NABLUS, July 31, 2016 (WAFA) – A Palestinian Sunday was fatally shot by Israeli forces at the Israeli military checkpoint of Huwwara to the south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, after an alleged stabbing attempt.

According to Israeli media, Israeli authorities claimed that Rami ‘Owrtani, 31, who was driving a Palestinian-registered vehicle, approached soldiers maintaining the checkpoint and parked it next to them. He, according to Israeli media, then went toward the soldiers wielding knife and attempted to stab them.

Soldiers reportedly opened fire on ‘Owrtani, killing him instantly. No soldiers were injured in the alleged attack.

Witnesses at the scene said Israeli forces prevented the Palestinian red crescent from approaching the scene.

Forces closed the checkpoint in the aftermath of the attack.

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee, said in a report published in early January 2016, that 85 percent of Palestinians who were killed by Israel since the beginning of 2015 were killed in extrajudicial field executions.

It maintained that Israeli forces executed Palestinians in ‘cold-blood’ and on the grounds of mere suspicion, maintaining that forces acted as both judges and executioners.

The committee noted that based on a series of documented and publicized incidents, the majority of Palestinians, who assaulted Israelis or were suspected of doing so, were executed by Israeli forces despite that fact that  they posed no immediate danger to the latter’s lives, stressing that forces could have restrained and detained them instead.

The committee added that a large number of Palestinians were left to bleed to death, without providing them with the necessary first aid, or even allowing Palestinian ambulances’ access to them.

t said that the majority of killed Palestinians were shot from a very close range with the intention to kill.

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