OCCUPIED JERUSALEM —
Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian man in his East Jerusalem home in a raid early
Monday, AFP reported.
اضافة اعلان
The man,
identified as Mohammed Al-Shaham, 21, died of his wounds “several hours” after
being shot, the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported.
The man’s father, Ibrahim Al-Shaham, told AFP that
his son was shot in the head at point-blank range and was left bleeding for 40
minutes.
According to Shaham, Israeli forces knocked on their
door at 3:30am and “we didn’t manage to make it to the door, Mohammed got there
first, and the door exploded”.
“They started shooting inside the house, the first
shot was in Mohammed’s head,” he said, adding that the soldiers left him
bleeding before arresting him and taking him away.
Israeli occupation forces said they had launched the
raid to locate weapons in the town of Kafr Aqab, which is part of
Israeli-annexed
East Jerusalem but located on the West Bank side of the
security barrier.
Shaham said that one of the soldiers had told him
that they got the wrong house.
Israel denied those claims to AFP, but no weapons
were seized.
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s new
secretary general, Hussein Al-Sheikh, called for “an immediate and urgent
international investigation” into what he labelled a “criminal execution”.
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