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Israel-Palestine Timeline
The Human Cost of the Conflict
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Friends continue legacy of Gaza sand sculptor killed during Land Day protest
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/friends-continue-sculptor/
Mohammed Abu Amr's last creation on the beach in Gaza said, "I will return." A day later, Mohammed, 23, was killed along with 16 other Palestinians demonstrating on the 42nd anniversary of Land Day.
Mohammed's father believes that his son used to spend hours sculpting his artwork on the beach. "I think the beach sand was a typical gateway to Mohammed's talent since he began two years ago after failing to find work". Mohammed had carved several drawings commemorating national events and issues like "Prisoners' Day", "Land Day", "Nakba", "Gaza is bleeding", "Electricity Crisis", "Immigration", and "Women's Day", in addition to advertisements for local commercial companies for a small fee his father said.
His passion of lyrics of the Lebanese singer Julia Boutros' songs was also seen when he carved:
"They will leave and we will stay here
The land will remain ours
Today we are stronger
Stronger than all battles"
Mohammed creating one of his sculptures on the Gaza Beach (Photo via Mohamed 's Facebook account).
Last November, Mohammed was looking for international pro-Palestinians activists to finance a planned carving project, which needed volunteer diggers, special sand painting colors and simple drilling equipment. The 53-year–old bereaved father told Mondoweiss.
Mohammed is the second member of his family killed by Israel. Mohammed's brother, Ehab, 21, was killed in 2008, during a clash east of Gaza City.
Mohammed, who was once sculpted, "Be optimistic, set a goal and plan for your life and make your personality open to others, then you can live happily," will not be able to continue to address the young generation through his work, but they will live on as posts on his Facebook account for those who want to recall his sculptures.
The Great March
Friday, March 30, 2018, Mohammed's friend Baraa Al-Halabi, 23, remembers yelling at him at around 11:00 a.m.: "Mohammad! ... do not approach the fence! There are snipers." But he replied: "Shut up, we will return today, this day we will do it!" Al-Halabi told Mondoweiss.
"Within few seconds Mohammed had disappeared amid the screams of the massive crowd near the fence," said Baraa. "Soon, protesters shouting 'call an ambulance.. get an ambulance' were the only words I could hear, but the smoke of tear gas forced me to retreat tens of meters, then I realized that I have lost him forever," Baraa said.
Mohammed's Legacy
A sand sculpture of the map of Palestine created in Gaza by Osama Sbeata. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)
Mohammed's father says that before he was killed he was planning to carve a 100-meter map of Palestine along with a huge key on the beach to coincide with the "Great March of Return" in mid-May on the anniversary of the Nakba, marking the displacement of Palestinians by Israel in 1948.
Two days after Mohammed's death, Osama Sbeata, 27, has successfully sculptured some Palestinian cities on a 800-square meter map of Palestine beside Abu Amr's "I will return" sculpture.
Sbeata knew Mohammed was planning to sculpt a 100–meter-long map, but his team doubled the map longer and wider into 800 square meters.
"This sandy map was Mohammed's uncompleted dream," Sbeata told Mondoweiss.
Artist Osama Sbeata in front of a map of Palestine he created to honor Mohammed Abu Amr. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)
"Mohammed's digging tools are left to me, and I will use them to paint and engrave everything that urges the return to Palestine", Sbeata added.
In 2013, Sbeata graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in accounting, but finding work in his field was impossible due to an youth unemployment rate of around 58 percent.
Artist Osama Sbeata honors Mohammed's dream carving the largest map of Palestine. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)
Sbeata's first attempt at a sand sculpture came about by chance one day while he was playing in the sand. He realized that the beach was a destination for many vacationers and citizens and therefore a perfect place to practice his art and raise awareness about the Palestinian cause.
Perhaps Mohammed did not find a way to express his passion to return to his origin village (1948 Ber al Saba, now "Bersheba") by carving national carvings except the land and its sands, but Israel may targets any Palestinian artist who wanted to express that passion.
Army Kills A Palestinian In Gaza, Another Young Man Dies From Wounds Suffered Last Friday
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Palestinian medical sources have reported, Thursday, that Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian with a missile fired from an armed drone, late on Wednesday at night, while another Palestinian died from wounds he suffered last Friday, in the Gaza Strip.
The sources said that an armed Israeli military drone fired a missile at Palestinian protesters near Erez Crossing, in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one of them, and wounding several others.
Palestinian medics were unable to enter the area due to Israeli army fire, and severe military restrictions on border areas, and were only able to retrieve his body in the morning.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the slain Palestinian has been identified as Mojahed Nabil al-Khodary, 23, from Gaza city.
Medical sources at the Shifa Medical center in Gaza city, said Red Crescent Medics located the mutilated remains of the slain Palestinian, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza city.
They added that the soldiers also shot five Palestinians five live fire and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation in the same area.
On Thursday morning, another Palestinian, identified as Shadi Hamdan al-Kashef, 34, from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, died from serious wounds he suffered last Friday, after the soldiers shot him with a live round in the head.
He was at the Intensive Care Unit of Abu Yousef Najjar hospital, in Rafah, until he succumbed to his serious wounds.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said Shadi was a young man with special needs.
Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire since last Friday, to 19 Palestinians, while more than a thousand, including at least 200 children, have been injured, many seriously.
In related news, Israeli navy ships opened fire on several Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza territorial waters, in the western part of the coastal region, moderately wounding three Palestinians.
List of Palestinian casualties on and after Land Day 2018, killed by Israeli forces for protesting peacefully at the border:
April 4, 2018:
Shadi Hamdan al-Kashef, 34
Mojahed Nabil al-Khodary, 23
April 3, 2018:
Ahmad Omar Arafa, 26
April 2, 2018:
Fares Roqab, 29
March 30, 2018:
Mosab Zohair Salloul, 25
Sari Waleed Abu Odah , 28
Abdul-Qader al-Hawajri, 42
Jihad Zoheir Abu Jamous, 30
Bader Faeq as-Sabagh, 22
Naji Abdullah Abu Hjeir, 25
Ahmad Ibrahim Odah, 19
Jihad Ahmad Freina, 34
Hamdan Ismael Abu Amsha, 26
Mahmoud Sa'adi Rohmi, 33
Abdul-Fattah Abdul-Nabi, 18
Ibrahim Abu Sha'ar, 22
Mohammad Naim Abu Amro, 27
Amin Mansour Abu Moammar, 22
Mohammad Kamel Najjar, 25
Wahid Nasrallah Abu Sammour, 27
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian protester in Gaza with missile fired from armed drone
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/israeli-palestinian-protester-missile/
Second Palestinian journalist dies after being shot by IDF
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A second Palestinian journalist has died after being shot by an Israeli sniper while covering the 'March of Return.' Ahmed Abou Hussein succumbed to his injuries Wednesday after being shot on April 13.
The photojournalist, 25, was reportedly hit in the stomach during the third week of the protest. Israel's 1-24 News, citing the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, reported that he was one of a number of journalists wounded that week. Hussein's death was confirmed by the Gaza Health Ministry on social media.
Hussein is the second member of the media to be shot by an Israeli sniper since the protests began. Journalist Yasser Murtaja was killed on April 7 despite pictures showing "PRESS" emblazoned across the front of his protective jacket.
Responding to questions from RT about Murtaja's death and reports that IDF soldiers targeted members of the media, a defense spokesperson said: "The IDF does not intentionally target journalists. The circumstances in which journalists were allegedly hit by IDF fire are not familiar to the IDF, and are being looked into."
8-month-old Palestinian killed after inhaling Israeli tear gas – health ministry
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An eight-month-old baby was killed after Israel fired tear gas at protesters in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Her death is one of dozens that occurred during demonstrations against the US Embassy's move to Jerusalem.
Leila al-Ghandour was killed after inhaling tear gas on Monday, according to the ministry. It was not immediately clear how close the infant and her family were to the border fence.
She was killed along with dozens of other Palestinians on Monday, according to the ministry. Most of them were reportedly shot dead by Israeli sniper fire.
The Monday protests coincided with the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, a move which has been condemned throughout the Arab world and beyond. It also came amid the Great Return March, which is scheduled to culminate on Nakba on Tuesday, a date marked by Palestinians as a day of mass exodus from their land as a result of Israel's establishment.
Although the protests were originally slated to end on Tuesday, such a cessation seems unlikely, Professor James Petras told RT on Monday. "I think the massacres by Israel will continue, the peaceful protests from Palestinians will continue. I don't see any resolution, unfortunately," he said.
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Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza. Will the world notice?
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Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza.
It is believed to be the first example of a public act of self-immolation in the enclave. Harb doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on a street in Gaza City shortly before dawn prayers during the holy month of Ramadan.
In part, Harb was driven to this terrible act of self-destruction out of despair.
After a savage, decade-long Israeli blockade by land, sea and air, Gaza is like a car running on fumes. The United Nations has repeatedly warned that the enclave will be uninhabitable within a few years.
Over that same decade, Israel has intermittently pounded Gaza into ruins, in line with the Israeli army's Dahiya doctrine. The goal is to decimate the targeted area, turning life back to the Stone Age so that the population is too preoccupied with making ends meet to care about the struggle for freedom.
Both of these kinds of assault have had a devastating impact on inhabitants' psychological health.
Harb would have barely remembered a time before Gaza was an open-air prison and one where a 1,000kg Israeli bomb might land near his home.
In an enclave where two-thirds of young men are unemployed, he had no hope of finding work. He could not afford a home for his young family and he was about to have another mouth to feed.
Doubtless, all of this contributed to his decision to burn himself to death.
But self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years.
But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
A Buddhist monk famously turned himself into a human fireball in Vietnam in 1963 in protest at the persecution of his co-religionists. Tibetans have used self-immolation to highlight Chinese oppression, Indians to decry the caste system, and Poles, Ukrainians and Czechs once used it to protest Soviet rule.
But more likely for Harb, the model was Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in late 2010 after officials humiliated him once too often. His public death triggered a wave of protests across the Middle East that became the Arab Spring.
Bouazizi's self-immolation suggests its power to set our consciences on fire. It is the ultimate act of individual self-sacrifice, one that is entirely non-violent except to the victim himself, performed altruistically in a greater, collective cause.
Who did Harb hope to speak to with his shocking act?
In part, according to his family, he was angry with the Palestinian leadership. His family was trapped in the unresolved feud between Gaza's rulers, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank. That dispute has led the PA to cut the salaries of its workers in Gaza, including Harb's father.
But Harb undoubtedly had a larger audience in mind too.
Until a few years ago, Hamas regularly fired rockets out of the enclave in a struggle both to end Israel's continuing colonisation of Palestinian land and to liberate the people of Gaza from their Israeli-made prison.
But the world rejected the Palestinians' right to resist violently and condemned Hamas as "terrorists". Israel's series of military rampages in Gaza to silence Hamas were meekly criticised in the West as "disproportionate".
The Palestinians of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where there is still direct contact with Israeli Jews, usually as settlers or soldiers, watched as Gaza's armed resistance failed to prick the world's conscience.
So some took up the struggle as individuals, targeting Israelis or soldiers at checkpoints. They grabbed a kitchen knife to attack Israelis or soldiers at checkpoints, or rammed them with a car, bus or bulldozer.
Again, the world sided with Israel. Resistance was not only futile, it was denounced as illegitimate.
Since late March, the struggle for liberation has shifted back to Gaza. Tens of thousands of unarmed Palestinians have massed weekly close to Israel's fence encaging them.
The protests are intended as confrontational civil disobedience, a cry to the world for help and a reminder that Palestinians are being slowly choked to death.
Israel has responded repeatedly by spraying the demonstrators with live ammunition, seriously wounding many thousands and killing more than 100. Yet again, the world has remained largely impassive.
In fact, worse still, the demonstrators have been cast as Hamas stooges. The United States ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, blamed the victims under occupation, saying Israel had a right to "defend its border", while the British government claimed the protests were "hijacked by terrorists".
None of this can have passed Harb by.
When Palestinians are told they can "protest peacefully", western governments mean quietly, in ways that Israel can ignore, in ways that will not trouble consciences or require any action.
In Gaza, the Israeli army is renewing the Dahiya doctrine, this time by shattering thousands of Palestinian bodies rather than infrastructure.
Harb understood only too well the West's hypocrisy in denying Palestinians any right to meaningfully resist Israel's campaign of destruction.
The flames that engulfed him were intended also to consume us with guilt and shame. And doubtless more in Gaza will follow his example.
Will Harb be proved right? Can the West be shamed into action?
Or will we continue blaming the victims to excuse our complicity in seven decades of outrages committed against the Palestinian people?
'Deliberate war crime': Palestinians decry murder of 21yo female paramedic at Gaza border
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The killing of a 21-year-old female medical worker during the Great March of Return at the Gaza border is nothing short of a war crime, Palestinian officials said, calling on the international community to hold Israel responsible.
The murder of 21-year-old medical volunteer, Razan Al-Najar, is a direct violation of all "international treaties and conventions" that ensure the protection of the medical staff in the conflict zones, Palestinian Minister of Health, Jawad Awwad, said late Friday, noting that the shooting of the paramedic must have been "deliberate" and amounted to a "war crime."
The volunteer was shot in the chest by the Israeli Defense Forces on Friday near the border fence east of Khan Younes, in the southern Gaza Strip, while she was helping wounded Palestinians.
While the Israeli military has yet to comment on Najar's death, an anonymous witness told Reuters that, at the time of the tragedy, the medical worker wore a white uniform, which clearly distinguished her from the rest of the Palestinian crowd taking part in the 10th weekly Great March of Return protests.
Furthermore, the medical volunteer "raised her hands high in a clear way, but Israeli soldiers fired and she was hit in the chest," the witness told Reuters.
Najar became the latest victim of the Israeli crackdown on protesting Palestinians at the Gazan border. More than 100 protesters were injured by Israeli fire, including 40 by live bullets, directed at them by the IDF during the 10th Great March of Return rally. Another four paramedics were among those wounded while helping the injured.
The shooting of a medical worker is a "heinous crime committed by the occupation forces," the Palestinian Minister of Justice, Ali Abu Diak, said in a statement, calling on the International Criminal Court to document Israeli brutality and to "try leaders, officials, officers, soldiers" and all those who committed "crimes against humanity."
International humanitarian law affords special protection to medical personnel whose mission is to save lives in conflicts, under four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Article 24 was especially adopted to protect "medical personnel exclusively engaged in the search for, or the collection, transport or treatment of the wounded or sick."
The West Bank's ruling Fatah party also condemned the murder of the 21-year-old medic. "This crime...reflects a terrorist fascist mentality that deliberately kills, destroys and persecutes [Palestinians]," spokesman Osama al-Qawasmi said in a statement.
Fatah also condemned Washington's move on Friday to veto an Arab-backed UN draft resolution which called calling for protective measures for the Palestinians. Qawasmi stressed that the "veto" used by the United States encourages the Jewish State to continue its crimes against the Palestinians.
Over 120 Palestinians have so far been killed since the beginning of the Great March of Return, mainly by live Israeli fire amid the raging protests at the Gaza-Israel border, which began on March 30. Thousands of others have been injured as Israel maintains its right to protect the border by all means necessary.
'It wasn't a random bullet': Palestinians mourn 21yo paramedic as Israel blames Hamashttps://www.rt.com/news/428569-gaza-nurse-israel-sniper/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
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As thousands gathered for the funeral of a 21-year-old medical worker shot by the IDF while helping wounded Palestinians, the volunteer's family and colleagues told RT of their grief, stressing that she was deliberately murdered.
During Friday's 10th weekly Great March of Return protest, the Israeli forces shot and killed 21-year-old Razan Al-Najar, a volunteer with the Medical Relief Society, who was assisting the wounded near the border fence east of Khan Younes, in the southern Gaza Strip.
"We were trying to get the injured from the fence," Razan's colleague, Lamya Najjar, who witnessed her murder, told RT. "When the Israeli saw us approaching, the Israeli snipers targeted us with tear gas. We were suffocating from the tear gas, and then they started to shoot randomly, [and] one of the bullets that were targeting us hit Razan in the chest."
"We were all targeted and we are all civilians and only a medical team," Shaimaa Qudaih, another colleague of Razan, told RT's Ruptly video agency. "We were discussing how to offer assistance to the injured, when, me, my partners, Razan, Mahmoud and Rami were suddenly shot directly as the medical crew."
Razan's mother is convinced that her daughter was deliberately targeted by the Israeli fire, allegedly for her role in saving the wounded ever since the Great March of return protests erupted on March 30.
"My daughter Razan was targeted. They knew she was a paramedic. She was the first female paramedic in the field," Sabreen Najar told RT. "She was directly shot by the Israeli forces. The bullet deliberately targeted her, it was not a random bullet. It was a sniper."
Her father, Ibrahim, shares the same sentiment, noting that Razan was wearing a white medical uniform when she was shot. "That was clear to all but she was intentionally targeted by the Israeli army," he told Ruptly.
At least three other medical workers were wounded on Friday, Mohammed Al Hessi, the Head of Emergency Paramedics and Ambulances for the Red Crescent told RT, confirming that Al-Najar was shot in the back.
"It's not the first time the Israeli forces targeted paramedics in the field. This is a war crime against the medical teams in Gaza Strip. They have been targeting paramedics and ambulances with live ammunition and teargas in the past weeks. This violates the human rights and international laws," the Red Crescent official stressed.
The IDF vowed to review the case, explaining that the tragedy occurred during a response to a major security incident at the border fence, where Palestinians allegedly fired on Israeli lines, planted a grenade and hurled explosive devices towards IDF troops.
"The IDF has repeatedly warned civilians against approaching the fence and taking part in violent incidents and terrorist attacks and will continue to act professionally and determinedly to protect Israeli civilians and Israeli security infrastructure," the IDF said, in a written statement to RT. "Unfortunately, the Hamas terror organization deliberately and methodically places civilians in danger."
While Israel considers all Palestinians approaching the border fence as alleged "Hamas members" and thus legitimate targets, medical workers are protected under Article 24 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which specifically forbids targeting "medical personnel exclusively engaged in the search for, or the collection, transport or treatment of the wounded or sick."
"Our message is humanitarian we go to the border, to rescue injured people. We are not terrorists," Lamya told RT. "We are unarmed. We are wearing our paramedic uniform. All we have is medical tools and medicine to heal the injuries."
"We are only a medical team, we don't have any weapons," Qudaih added. "What we have is just the equipment needed to help those injured from suffocation, or live bullets. We have nothing to threaten the Israeli army with."
Meanwhile, crowds of mourners carried the body of the 21-year old victim through the streets of her hometown Khuza to a cemetery in Khan Yunis. "Razan was an angel," her cousin told RT. "In the field, she was healing the wounds of the injured people."
"She used to buy medicine for the injured people who can't afford to buy their own medicine," her mother recalled. "She used to tell me everything every day. She used to come home with blood on her uniform."
Nearly 120 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the so-called Great March of Return on March 30, mainly by live Israeli fire. Thousands of others have been injured as Israel maintains its right to protect the border by all means necessary.
Palestinian man shot dead for throwing stone at IDF soldier
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A Palestinian man was shot dead for throwing a stone at an Israeli soldier during a confrontation in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank.
