JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said a strike on Gaza on Thursday killed a Palestinian who had waved his blood-stained hands at a crowd after a deadly attack on Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank more than two decades ago.
The civil defense agency in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip confirmed Abdelaziz Salha’s death, saying he was killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent in a displacement camp in central Gaza’s Deir Al-Balah early on Thursday.
Salha in 2004 was sentenced to life for his part in the killing of Israeli soldier Vadim Norzich in the West Bank city of Ramallah four years earlier, in an incident caught on camera by an Italian television crew and broadcast across the globe.
A second soldier, Yossi Avrahami, was also killed in the October 2000 attack.
The widely shared footage — one of the most well-known images from the start of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising — showed Salha standing in an upstairs window of the Ramallah police station, waving his blood-stained hands at a crowd.
Announcing his death in an air strike, the military said that since his release from prison in 2011 and “over the past few years, Salha was involved in terrorist activity” in the West Bank.
The army statement said he was “involved in Hamas terrorist activity to this day.”
Salha was sent to Gaza by Israeli authorities after being released from jail, one of 1,027 Palestinians freed in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was taken hostage by Gaza militants in 2006.
Israel says kills Palestinian involved in soldier murder
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Israel says kills Palestinian involved in soldier murder
- Abdelaziz Salha was killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent in a displacement camp in central Gaza’s Deir Al-Balah early on Thursday
- Salha in 2004 was sentenced to life for his part in the killing of Israeli soldier Vadim Norzich in the West Bank
Syrian government sends more humanitarian aid to civilians in Ayn Al-Arab
- 5-truck convoy delivers essential supplies including food, medicines for children and people with special needs, blankets and drinking water
- The previous day, 24 trucks delivered aid for civilians in Kurdish-majority town affected by conflict between the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces
LONDON: Syrian authorities said they sent a second humanitarian convoy to the northern town of Ayn Al-Arab in the Aleppo countryside on Tuesday, as part of ongoing efforts to help civilians affected by the conflict between the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Farhad Khurto, deputy head of the Central Committee for Aleppo Response, said five trucks delivered essential supplies including food, medicines for children and people with special needs, blankets and drinking water.
Amin Hababeh, the director of Aleppo’s Emergency and Disaster Management Center, said representatives of the organization accompanied the convoy to ensure the critical humanitarian assistance reached the people who needed it.
The operation was organized by the Central Committee for Aleppo Response in coordination with Civil Defense teams, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Red Cross, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
On Monday, 24 aid trucks delivered medical supplies, heating materials and other relief items to Ayn Al-Arab, a Kurdish-majority town also known as Kobani. The response committee said the operation was carried out in coordination with the UN to provide aid for civilians despite the security risks from landmines planted by SDF militants in the area.
