WEST BANK: Palestinians mourn two men killed by Israeli forces during Nakba protest while soldiers use tear gas to disperse a demonstration at Ofer

Record ID: 565462

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinians mourn two men killed by Israeli forces during Nakba protest while soldiers use tear gas to disperse a demonstration at Ofer
  • Date: 16th May 2014
  • Summary: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (MAY 16, 2014) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN MEN WALKING WITH FLAGS MOURNERS CARRYING BODY OF PALESTINIAN MAN KILLED IN A DEMONSTRATION FLAG WITH IMAGE OF FORMER PALESTINIAN LEADER, YASSER ARAFAT VARIOUS OF MEN AT FRIDAY PRAYERS OUTDOORS MOURNERS CARRYING BODY OF PALESTINIAN MAN KILLED IN A DEMONSTRATION CROWD VARIOUS OF MEN CARRYING BODY OF DECEASED AFTER PRAYERS VARIOUS OF MEN CARRYING BODY OF DECEASED ON STREET OFER, WEST BANK (MAY 16, 2014) (REUTERS) BORDER POLICE CAR AND SOLDIERS BESIDE WALL ISRAELI SOLDIERS STANDING BESIDE WALL DEMONSTRATORS ON STREET/SMOKE TANK FIRING TEAR GAS, SMOKE FILLING STREET SMOKE SPREADING ON STREET TANK MOVING, SMOKE SPREADING SMOKE ON STREET, WATER CANON VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIER LOADING TEAR GAS CANISTERS ONTO LAUNCHER ON TANK TANK FIRING TEAR GAS TANK ON STREET SMOKE RISING VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS BESIDE WALL
  • Embargoed: 31st May 2014 13:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Crime,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAASVM0GZOJ1ID65R5F96GNIWW9
  • Story Text: Palestinians mourned on Friday (May 16) the death of two men killed by Israeli forces during a stone-throwing protest.
    Hundreds joined Friday prayers held outdoors, and a funeral procession for the deceased.
    Israeli police shot dead 22-year old Abu Thahr, and 17-year old Nadim Nuwara, in a demonstration on Thursday (May 15) commemorating the "Nakba", or what Palestinians term "the catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
    Hospital officials said the two men were both shot in the heart outside Israel's Ofer Prison, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
    The Israeli military declined to comment, saying border police were involved in the incident. A police spokesman told Reuters he was aware of the protest, but did not have any confirmation that live ammunition was used.
    In Ofer, where the shootings happened, Israeli forces used tear gas to disperse a few dozen Palestinian demonstrators who were throwing stones on Friday.
    Ofer prison has been a focal point of Palestinian anger over Israel's detention and occupation policies.
    Protests and violence in the West Bank have declined in recent months, while U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks stumbled and finally collapsed in April.
    Palestinians seek an independent state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in a 1967 war.
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