According to the initial report by human rights group B'Tselem, the victim was 21-year-old Izz ad-Din Tamimi, who died from a neck wound after being shot by Israeli forces.
An IDF spokesman confirmed on Twitter that they did indeed shoot a Palestinian man, who was confronting soldiers with 10 others, while they were conducting an arrest in the village northwest of Ramallah.
The IDF spokesperson explained that troops "responded with riot dispersal means."
According to the IDF, Tamimi managed to hit one of the soldiers in the head with a rock. The soldier then immediately responded to the assault by firing at the Palestinian. The spokesman said that he was "given medical treatment at the scene," but did not survive.
"No IDF troops were injured," the spokesperson confirmed.
One of the residents in the village who witnessed the incident told Haaretz that Tamimi had been wanted by Israeli security forces and they entered the village to arrest him.
The incident occurred in the same village where jailed Palestinian protester Ahed Tamimi comes from. She is currently serving an eight-month jail term for slapping an Israeli soldier. She has been hailed as one of the symbols of Palestinian resistance.
The IDF said it's investigating this latest incident, in which Izz ad-Din Tamimi was killed, but it's far from the first case of Palestinians being shot.
Last Friday, as the Great March of Return protests entered their 10th week, a 21-year-old medical worker, Razan Al-Najar, was shot by the IDF while she was helping the wounded. At least three other medical workers were wounded on the same day.
Over 120 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the protests. Israel says it has a right to defend itself from violent rioters, who want to cross the border fence.
Meanwhile, a draft bill has been proposed in the Knesset that seeks to criminalize the recording of Israeli soldiers on duty. Offenders would get up to five years behind bars.
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Paramedic on duty among two killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, 121 more injured
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Two people have been killed in Gaza, including a paramedic on duty, the Palestinian Health Ministry reports. The Palestinian Red Crescent reports that 121 have been injured and that 57 of these were hit by live bullets.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told RT it "condemns the killing of the medic Abdullah al-Qatati while on duty today by the Israeli occupation in Rafah."
"Abdullah volunteered with the Medical Relief Society to provide medical assistance to affected people during the March of Return," it said.
Qatiti was killed in Rafah in southern Gaza and five other paramedics have been injured. Saeed Aloul was reported dead by the Health Ministry. Journalists Alaa Abdel Fatah and Mahmoud al-Jamal have also been injured, local media reports.
32 people have been treated for tear gas, with eight tear gas canister burns reported by the PRCS.
The violence took place as Palestinians in Gaza continue their weekly March of Return protests amidst heightened attacks between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas' al Qassam Brigade.
An Israeli airstrike killed three people on Wednesday, including a pregnant woman and her 18-month-old daughter. Rockets fired by Hamas have not killed any Israelis.
The weekly protests see Palestinians calling for their right to return to the land they were expelled from during the foundation of the state of Israel. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed since the protests began on March 30. Qatati is the third paramedic to be killed in the protests.
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The human cost of the conflict since 2000 • IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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Week of August 5th
Ahmad Abu Louli, 40, died of wounds sustained a day earlier when Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire during the Great Return March. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/ahmad-jamal-abu-louli/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Ali al-'Aloul, 55, was shot and killed by Israeli forces at a 'Great Return March' protest east of Rafah. More Information
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Abdullah al-Qutati, 20, a medic, was shot and killed by Israeli forces at a 'Great Return March' protest east of Rafah. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/abdullah-al-qutati/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Bayan Abu Khammash, 18 months old, was killed along with her nine-months-pregnant mother when the Israeli airforce dropped a bomb on their home. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/bayan-abu-khammash/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Enas Abu Khammash, 23, was killed along with her 18-month old baby when the Israeli airforce dropped a bomb on their home. Enas was nine months pregnant when she was killed.. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/enas-abu-khammash/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Ali al-Ghandour, 30, was killed in a car which was struck by a missile fired by an Israeli army drone. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/ali-al-ghandour/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Abdul-Hafeth Seelawi, 23, was killed in an Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza, along with another fighter from the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas party. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/abdul-hafeeth-seelawi/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Ahmad Morjan, 23, was killed in an Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza, along with another fighter from the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas party. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/ahmad-abdullah-morjan/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Ahmad al-Aydi, 17, died from serious wounds he suffered on the first day of the Great Return March procession, on March 30th, a day marking the Palestinian Land Day. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/ahmad-jihad-al-aydi/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Week of July 29th
Moath Soori, 15, died from serious wounds he suffered a day earlier, when Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire. More information https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/moath-ziad-soori/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a2e43f69-463f-4d0f-80a5-a8ee49ed7eea
Ahmad Yaghi, 25, was shot and killed by an Israeli army sharpshooter while participating in a non-violent protest rally on Palestinian lands east of the Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza city. More information
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12yo boy among 3 Palestinians killed during 'March of Return' at Gaza border
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Three people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed on the Gaza border as Israeli forces used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters rallying against the Israeli occupation. Some 248 people have been injured.
The deadliest Israeli-Palestinian clashes since the 2014 Gaza War have resulted in three more casualties: Hani Ramzi Afaneh and Mohammad Khalil Shaqoura, both 21, as well as 12-year-old Shadi Abul-Al, WAFA news agency reported.
At least 248 people have been injured or suffered from tear gas exposure, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Fifteen people have been hit by live bullets.
Israeli Defense Forces have referred to the protesters as "rioters," insisting its response was proportionate and in line with its rules of engagement. The Israeli army spokesman said that the protesters pelted Israeli forces with rocks, burn tires and threw two grenades and bombs, inflicting an injury to one Israeli soldier. The soldier had suffered a shrapnel wound and received medical attention on the spot.
The IDF also claimed that nine Palestinians attempted to break through the fence on the Israel-Gaza border but were stopped by the Israeli security forces. In retaliation, the IDF targeted two Hamas positions inside Gaza with tanks and aircraft.
Tensions have been running high on the border for six months now, since the first "Great March of Return" protest on March 30 drew some 30,000 Palestinians. So far, 178 Palestinians have been killed and over 19,000 injured in the weekly protests.
The situation has been exacerbated by the US recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and the grand opening of the embassy there in May, which has drawn anger from Palestinians, the entire Arab world, and even some US allies in Europe.
The Trump administration's recent decision to defund the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) and shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization offices in Washington have also fueled Palestinian anger.
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Six Palestinians killed in 24 hours shows Israel's 'utter disregard for right to life', says Amnesty
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Amnesty International yesterday responded to Israeli forces' killing of six Palestinians within a 24-hour period by accusing Israeli authorities of demonstrating an "utter disregard for right to life".
The international human rights group warned that "several of these incidents appear to involve deliberate and wilful killing of unarmed civilians and may amount to war crimes", and also renewed its call for an arms embargo to be imposed on Israel.
"Between 10pm on Monday 17 September and 8pm on Tuesday 18 September," Amnesty stated, "Israeli forces killed four Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip using live ammunition. Within the same period, two more died as a result of the actions of Israeli forces in the West Bank, one after being beaten during the process of arrest and another shot dead in a busy street in East Jerusalem."
The NGO stated: The deaths of six Palestinians within just 24 hours is a horrific demonstration of the unnecessary or excessive force deployed by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
"It is the fact that such crimes are rarely, if ever, punished that allows unlawful killings and other violations of the right to life to continue in shameless disregard of international law," said Saleh Higazi, deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
"These incidents are not new in the OPT and are likely to continue unless this cycle of impunity is broken," he added.
In the context of Israel's ongoing violent repression of Great March of Return protests in the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said it "has not documented any instances where protesters posed an imminent threat to the lives of Israeli soldiers and snipers, who have been located behind the fence, protected by military equipment, sand hills, drones and military vehicles."
"Israel has a duty to immediately launch an independent, thorough and transparent investigation into each of these incidents and all other incidents which may involve the use of unnecessary or excessive force, torture and other ill-treatment against Palestinian civilians," Higazi said.
"We call on the Israeli authorities to hold those found responsible for these grave violations to account through fair trials. Until this happens we will not see an end to Israeli forces' random and apparently senseless killing and violence."
The Amnesty official also urged the international community to "take concrete steps to stop the delivery and trade of arms and military equipment to Israel", adding that "a failure to do so fuels serious human rights violations against millions of men, women and children suffering the consequences of 50 years of military occupation, including 11 years of blockade in the Gaza Strip".
Israeli forces kill 6 Palestinians (including 2 teens & 12 year old), injure 509, in Gaza
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Six Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli forces and at least 509 were injured on Friday during protests in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Gaza health ministry identified four of the slain Palestinians as 14-year-old Mohammed Naif al-Houm, who was shot in the chest with a live bullet; Iyad Khalil al-Shaaer, 18, who was killed east of Gaza City; Mohammed Waleed Haniyeh, a 23-year old from the Al-Shati refugee camp; Mohammed Bassam Shakhsah, a 24-year old from east of Gaza city, and Mohammed Ali Inchassy, a 18-year old from east of Khan Younis.
The fifth Palestinian who was killed, a 12-year old, has been identified as Naser Azmi Musbeh.
At least 509 were injured, three of them in serious condition. According to Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesperson of the health ministry, 4 paramedics, 4 media journalists and 90 children were injured by Israeli live ammunition.
Thousands of Palestinians protested on Friday to demand the lift of the 11-year Israeli-blockade over Gaza and the return of Palestinian refugees to their lands and towns in present-day Israel.
It has been six months since Palestinians in Gaza first began participating in the Great March of Return on 30 March – one of the biggest mass demonstrations since the Second Intifada, between 2000 and 2005.
Palestinians marched on Friday under the theme of "Al-Aqsa Intifada Friday" and gathered in large numbers east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Video footage of the protest showed protesters removing large coils of barbed wire placed by Israeli forces on the Gaza side of the fence separating the blockaded Palestinian enclave from Israel.
In the occupied West Bank, local media reported that clashes with Israeli soldiers happened in the village of Nahalin near Bethlehem, in Ras Karkar in the Ramallah governorate, and in Kafr Qaddum in Qalqiliya.
Israel said that Palestinian incendiary kites caused seven fires to crops in Israeli settlements.
Israeli forces and officials have denounced the use of incendiary flying devices by Palestinian protesters – who counter that kites and balloons are the only weapons at their disposal to fight against the occupation.
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October 4, 2018 3:26 AM IMEMC News
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child on Wednesday when they shot him with a high-velocity gas bomb in the head, and wounded 25 other Palestinians, during protests near Beit Hanoun (Erez) Terminal, in northern Gaza.
The child, Ahmad Samir Abu Habel, 15, was shot with a gas bomb which struck him directly in his head, and lodged in his skull.
A video shows gas pouring from his skull, where the canister lodged, and a group of young men rushing up to help him to an ambulance.
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The soldiers also targeted a Palestinian ambulance with a gas bomb, and several live rounds, near the crossing.
Furthermore, the soldiers injured 25 other Palestinians, some with live fire who were rushed to the Indonesian Hospital in nearby Beit Lahia. The rest suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Elderly Palestinian Farmer in Central Gazahttp://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-fatally-shoot-elderly-palestinian-farmer-in-central-gaza/
October 3, 2018 6:13 PM IMEMC News & Agencies
Israeli military forces shot and killed an elderly Palestinian farmer in the central part of the Gaza Strip, while he was working on his land.
Gazan Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qedra said the 78-year-old Palestinian, identified as Ibrahim Ahmad al-Arrouqi, was transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, located over 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) south of Gaza City, where he succumbed to his injuries.
In a brief statement, Dr. al-Qedra confirmed that the Palestinian was shot and killed, on Tuesday evening, while working on his land east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Dr. al-Qedra confirmed the death of the Palestinian man on Wednesday, after informing the man's family and conducting arrangements.
More than 195 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30. Approximately 21,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
The resolution, which had been put forward on behalf of Arab and Muslim countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions.
The resolution called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days "on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation," including "recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism."
It also called for "immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gaza Strip."
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A Palestinian woman died after a group of Israeli settlers hurled rocks at her car as she and her husband drove south of Nablus in the West Bank Friday night, according to local media reports. Aisha Mohammed Talal al-Rab died in hospital from her injuries. Israeli police say they are opening an investigation, and a local workers' strike has been called in response to her death.
Thousands in Gaza Mourn 7 Killed in Border Protests
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Thousands of Palestinians attended funerals Saturday for seven young men shot dead a day earlier by Israeli troops during fresh demonstrations along the Gaza border, a report said.
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Mourners on Saturday chanted slogans condemning Israel for shooting civilians and called on the international community to deliver justice, AFP reported.
The Israeli army said five Palestinians had been killed during the protests Friday after they broke through the heavily-guarded border fence and attacked an army post.
The enclave's health ministry said seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire.
On Saturday, the ministry named the victims as: Ahmed al-Taweel, 27, Mohammad Ismail, 29, Ahmad Abu Naim, 17, Abdullah Daghma, 25, Afifi Atta Afifi, 18, Tamer Abu Armaneh, 25 and Mohammad Abbas, 21.
At least 205 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since protests began on March 30.
The majority were killed during border demonstrations, though others have died in airstrikes and tank shelling.
The protesters are demanding to be allowed to return to land now occupied by Israel, from which their families fled or were expelled from during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of the regime.
They are also calling for Israel to end its crippling blockade of the strip.
Israeli soldiers kill [5] more Palestinians in Gaza
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There seems to be no cut to the streak of young Palestinians being killed by Israeli soldiers at the fence area separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories.
Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry, said three Palestinians were killed on Friday east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, identifying them as Nassar Eyad Abu Taim, 19, Ahmed Saied Abu Labda, 22, and 23-year-old Ayesh Ghassan Shaat.
He said Israeli soldiers also killed Muhammad Khaled Mahmoud Abdul Nabi, 27, east of Jabalia, about four kilometers north of Gaza City.
Jabr Ibrahim Abu Hamisa, 25, was also killed in an incident east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The cause of the deadly event was not clear.
Tensions have been running high near the border fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed "The Great March of Return." Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.
The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
More than 190 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 20,000 others wounded in the renewed Gaza clashes, according to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry.
Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.
Palestinian man killed in Ramallah
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, clashes were reported between the Palestinians and Israeli forces.
The clashes in the village of al-Mazra'a in Ramallah left a Palestinian man killed and an unspecified number of people wounded, sources said.
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Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces during Gaza protests dies of wounds
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Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Palestinian Nassar Abu Taim, who was killed the day before amid clashes following a protest at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories, during his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 27, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A Palestinian man has died two days after suffering Israeli-inflicted gunshot wounds during anti-occupation protests along border between the blockaded Gaza Strip and occupied territories.
The spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a statement that 37-year-old Yahya Badr Mohammed al-Hassanat, a resident of al-Meghraqa district south of Gaza City, succumbed to his wounds at the al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday morning.
Hassanat was shot and wounded during "The Great March of Return" protests near Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon.
At least 214 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30. Over 22,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
The resolution, which had been put forward on behalf of Arab and Muslim countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions.
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Palestinian paramedics carry away on a stretcher a protester who was injured during clashes following a demonstration near the border with Israeli-occupied territories east of Gaza City on October 26, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
The resolution called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days "on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation," including "recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism."
It also called for "immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gaza Strip."
Israeli airstrike kills three children in Gaza
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GAZA, Sunday, October 28, 2018 (WAFA) – Three Palestinian children were killed in an Israeli airstrike bombing that targeted an area to the northeast of the city Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, said medical sources.
Sources said Red Crescent ambulances pulled the bodies of three children between the ages of 12 and 14. They were taken to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah city, in central Gaza.
Israeli army reportedly opened fire toward the ambulances and prevented their access to the scene.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian youth sustained moderate injuries after being shot by Israeli forces' fire to the east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza city.
Israeli Navy Kills A Palestinian Fisherman In Gaza
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Israeli navy ships opened fire, Wednesday, at Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, in northern Gaza, killing a young fisherman, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said the navy fired many live rounds at the fishing boats, killing Nawwaf Ahmad al-Attar, 20.
The slain fisherman was killed in Palestinian waters, west of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Al-Attar was from al-Atatra area in Beit Lahia.
His death brings the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire and shells, since last Saturday, to fourteen.
One of them, identified as Akram Yousef Ma'rouf, 29, was killed on Tuesday evening, by a missile fired from an Israeli drone, into the Shaima' area, in Beit Lahia.
It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing, Mofeed al-Hasayneh, has reported that the Israeli shelling and bombardment in the Gaza Strip, since Sunday, has caused destruction and damage to hundreds of buildings and structures.
He said that eight residential units were destroyed, 50 were partially but seriously damaged, and 750 sustained light to moderate damage, and added that most of the targeted buildings are in the Gaza governorate.
The Israeli shells and missiles struck homes, the headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV, Ar-Rahma residential building, Al-Amal Hostel, Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, Ansar Governmental Center, a building owned by al-Yaziji family, in addition to many other buildings, structures and infrastructure sites.
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Israeli soldiers shoot and kill a disabled Palestinian man on International Day of Disabled Persons
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Israel, along with the rest of the world, commemorated International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday, December 3rd, by promising greater integration of the country's 1.5 million disabled citizens, and holding different activities in parks across the country to show off it's handicap-accessible pathways and lookout points.
As Monday's activities came to a close, just across the Green Line in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli forces shot and killed a disabled Palestinian man in the back of his head.
It was around 2am when Israeli forces raided Tulkarem city, near the coffee shop where 22-year-old Muhammad Ihbali worked. He usually left work late, after the young men who frequent the shops finished their card games.
According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces were conducting a "search and arrest operation" in the area — a near nightly practice for soldiers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, that often provoke confrontations with local Palestinian youth.
The army claimed that when it began firing live fire at youth, they were merely practicing "riot dispersal methods" and "responding to the threat" of Palestinian youth who were throwing rocks at the soldiers
But videos published on social media of that night show Ihbali walking a distance away from the alleged riot, his back turned to soldiers, when he suddenly falls down, face first into the pavement.
His family, who says he had a mental disability, told Middle East Eye that he was shot in his head, and succumbed to his wounds shortly after he arrived to the hospital.
Hundreds of mourners marched through the streets of the Tulkarem Refugee Camp, where Ihbali lived with his family, on Tuesday morning and laid the young man to rest.
He was the 28th Palestinian to have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of 2018, according to UN documentation. In Gaza, at least 171 Palestinians have been killed since the Great March of Return began on March 30th.
Ihbali was one of at least five Palestinians with mental or physical disabilities killed by Israel over the past year.
On December 15, 2017, during massive protests in Gaza against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Israeli forces shot a paraplegic Palestinian man in the head, killing him. The wheelchair-ridden man, 29-year-old Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, lost both his legs during Israel's 2008 offensive on Gaza.
On March 9th, Israeli forces shot and killed 24-year-old Mohammad Zain al-Jabari during clashes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Reports at the time said he had a mental disability that resulted in a speech impediment. He was survived by his wife and four-year-old child.
On April 21, three weeks after the Great March of Return had began, an Israeli sniper shot and killed 25-year-old Ahmed Nabil Aqel, who was reportedly physically disabled and walked using crutches, along the Gaza border.
On May 15th, another double leg amputee in a wheelchair, 30-year-old Fadi Abu Salah, was killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border. His legs were severely injured in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008, forcing doctors to amputate them.
