West Bank: three paramedics detained after teenager’s death
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nile Post
A 14-year-old Palestinian, Moataz Daghlas, was killed on Monday evening in Burqa, north-west of Nablus, by Israeli soldiers' fire, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Palestinian Red Crescent says three of its paramedics were detained and an injured man could not be reached, while the Israeli army says it fired at stone-throwers.
Israeli forces detained three volunteer paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent and blocked access by its teams to a third injured person, according to the organisation quoted by the BBC. The events took place during an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank, during which the death of Moataz Daghlas, 14, was confirmed on Monday evening in the village of Burqa, north-west of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Palestinian Red Crescent treated two people wounded by gunfire. According to the Palestinian agency Wafa, they are a 17-year-old child hit in the abdomen and pelvis, and a 19-year-old man wounded in the hand. The teenager’s family says the Israeli authorities are holding his body.
The Israeli army says it identified "several terrorists" who intended to throw stones at an area where Israeli vehicles had already been targeted, and that it fired "to remove the threat".
According to the UN, at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed since the start of the year in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers, while six Israelis, soldiers and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians over the same period.
