RAMALLAH: Shops, offices, and schools were closed across the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Palestinians went on strike to protest Israel’s killing of a man suspected of a deadly attack against Israeli forces.
Udai Tamimi, who had been on the run since the fatal firing this month of military policewoman Noa Lazar at a checkpoint in Israeli- adjoined east Jerusalem, was killed late Wednesday after he fired at Israelis on the edge of an agreement.
With the West Bank largely shut down, the Palestinian health ministry also verified that Mohammad Fadi Nuri, 16, failed from a projectile crack sustained during clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah last month.
Omar Abed al-Latif Omar, an occupant of the West Bank megacity of Tulkarem, said the strike was intended as “a communication” of solidarity with Tamimi. AFP intelligencers also saw shuttered shops in the West Bank metropolises of Bethlehem and Nablus, as well as Jerusalem’s Old City.
Violence in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict has surged in recent months.
Further, than 100 Palestinian fighters and civilians have been killed since the launch of the time, the heaviest risk in the West Bank nearly seven times, according to the United Nations.
Tamimi was killed by a security guard after wounding another when he fired at the entrance to Maale Adumim, one of the largest Jewish agreements in the West Bank, Israeli police said. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid praised the security forces “for neutralising the terrorist” criticized for killing 18-time-old Lazar at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Shuafat exile camp.
The 10-day pursuit of Tamimi had redounded in closures affecting seminaries, health centres, and other services in the camp that’s home to thousands, and clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians.
