Palestinian trespasser killed

Military: Man tried to stab resident; Israeli settlers beat farmers

Associated Press

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“Palestinian trespasser killed

Military: Man tried to stab resident; Israeli settlers beat farmers JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man was shot and killed Friday in the occupied West Bank after sneaking into a Jewish settlement and trying to stab a resident there, the Israeli army said.

In a statement, the military said the man attempted to stab a resident in the Tene Omarim settlement and was shot by an armed civilian. It said the incident set off an alarm and soldiers were scanning the area. The Palestinian Health ministry confirmed the death and identified the killed man as 28-year-old Alaa Qissaya.

Security camera footage from the site shows a Palestinian male crawling under a gate and walking into the settlement while holding a knife. The video does not show the alleged stabbing attempt or the man being shot.

The settlement is located near Hebron, a flashpoint city in the southern West Bank, which is a frequent site of friction between Palestinian residents and Jewish settlers. Meanwhile, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and torched five vehicles at the village of al-Mughayyir near the city of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency reported.

It said five farmers were beaten and injured by the settlers. Israeli media reported that Israeli forces were sent in to bring the situation under control. There was no immediate comment from the military. The incidents occurred as Jews were celebrating Shavuot, a festival marking the day that Jews believe the Torah was given to Moses on Mount Sinai in Egypt.

It was the latest in more than a yearlong spate of violence in the West Bank. During that time, Israel expanded near-nightly military raids throughout the area in response to an increase in Palestinian attacks.

At least 113 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, with nearly half of them members of armed militant groups, according to an Associated Press tally. Stone-throwing youths and people uninvolved in violence also were killed. However, the Israeli army claims the number of Palestinian militants killed is much higher.

Meanwhile, Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets in those areas killed 20 people. Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem, along with the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians seek these territories for a future state. Some 700,000 Israelis now live in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Most of the international community considers these settlements illegal or obstacles to peace.”

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The noun the headline gives a man who was shot dead is trespasser. His name is in the third paragraph: Alaa Qissaya, 28. The second half of the same story has settlers beating five farmers and burning five vehicles, which is what the photograph above the headline is of, and the slug over the whole page calls all of it tensions.

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"Palestinian trespasser killed," Lincoln Journal Star, 27 May 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-081. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-081