OCCUPIED JERUSALEM
\nThe Israeli army has killed a Palestinian man as he was standing on the roof of his home during a raid on a refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials.
\nSameer Aslan, 41, was pronounced dead on Thursday at dawn by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which said he was shot in the chest in the Qalandiya refugee camp.
\nOfficials told Al Jazeera that Aslan, a father of eight, was shot by an Israeli sniper while standing with other family members on the roof of their home watching the raid.
\nHe was killed about 10 minutes after his 17-year-old son, Ramzi, was arrested by the Israeli army from their home.
\nFollowing the arrest, \u201cthe whole family went up to the roof to see what was happening when they heard loud screams and that one of their other sons was injured\u201d, Zakariya Fayyaleh, an official with the Palestinian Authority, which runs the camp, told Al Jazeera.
\n\u201cSameer, his wife, three of the daughters and several of the sons were on the roof when an Israeli sniper fired at the family and shot Sameer directly in the chest,\u201d he continued.
\n\u201cHis sons carried him down and tried to take him to the hospital. A large army force stopped them and put Sameer down on the ground. They left him bleeding on the ground for a while before they let us take him again \u2013 he passed away upon arrival at the hospital,\u201d continued Fayyaleh.
\nVideos shared by residents and local media outlets, verified by Al Jazeera, show Aslan lying on the ground surrounded by Israeli soldiers.
\n\u201cSameer was one of my closest friends, I had a brotherly relationship with him,\u201d Fayyaleh said, adding that Aslan worked at a butcher shop in the town of al-Ram.
\nThe official added that the manner in which the Israeli army had raided the Qalandiya refugee camp was \u201cunprecedented\u201d, describing it as a \u201cfrenzied and fierce attack\u201d.
\n\u201cIt is the first time they raid the camp like this \u2013 the size of the force, the number of homes they raided. They destroyed people\u2019s belongings \u2013 they even assaulted women,\u201d he continued, adding that snipers positioned themselves on rooftops.
\nIsraeli forces arrested at least 18 people from the camp during the raid, according to Fayyaleh and the Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 Society (PPS).
\nThe raid began at approximately 3am local time (00:00 GMT) and included dozens of armoured vehicles and special forces. Confrontations with the youth throwing stones broke out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian man as he was standing on the roof of his home during a raid on a refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials. Sameer Aslan, 41, was pronounced dead on Thursday at dawn by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which said he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n