RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Nablus - 10 December 2021. Palestinians carry the body of a Jamil Abu Ayyash who was shot killed by Israeli forces during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Rami Abu Ayyash, brother of Jamil.

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Israeli forces on Friday afternoon shot and killed a Palestinian youth during confrontations in Beit village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to medical sources.

Jamil Abu Ayyash, 31, sustained a serious injury in the head after being hit with live ammunition by Israeli soldiers in the village. He was rushed to a hospital for urgent treatment, but was announced dead of his wounds about an hour later.

Earlier today, Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency and Ambulance Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said that Israeli occupation forces opened fire towards the villagers who protested the pillage of their land to construct a new colonial settlement atop Jabal Sbeih (Sbeih Mountain) near the village.

The residents of Beita and the surrounding villages have been holding weekly Friday rallies to protest the construction of the new colonial settlement of Givat Eviatar atop Jabal Sabih as well as the seizure of lands belonging to the villagers of Beita, Huwarra, and Za‘tara to inaugurate a new settler-only bypass road.

Israeli forces have used fatal violence to disperse the rallies, killing nine Palestinians from the village and injuring over 600 others in about six months.

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