2 YOUTHS, 1 ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLER KILLED IN ILLEGAL ISRAELI COLONY ON OCCUPIED WEST BANK

Yesterday January 25 two youths were shot and left to bleed to death at illegal Israeli colony of Beit Horon, also known as Beit Ahoron. The shooter was illegal Israeli settler working as "security guard".

Israeli occupation claimed that the killed youths had made "a stabbing attack" and in this, unlike in many other incidents, the evidence shows this to be the case - and a direct result of Israeli occupation activities, as we will show at the end of our article.

The killed youths were Ibrahim Osama Yousif Allan, aged 22 or 23, from village of Beit Ur at-Tahta and Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush, aged 16 or 17, from the Qalandia refugee camp. After their deaths the minimum number for Palestinian casualties since the beginning of the uprising is 167, with Abu Ghush being the 34th minor killed in the uprising.

Israeli occupation at first claimed that they stabbed one illegal Israeli settler woman inside a supermarket at the illegal colony, injuring her "moderately" and another outside, injuring her "lightly". Later it was announced that one of the stabbed illegal Israeli settlers had suffered "critical injuries" and died on Tuesday. She was identified as Shlomit Krigman(24).

No bladed instruments can be seen near Abu Ghoush and Allan in the photos showing them laying on the ground and even occupation narratives indicate that they were trying to escape from the illegal colony when they were shot. Although the stabbings have to be considered as an established fact, it also seems that the youths offered no immediate damage to the illegal Israeli settlers at the site when shot.

Israeli occupation claims that two or three pipe bombs, supposedly placed by the killed youths, would have been found and defused in the vicinity of the killing.

If true, with the similar claim made about the death of Muhammed Nabil Halabiyaa(17) in occupied E. Jerusalem's Abu Dis on Saturday, this would be a new development and show a slight movement towards more established guerilla tactics from the part of the angry youth driving the uprising against the occupation.

Israel's occupation villages closed the entrances to Allan's home village of Beit Ur at-Tahta, near the city of Ramallah, as a collective punishment and continue to do so at the time of writing of this.

Abu Ghoush's social media posts in the days before his death imply that the motivation on his part for this act was both the conflict over al-Aqsa mosque - which symbolizes control over whole of occupied East Jerusalem - and the recent deaths of people at Israel's occupation forces' hands, especially that of person he called Laith, who, we assume, is Laith Ashraf Manasra(25), who was killed in Qalandia refugee camp on November 16th.

Just before his death Abu Ghoush sent a final message: “Laith is gone…life in this world has become worthless."

SOURCES:

2 Palestinians shot dead after 2 Israelis stabbed near Ramallah
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769966

2 Palestinians shot, killed for alleged stabbing attack west of Ramallah
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx…

Israeli dies of wounds after stab attack, Palestinian village sealed
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769970

Palestinian teen discussed death on social media prior to fatal attack
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769972

Two Palestinians Killed after Monday Stabbing Attack Identified; Israeli Dies of Wounds
http://www.imemc.org/article/74726

Two youths killed after reportedly stabbing, injuring two settlers
http://english.pnn.ps/…/two-youths-killed-after-reportedly…/