Burqan, said about 15 settlers surrounded Muhammad as he was lying on the ground.
Suheib added that the armed settler threatened to shoot him as he tried to approach Muhammad, while the rest subjected him to foul language.
The shooting incident comes in the wake of another announcement by Tel Aviv of approval for the construction of 430 new illegal settler units on occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
Under Israel’s new settlement expansion plan, 112 new illegal settler units will be built in Geva Binyamin, also known as Adam, 156 in Elkana, 78 in Alfei Menashe and 84 in Kiryat Arba settlements.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has denounced the move by Tel Aviv, saying the expansion of settlements amounted to a “war crime.”
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East al-Quds, in 1967.
Much of the international community considers the settlements illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are thus subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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