RAMALLAH, Monday, November 18, 2019 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh showed solidarity with photojournalist Moath Amarneh during the Palestinian cabinet meeting today in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah by covering his left eye.

Amarneh lost his left eye on Friday after being seriously injured by a metallic bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in Surif in the south of the West Bank while covering a protest against land confiscation.

“If Israel wants to shut down Moath’s eyes, all of our eyes are his,” said Shtayyeh.

He added that Israel targets Palestinian journalists “to silence the voice of truth,” noting that Israeli forces did not only attack Amarneh’s eyes, but also quelled a sit-in staged by journalists in support of the injured photojournalist and viciously attacked them.

Shtayyeh praised the widespread popular solidarity movement with Amarneh, saying that this also sheds light on other Palestinians made-victims by Israel, most notably the Abu Malhous Sawarkeh family, which lost eight of its members in an airstrike carried out by Israeli warplanes in the Gaza Strip last week.

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