Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian youth was killed and a woman was critically injured on Friday midday by Israeli military gunfire in two separate incidents.Soldiers shot and killed Fares Al Ja’bari, 19 at the entrance of Kiryat Arba illegal Israeli settlement in Hebron city, in the southern West Bank. The Israeli army claimed that Al Ja’bari tried to stab a soldier and take control of his gun. Palestinian eyewitness told reporters media that the youth was unarmed and that soldiers shot him without any reason.
Local sources said Al Ja’bari was left bleeding on the ground and that troops did not allow Palestinian medics to provide him with medical help. According to local sources, Al Ja’bari’s home is just outside the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba.
A group of Israeli settlers attacked Al Ja’bari’s family home with stones and surrounded the house while family members were still inside, local sources said.