Additionally, Gaza Health Ministry reports have put the number of Palestinians injured by Israel in the Great March of Return in the thousands, at least 68 of whom have had one or both of their legs amputated.
According to UN documentation, over 1,400 Palestinians injured during the Great March of Return "may suffer long-term disability" as a result of Israeli gunfire.
Those that have suffered amputation will face additional challenges, as the Israeli siege on Gaza makes it difficult to import the necessary materials for making prosthetic limbs. Those that are available, are typically too expensive for the average Gazan family, or are too poorly made to even be functional.
In the West Bank, rights groups have even accused Israeli forces of intentionally disabling Palestinian youth in West Bank refugee camps by shooting them in their knees.
Israeli forces have been heavily criticized for what rights groups have referred to as "extrajudicial executions" and excessive use of force against Palestinians — especially youth and children — who did not pose an immediate threat or who could have been disarmed through non-lethal means, particularly during clashes.
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Israeli forces shoot dead 3 Palestinians, including teen, wound dozens more in Gaza Strip
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Three Palestinians, including a teenage, have been shot dead by Israeli fire and nearly fifty others have sustained injuries during anti-occupation protests along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.
Gaza's Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra said 16-year-old Mohammed al-Jahjuh was fatally shot in the neck, while 47 others, including a local journalist, were wounded by Israeli gunfire during border protests and clashes east of Gaza City on Friday.
Al-Jahjuh was "hit in the neck by a bullet (fired) by Israeli soldiers", the spokesman said.
Abdulaziz Ibrahim Abu Sharia, 27, and Maher Yaseen, 40, were the other fatalities of the Israeli attack.
The Israeli army said around 8,000 Palestinians had gathered along the fence separating Gaza from the occupied territories.
The Palestinian protesters threw rocks from behind clouds of black smoke of burning tires at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas and live fire.
Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed "The Great March of Return." Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.
The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
More than 220 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 20,000 others wounded in the renewed Gaza clashes, according to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry.
Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.
Tensions have also been running high in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli military regularly opens fatal fire on Palestinians, accusing them of seeking to attack its personnel.
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Israeli troops have shot dead a young Palestinian man driving near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Bireh.
Human rights groups have repeatedly slammed the Tel Aviv regime for its shoot-to-kill policy as a large number of the Palestinians killed at the scene of attacks did not pose any serious threat to Israelis.
Israeli troops have on numerous occasions been caught on camera brutally killing Palestinians, with the videos going viral online and sparking condemnations of the regime's military.
Since the beginning of 2018, Israeli forces have killed at least 310 Palestinians, including 54 children, and arrested over 900 others, according to a Palestinian human rights center.
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Mourning posters showing Mahmoud Nakhle.\ Credit: Alex Levac
IDF shot a Palestinian Teen, Dragged Him Around, Chased Ambulance Away
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The coldness of Israel and its soldiers is incomprehensible – shooting a Palestinian minor in the back, shooting at the neighbor who tried to help, threatening to shoot the ambulance driver, while the youth bled to death. This has become a common occurrence, with at least 52 Palestinian children killed in 2018.
This article, which appeared in Israeli daily Ha'aretz, was written by an outspoken Jewish Israeli journalist.
by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, Ha'aretz
What goes through the head of soldiers, young Israelis, after they shoot an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the back with live ammunition, prevent him from getting medical treatment, move him around, putting him on the ground and then picking him up again – and chase away an ambulance at gunpoint? For 15 minutes, the Israel Defense Forces soldiers carried the dying Mahmoud Nakhle, pulling him by his hands and feet, it's not clear why or where, before allowing him to be evacuated. They had already shot him and wounded him badly. He was dying. Why not let the Palestinian ambulance that arrived at the site rush him to the hospital and possibly save his life? Nakhle died from a bullet in his liver and loss of blood. He was two weeks after his 18th birthday, the only son of parents who are descendants of refugees, and he lived in the Jalazun refugee camp adjacent to Ramallah, in the West Bank.
Nakhle was killed last Friday, December 14.
Getting to Jalazun took a long time this week; it was a long and stressful trip. Overnight, terror attacks and other sights of the intifada had returned simultaneously: innumerable surprise checkpoints, such as we hadn't seen for years; long lines of Palestinian vehicles, forced to wait for hours; drivers emerging from their cars and waiting in desperation by the side of the road, anger and frustration etched on their faces; roads blocked arbitrarily, with people signaling each other as to which was open and which was closed; some cars making their way cross-country via boulder-strewn areas and dirt paths to bypass the roadblocks, until those options, too, were sealed off by the army. And also aggressive, edgy, frightened soldiers, carrying weapons that threatened just about anyone who made a move near them.
Welcome back to the days of the intifada, welcome to a trip into the past: Even if only for a moment, the West Bank this week regressed 15 years, to the start of the millennium.
The wind blows cold at the Jalazun camp. A throng of thousands of children and teenagers is streaming down the road, heading home from their schools run by UNRWA, the United Nations refugee agency. The two schools, one for boys and one for girls, are situated at the camp's entrance, on both sides of the main Ramallah-Nablus road. We were here a year and a half ago, after IDF soldiers shot up a car stolen from Israel when it stopped outside the settlement of Beit El, spraying it with at least 10 rounds, and killing two of its passengers. About half a year ago, we returned to the camp to meet Mohammed Nakhle, the bereaved father of 16-year-old Jassem, one of those fatalities. The father cried through our entire meeting, even though this was a year after he had lost Jassem.
Mahmoud Nakhle, who was killed last week, was a relative of Jassem's.
Last Friday, there was stone throwing in the valley between Jalazun's boys' school and the first houses of Beit El, across the way. The soldiers fired tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated bullets at the young Palestinians. Quite a few of the camp's residents have been killed at this spot, which has become a main arena of the struggle against the large, veteran settlement that looms through every window in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Jalazun, situated below.
The stone throwing had slowed down in the afternoon and had just about stopped when an IDF force, arriving in two vehicles, began chasing after the youths, who were now on their way back to the camp, at about 4 P.M. The latter numbered about 15 teens, aged 14 to 18. Suddenly the soldiers started shooting, using live ammunition – even as calm was apparently about to be restored. A video clip, one of several that captured the event, shows the soldiers walking along the road and firing into the air.
The wail of an ambulance slashes the air now, as we stand at the site of the incident with Iyad Hadad, a field investigator for the Israeli human-rights organization B'Tselem, who collected testimony from eyewitnesses. Nakhle chose to return home by way of a dirt path that passes above the camp. The soldiers ran after him and one of them shot him once, in the lower back. Nakhle fell to the ground, bleeding.
The occupant of the first-floor apartment in the closest building in Jalazun, just meters from the site of the incident, heard the shot, the groans and a call for help. She assumed someone had been wounded, but wasn't sure where or who he was. From her window she saw a group of soldiers standing in a circle, though she couldn't see the wounded person who lay on the ground between them. A second eyewitness saw one soldier nudge Nakhle with his foot, apparently to see if the teen was still alive. They then pulled up his shirt and pulled down his pants, apparently to check whether the stone-throwing youth was a dangerous, booby-trapped terrorist. As the video accounts show, he was left lying like that, exposed in his blue underwear. The woman from the apartment rushed out to summon help, but the soldiers fired toward her to drive her off. One bullet struck her husband's car.
The soldiers lifted Nakhle up and carried him a few dozen meters from where he'd fallen, laying him down at the side of the road. One of the eyewitnesses related that they carried him "like you haul a slaughtered sheep." The video clip shows them carrying him not in the prescribed way for moving someone who is seriously wounded, but by his hands and his feet, his back sagging.
Before the soldiers shot at the first eyewitness – whose identity is known to the B'Tselem investigator – to scare her off, she shouted at them to let the wounded person be and to allow him to be taken to hospital in an ambulance. "Leave him alone, do you want to kill him... give him aid." She also shouted at the soldiers that she was his mother – apparently hoping that the lie would stir pity in them – but to no avail. In the video shot by her daughter on her cell phone, the woman sounds overwrought, gasping for breath as she cries out, "In God's name, call an ambulance!"
After five to seven minutes, the soldiers again lifted Nakhle, once more by his extremities, and carried him a few dozen meters more, in the direction of the main road, and again laid him by the roadside. A Palestinian ambulance that had arrived at the scene was chased off by the soldiers, who threatened the driver with their rifles. As far as is known, the soldiers did not give Nakhle any sort of medical aid. The woman from the house again shouted, now from her window: "In God's name, let the ambulance take him away." But still to no avail.
It was only after a quarter of an hour, during which Nakhle continued to bleed, that the soldiers allowed an ambulance to be summoned. A video clip shows Nakhle raising one hand limply to the back of his neck, proof that he was still alive. Half-naked, he's placed on a stretcher and put in the ambulance, which speeds off, its siren wailing, to the Government Hospital in Ramallah.
The teen apparently breathed his last en route, arriving at the hospital with no pulse. Attempts were made to resuscitate him in the ER and to perform emergency surgery, but after half an hour, he was pronounced dead. Dr. Muayad Bader, a physician in the hospital, wrote on the death certificate that Mahmoud Nakhle died from loss of blood after a bullet entered his lower back, struck his liver and hit a main artery, damaging other internal organs.
Mahmoud Nakhle's father. \ Credit: Alex Levac
A group of children is now standing at the site where Nakhle fell, practicing stone throwing on the way back from school. They hurl the stones to the ground in a demonstrative fit of anger. In the mourning tent that was erected in the courtyard of the camp, adorned with huge posters of the deceased, the men sit, grim-faced, with the bereaved father, Yusuf Nakhle, 41, in the center. Disabled from birth, he is partially paralyzed in his left arm and leg. We asked him to tell us about Mahmoud's life.
"What life? He hadn't yet lived his life, they robbed him of his life," he replies softly. Mahmoud attended school until the 10th grade and then studied electrical engineering at a professional college in Qalandiyah. He completed his studies and afterward a year of apprenticeship, and was waiting to find a job as an electrician. His father was waiting for him to help provide for the family. Yusuf is a technician at a pharmaceuticals company in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah. He and his wife, Ismahan, 45, have two more daughters, aged 14 and 4. Mahmoud was their only son.
In response to an inquiry, the IDF Spokesman's Office gave Haaretz the following statement this week: "On December 14, 2018, there was a violent disturbance adjacent to Jalazun, during which dozens of Palestinians threw rocks at IDF soldiers. The soldiers responded with demonstration-dispersal measures.
"During the disturbance, a Palestinian holding a suspicious object approached one of the soldiers. The soldier fired at him. Later, it was reported that the Palestinian had been killed. The Military Police have launched an investigation into the incident. Upon its completion, the findings will be transferred to the military advocate general's office."
The spokesman's office did not respond to a question regarding the denial of medical assistance to Mahmoud Nahle.
Last Friday, the hours passed normally in the home of Nakhle family in the Jalazun camp. Breakfast, a shower; the son asks his father if he needs anything before going out around midday. Never to return. At 4:30, Yusuf's brother called to inform him that his son had been wounded and was in the Government Hospital. By the time his father arrived, Mahmoud had been pronounced dead.
"We are human beings and it is our right to live and to look after our children. We too have feelings, like all people," says Rabah, Mahmoud's uncle, the brother of his father. Yusuf has watched the video clips that document the shooting and the hauling of his dying son dozens of times, over and over. Ismahan can't bring herself to look at them.
Killing of Palestinian by Israeli settlers 'shocking': UN envoy
Nikolay Mladenov calls on Israel to bring killers of Palestinian man Hamdi Naasan to justice.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2019/01/killing-palestinian-israeli-settlers-shocking-envoy-190127170421052.html
The UN's Middle East envoy has termed the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank "shocking and unacceptable".
Nikolay Mladenov on Sunday called on Israel to "put an end to settler violence and bring those responsible to justice".
Hamdi Naasan, 38, succumbed to his wounds on Saturday near the village of al-Mugheir after Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Adei Ad fired shots.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, Naasan was shot with a live bullet in the back. At least 30 other Palestinians were injured, of whom six were shot with live ammunition, according to Maan news agency.
Thousands gathered in al-Mugheir village to attend the funeral of Naasan.
The Israeli army temporarily obstructed mourners from reaching the burial site by putting up a roadblock between the highway and a road leading to the village. In an ensuing confrontation, the Israeli army arrested two Palestinian teenagers.
The Palestinian leaves behind his wife and four children - the oldest, a 10-year-old and the youngest, a one-year-old baby.
Al-Mugheir, a village with around 4,000 residents, is surrounded by four Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law.
'They came to kill'
Ataf Naasan, the slain Palestinian's cousin, told Al Jazeera that a group of settlers carrying weapons attacked the outskirts of their village on Saturday at noon.
Eyewitnesses told Al Jazeera that Naasan was killed while was carrying one of the wounded to an ambulance.
"When we came, they started shooting at us," Ataf said. "They aimed at our heads, our stomachs. They were firing randomly."
"When he put [the wounded man] down, they shot him," Ataf said.
Ataf emphasised that the settlers were carrying extra rounds of ammunition.
"I've never seen this before," he said. "They were prepared, and they came to kill."
Al-Mugheir residents told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army witnessed the events from 2km away, but did not intervene.
"The army did not come until the settlers finished their ammunition. Then they started shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at us," Ataf said. "Can you believe this? They attacked us instead of arresting the settlers."
The Israeli army said in a statement that a settler from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Adei Ad had a "physical confrontation" with several Palestinians and was slightly hurt.
"Shortly thereafter, a conflict erupted between Israeli civilians [settlers] and Palestinians in the area, in which live rounds were fired by the civilians [settlers]," the statement said.
Tzuriel Amiur, a spokesperson from the illegal settlement of Adei Ad said that a settler had been "attacked by a group of Palestinians who stabbed him and threw stones at him".
In response, a group of settlers headed for al-Mugheir. They were then "ambushed" by as many as 200 Palestinians throwing rocks, Amiur said.
When the army arrived, "civilians and soldiers were afraid for their lives and opened fire", he said.
Amin Abu Alya, head of the al-Mugheir village council, however, said on Saturday that the settlers had opened fire before the army moved in.
"At the beginning, it was settlers shooting, then the army came and fired tear gas," he told AFP news agency by phone.
Asked who shot Naasan, he said it was settlers.
'Rocks against guns'
The village of al-Mugheir has long been a victim of "price tag attacks", in which Israeli settlers, often religious hardliners, enter the village to damage Palestinian property.
On January 17, settlers cut 35-year-old olive trees with electric saws and painted stars of David on rocks in an olive grove belonging to Abed al-Hai Naasan, a resident of the village, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported.
The violence in al-Mugheir has increased in the last two months, as the villagers started organising peaceful marches every Friday to protest the establishment of a new illegal outpost, Mevo Shiloh, in an abandoned army base in the area.
The villagers slammed the Israeli army and the civil administration for promising to evacuate the outpost, illegal under Israeli law, and not living up to the promise.
"They just let [settlers] do whatever they want," Ataf said. "There is no difference between the army and the settlers.
"But we are not afraid of them," he said. "We will keep resisting until they leave. Rocks against guns. We'll fight them with our bare chests."
Naasan is the fourth Palestinian to be killed in the last two days.
On Saturday, Ayman Hamed, 18, was put to rest in his village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank after the Israeli army shot and killed him the previous day. The Israeli army claimed he was throwing stones.
Israeli police killed another Palestinian, Riyad Shamasneh, during a high-speed chase near the Old City's Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning.
Gaza resident Ehab Abed, 25, was killed by Israeli fire during the weekly Friday demonstrations near Israeli fence.
The violence in al-Mugheir comes days after Israel charged a Jewish teenager with manslaughter for the death of a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank.
Over 600,000 settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 war.
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Two Palestinian teens killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Hasan Shalabi, 14, and Hamza Shteiwi, 17, were both shot by Israeli forces during the Gaza Strip's weekly protests.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/palestinian-teens-killed-israeli-forces-gaza-190208165449433.html
Two Palestinian youths were killed by Israeli fire on Friday during the weekly protest near the Israeli fence east of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry in the besieged enclave said.
Hasan Shalabi, 14, "was killed by Israeli occupation live fire to the chest east of Khan Younis" in the southern Gaza Strip, the ministry said, as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated along the heavily fortified frontier with Israel for the 46th week running.
Hamza Shteiwi, 18, was also killed after he was shot in the neck by Israeli forces, the ministry added.
Another 17 Palestinians were shot at different protest sites along the fence, including two journalists and four medics.
According to Palestinian news agency Maan, Israeli forces shot tear gas canisters at an ambulance and sprayed demonstrators with chemically enhanced sewage water east of Khan Younis.
The Israeli army declined to comment on the death, but said 6,700 "rioters and demonstrators" had been protesting along the frontier.
"They are hurling rocks at [Israeli] troops and towards the security fence, as well as a number of explosive devices that did not cross the fence," a spokesman said.
Israeli troops "responded with riot dispersal means and fired according to standard operating procedures", he added.
Palestinians have for nearly a year gathered weekly near the Israeli fence for unarmed protests, as part of the Great March of Return rallies which began on March 30. Protesters are also demanding Israel to end its 12-year blockade of the coastal strip.
Israel says it is protecting its borders and accuses Hamas, which governs Gaza, of orchestrating the protests. Hamas, the protest's organisers, and demonstrators themselves have denied this.
At least 248 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since then, the majority shot during protests, though others have been hit by tank fire or air raids. More than 23,000 others have been wounded.
Two Israeli soldiers have been killed over the same period.
Teenager reportedly killed by IDF as March of Return continueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JPfewkrGI
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A 15-year-old teenager was reportedly killed by Israeli forces as the weekly March of Return resumed along Gaza's border on Friday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Another 30 were reported injured during the clashes. Footage shows ambulances arriving and paramedics carrying injured men on stretchers before taking them for treatment.
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Palestinian children were killed in a blaze at their home after Israeli forces prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time in Hebron, West Bank
Two Palestinian children killed in home fire after Israel blocks fire trucks
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Israeli soldiers prevented a Palestinian fire truck from reaching a home fire, resulting in the deaths of two small children. This is just one example of a trend: Israelis detain or damage ambulances and attack medics on a regular basis.
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Two Palestinian children have been killed in a blaze at their home in occupied Hebron after the Israeli authorities prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time.
The two children – one of whom is believed to have been just 18-months old – were burned to death in a fire at their home in the Al-Salaymeh neighbourhood of Hebron's Old City in the occupied West Bank. One was reported dead late last night, while the second succumbed to the burns received this morning after receiving emergency treatment at the nearby Hebron government hospital. A third child, thought to be the dead children's brother, also suffered severe burns in the incident and remains in intensive care, according to hospital Director Dr Walid Zalloum.
The names of the three children have not been released formally, but Palestinian news site Palestine Today named the two who were killed as four-year-old Wael Al-Rajabi and his 18-month-old sister Malik. The local police spokesman, Colonel Loai Arziqat, confirmed in a press statement that two children had died, but did not offer further information.
Though the emergency services were called, the fire brigade was prevented from reaching the scene by Israeli soldiers. In a video filmed last night at 21:50 local time (19:50 GMT), the fire engine can be seen trying to drive down a narrow street. The truck comes to a stop at a road block obstructing the way, while local residents implore the Israeli soldiers stationed there to "open the gate quickly, for the children."
