Atallah Rayyan, 17, was killed deadly at an army base near a Jewish settlement after he allegedly tried to attack Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian teenager near Ariel’s Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
According to an Israeli military statement Tuesday, Atallah Rayyan, 17, attempted to attack Israeli soldiers deployed at the Ariel settlement confluence.
The statement said the soldiers at the armed post “saw an attacker who tried to stab two soldiers (Israel)”.
“One of the soldiers blocked several of the attacker’s offensive and the commander of the soldiers at the scene fired the attack and neutralized it.”
The statement said Israeli forces suffered no casualties. A video released by the army showed a female soldier identified as “Cpl L” who said she was on guard duty when an attacker jumped “with a knife in my hand”.
She said she stopped him by pushing and hitting him several times with the gun. The Israeli soldier said the attacker then tried to stab him before her leader shot at him with a single bullet.
However, the video only showed the soldier’s back and no photos or video of the incident were immediately available.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that a “citizen” had been killed by the “occupying forces”.
Palestinian and Israeli rights groups have accused Israel of using excessive force against Palestinian “single wolf” attackers, and of killing some suspected attackers. could be caught.
‘The only concern was graduating’
Rayyan, a high school senior, is from the Qarawat village of Bani Hassan, west of Salfit in the north-owned West Bank.
His mother Mahera told the local Palestine news agency Ma’an that her son’s only concern was graduating from school.
“On Thursday, he was scheduled to meet his friends after he finished the final exam of the semester,” she said, tears running down her face.
Rayyan woke up Tuesday and went to school to get tested, his mother said. He returned home, had breakfast and went to Nablus to help his father at work as he occasionally does. But he didn’t make the city.
“Atallah left the house and did not return,” Mahera said.