Mourners attend funeral of Palestinian teenager

Palestinians have held a massive funeral procession for 16-year old Deyaa Erhimi who was assassinated in a raid by Israeli forces a day earlier, in the village of Beit Rima, in the occupied West Bank.

Nearly 220 Palestinians have been martyred by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year.

Local and international rights groups have condemned Israel’s excessive use of force and “shoot-to-kill policy” against Palestinians.

Incidents of sabotage and violence by settlers against Palestinians and their property have also become a daily occurrence throughout the Occupied Territories, not least the West Bank. However, Israeli authorities rarely prosecute settlers and the vast majority of the files are closed due to deliberate police failure to investigate them properly.

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