The Israeli soldiers, however, did not yield to the onlookers' pleas, delaying the emergency services' response and preventing them from reaching the property. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
Ongoing outrage
Israel is no stranger to restricting emergency services' access to Palestinians in need. According to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society, since 2015 Israel has prevented ambulances from crossing checkpoints on 123 occasions. In addition, there were 386 attacks against Red Crescent teams across the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) during the same period, as well as 105 ambulances damaged.
In December, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian child then prevented him from receiving potentially life-saving medical treatment; he died soon thereafter. Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Nakhle was shot as Israeli forces suppressed protests around Al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. A few minutes later, the soldiers chased off a Palestinian ambulance, threatening the driver with their rifles and not giving Nakhle first aid themselves. Only after a quarter of an hour did the soldiers allow an ambulance to be summoned, but Nakhle died en route to hospital.
Under international law, as the occupying power Israel is forbidden from preventing access to medical care and emergency services to the people living under its occupation. According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, "The occupying power must ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation."
In addition, "Personnel of the International Red Crescent Movement must be allowed to carry out their humanitarian activities." Israel, however, continues to breach this and other articles of international laws and conventions with impunity.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian near checkpoint in West Bank
Ahmad Manasra's death marks the fourth Palestinian killed by the Israeli army in 24 hours in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/israeli-forces-kill-rock-throwing-palestinian-west-bank-190321044559724.html
A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, marking the fourth Palestinian killed in 24 hours.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its crew treated a man with two bullet wounds at an Israeli military checkpoint near the city of Bethlehem on Wednesday and that Israeli forces had shot him.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as 26-year-old Ahmad Manasra from the village of Wadi Fuqin near Bethlehem.
Manasra, the ministry said, was shot in the chest, shoulder and hand by the al-Nashash checkpoint at the southern entrance of al-Khader village. Another Palestinian had also been shot and critically wounded.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces stationed at the checkpoint fired live bullets at a Palestinian man's car, who was with his wife and children. The man, identified as Alaa Ghayatha from the village of Nahalin, was shot in the abdomen.
Manasra, who was driving the vehicle directly behind Ghayatha, got out of his car to help Ghayatha who was admitted to the al-Yamama Hospital in critical condition. As Manasra returned to his car, Israeli soldiers shot at him directly.
Kamel Hamid, the governor of Bethlehem, later told Palestinian local news that what happened was a direct execution of a young man, and called on the international community to intervene to put an end to the Israeli occupation.
Israeli army 'reviewing' incident
Hours later, the Israeli military issued a statement saying a soldier stationed at a post near Bethlehem had "identified rocks being thrown at Israeli vehicles [and] in response, he fired his weapon".
The statement did not identify the soldier's intended target and some Israeli media reports said warning shots were fired in the air.
"A report was received regarding injured Palestinians," the military said. "Details regarding the incident are being reviewed and the incident will be examined."
Manasra's death marks the fourth Palestinian killed in 24 hours in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday night, Israeli forces killed the alleged assailant who had killed an Israeli soldier and a rabbi in a stabbing and shooting attack on Sunday.
Omar Abu Leila, 19, was killed near the West Bank city of Ramallah after he opened fire at troops who had come to arrest him, Israel's Shin Bet security service said.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, two other Palestinians, Raed Hamdan, 21 and Zaid Nouri, 20 were killed by Israeli forces as they were driving their car near the West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians at Gaza protests
Ministry of Health says 62 Palestinians also wounded by Israeli forces in 51st weekly protest in besieged enclave.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/israeli-forces-kill-palestinians-gaza-protests-190322163832101.html
Two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces during the weekly Friday protests in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to officials.
Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the health ministry, said the two male demonstrators - aged 18 and 29 -were shot in separate incidents near the Israeli fence east of the Gaza Strip.
Jihad Harara was shot in the head east of Gaza City, while the older man, Nidal Shatat, was hit in the chest near the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, al-Qidra wrote on Twitter.
At least 62 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli forces, al-Qidra said, adding that there were at least three instances in which medical personnel and ambulances were directly targeted by Israeli tear gas at the encampments set up along the fence.
Ali Jadallah, an Anadolu Agency photojournalist, was reportedly among those wounded and was transferred at a nearby hospital for treatment.
The Israeli army did not comment on the deaths but said "approximately 9,500 rioters and demonstrators" gathered in various locations, "hurling explosive devices, hard objects and rocks" at troops.
Troops were "firing in accordance with standard operating procedures", a spokeswoman said.
'Use of excessive force'
Also on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned Israel's "apparent intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force" against civilian protesters in Gaza, and called for perpetrators of violations in the enclave to face justice.
On the final day of a four-week session, the Geneva-based forum adopted a resolution on accountability, brought by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation. The measure was backed by 23 states in favour, with eight voting against and 15 abstaining. One delegation was absent.
The resolution called for cooperating with a preliminary examination opened by the International Criminal Court in 2015 into alleged Israeli human rights violations.
The measure was based on a report by a UN inquiry which said that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests last year.
"The targeting of civilians is a serious matter that should not be condoned," Ibrahim Khraisi, Palestine's ambassador said, citing the report's findings. The toll included 35 Palestinian children, two journalists and medical workers, he added.
More than 250 protesters have been killed since Palestinians began holding regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone in March of last year.
Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were ethnically cleansed from in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.
They also demand an end to Israel's 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave's economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
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Published on Mar 27, 2019
The Palestinian Health Ministry says an 18-year-old has been shot dead in West Bank clashes with Israeli troops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J60hUXKNmtE
Israeli Army Kills 18-Year-Old Palestinian Paramedic in West Bank
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-army-kills-18-year-old-palestinian-paramedic-in-west-bank/
A Palestinian paramedic succumbed, on Wednesday morning, to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on predawn.
Medical sources confirmed that Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, 18, who is a volunteer paramedic succumbed to his wounds.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Mizher was shot in the stomach despite wearing his reflective vest.
Four Palestinians were injured with live Israeli bullets during clashes in Dheisheh.
Gaza killings spike ahead of Eurovision
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Abdullah Jom'a Abdul-'Al
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May 10, 2019: Abdullah Jom'a Abdul-'Al, 24, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while participating in the non-violent Great Return March protests on the Gaza-Israel border.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that the soldiers killed Abdullah, after shooting him in the pelvis, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
His death came when Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly Great Return March processions on Palestinian lands along the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, killing Abdullah and wounding 30, including four children, and one medic who was shot in the head while providing treatment to wounded Palestinians.
The medic, identified as Mohammad Abu T'eima, was shot as he, and several other medics, were providing treatment to wounded protesters, who were shot by the soldiers on Palestinian lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers engaged in the excessive use of force against the protesters by firing a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity gas bombs at them.
Abdullah was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC
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Gaza boy killed by explosive grenade fired at his face
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/gaza-boy-killed-explosive-grenade-fired-his-face
A Palestinian boy killed by Israeli occupation forces during protests in March was fatally injured by an explosive grenade, an investigation by the human rights group Al-Haq has found.
Adham Nidal Amara, 17, was directly injured in his face, killing him, as he took part in the rallies marking the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return protests east of Gaza City on 30 March.
Two other teens, Tamer Hisham Abu al-Khair, 19, and Bilal Mahmoud Shaban Najjar, 16, were shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting in Gaza that day. A fourth person, Faris Yusif Faris Abu Hijris, 26, succumbed to wounds sustained during the protests two days later.
Unprecedented injury
The injuries to Amara's face, destroying his lower jaw, had not been seen before, even during a year of protests in which Israeli forces had inflicted what doctors said were typical of war wounds.
More than 200 Palestinians, including 44 children, have been killed during the protests and thousands more injured. Some 1,400 Palestinians were shot by live ammunition during protests on 14 May 2018 alone, the deadliest single day of protests since their launch.
The "severity of the deep injury which completely disfigured [Amara's] jaw" made it difficult for the pathologist who performed an autopsy on the boy to determine what caused it, according to Al-Haq.
Amara was standing 150 meters from the Gaza-Israel boundary fence when he was shot. An eyewitness told Al-Haq that he saw Amara fall to the ground and recorded video of the injured boy.
"The boy's lower jaw and mouth were completely shattered with blood profusely flowing from the wound," the witness said. "I did not notice any traces of smoke emanating from the wound, so I thought at the time that the cause of his injury was an explosive bullet in the face."
When Amara's body was washed for burial, his uncle "documented that a solid light-green object had been found inside [Amara's] mouth," according to Al-Haq.
The rights group stated that the bullet "is consistent with a 40 mm grenade cartridge, which may be launched from a direct-fire weapon."
Al-Haq added that the ammunition may be a type of explosive grenade prohibited under international law. The Israeli military's use of such weaponry "may amount to war crimes," the group stated.
Military weapons used against protesters
Amnesty International has previously documented Great March of Return protest injuries "caused by high-velocity military weapons, including Israeli-manufactured Tavor rifles and US-manufactured M24 Remington sniper rifles that shoot 7.62mm hunting ammunition, which expand and mushroom inside the body."
The use of "weapons designed to cause maximum harm against protesters, medics and journalists who did not pose an imminent threat to life, is simply criminal," according to Saleh Higazi, deputy director of Amnesty's Middle East program.
Al-Haq has previously documented the Israeli military's "use of unusual weapons during the [Great March of Return] such as a new type of tear gas causing seizures and fainting."
During protests on 4 May 2018, Israeli forces dropped tear gas from drones "in areas where the wounded were being treated," Al-Haq stated last year. The rights group "documented cases of fainting and seizures caused by tear gas inhalation, requiring treatment on location by paramedics as well as in hospitals across the Gaza Strip."
A humanitarian worker interviewed by an independent commission of inquiry formed by the UN Human Rights Council claimed that the gas fired at protesters by Israel "appears more like a nerve agent."
In March this year, the human rights council adopted the commission of inquiry's findings that Israel's use of lethal force against protesters warrants criminal investigation and prosecution.
Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo'rob
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May 21, 2019: Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo'rob, 30, died from complications resulting from wounds he suffered in April 2018, when Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March processions in the Gaza Strip.
His parents said their son was shot by Israeli army fire on April 27th, 2018.
They added that he suffered various complications since then, and developed tumors that eventually led to his death, especially amidst the lack of medical supplies in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.
He was shot with an expanding bullet, and underwent several surgeries, but also suffered several infections in the wound area, eventually resulting in cancer.
Israeli soldiers have killed 307 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, and injured more than 29000, since the Great Return March procession started in the Gaza Strip, on Palestinian land Day, March 30th, 2018.
Mohammad was from Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-wounds-suffered-in-april-of-2018/
Yousef Wajeeh
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May 31, 2019: Yousef Wajeeh, 18, was killed by Israeli police officers in occupied East Jerusalem, after he reportedly stabbed and injured two Israelis, and attempted to attack a police officer.
Israeli sources said the Palestinian came from the West Bank to attend Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Israeli online daily, The Jerusalem Post, said an Israeli man, in his fifties, suffered critical wounds, and added that a teen, 16 years of age, suffered moderate-to-severe wounds.
It quoted the Superintendent of the Israeli Police in Jerusalem Micky Rosenfeld telling its reporter that one Israeli was stabbed and critically injured at Damascus Gate, and that the second Israel was stabbed and moderately injured when the Palestinian managed to make it through the gate to the Old City, before the officers shot him dead.
Following the incident, the Israeli army and police significantly increased their deployment in the Old City, and all areas leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The soldiers started searching hundreds of worshipers, after ordering them out of several buses in Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, and forced them to walk a long distance towards the mosque.
It is worth mentioning that this incident took place on the last Friday of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Earlier Friday, the soldiers killed a Palestinian child near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and injured a young man from Hebron, while trying to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Media sources said the soldiers shot and killed Abdullah Luay Gheith, 16, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after opening fire at him and several Palestinians, who were trying to enter Jerusalem from Wad Abu al-Hummus area, near the villages of al-Khass and an-No'man, east of Bethlehem.
Yousef was from Abwein village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Source: IMEMC
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Abdullah Luay Gheith
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May 31, 2019: Abdullah Luay Gheith, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Bethlehem while trying to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Media sources said the soldiers shot and killed Abdullah, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after opening fire at him and several Palestinians, who were trying to enter Jerusalem from Wad Abu al-Hummus area, near the villages of al-Khass and an-No'man, east of Bethlehem.
The slain Palestinian child was shot with live Israeli military gunfire in his heart, and died instantly after the soldiers shot him.
They added that the soldiers also shot and seriously injured a young man, identified as Mo'men Abu Tbeish, 21, in the same incident.
The seriously wounded young man, from Hadabat al-Fawwar area, near Hebron, was rushed by Palestinian medics to Beit Jala governmental hospital.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers, stationed at Mazmouria military roadblock east of Bethlehem, opened fire at many Palestinians, who were not granted permits to enter occupied Jerusalem, and were trying to enter the city for prayers in Al-Aqsa.
In related news, the soldiers abducted a young man at Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, while trying to enter Jerusalem for prayers in Al-Aqsa.
Abdullah was from the city of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
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June 10, 2019: Mohammad Sobhi al-Jodeili, 36, a medic, died from serious wounds he suffered, on May 3, 2019, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the face in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has confirmed that the medic, from the al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza, suffered fractures in his nose, face and skull.
The soldiers shot him in Abu Safiyya area, in Jabalia, in the northern part of the coastal region, while he was providing medical care to wounded Palestinians during the Great Return March processions.
He received treatment at one of the make-shift hospitals before he was moved to a medical center in Gaza, and later was moved to the al-Ahli hospital in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, due to the seriousness of his wounds.
Mohammad was from the al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza. Source: IMEMC
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Israeli Forces Raid Mourning Tent of Palestinian Killed in Jerusalem (VIDEO)
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July 11, 2019: Mahmoud Ahmad al-Adham, 28, was killed by Israeli soldiers east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud was a member of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and was shot while trying to prevent protesters from approaching the perimeter fence.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers shot and seriously injured Mahmoud Ahmad al-Adham, 28, on Thursday morning, east of Beit Hanoun, and added that the young man succumbed to his injuries on Thursday evening.
He was one of many "Field Control" officers, stationed near the perimeter fence to prevent Palestinian protesters from approaching the perimeter fence with Israel as part of an agreement meant to avoid escalation.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also fired several live rounds at the field control post east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement accusing Israel of deliberately killing the Palestinian, and said that "it is evaluating the situation, and its response to the grave Israeli violation."
His death comes after a period of relative calm along the perimeter fence, especially after the indirect "ceasefire understandings" between Hamas and Israel, to avoid tension along the fence.
He was one of the dozens of officers, and fighters, tasked with preventing any Palestinian from reaching the perimeter fence or attempting to cross it.
In a statement, the Israeli army admitted it shot and killed the fighter, after claiming that the incident was a "mistake stemming from a misunderstanding," and added that "it will investigate it."
As part of these understandings, Israel increased the fishing zone in the coastal region to fifteen nautical miles, a move that was described by Israeli officials as aiming at "preventing humanitarian deterioration," in the already besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.
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November 11, 2019:
Omar Haitham al-Badawi, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources at the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron said the soldiers shot Omar Haitham al-Badawi, 22, with a live round in the chest.
They added that the soldiers surrounded the refugee camp, and refused to allow the medics through, as they were rushing into it to provide treatment to several Palestinians, including al-Badawi.
Local then placed the seriously wounded Palestinian in a car and rushed him to the al-Mezan Hospital, in Hebron, where he died from his serious gunshot wound to the chest and the massive bleeding.
The fatal shooting took place after the army resorted to the excessive use of force against dozens of Palestinians marching in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the death of the late President Yasser Arafat, before several young men started throwing stones at the soldiers, stationed in the permanent military roadblock at the entrance of the refugee camp.
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Palestinian Child Dies From Serious Wounds He Suffered In October 2019
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Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child died, Friday, from serious wounds he suffered in mid-October of 2019, after Israeli soldiers shot in southern Gaza.
The sources said the child, Ala' Hani al-Abbassi, 15, was shot by the soldiers with a high-velocity gas bomb in his head, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
After his injury, the child received the needed first aid before he was rushed to a hospital in Khan Younis.
The child underwent surgeries and remained in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit, until he was pronounced dead, Friday.
On Friday at dawn, the Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Media sources said the army carried out ten strikes that led to extensive property damage and caused a power blackout over most of the Rafah.
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Updated: Palestinian Teen Shot Dead by Israeli Forces in Hebron
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Updated: A Palestinian teen, identified as Mohammad Salman al-Haddad, 17, was shot and killed, on Wednesday, after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported.
Witnesses said protests broke out in Bab az-Zawiya area, where the heavily-barricaded Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron meets the Palestinian-administered H1 section, where Israeli soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas canisters at the youths.
The Ministry of Health said al-Haddad was brought to Hebron hospital in critical condition after an Israeli soldier shot him with a live round in the heart; he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
During the protest, some soldiers even fired bursts of automatic live fire at the unarmed Palestinian protesters who hurled stones at them.
The soldiers also fired a barrage of gas bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets, and concussion grenades.
The burial of the slain Palestinian teen was held by hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron, hours after his death.
Palestinian prisoner dies after medical neglect in Israel prison
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A 23-year-old Palestinian prisoner from Ramallah died in the Israeli Negev prison this morning following a delay in the provision of medical aid, according to Wafa news agency.
Jaber Al-Barghouthi fell unconscious while in the bathroom and the prison administration took more than half an hour to provide medical assistance, and only after his fellow prisoners started to shout and scream for assistance.
The prisoner was later pronounced dead, confirmed the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS).
The PPS said it holds the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) responsible for Al-Baghouthi's deatth, accusing the administration of intentionally stalling its medical response. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190912-medical-negligence-by-israel-is-a-major-cause-of-death-among-palestinian-prisoners/
It added that the detainee from Aboud town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was abducted by occupation forces four years ago and sentenced to eight years in prison.
At the time of his death, he had served four years of his sentence at the Israeli Negev prison, located in what Israel deems "a military zone" in the south of the Negev Desert near the Egyptian border.
The head of the Palestinian Detainees' and Ex-Detainees Committee, Qadri Abu Bakr, called out Israel on several violations of Palestinian prisoners' rights.
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He said that in addition to the torture used during Israeli interrogations of Palestinians, detainees were also denied professional medical attention in Israeli prisons.
Al-Barghouthi is the 273rd Palestinian to die in Israeli prisons since Israel's 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem.
'A wedding turned funeral': Palestinians mourn Ahmad Erekat
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Ahmad Erekat was in a rush. It was his sister's wedding day, and he had so much to do: pick up flowers, take his newly rented car to get to adorned with wedding decorations, pick up his sister and mother from the beauty salon, and the most important task of all — bring his sister home in a procession of honking cars and deliver her to her groom.
But Erekat, 27, never got the chance to fulfill his tradition as a Palestinian brother and bring his sister home.
While on his way to the beauty salon to pick her up, he was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the "container" military checkpoint outside of Bethlehem on Tuesday afternoon.
Photos and videos of an injured Erekat, lying bloodied on the ground in a fetal position, as armed Israeli soldiers walked past him and pointed their guns at him, flooded social media in the hours after his killing.
Israeli border police claimed that Erekat committed a car ramming attack with the intention of injuring a number of soldiers stationed at the checkpoint. One female soldier was reportedly lightly injured and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.
