Israeli 'extra-judicial executions' slammed by PA, demanding international protection

• Published date: 30 September 2021
• Author: KHALED ABU TOAMEH
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), meanwhile, called on Palestinians to step up the "resistance" against Israel, in response to the killing of a gunman near Jenin and a woman who tried to stab police officers in the Old City of Jerusalem early Thursday.

In the village of Burkin, near Jenin, soldiers shot and killed 22-year-old Alaa Zyoud, a member of PIJ's al-Quds Brigades.

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Hours later, police officers shot and killed Israa Khuzaimia, a mother of three from Kabatiya, also near Jenin. The woman was shot while she tried to carry out a stabbing attack near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The PLO accused Israel of killing the two "in cold blood," and called on the international community to assume its responsibilities toward "the enforcement of international and humanitarian laws in the occupied territories."

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned "in the strongest terms the two heinous field executions committed by the occupation forces and its police in both Jerusalem and Burkin."

According to the ministry, the killings are the direct result of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's evasion of the Palestinian issue during his speech at the UN General Assembly earlier this week.

The killings are also "an extension of a long series of criminal field execution orders issued by the political and military echelon in the occupying state to its soldiers to facilitate the process of shooting at the Palestinians," the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry also condemned settler assaults on Palestinians in the Masafar Yatta area near Hebron, claiming they were carried out "under the supervision and protection" of the IDF.

"The ministry holds the Israeli government headed by Naftali Bennett fully and directly responsible for...