A young man was shot and left to bleed to death by Israel's occupation forces on the occupied West Bank late on Sunday March 22nd. His fate an all too common one for Palestinians suffering under the Israeli Apartheid and occupation.
A MURDER AT NI'LIN
Sufian Nawwaf al-Khawaja(29) suffered serious wounds when Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at his car near the entrance to his home village of Ni'lin. He was with his cousin, who was wounded.
Sufian was left to bleed on the scene when the occupation troops stopped a Palestinian ambulance crew from reaching him, a common occupation tactic, and instead waited for an Israeli ambulance to arrive.
Sufian al-Khawaja never reached a hospital, dying on the scene of his shooting. A final photograph shows him on a stretcher, surrounded by Israeli occupation soldiers.
The body of the murdered youth was taken by the occupation, joining hundreds of hoarded bodies of slain Palestinians that are kept by the Israeli regime.
ISRAELI OCCUPATION REPEATS ITS USUAL CLAIMS
Israel's regime has spread its standard narrative of the fatal incident; this was 'naturally' picked up and spread by 'Western' news agencies like the Reuters. In it Sufian was the aggressor and the occupation forces were defending illegal Israeli settlers from stone-throwers.
The occupation narrative is all about trying to justify the murder of an unarmed person by painting him as an attacker against whom his killers would have been defending themselves - but there is no evidence that this standard narrative has truth to it beyond the fact that it at least acknowledges that Israel's occupation soldiers killed Sufian.
It is simply a slightly modified version of the standard claims Israel's regime repeats each time after its troops murder a Palestinian.
RETALIATION BY THE OCCUPATION?
Sufian had no part in throwing stones at illegal settlers' vehicles. He was just passing through with his cousin when they were targeted by the occupation troops. A driver was an easy and tempting target by to the occupation soldiers facing stone-throwers.
This fatal retaliation against bystanders by the occupation is common - and so is the deliberate 'mistaking' of pedestrian stone-throwers with persons in a car: 15-year-old Mahmoud Rafat Badran was shot and killed by Israeli occupation soldiers near Beit Sira on occupied West Bank on June 21st 2016 by Israeli occupation troops which claimed that they had made such 'a mistake'.
The village of Ni'lin is one of the centres of non-violent popular resistance against the Israeli occupation and the illegal Apartheid Wall, organizing a weekly Friday demonstration for the past decade. Defiant resistance when faced by the occupation brutality was a feature of Sufian's life.
This resistance makes it more likely for Israeli occupation soldiers to have reacted with fatal violence as happened on Sunday night. Especially as they can expect no punishment for taking Sufian's life.
As the case of Mahmoud Badran shows, killing innocents has no negative repercussions to the occupation soldiers, which means that it has a stamp of approval from the regime itself.
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