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Herald Correspondent

The Embassy of the state of Palestine in Harare has condemned the assassination of 80-year-old Omar Abclalmajeed As’ad who died early Wednesday after being detained by Israeli soldiers.

As’ad was reportedly blindfolded and handcuffed in the village of Jiljilya north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

In a statement said the embassy said Israeli apartheid state soldiers and settlers were espousing a terrorist approach in their treatment of Palestinians.

It has called for the international community to immediately act to stop Israel’s crimes, provide protection to the Palestinian people.

“The latest crime is a continuity of Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Palestinian people that should not be tolerated. These extra judicial killings such as this are the consequences of the regular resort to lethal force by well-armed and well-protected Israeli security personnel against Palestinians, and the almost total lack of accountability for killings and injuries of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

“We hold Israeli government fully and directly responsible for the death of Omar Abclalmajeed As’ad especially in light of the new instructions issued at the political and military level by the occupying power to the soldiers, which facilitate them to shoot and kill the Palestinians as pre-death sentences.”

The embassy said they condemned apartheid Israel authorities’ premeditated medical negligence of the prisoners.

“It has demanded for the release of cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid who is critically ill and in intensive care at an Israeli hospital.

The treatment of the Israeli authorities of the ill prisoners is a blatant violation of all international treaties and conventions,” said the embassy.

The embassy has also called for the immediate release of its Palestinian detainees from Israel.

It has condemned the abominable Israeli occupation state’s practice of administrative detention that the occupying power uses as a tool of repression against Palestinians.