The death of a young Palestinian who on Friday allegedly committed an attack with a knife and was shot several times by an Israeli policeman with whom he was fighting generated indignation among the Palestinian population and tension between the UN and Israel, after spreading the video.
Through social networks, it is seen how an Israeli border policeman struggled with a young man in a fight in a town in the north of the West Bank, until the agent drew his gun and killed the Palestinian four shots.
According to the authorities, the incident was in the context of an attack in which the teenager tried to enter the vehicle of an Israeli couple, and later wounded another agent in the face with a knife, reported the news agency EFE.
For more than six months, the occupied West Bank has experienced an intense escalation of tension, and violent incidents between Palestinians and Israeli forces are repeated on a weekly basis.
East 2022, 159 Palestinians have died in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, while on the Israeli side 159 people died, 21 of them civilians.
Israel took control of the West Bank with the Six-Day War of , and since then has maintained a one of the longest military occupations of that territory in recent history.
With information from EFE agency