International silence encourages Occupation to press ahead with atrocities

From the very beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers started to perpetrate atrocious crimes and heinous massacres against the Palestinians with the aim of terrifying them and forcing them out of their indigenous homeland.

In fact the criminal acts being perpetrated by Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers against defenseless Palestinians are an extension of the Zionist atrocious record. One of their recent crimes was killing a Palestinian patient in the hospital.

Israeli settlers have sneaked into a medical center in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and fatally shot a young Palestinian man hospitalized there for gunshot wounds sustained during clashes in the occupied Palestinian territories some weeks ago.

 A group of 21 settlers made their way into the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron under the disguise of the relatives of a pregnant woman, and went inside the room where injured Azzam Shalaldeh was resting.

The assailants then took out pistols with silencers on and fired shots at Azzam, who died on the spot. His cousin, who was in the room at the time of the incident, also sustained injuries.

The attackers took away Azzam’s body to an unknown location. He had been receiving medical treatment for critical injuries sustained during clashes in the town of Sa’ir some 20 days earlier.

Another crime is stealing the Palestinian organs after killing them. Tel Aviv regime is harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied territories.

The bodies of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are returned with missing corneas and other organs, further confirming past reports about organ harvesting by the occupying power.

A medical examination conducted on bodies of Palestinians returned after they were killed by the occupying power found that they were missing organs.

The issue of organ theft by Israel was first brought to the fore in a report published by Sweden’s most highly-circulated daily Aftonbladet in 2009.

US daily The New York Times also said in an August 2014 report that transplant brokers in Israel have pocketed enormous sums of money.

Based on the Times analysis of major organ trafficking cases since 2000, Israelis have played a disproportionate role in organ trafficking.

An Israeli settler has attacked and injured a young Palestinian man in the northern part of the occupied West Bank as tensions between Israeli military forces and settlers on the one side and Palestinian protesters on the other continue unabated.

Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian youth sustained slight injuries in the arm after an Israeli settler stabbed him near Kifl Haris, located six kilometers west of the Palestinian city of Salfit.

The development came only hours after Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian girl, identified as Dania Irsheid, near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, situated 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem.

Israeli forces in the southern West Bank shot dead a Palestinian man whom they accused of having stabbed a 19-year-old Israeli man.

Even babies did not survive the Israeli atrocities. Last July, an 18-month-old Palestinian boy has burned to death after settlers set fire to his family house in Duma village, south of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank. The parents of Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack.

Capitalizing on the complete silence of the international community, extremist settlers, backed by the Zionist occupation authorities, are pressing ahead with their atrocious crimes against the Palestinians in a cold blood.

K.Q.