Israeli authorities released CCTV footage of the incident on Wednesday afternoon, which shows Erekat's car suddenly veering into the direction of the median where the soldiers' outpost is located.
Erekat's car crashes into the outpost, throwing back one of the soldiers. His figure, blurred out by Israeli authorities, can be seen immediately exiting the vehicle and seemingly, in a disoriented manner, backing away from the soldiers.
The soldiers immediately open fire on Erekat, knocking him to the ground.
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According to local media reports and witness testimony, Erekat was reportedly left on the ground bleeding for over an hour, as Israeli officers refused to give him medical treatment, and prevented any Palestinian bystanders from doing so either.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent in Bethlehem told the media that their ambulances were prevented by the soldiers from reaching Erekat's body.
In an Op-Ed for Haaretz, Dalal Iriqat, a cousin of Ahmad, claimed that when Ahmad's father arrived at the scene and saw his son lying on the ground, he called out to the soldiers, begging them to let him approach his son.
Another video circulating on social media taken by a witness to the incident, whose car was just a few meters behind Erekat's car, shows an injured Erekat lying on the ground in a fetal position, with blood streaming down the road from his body.
In the video, the man says "it's 3:50 pm, at 'the Container,' a young man was martyred right now. They shot him right here in front of us. May he rest in peace."
He added: "they left him [lying] on the ground until he died."
Family in a state of shock
In the wake of his killing, Erekat's family and friends have expressed their shock and disbelief at the situation, saying that their son could never possibly commit such an attack, especially on the day of his sister's wedding.
Palestinian-American activist and cousin of Ahmad, Noura Erakat, took to social media to express her outrage over the characterization of Ahmad by Israel as a "terrorist."
"The only terrorists are the cowards who shot to kill a beautiful young man and blamed him for it," Erakat tweeted.
Erakat echoed sentiments expressed by her extended family to the media, saying that the likelihood of Ahmad committing an attack on the day of his sister's wedding was unfathomable, suggesting instead that he might have lost control of his car and unintentionally crashed into the outpost.
"Palestinians are so securitized as a threat that we can't make human mistakes, like lose momentary control of our car, press the accelerator in a moment of haste, get in a car accident," Erakat said.
She continued, saying: "There is such deep dehumanization that the obvious question of journos should be why is there a checkpoint [between] 2 #Palestinian cities? Why would he do this on his sister's wedding day? Why did the soldiers shoot him lethally? Why did they deny access to paramedics?....Why is his image blurred so that we can't see he is unarmed and confused?"
In Ahmad Erekat's hometown of Abu Dis, hundreds of mourners gathered around the family's home, and the wedding hall where his sister Iman was supposed to get married that night.
"Everyone is in a state of disbelief," Dr. Abdallah Abu Hilal, a local emergency medical doctor and friend of the Erekat family, told Mondoweiss.
"Ahmad was a good friend of ours, he was always happy, laughing, and friendly," Abu Hilal said. "When we heard he was martyred, we were shocked. We still are."
"He didn't have any problems in his life at the moment; he was happy. He was supposed to get married next month. Why would anyone in his position ever commit an attack? We dont believe it," Abu Hilal said
Dr. Abu Hilal was called by the family to check on Erekat's mother and sisters, who he said were in a state of total shock when he arrived.
"His sister, the bride, she was beside herself, she couldn't speak, she was in a trance," he said. "His mom was in total disbelief. She couldn't believe that she was getting ready for her daughter's wedding, and then suddenly had to prepare for her son's funeral."
"It's tragic," Abu Hilal continued. "To see the house all decorated, and ready for a wedding. And then to see what was supposed to be the wedding hall, now turned into a wake."
'He was executed'
Photos of Erekat flooded Palestinian social media following his killing, with friends sharing tributes, and strangers expressing their sadness over his killing.
One Twitter user wrote: "Ahmed was my grandma's neighbor in abu dis, Jerusalem..she says he was the kindest & happiest young man..always made everyone around him smile. He will always be remembered for his pure heart. God ease this pain on his family. May his soul rest in peace."
Others expressed frustration over what they said was an excessive use of force on part of the Israeli soldiers, specifically following eyewitness accounts the Erekat was apparently backing away from soldiers when he was shot.
Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the PLO and a relative of Ahmad's, said his nephew was "killed in cold blood," and that any accusations that he was committing an attack was a "lie."
In an interview with Democracy Now! on Wednesday, Noura Erakat explained: "What we understand is that Ahmed lost control of his car or was confused while he was in his car. That was all it took to have a knee-jerk reaction, for the car to jerk a little bit and immediately to cause the soldiers to open fire on him multiple times."
"Note that these soldiers, who are fully armed at this checkpoint, are behind barriers, are not actually out in the open, and then left Ahmed to bleed for one-and-a-half hours," she continued.
Erakat went on to stress the context under which Ahmad was killed, saying: "why is there a checkpoint between Bethlehem and Abu Dis, two Palestinian cities? Why are there checkpoints anywhere? Just think about those questions as we answer this broader question of the context that Ahmed was killed in."
Ahmad Erekat was one of 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied territory this year. His killing comes just weeks after Israeli police officer shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian man with autism, Eyad al-Halaq, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem have been vocally critical of Israel's "shoot-to-kill" policy, and the fact that Israeli soldiers often fatally shoot Palestinians, even in instances where they could have arrested or detained alleged suspects without lethal force.
The UN Human Rights Council has said of Israel's use of force against Palestinians that Israel often uses lethal force against Palestinians "on mere suspicion or as a precautionary measure," even when their lives are not immediately in danger.
Young Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces in Jenin
23-year-old Dalia Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year
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A young Palestinian woman was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon after she succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli military gunfire early Friday morning before dawn.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 23-year-old Dalia Samoudi died of a gunshot wound to her chest that punctured her aorta, liver, and pancreas, leaving her in critical condition.
After undergoing several surgeries, doctors were unable to save her, and she passed away.
Local media reported that Samoudi was injured during a violent Israeli search and arrest raid in the city of Jenin in the early hours of Friday morning.
According to reports from Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli forces raided the al-Jaberiyyat neighborhood of Jenin where they "interrogated and threatened to re-arrest a former prisoner after breaking into his house."
In response to the army's raid, local youth clashed with the soldiers and reportedly attempted to block the army's passage further into the city, causing the soldiers to open fire on protesters.
Palestinian media said Israeli forces fired tear gas, sound bomb, and live ammunition during the raid.
Several reports from Arabic media said that Samoudi was not a part of the clashes, but was caught in the cross-fire and was hit with a bullet while in her home, allegedly while she was attempting to close her window due to the tear gas.
Wafa cited Mahmoud al-Saadi, Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), as saying that Israeli forces opened fire on an ambulance as it tried to reach Samoudi's house to evacuate her, leaving two bullet holes in the ambulance.
The Israeli military issued a statement on Friday, denying responsibility for Samoudi's death, saying that Israeli soldiers did not use live fire, and that it was Palestinian civilians who were using live ammunition.
"Palestinians fired live fire, hurled rocks and explosive devices towards the troops. The troops responded with riot dispersal means," Reuters quoted an army spokesman as saying.
Palestinians however denied using guns, saying that protesters were throwing rocks at the soldiers.
Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year. In many cases, the Palestinian victims were unarmed when they were killed.
Israel has long been criticized for it's "shoot-to-kill" policy, in which Israeli soldiers and police officers engage in lethal force against Palestinians in situations where it is not necessary, and their lives aren't immediately at risk.
Of the policy, Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has said: "The fact that Israeli security forces have time and again killed Palestinians who posed no danger reveals a chilling disparity between the official prohibition on such conduct and reality, including the current atmosphere in Israel, in which shooting to kill is acceptable at any time and under any circumstance, even when the danger has passed."
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Palestinian Teen Dies after Being Shot by Israeli Soldiers
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A Palestinian teen succumbed Thursday to his wounds sustained from Israeli military gunfire in Deir Abu Mashal village, west of Ramallah city, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Head of Deir Abu Mashal Village Council Imad Zahran said that he was informed by the Israeli military that Mohammad Matar, 16, died of his critical wounds after being shot by Israeli forces late Wednesday in the village. His body remains withheld by the Israeli military.
According to Zahran, Matar was one of three villagers who were wounded by Israeli military gunfire at the environs of the village and close to the settler-only bypass Road 465. He described the circumstances surrounding the incident as not clear.
"In 2019, Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three within Israel," Human Rights group B'tselem reported.
"Most of these deaths were a direct outcome of Israel's reckless open-fire policy, authorized by the government and military and backed by the legal system," the group added.
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Amer Abdul-Rahim Snobar, 18, was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers. (Photo: via Social Media)
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A Palestinian teenager was killed early Sunday after he was severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers near the village of Turmus-Ayya, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
Israeli occupation forces reportedly chased Amer Abdul-Rahim Snobar, 18, while he was driving near Turmus-Ayya, caught him, and beat him up until he died.
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Snobar comes from the village of Yatma, near the city of Nablus in the West Bank.
An Israeli military statement said a Palestinian fell while escaping and hit his head while being chased by army forces.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates demanded today the formation of an international commission of inquiry to investigate the incident.
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"This crime reflects the extent of brutality and fascism that controls the political, security and military mentality of the ruling establishment in the occupying state, which allows the killing of Palestinians and the takeover of their land and property, in blatant disregard of all international laws, treaties and agreements, including the basic principles of human rights," said the ministry in a statement.
The Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court to practice its legal and moral responsibilities towards the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, and "to expedite the opening of an official investigation into those crimes, leading to the prosecution of the Israeli war criminals and those behind them."
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Updated: "Soldiers Kill A Palestinian At Huwwara Roadblock, South Of Nablus"
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Updated: The slain Palestinian has been officially identified as Bilal Adnan Rawajba, 29, a married father of an infant girl, only three months of age. He is from Iraq at-Tayeh village, east of Nablus, in northern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from approaching the vehicle he was driving, despite his serious wounds, and he bled to death.
It is worth mentioning that Bilal was a captain, working as a legal Counselor with the Palestinian Preventative Security Department in the Tubas governorate, in northeastern West Bank.
He was shot, on Wednesday morning, near Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus.
The Maan News Agency published a photo from the incident showing the Palestinian still in the driver seat when he was shot by the soldiers who fired a barrage of live rounds at him.
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Several shots, fired by the soldiers, could be heard in a video captured by a Palestinian while waiting in a car near the roadblock.
In a brief statement, the Israeli army said its soldiers foiled what it described as "an attempted shooting attack" by "neutralizing the attacker," and added that no soldiers were hurt.
In addition, Israeli daily Haaretz quoted the army claiming the Palestinian fired two shots at the soldiers before they fired back and killed him.
The army closed the military roadblock after the incident, preventing the Palestinians from crossing.
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Ali Ayman Abu-Alayya, 13, succumbed to wounds he had sustained after he was shot by Israeli soldiers. (Photo: File)
Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Child near Ramallah https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-shoot-kill-palestinian-child-near-ramallah/
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday night that a Palestinian child – who was shot and critically injured by Israeli occupation forces during clashes earlier today in the village of al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah – had succumbed to his wounds.
13-year-old Ali Ayman Abu-Alayya succumbed to wounds he had sustained in the abdomen after he was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli occupation forces.
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Following his critical injury today, the child was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, in the center of the occupied West Bank, and was immediately placed for surgery. However, attempts at resuscitation all failed and the child was pronounced dead.
"In 2019, Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three within Israel," Human Rights group B'tselem reported.
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"Most of these deaths were a direct outcome of Israel's reckless open-fire policy, authorized by the government and military and backed by the legal system," the group added.
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Deaf Palestinian man shot by Israeli soldiers dies of his wounds https://israelpalestinenews.org/deaf-palestinian-man-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-dies-of-his-wounds/
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Nasser Halawa, 47, shot by Israeli forces in August, died of his wounds on Dec. 11, 2020.
In August, Nasser Halwa started walking through the wrong line at an Israeli checkpoint. Israeli soldiers shouted at him to stop, but Halawa is deaf, so he didn't hear them. They then shot him. A few months later he died of his wounds...
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/injured-deaf-palestinian-dies-from-his-wounds/
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a deaf and mute man, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on August 17th, 2020, has died from complications related to his wounds.
The sources said the Palestinian, Nasser Halawa, 47, from Nablus in northern West Bank, was shot by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, and suffered life-threatening wounds.
Halwa was first moved to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, and was discharged two weeks ago, before he started receiving treatment in Palestinian hospitals, but eventually succumbed to his wounds and complications.
Muawiya Mona, the secretary of the "Palestinian General Union for People with Disability" in Nablus, said the shooting and the resulting death of Halawa is yet another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people, including people with special needs.
He added that the slain man was walking near the Qalandia Terminal when the soldiers started shouting at him, however, he could not hear them, before they opened fire at him for "refusing to heed to their demands to stop."
Eyewitnesses said they saw the soldiers opening fire at the man as he walked down the lane, dedicated for cars not pedestrians, before closing the terminal in both directions.
The Israeli army claimed the man approached the soldiers "suspiciously," and failed to heed to their demands to stop.
It also said the soldiers fired live rounds at the man, shooting him in the leg, inflicting what the military described as "light-to-moderate wounds."
On May 30th, 2020, an autistic Palestinian man, identified as Eyad al-Hallaq, 32, was shot and killed by Israeli officers, who fired many live rounds at him at the stairs of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and left him lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds for over an hour until he bled to death.
The slain Palestinian was walking to the al-Bakriyyah School for persons with special needs when the soldiers shot him.
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Another victim of car-ramming: (l) Azzam Jamil Amer, (r) Amer with his children.
Palestinian Dies After Being Rammed By Israeli Settler's Carhttps://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-dies-after-rammed-israeli-settler-car/
A young Palestinian husband and father is the victim of a car-ramming by an Israeli settler. It is not known whether this was an accident or a deliberate act, but it comes at a time when settler violence is rampant. https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/settler-violence-is-out-of-control-thanks-to-israeli-government-s-silence-42855
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), Feb 11, 2021 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-after-being-rammed-by-colonialist-settlers-car/
Medical sources have confirmed, on Wednesday evening, that a Palestinian man died after being rammed by a speeding Israeli colonialist settler's car near Salfit, in northwestern West Bank.
The sources said the man, Azzam Jamil Amer, from Kafr Qalil village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus was struck by the Israeli colonists' car, before he was moved to an Israeli hospital where he succumbed to his serious wounds.
The Israeli police said it opened an investigation to determine whether the incident was a traffic accident or a deliberate attack.
Salfit Governor Abdullah Kamil said the Israeli colonist deliberately targeted the young man at the junction of Kifl Hares.
Kamil held Israel responsible for the young man's death, adding that Israel's colonies are illegal under International Law since they are built on occupied lands, and constitute war crimes.
The deceased husband, and father, is a day laborer who was returning home from work when the incident took place.
It is worth mentioning that many Palestinians, including children, have been killed, and dozens injured, in similar incidents across the occupied West Bank.
In August of 2020, a young Palestinian man was killed when a speeding Israel colonists' car struck him near a military roadblock, south of Tulkarem, in northern West Bank.
The Palestinian has been identified as Eqab Bashir Darawsha, 21, from Tallouza village, north of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
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Bilal Shehada Bawatna, killed by Israeli settler car, the latest in a spate of settler violence.
One Palestinian Killed, Two Injured, After Being Rammed By an Israeli Settler's Carhttps://israelpalestinenews.org/one-palestinian-killed-two-injured-rammed-israeli-settlers-car/
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) https://imemc.org/article/one-palestinian-killed-two-injured-after-being-rammed-by-a-colonists-car/
An Israeli settler, driving at a high speed, hit 3 Palestinians on a nature walk, killing 1. Bawatna is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israelis this year, and the second by a car ramming.
Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem writes of the recent spike in settler violence against Palestinians: https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210128_all_foreseen_and_not_prevented_spike_in_settler_violence_backed_and_encouraged_by_state
QuoteSettler violence has long since become routine in the West Bank. Yet since 16-year-old Israeli Ahuvia Sandak died during a police chase near the settlement of Kochav Hashachar on 21 December 2020, the number of violent settler attacks against Palestinians has sharply risen throughout the West Bank.
Over the course of five weeks, from 21 December 2020 to 24 January 2021, B'Tselem field researchers documented 49 incidents of this kind (not counting protest marches or roadblocks in which settlers did not throw stones). Twenty-eight involved physical assaults: 19 cases in which settlers threw stones at passing vehicles; three cases of shooting; and six attacks of other kinds. In the other incidents, settlers vandalized Palestinian property, damaged crops and attacked homes.
In at least 26 of the cases B'Tselem documented since Sandak's death, Israeli security forces were present at the time of the attack. Instead of arresting the assailants, in five cases they attacked the Palestinians, firing rubber-coated metal bullets or tear gas canisters at them and injuring two. In the remaining 21 cases, the forces did not do enough to prevent the attacks. [Read the full report here. https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210128_all_foreseen_and_not_prevented_spike_in_settler_violence_backed_and_encouraged_by_state]
Palestinian Medical sources have confirmed that one man was killed, Friday, and two were injured, after being rammed by an illegal Israeli colonist's car, while participating in a nature walk activity in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank.
Mo'taz Bisharat, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in Tubas, said one man was killed and two were injured, all from the Ramallah governorate in central West Bank, when they were struck by the speeding colonist's car near Ein al-Baida and Bardala Junctions in the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley.
Bisharat added that the Palestinians came to the area to participate in a nature walk and exploration in the Northern Plains.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) rushed to the scene and moved the corpse of Bilal Shehada Bawatna, 52, to a Palestinian hospital, while Israeli medics moved the wounded residents to the al-Afula hospital.
Bawatna is from the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city, north of Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli colonist was driving at an exceedingly high speed when he rammed the Palestinians, killing Bawatna and wounding the two others.
The funeral procession of Bilal Shehada was held, on Friday evening, starting from Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, heading towards Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, before the Palestinians took his body to the al-Ein Mosque in the city, and conducted the burial ceremony in the Shuhada Graveyard in the city.
Bawatna is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israelis this year. [No Israelis have been killed by Palestinians this year – see this. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/ ]
On January 31, the soldiers shot and killed Mohammad Hussein Amro, 35, from Halhoul, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-man-shot-injured-by-israeli-forces-south-of-bethlehem/
On January 26, the soldiers shot and killed Atallah Mohammad Rayyan, 17, near Salfit in central West Bank. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/atallah-mohammad-rayan/
On February 10, a Palestinian man, identified as Azzam Jamil Amer, from Kafr Qalil village near Ramallah, was killed after being rammed by an Israeli colonists' car near Salfit, in central West Bank. https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-after-being-rammed-by-colonialist-settlers-car/
On January 11, the Israeli police killed Bashar Zubeidat, 18, during a protest against police violence near Haifa. https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-teen-shot-and-killed-by-israeli-police-near-haifa/
Looks to me that Israel keeps Palestinians around, so that the young Jews in the IOF can have practice murdering & being cruel to Gentiles.
Grandmother dies of heart attack after Israeli soldiers storm her home
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After Israeli soldiers violently broke into Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour's home, causing anxiety and damage, she suffered a heart attack and died. Such home invasions occur on a daily basis, and are in violation of international law.
