American teen fatally shot in Israeli-occupied West Financial institution as Netanyahu visits Trump

The funeral of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amir Mohammed Rabee was held Monday within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, someday after the twin nationwide from New Jersey was shot and killed there. Two different teenage boys, one whose household advised CBS Information he’s additionally a U.S. citizen, had been shot however survived.

Rabee’s father advised CBS Information on Monday that his son’s siblings reside within the U.S., however that Amir and his dad and mom had been residing in Turmus Ayya, within the central West Financial institution, the place {the teenager} was attending college.

The Israel Protection Forces stated in a press release that IDF troopers had “recognized three terrorists who hurled rocks towards the freeway, thus endangering civilians driving. The troopers opened fireplace in direction of the terrorists who had been endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two extra terrorists.”

Together with its assertion, the IDF launched a 10-second video clip that seems to point out three individuals throwing gadgets. The persons are not identifiable within the grainy video.

Rabee’s father stated his son can’t be recognized within the video, and he believes the three teenage boys had been shot whereas throwing stones at an almond tree.

“The video they [IDF] printed will not be proper, and nobody can show my son was there,” Rabee’s father advised journalists on Monday. “Sadly, the U.S. embassy believed the Israeli narrative primarily based on unclear video, however the U.S. embassy turns a blind eye on movies filmed by individuals and journalists of settler violence — killing, burning and stealing, guarded by the IDF.”

CBS Information requested the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem concerning the incident and Rabee’s father’s declare that American officers had accepted the Israeli navy’s rationalization of the taking pictures; the embassy stated it had referred the question to the U.S. State Division. A State Division spokesperson supplied condolences to the household and stated the U.S. was conscious of the IDF’s assertion, however stated out of respect for the household’s privateness would don’t have any different remark at the moment. 

Rabee’s father stated it appeared his son had been shot with two totally different weapons, and that two bullets had entered his coronary heart, two had struck his head, two had hit his shoulders, after which 5 others had hit his physique.

“It was a subject execution,” Rabee’s father stated.

Asad Ayub Ahed, the opposite 14-year-old U.S. nationwide who was shot alongside Rabee and al-Rahman, was nonetheless in a hospital in severe situation on Monday.

The incident got here as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington with plans to meet on the White Home on Monday with President Trump.

“We now have to… ship a message for President Trump to at the very least cease this case,” Rabee’s father advised CBS Information. “Cease sending weapons to kill.”

One other American, U.S.-Turkish twin nationwide Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was killed within the West Financial institution in September. Witnesses, her household, and the group Eygi had joined at a protest within the occupied Palestinian territory stated she was shot within the head by an Israeli sniper as she stood underneath a tree within the West Financial institution metropolis of Nablus. The IDF stated an preliminary inquiry into Eygi’s dying “discovered that it’s extremely seemingly that she was hit not directly and unintentionally by IDF fireplace which was not geared toward her.”

Saed Hawari and Omar Abdulkader contributed to this report.