The funeral of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amir Mohammed Rabee was held Monday within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, someday after the twin nationwide from New Jersey was shot and killed there. Two different teenage boys, one whose household advised CBS Information he’s additionally a U.S. citizen, had been shot however survived.
Rabee’s father advised CBS Information on Monday that his son’s siblings stay within the U.S., however that Amir and his dad and mom had been dwelling in Turmus Ayya, within the central West Financial institution, the place {the teenager} was attending faculty.
The Israel Protection Forces stated in an announcement that IDF troopers had “recognized three terrorists who hurled rocks towards the freeway, thus endangering civilians driving. The troopers opened hearth in the direction of the terrorists who had been endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two further terrorists.”
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Together with its assertion, the IDF launched a 10-second video clip that seems to point out three individuals throwing objects. The persons are not identifiable within the grainy video.
Rabee’s father stated his son can’t be recognized within the video, and he believes the three teenage boys had been shot whereas throwing stones at an almond tree.
“The video they [IDF] printed is just not proper, and nobody can show my son was there,” Rabee’s father advised journalists on Monday. “Sadly, the U.S. embassy believed the Israeli narrative based mostly on unclear video, however the U.S. embassy turns a blind eye on movies filmed by individuals and journalists of settler violence — killing, burning and stealing, guarded by the IDF.”
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CBS Information requested the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in regards to the incident and Rabee’s father’s declare that American officers had accepted the Israeli army’s rationalization of the capturing; the embassy stated it had referred the question to the U.S. State Division. A State Division spokesperson provided condolences to the household and stated the U.S. was conscious of the IDF’s assertion, however stated out of respect for the household’s privateness would haven’t any different remark at the moment.
Rabee’s father stated it appeared his son had been shot with two totally different weapons, and that two bullets had entered his coronary heart, two had struck his head, two had hit his shoulders, after which 5 others had hit his physique.
“It was a area execution,” Rabee’s father stated.
Asad Ayub Ahed, the opposite 14-year-old U.S. nationwide who was shot alongside Rabee and al-Rahman, was nonetheless in a hospital in severe situation on Monday.
The incident got here as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington with plans to meet at the White House on Monday with President Trump.
“Now we have to… ship a message for President Trump to a minimum of cease this case,” Rabee’s father advised CBS Information. “Cease sending weapons to kill.”
One other American, U.S.-Turkish twin nationwide Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was killed within the West Financial institution in September. Witnesses, her household, and the group Eygi had joined at a protest within the occupied Palestinian territory said she was shot within the head by an Israeli sniper as she stood beneath a tree within the West Financial institution metropolis of Nablus. The IDF stated an preliminary inquiry into Eygi’s loss of life “discovered that it’s extremely doubtless that she was hit not directly and unintentionally by IDF hearth which was not geared toward her.”
Saed Hawari and Omar Abdulkader contributed to this report.
