ABBAS DENOUNCES ISRAEL’S USE OF ‘ITS POWER TO KILL THE PROTESTERS’

Amer Nassar, 17, and Naji Belbisi, 18, were among four ‘protesters’ throwing firebombs at an Israeli checkpoint

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defines a protester as someone who throws stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers, missiles which can cause serious injury and death. Whether the Palestinians and the international community agree or not, the Israelis have a right to defend themselves and thus, the use of lethal force against stone throwers and firebombers is justified.

HEBRON CLASHES ERUPT AFTER PALESTINIAN PRISONER’S FUNERAL
Palestinians clash with IDF troops after funeral of man who died while incarcerated

By Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel Hayom
April 5, 2013

Palestinian youths and Israeli forces clashed in Hebron on Thursday after the funeral of a Palestinian who died while incarcerated in an Israel prison.

Maysara Abu Hamdiya, 64, who was serving a life term in an Israeli jail, died on Tuesday from what was described as complications resulting from throat cancer.

Palestinians claim Abu Hamdiya was denied the medical care he needed and that he should have been released on compassionate grounds when his cancer was diagnosed as untreatable.

In a sign of increasing tension in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian youths pelted Israeli forces with stones in Hebron after Hamdiya's funeral.

Israeli soldiers responded with teargas, stun grenades and plastic bullets. At least one protester was seen being taken away from the scene in an ambulance.

In the wave of disturbances that followed Hamdiya's death, four Palestinian youths threw firebombs at an Israeli checkpoint near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, the army said. Soldiers returned fire and killed two teenagers from the nearby town of Anabta — Amer Nassar, 17, and Naji Belbisi, 18.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel's use of lethal force showed that it wanted to "provoke chaos" in Palestinian areas.

"With these actions we say that Israel wants to finish the security situation in the West Bank," Abbas said.

"If it cared about relations it would never use its power to kill the protesters."

A wave of violence has erupted just two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the region and urged Israelis and the Palestinians to resume long-stalled peace talks, but offered no initiative to break the deadlock.