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), Feb. 18, 2021 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-woman-dies-of-heart-attack-after-soldiers-stormed-her-home/
A Palestinian woman suffered a fatal heart attack, on Wednesday at dawn, when Israeli soldiers stormed into her home in Abu Njeim village, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Medical sources said the woman, identified as Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour, 67, suffered a heart attack when the soldiers invaded her home.
Her family said Rahma initially suffered what seemed to be a severe anxiety attack when the soldiers stormed her home and fainted before she dropped her onto the ground.
When the medics were called to the scene, they realized she suffered a heart attack, and rushed her to the hospital where she was officially declared dead.
The family said many soldiers stormed the home at dawn, and started very violent searches of the property, leading to excessive damage, and confiscated Palestinian flags in addition to pictures of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
They added that the soldiers were very violent when they broke into the property, and the way they searched the home, terrorizing the entire family.
Ghanem Omar, the head of the Elderly Care Department of the Ministry of Social Development, condemned the Israeli invasion that led to the death of the Palestinian woman, and denounced a statement by the Israeli army in which it claimed the soldiers had nothing to do with Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour's death.
Omar added that Israel's policies of violent home invasions, especially late at night and early at dawn, are aimed at causing fear among the families, including the children and the elderly, and are illegal under all international humanitarian laws and regulations.
He called on the International Community to perform its moral and legal duties to stop the ongoing Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people, and to provide them with the urgently needed protection.
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Ahmad Dola died after firefighters were prevented from entering his neighborhood to help.
Palestinian Dies in Fire After Israeli Checkpoint Holds Up Firetruck https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-dies-fire-after-israeli-checkpoint-holds-up-firetruck/
Israeli firefighters stay away from this Palestinian neighborhood; Palestinian firefighters were blocked from passing through the Israeli-manned checkpoint.
by Nir Hasson, reposted from Ha'aretz, March 9, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-palestinian-dies-in-jerusalem-fire-after-israeli-checkpoint-holds-up-firetruck-1.9604126 A Palestinian man died on Monday in a fire in his home in a Jerusalem neighborhood, after Israeli soldiers prevented a firetruck from passing through the Qalandiyah checkpoint to reach Kafr Aqab, located in Jerusalem's municipal borders but on the Palestinian side of the separation barrier.
The fire broke out in the Dola family's home in the early morning, seemingly from an electrical short circuit in a heater's electric cord. Ahmad, 34, woke up and went to the neighbors to call for help, and then returned home in an attempt to rescue his wife and two-month-old son.
The mother and son escaped with help from neighbors, but were later taken to hospital in serious and moderate condition, respectively, due to smoke inhalation. The father collapsed after inhaling smoke, and was later pronounced dead.
The neighbors called the fire department but when the firetruck arrived at Qalandiyah checkpoint, Israeli soldiers did not allow it to pass without waiting for a military escort. After about half an hour, the neighbors called Palestinian rescue forces from Ramallah, who also took their time in arriving, but in the end arrived and evacuated the family. The mother was in a serious condition and the baby was in a moderate condition from smoke inhalation.
In a number of past cases, rescue services were held up at the checkpoint, which separates between Kafr Aqab and the rest of the city.
Five years ago, it was announced that a fire station would be constructed at the checkpoint, and would be manned by Palestinian firemen who live in that area of Jerusalem. The station, however, never started operating.
The 80,000 residents of the Palestinian neighborhood live in harsh conditions because a large number of Israeli authorities do not operate in the East Jerusalem area.
'Kafr Aqab doesn't interest anyone'
In a rare and almost unprecedented move, Jerusalem mayor Moshe Leon visited Kafr Aqab three weeks ago, promising to advance the construction of an educational compound and sports facilities in the neighborhood, as well as provide services to residents and improve the infrastructure. Many previous Jerusalem mayors did not enter the neighborhood.
"Resident of Kafr Aqab are residents of Jerusalem, with all that it implies, and we must take care of life here in the same way we take care of life in the rest of the city," said Leon at the time.
But residents say the situation in the neighborhood is dire and nothing has changed. Samikh Abu Ramila, a well-known activist in the neighborhood, told Haaretz: "Kafr Aqab doesn't interest anyone: we don't receive any services, we have no mailboxes, the roads aren't paved, the municipality doesn't do sewage and there are no well-baby clinics. We are living a half life because of the checkpoint."
Regarding the incident, an IDF Spokesperson said that "Israeli firefighters were not allowed to enter the neighborhood because the conditions did not allow it, and because of the inherent risk of soldiers entering. The [IDF's] District Coordinating Office called Palestinian rescue services to the scene, who provided aid to the residents and put out the fire."
Booby-trapped Israeli drones killed 3 Gaza fishermen, probe finds
https://israelpalestinenews.org/booby-trapped-israeli-drones-kill-gaza-fishermen-fishing/
An explosive Israeli drone, caught in Gazan fishermen's net, proves it once again: "fishing while Palestinian" can be lethal.
by Mohammed Asad, reposted by Middle East Monitor (MEMO), March 11, 2021 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210311-booby-trapped-israel-drones-responsible-for-death-of-3-gaza-fishermen-probe-finds/?fbclid=IwAR3z80KqoC6s3GG62Svr6ViKVaKl4UEhjdqPpIjnKFS1MHHXEVyFHWPn4pU
NOTE: Fishing in Gaza, which used to be lucrative, has become both dangerous and difficult under Israel's hostile blockade. As Kathryn Shihadah reported:
The Oslo Accords, an agreement signed by both Israel and the Palestinian leadership in 1993, places Gaza's fishing perimeter at twenty miles offshore...In the twenty-seven years since Oslo was signed, Israel has rarely allowed fishing beyond twelve nautical miles.
One organization cataloged twenty changes in the fishing boundaries in 2019 alone – four of those were complete closures. At times, fishermen don't know where the boundaries are until Israeli soldiers start shooting at them.
As Israeli leaders have made clear time and time again, the expanding and contracting fishing boundaries are an attempt to punish all of Gaza for the "transgression" of the few who dare to stand in defiance of Israeli oppression. In reality, international law recognizes the right of an occupied population to resist its occupier, including via armed resistance.
Zakaria Bakr, head of the Fishermen's Union in Gaza, explains another Israeli policy that adds insult to injury: Israel's blockade, now in its thirteenth year, "bans almost everything we need to maintain our boats," including engines, spare parts, fiberglass, and rope. Fishing boats that escape confiscation and gunfire are still vulnerable, and half of Gaza's registered fishermen are unable to go out because their boats are in disrepair.
Israel has been censured by countless human rights groups and hundreds of United Nations reprimands over its human rights abuses of Palestinians in Gaza. One troubling UN report warned that unless Israel changes its policies, Gaza would become "unlivable" by 2020.
B'Tselem pointed out that "rather than change its policies...Israel has made them stricter and the situation has deteriorated," adding that "Israel could change this stifling reality right now. Instead, it chooses to force Gaza residents to live in a state of poverty, stagnation, and hopelessness."
As is the reality with most elements of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, the greatest challenge in Gaza's fishing industry is not the weather, or fluctuations in the market – it's simply living to fish another day.
Booby-trapped Israeli drones exploded and led to the death of three Palestinian fishermen in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, findings of an investigation by the enclave's Ministry of Interior revealed today.
In a press conference to outline the outcomes of the report into the deaths, ministry spokesman Iyad Al-Bazm said the men were killed by occupation forces off the coast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Bazm explained that occupation forces had used "drones carrying high-explosive devices" in an operation against resistance naval forces on 22 February, adding: "On the morning of March 7, two drones were suspended in the nets of two fishing boats in the sea off Khan Yunis [in Gaza]."
The fishermen handed the first drone – Matrix 600 quadcopter – to Maritime Police, they later found a second had stuck to their nets. The investigation found that this had exploded and led to their deaths.
Al-Bazm added that when inspecting the intact helicopter that was recovered by the fishermen, it was found that it had an explosive device attached to it. The pieces of the wreckage and the metal pieces that were found at the site of the explosion were then compared to the intact drone and it was found that they were identical.
On behalf of the Ministry of Interior and National Security, Al-Bazm paid his respects to the families of the three martyrs; Muhammad Hijazi Al-Laham, Zakaria Hijazi Al-Laham and Yahya Mustafa Al-Laham, two brothers and a cousin.
He called on all international institutions and bodies to work to provide protection for Palestinian fishermen in the sea off the Gaza Strip, highlighting that they are constantly exposed to attack at the hands of occupation forces.
The three were killed on Sunday after a blast ripped through their boat off the Gaza shore. The Israeli military has previously said it was not involved in this incident.
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The funeral of Palestinian Atef Haneisheh in Beit Dajan, last week, who was killed as he protested with others against Israel's theft of their land.
Yet another Palestinian protester killed as Israel steals his landhttps://israelpalestinenews.org/yet-another-palestinian-protester-killed-as-israel-steals-his-land/
The incident is all too common: Palestinians gather on a Friday to protest the theft of their land; Israeli soldiers respond with live fire, killing a protester and enabling the land grab to go on, unhindered.
by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, reposted from Ha'aretz, March 26, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-palestinians-protested-theft-of-their-land-idf-officer-shot-one-of-them-in-the-head-1.9656733 "First, we'll talk about the lands," Abd al-Rahman Haneini, the council head in the West Bank village of Beit Dajan, told us when we arrived there this week. We had come to learn about the killing of a local man, Atef Haneisheh, a 47-year-old farmer and carpenter, and father of three. Last Friday, as he took part in the village's weekly demonstration against the unauthorized settler outpost that was set up on its land, he was shot in the head and killed by an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
First, the land. Last September, residents of the village's eastern edge reported that a bulldozer was at work nightly on their land. Located east of Nablus, Beit Dajan has a population of about 4,500. Its homes are perched on a slope and its land stretches across the fertile valley below, green this time of the year.
When the council head visited the site mentioned by the villagers, he was stunned to discover that someone had carved out a dirt road about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the village, which was liable to cut the village off from its farmland, covering about 20,000 dunams (5,000 acres) of wheat fields, almond trees and olive groves. The villagers were aware that every such path could disconnect them from their property, under the auspices of the Israeli authorities. The illegal trail about 10 kilometers long led eastward from the Skali farm, an outpost established in 1998 by Yitzhak Skali.
About a month later, locals spotted a settler who arrived with 15 head of cattle and a tent; he built a fence and set up another outpost in this land of outposts around the settlement of Itamar. This is the method favored in recent years by the land plunderers: They build a cowshed or small animal pen that soon morphs into an authorized outpost; the surrounding land is then confiscated for pasture. The dirt road connected the Skali farm to its new satellite.
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Atef Haneisheh is evacuated after being killed by live fire in the head during a protest against Israeli settlements, in the Palestinian village of Beit Dajan, last week.
Only one settler lives there at the moment; the Palestinians say his name is Kobi, others say it's Koki. In the photographs they show us, Kobi or Koki, who has a thick beard and mustache, is wearing a large white, wool kippa and holding a heavy machine gun. Footage taken by villagers about a month ago shows him speaking to them until a friend of his arrives on an all-terrain vehicle and starts to push them and beat them violently.
About a month after Kobi settled on the stolen land, the army showed up and evicted him. He moved about 50 meters away from his original location. The villagers put up a protest tent outside the outpost that had arisen before their eyes on their own land. A few days later, the IDF arrived, destroyed the protest tent and sufficed with confiscating a few tools from Kobi's outpost. Kobi and his cattle remained on the land.
These events occurred late last October. Since then Beit Dajan has held a demonstration every Friday after midday prayers to protest Kobi's outpost. A few hundred villagers march in the direction of their land and clash with the army, which awaits them and fires tear gas, rubber-tipped metal bullets, ostensibly nonlethal "tutu" bullets from .22 caliber rifles and stun grenades. Ten local residents have been wounded so far in the protests, which have not abated.
After a few weeks of demonstrations, IDF bulldozers blocked the dirt road leading to the Palestinians' land. Since then they have been unable reach their land about 4 kilometers from the village other than by entering individually on foot. Kobi, joined by a few youths, began expelling the shepherds who came to use their land, threatening them with guns and driving them back with the all-terrain vehicle. The village's demonstrations continued.
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Atef Haneisheh, Palestinian protester killed Friday
Atef Haneisheh was a regular participant in the protests, showing up every week with a Palestinian flag. Though 47, he too threw stones at the soldiers who invaded Beit Dajan's land to protect the settlers who stole it. Haneisheh had a plot that originally belonged to his grandfather. He was the father of two sons and a daughter, the eldest 13, the youngest 7. A few months ago his 9-year-old daughter Lian was diagnosed with cancer in her leg.
This week she had an appointment for surgery at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem. Haneisheh's parents are still alive; his father, Yusuf, is 87, his mother, Zahiya, is 75. He was married to Islam, who's 37, and he worked in a carpentry shop that made furniture, owned by him and his brother. His cousin, Zaid Haneisheh, went with him to the demonstration last Friday.
At 12:30 P.M. they emerged from midday prayers and drove toward the farmland until they were stopped by an earth rampart. From there they always proceeded on foot. Last Friday's demonstration was modest at under 200 participants. The young people were in the front, the older people behind them. Haneini, the council head, who was with the older group, suddenly heard gunshots – live fire. He says he can distinguish between the sound of live bullets and rubber-tipped or so-called tutu bullets.
Never before had the army used live ammunition on the demonstrators there. Another cousin of Atef's, Hazam, who is 43, was about 40 meters behind Atef and saw what happened.
A group of demonstrators sat down to rest and drink water, Hazam tells us. Atef was among them. Two soldiers were deployed on a hill about 50 meters from Atef and the others. Atef and his friends threw stones at them, and Atef also used a slingshot. Footage shows him walking with the demonstrators in a red sweater that stands out against the backdrop, wearing a white baseball cap and white sneakers.
He's seen in a photograph slinging stones. A 47-year-old who throws stones is an infrequent sight at West Bank demonstrations – the stone throwers are usually teens and young men. But in Beit Dajan older people join in. The soldiers were too far away and too high up for the stones to have had any effect.
Suddenly, an IDF officer, closer to the demonstrators, fired in the air; a picture taken by a villager shows this. After a few rounds, he suddenly aimed his machine gun at the demonstrators. He was a few dozen meters from them.
Frightened, they sprawled on the ground in an effort to protect themselves. The officer fired a burst of three or four rounds at the stone throwers. When the shooting stopped they got up. All but one. He was the man in the red sweater, their friend Atef Haneisheh. A video taken by one of the residents captures this harrowing moment. The demonstrators burst out with bitter cries: "Sheikh Atef, Sheikh Atef." A few of the teens wept.
A mourning banner for Palestinian protester killed by Israeli forces, Atef Haneisheh, under a poster featuring the late Yasser Arafat with current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Beit Dajan this week. (Alex Levac)
There was a hole in his forehead, his blood saturated the ground. He probably died instantly. A local doctor who was there found that he had no pulse. The young people picked Atef up and, running, carried him to the cars, which were about 1.5 kilometers away, next to the earth rampart. The soldiers fired tear gas grenades at them as they ran.
In the meantime, another force arrived. A Palestinian ambulance pulled up next to the earth mound and sped Atef to Rafadia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, where he was pronounced dead. He was buried that afternoon in Beit Dajan.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit told Haaretz: "A violent disturbance took place Friday with the participation of dozens of Palestinians near the village of Beit Dajan, in the area of the Samaria Territorial Brigade, during which disturbers of order threw stones at IDF forces. The force responded with crowd dispersal methods and by firing in the air. A claim about a disrupter of order who was a casualty and was evacuated is known. At this stage what caused the casualty is not known. The incident is being investigated."
A spring breeze blew this week in the place where Palestinian protester Atef Haneisheh was killed – a fertile, verdant valley where almond and olive trees grow, with wheat fields and hills all around. Behind one hill lurks Kobi's outpost, and atop the second hill is the Skali farm. Abu Kais, a farmer of 70, picks green almonds and hands them out.
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Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian teenager
"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, using intentional lethal force against Palestinian children when they pose no threat," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish of Defense for Children International - Palestine.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday night in the Nablus district in the northern occupied West Bank, making him the second child to be killed by Israeli forces in 2021.
The teen, identified as Saeed Odeh, 16, a resident of the village of Odala, was shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition around 9:00 p.m., according to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP).
Odeh reportedly sustained two gunshot wounds, one in the back near his right shoulder and one in the pelvis.
According to DCIP, Palestinian medics were prevented by Israeli soldiers from reaching his body for at least 15 minutes. When they reached his body, he had no vital signs. He was evacuated by Palestinian Red Crescent medics to a hospital in Nablus city, where he was pronounced dead.
Another young man from the village was also injured with live ammunition during the incident, and was reportedly shot in the back. He was reported to be in stable condition.
An Israeli army spokesperson told AFP that there were clashes between soldiers and Palestinians at the entrance of the town, and alleged that Molotov cocktails had been thrown at the soldiers.
The army said that the soldiers "acted to stop the suspects by opening fire on them."
DCIP reported that according to information they collected, Odeh was not participating in any confrontations when he was shot.
"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, using intentional lethal force against Palestinian children when they pose no threat," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program Director at DCIP. "Systemic impunity has fostered a context where Israeli forces know no bounds."
The office of the Palestinian president condemned the killing as an "extrajudicial execution," saying "the Israeli occupation government still insists on proceeding with the same policy of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians and imposing the most severe collective punishments on the Palestinian people and its property in violation of international humanitarian laws."
Locals from Odala and the surrounding villages told Reuters that Israeli forces had been stationed at the entrance to the town for days, causing confrontations between the soldiers and local youth.
According to Palestinian media, Israeli forces had been blockading Odala and the neighboring town of Beita for three days as part of a manhunt for a Palestinian shooter who opened fire on three Israelis at a military checkpoint in the West Bank earlier this week.
The manhunt resulted in widespread search and arrest campaigns in the northern West Bank, and sparked a number of confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces, as well as an uptick in settler violence against Palestinians and their property.
The killing of Odeh sparked an outpouring of grief and frustration on social media, as Palestinians condemned the killing of the teen, who was according to family and friends, an avid soccer player with dreams of one day making the Palestinian national team.
In 2020, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, six of whom were killed with live ammunition, according to DCIP.
DCIP highlighted that Israeli forces are "rarely held accountable for grave violations against Palestinian children, including unlawful killings and excessive use of force," and that under international law, "intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present."
"However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings," the group said.
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ISRAELI FORCES KILLED 16-YEAR-OLD AHMED SHAMSA IN THE NORTHERN OCCUPIED WEST BANK VILLAGE OF BEITA. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)
16-year-old Palestinian is the fifth to be killed by Israeli forces in West Bank village of Beita since May
According to locals Ahmed Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Beita since protests against a new Israeli settlement began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
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A Palestinian teenager succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning, a day after he was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank village of Beita in the Nablus district.
The teen, identified by Palestinian officials as 16-year-old Ahmed Shamsa, was shot with live ammunition during protests in the village against the establishment of a new Israeli settler outpost on "Jabal Sabih", or Mount Sabih, on the outskirts of Beita.
Shamsa's killing comes less than a week after Israeli forces killed another teenager in Beita, 15-year-old Mohammed Hamayel, during protests on Jabal Sabih.
