Israelis hurl grenade at unarmed Palestinian civilians
Footage has emerged of Israeli troops throwing a smoke grenade for no apparent reason at a group of Palestinian civilians sitting outside a coffee shop in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank.
The CCTV footage, recently released by Ramallah News, shows the Israeli army jeep pulling up briefly to where the young men are sitting and then swiftly driving away after throw something at the group.
After a few seconds, the Palestinians can be seen panicking and toppling their chairs before the grenade explodes.
According to the Israeli military, the unprovoked incident “is being reviewed.”
It comes just a few weeks after two armed Israeli soldiers confiscated and threw away an eight-year-old Palestinian girl's bicycle for no apparent reason in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The incident was captured on the camera of a human rights activist and published over social media.
No charges were pressed against the troops despite an “investigation” into the incident.
The occupied territories have witnessed a fresh bout of tensions ever since the Israeli forces introduced restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds in August 2015.
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