The Israeli army killed a Palestinian worker and wounded another on Tuesday evening in the town of Al-Ram in the central West Bank, as they tried to cross the separation wall and enter the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews transported to a hospital in Ramallah “a martyr (47 years old) after he was shot in the head with live ammunition by the occupation forces after he tried to cross the separation wall in the town of Al-Ram” north of Jerusalem.
The association reported that its crews transported from the same town a worker who was shot in the foot with live ammunition while trying to cross the wall.
On an almost daily basis, Palestinians are injured near the separation wall surrounding Jerusalem and along the border between the West Bank and Israel, as they try to cross it in search of work inside the city or inside Israel, which occupies their land.
According to data from the General Union of Palestinian Workers, more than 50 workers have been killed and more than 38,000 have been arrested since October 2023 until May 1st of this year.
Since the start of the war of extermination in Gaza, Israel has been preventing Palestinian workers from returning to their workplaces, so some of them resort to climbing the separation wall despite the risks involved.
Jerusalem is surrounded by a wall of cement and barbed wire, most of which was built on West Bank land, with a height exceeding 8 meters and a length of about 202 kilometers, according to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.
While Israel claims it built it for security reasons, Palestinians and the United Nations assert that its construction was part of a plan to annex Palestinian territories to Israel.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an advisory opinion declaring the wall illegal, given that it was built on occupied Palestinian territory.