According to locals, Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in Beita since protests on Jabal Sabih began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
Palestinians in Beita have been staging daily protests on Jabal Sabih, which lies on the southern end of the village, since early May, after a group of Israeli settlers set up caravans on the mountain.
"We have been protesting every single day to send a message to the Israeli settlers and the occupation that we will not let them steal our land without a fight," Ibrahim Dawoud, a local activist from Beita, told Mondoweiss.
"When we protest, we have nothing to defend ourselves against their guns except our bodies. And the Israeli occupation is killing us, simply because we are defending our land," Dawoud said.
"They did not deserve to die," Dawoud said, referring to the five Palestinians killed in Beita over the past month and a half.
"Did they not have hopes and dreams? Did they not deserve to have a future, where they could live in freedom?" he asked.
Since the first settlers arrived on Jabal Sabih, locals in Beita say that more than 60 caravans have been set up on the mountain, while the Israeli government has established water, electricity, and road networks for the settlers.
Photos being circulated on social media allege to show the rapid development of the "Eviatar" outpost over the past month, and the effects it has had on the natural environment on the mountain — which houses vast olive groves belonging to over a dozen families in the village.
A report from Haaretz showed that Israeli soldiers stationed in the area assisted in the construction of the outpost, and were photographed as helping the settlers carry the prefabricated homes onto the mountain.
Unlike Israeli settlements, which are pre-approved and subsidized by the Israeli government, Israeli outposts are "unplanned", and are also illegal under Israeli law.
Despite this, the Israeli government rarely does anything to stop the construction of such outposts, and often assists in the development (i.e. providing water and electricity networks) and the retroactive legalization of the outposts.
According to Dawoud, the residents of Beita filed a lawsuit in Israeli court against the settlers in the Eviatar outpost, and are still waiting for a decision by the courts. But, he says they don't have high hopes.
"The courts are all part of the same system of oppression. They work hand in hand with the settlers and the army to continue the oppression of the Palestinian people," he said, pointing to the ongoing efforts to forcibly evict Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in Jerusalem.
"The crimes against the Palestinian people are happening every single day, in front of the world, but people are still silent," he said. "The injustice and oppression is never ending. The world needs to act."
Tensions rise amidst fragile ceasfire
On Wednesday Israeli forces also shot and killed a Palestinian woman, identified as 29-year-old Mai Afanah, near the town of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem. Israeli forces claimed that Afanah attempted to ram soldiers with her car.
Both Afanah and Shamsa were killed among rising tensions in Jerusalem and the West bank, following the ultra-nationalist Israeli "Flag March" that took place in Jerusalem earlier this week, during which Israelis crowds chanted "Death to Arabs" among other racist, anti-Palestinian slogans.
The provocative march prompted Palestinian counter protests across Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank, during which dozens of Palestinians were injured and arrested. In Gaza, Palestinians launched incendiary balloons over the Israeli imposed-border, setting multiple fires in southern Israel.
Several hours later in the early morning hours on Thursday Israeli forces launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, less than a month after a ceasefire was called, following the deadliest onslaught Gaza has seen in years.
Over the course of the 11-day offensive Israel killed 253 Palestinians, including 66 children. At least 13 Israelis were killed by rocket fire from Gaza.
Palestinian factions, including the Hamas movement, have warned that continued Israeli aggressions in Jerusalem and across Palestine could reignite tensions as the fragile ceasefire struggles to remain in tact.
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Mai Afaneh, a 29-year-old mother from Abu Dis who was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank on June 16, 2021. Afaneh had a doctorate in psychology and was the mother of a five-year-old daughter. (WAFA)
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Mai Afaneh had earned her doctorate in psychology in Jordan, was happily teaching at a local university, and had a good family life with her husband and 5-year-old daughter...
"She was not politically affiliated. All she cared about was her studies and helping her family and husband..."
She was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank; this is Palestinian territory, not Israel.
By Josef Federman, reposted from AP https://web.archive.org/web/20210617214021/https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-c3bd2ef3fe4f0976e3e4b2081b0e02b4 JERUSALEM (AP) — Mai Afaneh appeared to have a happy family life and a fulfilling career. So when she left her West Bank home early on Wednesday, no one thought anything was wrong.
But a short while later, her family received the devastating news that she had been shot and killed by Israeli troops, allegedly after carrying out an attempted car-ramming attack.
In just a few short moments, she became another statistic — the latest in a list of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military under unclear circumstances.
The cases play out in a similar pattern. The army reports an attempted attack by a Palestinian assailant, usually acting alone and unaffiliated with any militant group. Then, it says troops "neutralized" the attacker.
Some 20 Israelis have been killed in shootings, stabbings and car-ramming attacks since 2018, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry. [Editor's note: We were unable to confirm this claim, which appears inaccurate. The Jewish Virtual Library's "Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel", for example, lists 5 such Israeli deaths during that time. Fyi since 2018 approximately 480 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis.] Many others have been badly hurt.
But not all cases are clear. In cases without Israeli casualties, sometimes there is video evidence to support the account. Other times, there isn't.
Human rights groups say many of the attackers could have been stopped without killing them, and in some cases, have suggested innocent people were killed.
Military investigations are sometimes launched but rarely provide clarity and almost never find wrongdoing on the part of troops. Families, meanwhile, are left wondering what really happened to their loved ones.
Afaneh, who was 28, left an inconclusive trail of clues behind her. She had suffered some health problems. There were some distraught Facebook posts about Palestinians killed by Israel. But relatives said she had no reason or ability to carry out an attack.
She had earned her doctorate in psychology in Jordan, was happily teaching at a local university and had a good family life with her husband and 5-year-old daughter, relatives said.
"She was not politically affiliated. All she cared about was her studies and helping her family and husband," said her father, Khaled Afaneh.
He said the previous night she was laughing and talkative before dropping off her daughter to spend the night with the grandparents. He said she needed colon surgery, had just gotten out of the hospital and was very weak.
"Even if she really wanted to attack, they could easily stop her. There was no justification to kill her," he said, speaking at the family's home in Abu Dis, a town on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
According to the military, Afaneh drove her car toward a group of soldiers who were guarding a construction site in Hizmeh, about a half-hour drive from her home, then got out of the vehicle brandishing a knife before she was shot.
The military said one soldier was lightly injured jumping out of the way of the car. It said there were no security cameras at the scene so it couldn't provide footage of the incident.
"I believe she lost control over the car. Maybe she entered the wrong way," said her uncle, Usama Afaneh. "I don't believe she intended to do anything. It's not her nature."
The uncle said she had told her husband that morning that she was going out to pick up some breakfast. He had no idea how she ended up so far away from the house but speculated she was on her way to the city of Ramallah, where she sometimes did work for her university.
Despite her upbeat demeanor, some of Afaneh's posts on social media were troubling.
On May 15, at the height of Israel's war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last month, she posted a photo of what appears to be a dead Palestinian child.
"We will stay here, either martyrdom or victory," she wrote. A smaller photo showed her with a Palestinian flag painted on her face. On Instagram, she wrote: "There is no more life left to live."
The following day, under the same photo of the child, she wrote on Facebook: "My little one, your tears are cleaner than Zamzam water," referring to a spring in Saudi Arabia that is revered by Muslims. "We will give birth to children even if we know that they will be martyrs in the future."
Her father played down the posts, saying they were written at the height of a bloody war and reflected the general mood of Palestinians at the time. He said he remained in shock as he searched for answers.
"I didn't expect this to happen. Actually I don't know what happened. Nobody has seen what happened," he said.
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Ahmad Bani-Shamsa, left, was shot by Israeli forces on 16 June and died from his wounds the next day. His friend, Muhammad Hamayel, right, was killed by Israeli fire on 11 June.
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Israeli occupation forces killed the fourth Palestinian from the occupied West Bank village of Beita since May as settlers steal nearby Palestinian land.
Israeli forces shot 15-year-old Ahmad Zahi Ibrahim Bani-Shamsa with a live bullet to the head on Wednesday afternoon during ongoing confrontations with villagers protesting the Israeli theft of nearby land.
Bani-Shamsa and his 16-year-old friend Mahmoud had gone to a hilltop on the outskirts of the village to set some tires on fire, according to a field investigation by Defense for Children International Palestine.
Israeli forces were deployed some 300 meters away.
The boys approached an Israeli soldier and started chanting on a megaphone about their friend Muhammad Said Hamayel, a 16-year-old boy killed by an Israeli bullet to the chest last week.
A soldier then fired a single live bullet, causing the boys to flee for cover.
The boys returned to the area shortly after. The same soldier "assumed a kneeling sniping position" and fired approximately 10 bullets at the boys, DCIP said.
Bani-Shamsa fell to the ground as a bullet entered one side of his head and exited the other.
The boys were some 100 meters away and Bani-Shamsa "did not present any threat to Israeli forces at the time he was shot," DCIP said.
When his friend Mahmoud approached him and tried to help him, the soldier fired again.
Minutes later, a Palestinian from Beita arrived and helped carry Bani-Shamsa to a car which took him to the hospital.
The 15-year-old died of his injuries at dawn on Thursday. Bani-Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank this year, according to DCIP.
Bani-Shamsa and Hamayel were friends, and were killed one week apart.
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Two other Palestinians, Zakaria Hamayel and Issa Barham, have been killed by Israeli fire in Beita since the beginning of May.
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Israeli forces fatally shot Zakaria Hamayel on 28 May on Jabal Subeih in Beita village.
A former prisoner of the occupation, Hamayel was an Arabic teacher in the Jerusalem-area village of Bir Nabala.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen In Nabi Saleh
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Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, a Palestinian teenage boy in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the slain Palestinian has been identified as Mohammad Monir Tamimi, 17.
It added the soldiers shot Tamimi with live fire in the abdomen, causing serious wounds, before Palestinian medics rushed him to Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit, where he was immediately admitted to surgery and was then moved to the Intensive Care Unit, but later succumbed to his wounds.
Tamimi was shot when many soldiers invaded the village, and fired many live rounds, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at Palestinians who protested the invasion.
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Before his death in an Israeli prison, Abdo Yousef al-Khatib, 43, was a resident of Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and a father of four.
Israeli Prison Service accused of beating Palestinian who died in detention
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After his arrest by Israeli forces on Sunday for a traffic violation, Abdo Yousef al-Khatib was heard screaming in his prison cell. The Israel Prison Service claims he died of a heart attack.
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The family of a Palestinian who died on Wednesday evening in an Israeli detention centre has accused authorities of electrocuting and beating him while in prison.
Abdo Yousef al-Khatib, 43, a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, was arrested on Sunday for a traffic violation, according to his family, and detained in the Israeli Moscovia Detention Centre, also known as al-Maskobia.
The family has accused Israeli interrogators at Maskobia of beating and electrocuting Khatib, saying that he was not suffering from any health issues before he was detained.
The Israel Prison Service (IPS), a body responsible for running prisons and detention centres, said Khatib was "found unconscious" in Maskobia on Wednesday evening. The IPS said that prison staff "attempted to resuscitate him, but were forced to declare his death".
Palestinian detainees at Maskobia told the family that they could hear him screaming.
The family, which will conduct an autopsy on his body, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli police informed them that Khatib died of a heart attack.
Fadi al-Khatib, a relative, told local media that when a group arrived at Maskobia to check on Abdo al-Khatib on Wednesday, Israeli security forces "assaulted us violently, seven of my cousins were detained, and we're waiting for tomorrow to understand the cause of the death".
The Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem Governorate declared the "Israeli occupation government and its prison administration... fully responsible for the martyrdom of al-Khatib."
It called on international organisations to react to the violations of Palestinian human rights in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
"It is unreasonable for the international community to remain a spectator of these immoral and inhuman practices, which have transcended all international norms and conventions.
Israeli prisons routinely use torture
"Beating and torture, which often amount to killing, have become a normal thing for the occupation system and its agencies, and this is a shame recorded in the history of the international community in all its forms," the PA's Jerusalem Governorate said in a statement.
Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners' rights group, said that the death of Khatib was a tragedy, and that "whoever arrested and tortured [him], from soldiers, police and the [Israeli] Prison Service, all of them belong to the occupation government and its military agencies."
According to Addameer, 4850 Palestinian prisoners are currently being held in Israeli jails, 350 of them from East Jerusalem.
Khatib leaves behind a wife and four children.
To learn more about Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, visit addameer.org, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. https://addameer.org/
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MOHAMMAD MUNIR MOHAMMAD TAMIMI, 17 (LEFT) ANDYOUSEF NAWAF MHAREB, 17 (RIGHT) WERE BOTH KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES THIS WEEK. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)
Two Palestinian teens killed by Israel, bringing 2021 youth death toll to 77
The killings of Muhammad Munir al-Tamimi and Yousef Nawaf Mhareb brought the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank since January 2021 to 11.
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Two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli gunfire in the span of just a few days in the occupied West Bank, bringing the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israel in 2021 to 77.
On Monday, 17-year-old Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, a resident of the Ramallah-area village of Abwein, succumbed to wounds he had sustained two months prior, when he was shot in the neck by Israeli forces.
According to the official PA news agency Wafa, Mhareb was in the ICU for 74 days before succumbing to his wounds on Monday. According to Arabic media reports, he was shot by Israeli forces during protests in May over Israeli aggression in Sheikh Jarrah and the Al Aqsa Mosque — protests that sparked the "Unity Uprisings" and the latest war in Gaza.
Just a few days prior, Israeli forces shot another 17-year-old Palestinian boy during protests on Friday in the Nabi Saleh village outside of Ramallah.
According to Defense for Children International — Palestine (DCIP), Israeli forces shot Muhammad Munir al-Tamimi with live ammunition in his back. The bullet exited through his abdomen, "tearing a large hole and exposing his intestines," DCIP said, adding that al-Tamimi underwent four hours of surgery before being transferred to the ICU.
He succumbed to his injuries several hours later, and was pronounced dead at around midnight.
Al-Tamimi, a resident of the neighboring town of Deir Nitham, was reportedly taking part in Friday protests in Nabi Saleh — a weekly occurrence in the village since 2009, after Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal Halamish settlement took control of the village's water spring.
Israeli forces routinely use lethal force during protests in Nabi Saleh, despite the fact that the protests are largely peaceful.
Al-Tamimi's mother told AP that Israeli forces shot her son from a "point blank range," adding that there is a video showing an Israeli soldier opening the door to the military jeep, shooting her son, and leaving.
Her claims seem to be corroborated by DCIP's findings, which states that Al-Tamimi was shot from a maximum distance of 10 feet by a soldier who was in a military jeep.
The Israeli army told Haaretz that soldiers "identified a Palestinian suspect who was hurling stones threatening one of the soldiers' life. The soldier followed the rules of engagement and shot the suspect."
"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, resorting to intentional lethal force in circumstances not justified by international law," Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP, said in response to al-Tamimi's killing.
"Excessive use of force is the norm, and systemic impunity ensures that Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation can be killed at any moment with no recourse or accountability."
The killing of al-Tamimi and Mhareb brought the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank since January to 11. Including the 66 children killed during the Israeli attack on Gaza in May, the total number of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces so far in 2021 has been 77.
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MOURNERS IN BEIT UMMAR CARRY THE BODY OF 11-YEAR-OLD MOHAMMED AL-ALAMI WHO WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI SOLDERIS WHILE ON HIS WAY HOME FROM GROCERY SHOPPING WITH HIS FAMILY . JULY 29TH, 2021 (PHOTO: AKRAM AL-WAARA)
Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else.
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father's car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed's funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.
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Moayyad al-Alami loved bringing his three children along with him when he would run errands in his hometown of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank.
It was something he enjoyed doing, as it was a chance for him to spend time with his kids when he wasn't working. So on Wednesday afternoon when his wife asked him to pick up some groceries before lunch, Moayyad took his three children, Mohammed, 11, Anan, 9, and Ahmed, 5, along with him.
"We arrived at the entrance of our street, and Mohammed asked me to turn around and go back to the store, because he forgot to buy a snack that he really wanted," al-Alami told Mondoweiss, adding that there were Israeli soldiers in the area — not an uncommon site for the family, who live right next to a permanent Israeli military base at the entrance of the town.
"So I put the car in reverse and started turning around, and all of a sudden I heard shouting and gunshots," he recounted. "I just started driving away, and yelled at the kids to put their heads down. I didn't know what to do"
After driving for about 200 meters, with his head ducked down beneath the steering wheel, al-Alami lifted his head up to turn to the back seat and see if his kids were okay.
"I saw Ahmed crouched on the floor, and Mohammed was laying in his sister's lap," he said. "I started telling Mohammed that he could get up, and that the soldiers were gone, but he wouldn't get up. And then I saw the blood."
Moayyad pulled the car over and exited his vehicle, but when he did so, he collapsed. "I lost control of my body, I couldn't get up," he said. "People around me were asking me what was wrong, and all I could say was 'they shot him, they shot Mohammed!'"
26-year-old Ahmed Sleibi was one of those bystanders.
"I was in the area attending another funeral, and I was shocked to see the father on the ground screaming and crying," Sleibi said. "Myself and some other bystanders quickly rushed to his car. It was completely riddled with bullet holes."
"We opened the backdoor of the and found the boy in a pool of blood," Sleibi recounted. "His little sister was holding him in shock trying to wake him up, and his little brother was on the floor crying."
"I cannot describe what it was like to witness this," Sleibi said. "I was the ugliest of crimes. I am a former prisoner. I have seen prisoners, martyrs, and injured people. But something like this, I have never seen before in my life."
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Sleibi said that what stuck with him the most was the sight of the family's groceries still in the back seat with the kids, covered in Mohammed's blood.
"The bread was soaked with the boy's blood. His blood was on the bread," he said. "I don't know what else to say. I can't describe it."
Two youth killed in 24 hours
Mohammed al-Alami succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday evening, a few hours after he was transferred to a hospital in Hebron, making him the 11th Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2021, and the third in just one week.
Shortly after Mohammed's funeral, Israeli forces shot and killed another Palestinian from Beit Ummar, identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) as 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.
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SHAWKAT AWAD, 20, WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES DURING PROTEST THAT ERUPTED AFTER SOLDIERS ATTACKED THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF MOHAMMED AL-ALAMI, WHO WAS KILLED ONE DAY PRIOR IN THE TOWN OF BEIT UMMAR. (PHOTO: WAFA NEWS AGENCY)
According to the MOH, Awad was shot in the head and the stomach, and was in critical condition in the hospital for hours before he succumbed to his wounds on Thursday night.
Awad was shot during protests that broke out at the entrance to Beit Ummar after Mohammed's funeral, after Israeli forces attacked the funeral procession.
Eyewitnesses told Mondoweiss that as the procession was approaching the cemetery, Israeli forces began firing at the crowds "out of nowhere," shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at people.
Medics with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that they treated multiple people for sever tear gas inhalation.
In the clashes that ensued after Mohammed's funeral, the PRCS said that Israeli forces shot 12 Palestinians with live ammunition, including Awad.
"All I wanted to do was bury my son in peace after they stole him from me," an agonized Moayyad al-Alami told Mondoweiss.
"They killed my boy, and then they wouldn't even let me bury him," he said. "That is my most basic right as a father, and they took that from me too."
