‘It was a field execution’: Family mourns after Israel fatally shoots 14-year-old American Amer Rabee in West Bank | EUROtoday

Hundreds of mourners assembled within the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on Monday for the funeral of Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old U.S. citizen who Israeli forces fatally shot the day gone by.

Rabee, a former resident of Saddle Brook, New Jersey, was shot quite a few occasions whereas out choosing inexperienced almonds with two associates, in response to his household.

Rabee’s father, Mohammed, accused the Trump administration of turning a “blind eye” to the killing, even because the president met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

“It was a field execution,” he instructed CBS News.

“We have to … send a message for President Trump to at least stop this situation,” he added. “Stop sending weapons to kill.”

The Israeli authorities stated in a press release it shot three “terrorists” who have been throwing rocks at a freeway, placing civilians in danger.

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The Israeli navy launched a video of the incident. The grainy black-and-white footage exhibits three people, certainly one of whom seems to toss something, although it’s not potential to determine the figures within the footage.

Another American citizen, Ayoub Jabara, 15, was wounded within the taking pictures and rushed to a hospital in Ramallah, Turmus Ayya mayor Lafi Shalabi instructed The Washington Post.

“This is an atrocity,” Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey wrote in a press release on X. “How can the Israeli military possibly justify shooting and killing an American teenager in cold blood? The U.S. must step in and stop this madness.”

The State Department has declined to touch upon the taking pictures right now, citing household privateness, it instructed CNN.

The Independent has contacted the White House for remark. It doesn’t seem Trump and Netanyahu publicly mentioned the taking pictures of the Palestinian-American boy.

The killing follows the deaths of different Americans within the midst of the battle, together with Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, who was killed final January, and Mohammad Ahmad Alkhdour, who was killed the next month. Israeli police have stated that an Israeli soldier and a settler have been concerned in a “firearm discharge” close to the place Jabbar died. An eyewitness claimed somebody shot Alkhdour from a navy street, however officers of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated no troopers have been current.

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Last September, Israeli forces shot and killed Aysenur Eygi, a Turkish-American activist who was within the West Bank to protest Israel’s ongoing navy presence and the continued growth of Jewish settlements, which many observers argue are unlawful below worldwide regulation.

The IDF stated on the time of Eygi’s loss of life that an preliminary investigation confirmed it was “very likely” she was shot within the head “unintentionally” throughout “a violent riot.” The Washington Post subsequently reported she was shot greater than half-hour after a big protest had occurred and activists moved greater than 200 yards away from Israeli forces.

As The Independent has reported, some Palestinian-Americans have felt “abandoned” by the U.S. within the midst of the Israel-Hamas battle, together with U.S. residents who have been stranded in southern Gaza as Israel’s U.S.-supplied navy destroyed giant elements of town of Rafah.

Amid makes an attempt to achieve a sturdy ceasefire within the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza, the IDF has pursued an offensive within the occupied West Bank, together with sending in tanks for the primary time in many years.

The preventing has displaced 1000’s of Palestinians.

Trump introduced on Monday that the U.S. is “looking at another ceasefire” after Israel broke a earlier settlement by hanging Hamas.

Trump has taken motion to deport scholar and college activists expressing assist for Palestine or collaborating in pro-Gaza protests at American universities.