(16 Aug 2024)
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Jit, West Bank – 16 August 2024
1. Mourners carrying the body of 23-year-old Rasheed Mahmoud Abed Al Khadier Sadah, wrapped in Palestinian flag
2. Various of funeral
3. Relatives hugging each other
4. Burnt car
5. House, damaged vehicles outside
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sufian Jit, resident of Jit:
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 7++
"It was a like a war launched against us. There were more than 100 settlers. At the beginning there were just a few people (trying to stop them). Then later, the whole town came and stopped them."
7. Poster on a building showing picture of Sadah ++OVERLAID WITH AUDIO FROM SHOT 6++
8. Various of burnt cars
STORYLINE:
Hundreds attended on Friday the funeral of a 23-year-old Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
The mourners carried Rasheed Mahmoud Abed Al Khadier Sadah’s body through the streets of his hometown, Jit, where he was killed.
The settler riot in the village of Jit, near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, killed one Palestinian and badly injured others late Thursday, Palestinian health officials said.
The Israeli military said that on Thursday night dozens of settlers, some masked, had torched vehicles and structures in the town, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails in what it called a “violent riot.”
The military said its forces arrested one Israeli civilian.
Residents interviewed by The Associated Press said at least a hundred masked settlers entered the village, shot live ammunition at Palestinians, burned homes and cars and damaged water tankers.
Sufian Jit, a resident of the village, said a settlers streamed in before sundown Thursday, burning cars, puncturing water tankers and destroying homes.
"It was a like a war launched against us. There were more than 100 settlers," he said.
Sadah’s relative, Ibrahim Sadah, said many residents wanted to help defend the village but had to take shelter once settlers started firing live ammunition.
Israeli leaders on Friday roundly condemned a deadly settler rampage in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a rare Israeli denunciation of the settler violence growing more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, violence has flared in the occupied territory.
Palestinian health officials say 633 Palestinians, including 147 children and teenagers, have been killed by Israeli fire and over 5,400 injured.
Many have been killed during Israeli military raids into Palestinian cities and towns, but settlers have killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, and injured 234 people, according to AIDA, a coalition of nonprofit and other groups working in the territory.
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