In the Gaza Strip, Israeli police shot and killed a young Palestinian man Tuesday, in the 19th such killing in less than a week. Twenty-five-year-old Ahmad Arafa bled to death after he was shot in the stomach near the border wall separating Gaza from Israel in the city of Khan Younis. Israel’s military said Arafa had breached the border, and labeled him a “terrorist.” His father, Omar Arafa, said otherwise.
Omar Arafa: “He was next to me. He went to the wall like everyone else. He was near me. They shot him with a bullet from a silencer. He was far from the wall.”
The latest killing followed a massacre last Friday, which saw Israeli forces open fire on a protest near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border with Israel—killing at least 18 Palestinians and wounding as many as 1,700 others. The massacre set off protests across the Middle East and worldwide. In Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, eight young Jewish Americans were arrested outside the Israeli Consulate as they locked themselves together in a nonviolent protest.