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2024-05-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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PA says man killed in clash with Israeli troops during Nakba Day march in West Bank
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[IsraelTimes] Palestinian report says 20-year-old university student shot by soldiers at checkpoint near Ramallah; military yet to comment on incident
Paleostinian officials said Israeli troops killed a man on Wednesday as festivities broke out after a West Bank march commemorating the Paleostinian "Nakba," or catastrophe, of Israel’s creation in 1948.
"A young man was killed by occupation bullets at the northern entrance of the city of al-Bireh," an Israeli checkpoint at the outskirts of Ramallah, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The PA’s official news agency Wafa said the man killed was 20-year-old Ayser Muhammad Safi, a student at Birzeit University, reporting that he was shot in the neck during a confrontation between a group of young men and Israeli forces.
Witnesses on site told AFP they had seen a group of male students from Birzeit University gather a short distance from the al-Bireh entrance, where they were preparing to begin protesting when Israeli troops moved in.
During the confrontation, Israeli forces fired some kind of gas and sound grenades at the protesters, Wafa reported.
THOUSANDS MARCH
Wednesday’s clash happened shortly after the annual march in Ramallah commemorating the 76th anniversary of what Paleostinians consider the "Nakba," or catastrophe, when around 760,000 Paleostinians fled or were driven from their homes during the War of Independence in 1948, after the UN-proposed division of mandatory Paleostine was rejected by Arabs in Paleostine and Arab states.
Thousands marched across the West Bank, keffiyeh scarves draped across their shoulders.
Israel has also carried out near-daily raids in the West Bank in a bid to thwart terror groups.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,700 affiliated with Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
. According to the PA’s health ministry, more than 490 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
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