PA Prime Minister "denounces the murder" of a terrorist killed in self-defense after he attempted to run over Israeli soldiers, saying the UN must investigate the "crime" of his death
Headline: “A Martyr [dead by] the fire of the occupation as a result of his car being shot at and catching fire next to Ya’abad”
“Young [Hikmat Abd Al-Aziz] (i.e., terrorist, attempted to run over Israeli soldiers) died as a Martyr from the fire of the occupation forces yesterday evening, Tuesday [Dec. 21, 2021], as a result of his car being shot at and catching fire next to the town of Ya’abad…
Local sources noted that the Martyr is Hikmat Abd Al-Aziz, 22, from the village of Mirka in the Jenin district.
The Israeli firefighting teams said that they found a body inside the car that went up in flames…
The occupation authorities prevented an ambulance from approaching the site to provide aid…
The occupation forces claimed that they shot the car after the driver attempted to carry out a car ramming operation.
[PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the UN and the international human rights organizations to send an investigative committee to check the crimes that the occupation soldiers are committing against children and young people in the occupied territories, the latest of which was the murder of Hikmat Abd Al-Aziz, 22, from the village of Mirka in the Jenin district and his body going up in flames while he was driving in his car next to an Israeli checkpoint in the district’s territories.
He said that the denounced murder is an implementation of the open-fire policy that the Israeli military establishment commanders announced a number of days ago(refers to new open-fire orders allowing soldiers to shoot at terrorists who have thrown rocks or firebombs even if they are no longer in the act of attacking -Ed.).”
Hikmat Abd Al-Aziz – 22-year-old Palestinian terrorist who attempted to run over Israeli soldiers at a military post near Ya’abad in the West Bank on Dec. 21, 2021. The soldiers opened fire in self-defense and Abd Al-Aziz crashed into a military jeep. One of the bullets hit the car’s fuel tank, and both vehicles caught fire. Abd Al-Aziz died during his attack.