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US DEMANDS ‘URGENT’ ISRAELI PROBE INTO PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN CHILD’S DEATH

US calls for a quick investigation into the killing of 17-year-old Tawfiq Ajaq
in the occupied West Bank.


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The United States has urged Israel to launch an investigation into the death of
Tawfiq Ajaq, a 17-year-old Palestinian-American who Palestinian authorities say
was killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.

At a press briefing in Washington, DC on Monday, US State Department
spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters that the US is “devastated about the
killing” and is continuing “to engage closely with the Government of Israel to
ascertain as much information as possible”.


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“We have called for an urgent investigation to determine the circumstance of his
death,” Patel said. He added that the head of the US Office of Palestinian
Affairs had visited Ajaq’s family to offer condolences and would continue
assisting them together with the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

Ajaq was born in Gretna, Louisiana, near New Orleans, and was brought to the
West Bank by his parents last year.

Ajaq’s relative, Joe Abdel Qaki, said Tawfiq and a friend were having a barbecue
in a village field when he was shot.

Speaking at his son’s funeral on Saturday, Tawfiq’s father, Hafez Ajaq, said
Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank were “killer machines”.

Israeli police have said they received a report on Friday regarding a “firearm
discharge, ostensibly involving an off-duty law enforcement officer, a soldier
and a civilian”.

Police did not identify who fired the shot, though they said the shooting
targeted people “purportedly engaged in rock-throwing activities along Highway
60″, the main north-south thoroughfare in the occupied West Bank.

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“This is not the first time Defense for Children Palestine hasn’t been able to
confirm whether a settler or soldier killed a child. One aids and abets the
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At least 369 people have been killed by Israeli troops and settlers in the
occupied West Bank since October, including 95 children.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also noted that 2023 was the
deadliest year for children in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, with
124 Palestinian and six Israeli children killed there since the start of the
year.

Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative
party, told Al Jazeera that the growing raids and attacks in the occupied West
Bank are an attempt by Israel to reoccupy the territory “completely”.

“This is a clear message from [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,”
Barghouti said. “He’s saying there’s no place anymore for any independent
Palestinian authority here. He’s reoccupying the West Bank as he is trying to
reoccupy Gaza.”

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