Image above: Mourners carry the body of teenager Mohammad al-Araj, killed by Israeli fire during a massive demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint, during his funeral in Qalandiya refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 25 July.(Shadi Hatem / APA images)
by Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada
As Palestinians in Gaza buried the dozens killed during the eighteenth consecutive day of Israel’s relentless military assault by air, land and sea, Israeli fire killed at least seven during protests in the occupied West Bank.
At least ten Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and by Israeli civilians in the West Bank since the beginning of the Gaza assault on 7 July as Palestinians in the West Bank and present-day Israel rise up in solidarity with Gaza, where at least 843 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the onslaught.
Approximately thirty Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank so far this year, about three times as many killed during the same period last year, according to datafrom the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Mass march on Qalandiya checkpoint
Teenager Mohammad al-Araj was buried in Qalandiya refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah today after being shot with live fire by the Israeli military during a march from al-Amari camp to the Qalandiya military checkpoint which severs Ramallah fromJerusalem.
The youth was slain on his seventeenth birthday, according to Al-Jazeera. Qalandiya refugee camp residents told Al-Jazeera that “the boy was a well-mannered teenager, who had been hoping to study hotel and restaurant management.”