'They wanted to kill us all'
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that the reason they fired at al-Alami's van was because soldiers "had identified suspects leaving a vehicle near a military outpost and digging a hole in the ground. In the hole, the soldiers found a dead baby wrapped in a plastic bag and suspected al-Alami's family car which was driving nearby," Haaretz reported.
"The soldiers tried to stop the vehicle while following the rules of engagement, which included calls to stop and the firing of warning shots into the air. According to the IDF, when the vehicle did not stop, one of the soldiers fired at one of the vehicle's wheels in order to stop the car."
Moayyad al-Alami, along with other eyewitnesses to the shooting, heavily disputed the army's claims, however.
"A family in the town had gone to bury their newborn baby who passed away in the town's cemetery, which is right next to the base," Sleibi told Mondoweiss. "There was nothing suspicious about it. No one was discarding the baby as they claimed."
As for the claims that the soldiers "followed the rules of engagement" and fired multiple warning shots before firing at the al-Alami's vehicle, Moayyad al-Alami himself, as well as several other eyewitnesses say those claims are just not true.
"There were no warning shots or attempts to stop the vehicle in any other way," al-Alami's brother Ashraf, who witnessed the shooting while he was standing at the entrance to his family's home.
"They just started firing bullets at the vehicle from all directions," he said.
Moayyad al-Alami's version of events was similar to that of his brothers and other witnesses, adding that even if the soldier's suspected him of wrongdoing, there was no reason to shoot at the car as they did.
"It wasn't one or two bullets. Mohammed was shot with five bullets!" he cried. "We found 13 bullet casings in the car. Under what circumstances would they need to fire that many bullets at the car?" he asked.
"They were trying to kill everyone who was in that car," he said. "It is obvious they weren't trying to stop the car or scare me. They wanted to kill us all."
"It's a miracle that all of us weren't killed yesterday."
'Our kids are being killed in cold-blood'
As hundreds of people poured into the community center to pay their respects to al-Alami and his family, all he could think about was his children, and his new baby on the way.
"Mohammed was our miracle," he said, adding that for the first seven years of their marriage, he and his wife struggled to get pregnant.
"When we finally had Mohammed, it was like a dream come true," he said. "He was my pride and joy. I loved giving him everything he wanted, because I loved him so much. That's why when he asked me to turn around to go buy snacks, I didn't even hesitate."
"He was my whole world, and they took him from me in just a second."
Al-Alami said that on top of mourning his son Mohammed, he's worried about his other children, Anan and Ahmed, who he says are still in a complete state of shock.
"They saw their brother die in front of them. Anan held him in her arms as he died. How are they supposed to live with that?" he asked.
Al-Alami said that the only ones responsible for Mohammed's death were the Israeli army, and the Israeli occupation.
"The world needs to do something!" he exclaimed. "You see Palestinian children are being killed, and you are doing nothing!"
"While your kids are playing in their parks and gardens, and traveling around the world, Our kids can't even leave the house without getting killed." he said. "Our kids are being killed in cold blood."
"We are asking the international community to stand up and do something, to defend our children. Is this too much to ask?" he said. "Is it too much to ask for our children to live in safety and dignity?"
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Imad Dweikat. Photo on right is from AFP (https://iakn.us/Dweikat)
Israeli troops shoot Palestinian dead in occupied West Bank
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Imad Dweikat had been shot with 'a live bullet to the chest' in Beita, the health ministry says. He's the 8th Palestinian killed by the IDF in a little over a month.
Reposted from AlJazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/6/israeli-troops-shoot-dead-palestinian-in-occupied-west-bank
Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian and injured others during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and medics have said.
Imad Ali Mohammad Dweikat, 38 [also reported at 37], was shot by "a live bullet to the chest" in the town of Beita and was pronounced dead at the hospital in nearby Nablus, the ministry said in a statement on Friday. [His name is also sometimes spelled 'Emad.]
Beita sees regular demonstrations against the illegal Israeli occupation and settlement expansion, which often lead to confrontations.
The Israeli military said on Friday that 700 Palestinians had gathered south of the Palestinian city of Nablus, burning tyres and throwing rocks and petrol bombs towards troops and border police.
Israeli forces "responded with riot dispersal means", the military said in a statement. "We are aware of reports that a Palestinian was killed and a number of Palestinians were injured."
The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance service said 21 other Palestinians had been shot by Israeli troops, most of them with rubber-tipped bullets. Others were treated for tear gas inhalation, it said in a statement.
Last Friday, some 270 Palestinians were wounded in confrontations with Israeli troops during protests in Beita and during the funeral of a young Palestinian killed the day before, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.
On July 23, 320 Palestinians were wounded or suffered from tear gas inhalation in confrontations with Israeli forces in Beita, medics said. A teenager shot by Israeli forces later died of his wounds.
The occupied West Bank is among territories where Palestinians seek statehood. Violence has simmered there since the United States-sponsored talks between the Palestinians and Israel broke down in 2014.
Palestinians have staged near-daily protests in Beita, south of Nablus, to voice anger at a nearby illegal Israeli settler outpost.
The settlers agreed to leave the outpost in July under an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, following weeks of demonstrations by Palestinians lighting fires that often engulfed the outpost in smoke.
But some of the outpost's buildings remained, locked and under military guard. Palestinians, who claim the land the outpost is on, have decided to continue their demonstrations.
Israel occupied the West Bank during the 1967 Six-Day War and all Jewish settlements there are considered illegal by most of the international community.
Almost half a million people live in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, alongside 2.8 million Palestinians.
Editor's note: Dwikat is the eighth unarmed Palestinian civilian to be killed by Israeli forces in a little over a month, including a child and a teen; no Israelis were killed during this time. For a list of Palestinians and Israelis killed since 2000 see this Timeline. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/
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Palestinians and allies mourn the loss of Palestinian young men killed by Israel in Jenin: (top L-R) Raed Abdul-Latif Abu Saif, Nour Abdullah Jarrar; (bottom L-R) Saleh Ahmad Mahmoud Ammar, Amjad Eyad Azmi Husseiniyya
Israeli Soldiers Kill Four Palestinians In Jenin
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-four-palestinians-jenin/
Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian West Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp on Monday, allegedly to arrest a Hamas member. Instead, they killed 4 Palestinian young men.
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), August 16, 2021 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-four-palestinians-in-jenin/
Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinians, and seriously wounded at least one, in Jenin, in northern West Bank, after the army and its undercover forces, invaded Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources at Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, have confirmed receiving the corpses of two Palestinians, identified as Saleh Ahmad Mahmoud Ammar, 19, from Jenin refugee camp, and Raed Ziad Abdul-Latif Abu Saif, 21, from Jenin city.
They added that another Palestinian, identified as Nour Abdullah Jarrar, 19, from Jenin city, was also killed by the soldiers, who took his corpse.
The soldiers also shot and seriously injured a fourth Palestinian, identified as Amjad Eyad Azmi Husseiniyya, 20, who succumbed to his wounds after the soldiers abducted him.
Media sources in Jenin said the Israeli soldiers' killing of the Palestinians took place when undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated into Jenin refugee camp using a civilian car before the soldiers stormed an under-construction residential building and secretly occupied its rooftop.
They added that many Israeli army jeeps then invaded the refugee camp and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters who were unaware of the undercover soldiers occupying the building and were killed by their gunfire.
One Palestinian, identified as Qassam Mohammad Taha, 24, suffered various gunshot wounds to his left arm and was rushed to Jenin governmental hospital.
In addition, the army invaded and ransacked homes in the Jenin refugee camp, and abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Abu Zeina.
National factions in Jenin declared a general strike to mourn the slain Palestinians.
The Israeli army claimed its soldiers, including the undercover officers, invaded Jenin to arrest a member of the Hamas movement, before an exchange of fire took place between the soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters.
The army added that no injuries were reported among the soldiers.
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Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash, 15, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on Balata refugee camp near Nablus on August 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Hashash family)
Israeli forces shoot, kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus
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Ramallah – Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy today in the northern occupied West Bank.
Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash, 15, was shot and killed by Israeli forces around 4 a.m. this morning as he stood on the roof of his home watching as Israeli forces conducted a raid in the Balata refugee camp located southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to information collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. Imad sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where he was pronounced dead.
"Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinian children with impunity," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. "Systemic impunity means Israeli forces can kill Palestinian children in their homes without fear of any consequences."
Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp to conduct search and arrest operations around 3 a.m., an eyewitness told DCIP. After being awakened by gunshots, Imad and his brother went to the roof of their home to observe the raid, according to information gathered by DCIP. Imad had taken out his cell phone and was attempting to photograph or film the raid, when he was shot in the head.
Imad's brothers were initially unable to evacuate him from the home due to tear gas fired by Israeli forces, according to information gathered by DCIP. Imad was transported to Rafidia hospital in Nablus in a neighbor's taxi, where he was pronounced dead.
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Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash during a raid on Balata refugee camp near Nablus on August 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Hashash family)
Imad is the 12th Palestinian child shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2021. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Mo'ayyad Bahjat Abu Sara on July 28, while he was a passenger in his father's car. Israeli forces fired 13 bullets at the vehicle as it retreated from the area in which they were deployed.
Israeli forces shot Mohammad Munir Mohammad Tamimi, 17, in the back on July 24. Mohammad underwent surgery at Salfit governmental hospital but succumbed to his wounds later that evening.
In June, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teens from the occupied West Bank village of Beita located southeast of Nablus. Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Ahmad Bani-Shamsa in the head with live ammunition around 5:30 p.m. on June 16 in Beita, DCIP reported. Ahmad did not present any threat to Israeli forces at the time he was shot. On June 11, Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Mohammad Hamayel in the chest with live ammunition around 4:30 p.m. during a protest, DCIP reported.
Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.
Palestinian boy dies after being shot by Israeli forces in Gaza
Hassan Abu al-Neil, 12, dies of wounds a week after he was shot by Israeli forces during protests at the Gaza border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/28/palestinian-boy-dies-after-being-shot-by-israeli-forces-in-gaza
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by Israeli forces during a demonstration at the Gaza-Israel border last week has died of his wounds, Gaza health officials said.
Hassan Abu al-Neil, who died on Saturday, was shot on August 21 during the demonstration organised by Gaza's Hamas rulers to mark the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem and to protest against the crippling blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt.
The firing by Israeli forces injured at least 41 Palestinians during the protests.
The Israeli military said some protesters had tried to climb the border fence and hurled "explosive devices" at its soldiers.
Another Palestinian man, later identified as a member of the military wing of Hamas, died of his wounds on Wednesday.
An Israeli soldier remains in critical condition after being shot by a protester.
The clashes were the most violent along the border since the end of the weekly Great March of Return protests in 2019. From 2018 to 2019, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza protested at the border against the blockade and for their right to return to lands they were ethnically cleansed from as Israel was founded in 1948.
Hundreds of Palestinian protesters demonstrated on Wednesday near the Gaza-Israel border, again calling for the easing of the blockade, which Israel has imposed since 2007.
Under pressure from Egyptian mediators, Hamas kept demonstrators away from the separation fence and the protests ended without a recurrence of last week's deadly violence.
Following Wednesday's protest, Israel said it was easing some of the commercial restrictions on Gaza, allowing vehicles, goods and equipment for rebuilding projects to enter the Palestinian enclave. Israel's Defence Ministry said the easing could expand further if things remain quiet.
Egypt, which had closed its border crossing with Gaza to put pressure on Hamas, also partially reopened the crossing to allow a light flow of traffic to enter Gaza from Egypt.
The Israeli government reached an agreement with Qatar on August 19, allowing the Gulf country to resume aid payments to families in the Gaza Strip, a move aimed at reducing tensions with Hamas in the aftermath of May's 11-day war – the fourth major Israeli assault on the coastal enclave since Hamas took power there in 2007.
Israel suspended aid payments in May and said the move was necessary to ensure Hamas did not benefit from cash injections.
At least 260 Palestinians were killed during May's Gaza-Israel war, including 67 children and 39 women, according to the Gaza health ministry. Hamas has acknowledged the deaths of 80 fighters. Twelve civilians, including two children, were killed in Israel, along with one soldier.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds He Suffered In Gaza
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Medical sources at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza city, has reported on Wednesday morning, that a young Palestinian man died from serious wounds he suffered, on Saturday, August 21st, 2021, after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire.
The sources stated that last Saturday evening, the soldiers shot and seriously injured Osama Khaled D'eij, 32, during protests that took place near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city.
The Palestinian was rushed to the Shifa Medical Center before he was immediately admitted to surgery but remained in a critical condition at the Urgent Care Unit until he succumbed to his wounds.
Osama, from Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, was shot with expanding bullets.
His family said that he got married only a month before he was shot and subsequently died from his serious wounds.
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Palestinian medics transferring Osama to hospital
On the same day, the soldiers shot and injured 41 Palestinians, including several children, during protests on Palestinian land near the fence, commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.
The holy site was burnt, on August 23rd, 1969, by Denis Michael Rohan, a fanatic Australian citizen.
Israel arrested Rohan, before alleging that he was "insane", and hospitalized him in a mental institution, and on May 14th, 1974, he was released and deported on what Israel called "humanitarian grounds, further psychiatric treatment near his family".
On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and killed a child, identified as Emad Hashash, 15, while he was on the rooftop of his home.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah
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Israeli soldiers killed, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian man in the western area of Beit Ur at-Tahta, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after the army attacked Palestinian workers in a crossing area of the Annexation Wall.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired live rounds at the Palestinian, identfiied as Raed Yousef Jadallah, 39, who suffered serious wounds and bled to death after the soldiers refused to allow any Palestinian to approach him, the WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency has reported.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian Civil Coordination Office was informed by the Israeli side that the young man has died from his wounds.
The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy.
Update: Nearly at eleven at night on Tuesday evening, Raed called his son, Yousef, 13, to meet him at the western entrance of the village, as he usually did when the father comes back home late after work.
It is worth mentioning that the road has been blockaded by the army with sandhills since the year 2016.
Raed's son, Yousef, went there with a friend, and after arriving near the western entrance, he could not see his father and tried calling his cellphone several times, before he walked further to see his father's dead boy, soaked in blood and surrounded by Israeli soldiers.
The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy. He frequently arrives late from work due to Israeli roadblocks or other demands from his work.
Wajeeh Hilal Othman, the head of Beit Ur at-Tahta, described the fatal shooting as cold-blooded murder, especially since the man was just a worker heading back home to be with his family.
Nearly at eleven at night on Tuesday evening, Raed called his son, Yousef, 13, to meet him at the western entrance of the village, as he usually did when the father comes back home late after work.
The road has been blockaded by the army with sandhills since the year 2016.
Yousef went there with a friend, and after arriving near the western entrance, he could not see his father and tried calling his cellphone several times, before he walked further to see his father's dead boy, soaked in blood and surrounded by Israeli soldiers.
The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy. He frequently arrives late from work due to Israeli roadblocks or other demands from his work.
Wajeeh Hilal Othman, the head of Beit Ur at-Tahta, described the fatal shooting as cold-blooded murder, especially since the man was just a worker heading back home to be with his family.
On Wednesday at dawn, the slain man, was identified as Raed Yousef Rashed Jadallah, 39. He lived in Beit Ur at-Tahta and bears a Jerusalem ID card, the Maan News Agency said.
The Palestinian was a laborer who worked in occupied Jerusalem, and was crossing one of the military-controlled crossing points, when the soldiers delivered the fatal shots.
Palestinian medics managed to obtain the corpse of the slain Palestinian man, and moved it to Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah.
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Thirteen-year old Palestinian said shot dead by IDF in clashes near Nablus
Israeli army checking report of fatality, says troops used crowd control measures and live fire during 'riot'; Hamas calls death a 'war crime'
https://www.timesofisrael.com/thirteen-year-old-palestinian-said-shot-dead-by-idf-in-clashes-near-nablus/
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces near Nablus on Friday afternoon, Palestinian Authority health officials said.
According to the PA health ministry, the boy arrived at a Nablus hospital with bullet wounds to his stomach. He died despite the efforts of medical staff, the ministry said.
Local Palestinian media identified the 13-year-old as Muhammad Daadas. Clashes took place between Israeli forces and local Palestinians in the village of Deir al-Hatab village, east of Nablus, before Daadas's death.
The Israeli army said its forces had responded to a riot near the nearby Israeli settlement of Alon Moreh.
"During the disturbance, rioters threw stones at Israeli soldiers. The troops responded with riot dispersal means and live fire," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.
The army said it was "checking" reports of a Palestinian casualty.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said 71 other people were wounded in clashes, most of them suffering from the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Palestinian reports said the demonstrators were protesting against Israeli settlements and that troops used tear gas, stun grenades and live fire to disperse the demonstrations.
Two other Palestinians were injured Friday in clashes in Beita, another West Bank village where locals have protested for months against the establishment of an illegal settlement outpost.
The Hamas terror group mourned the 13-year-old, calling his death "a war crime."
"This blood shall be the fuel for our people's revolution, which will not rest until it achieves its goals," Hamas spokesperson Hazim Qasim said.
The clashes come days after Israel announced it would advance plans for 3,000 more homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, despite international criticism. Israel also advanced plans to build about 1,300 homes for Palestinians in the West Bank.
The settlement housing, the first to be advanced since United States President Joe Biden took office, sparked widespread condemnation in the international community. Many view Israeli construction in the West Bank as a serious obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
"We are deeply concerned about the Israeli government's plan to advance thousands of settlement units on Wednesday, many of them deep in the West Bank," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters last Tuesday.
Settlement construction has also split the diverse, fragile coalition that currently governs Israel. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a former leader in the settler movement, maintains power with the left-wing Meretz and Labor parties and the Arab Ra'am party, which strongly oppose settlements.
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Relatives of Palestinian Saddam Bani Odeh, who was killed earlier by Israeli troops, react during his funeral in the village of Tammun near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Nov. 16.
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The grieving father of Saddam Odeh.
Israeli soldiers kill 26-year-old Palestinian man
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-man-saddam-odeh/
During a military raid of the town of Tubas, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Palestinian Saddam Hussein Bani Odeh, alleging he had been among a group resisting the invasion.
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), November 16, 2021 https://imemc.org/article/ministry-of-health-army-kills-palestinian-in-tubas/
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported, on Tuesday morning, that Israeli soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian man during protests that took place after the army invaded Tubas city, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Ministry verified that an Israeli soldier shot Saddam Hussein Bani Odeh, 26, from Tammoun town, south of Tubas, with a live round that went through his left shoulder, then his heart and lung.
The Palestinian was killed during protests that took place at the main entrance of Tubas and surrounding areas, when several army jeeps invaded the city, before the soldiers fired live rounds, tear gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets.
The Israeli army claimed that armed resistance fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers during the invasion and added that the slain Palestinian was one of the fighters.
Eyewitnesses said Palestinian medics rushed Saddam Odeh, who is also a former political prisoner, to Tubas governmental hospital, where he was soon officially pronounced dead.
In addition, the soldiers stormed the home of a former prisoner, identified as Ayser Maslamani, and ransacked the property before abducting him.
The soldiers also invaded and searched the home of Hamza Daraghma, before abducting him.
Palestinian youth martyred in Nablus
During an incursion into Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces cold-bloodedly shoot dead 31-year-old Jameel Kayyal, as armed confrontations between resistance fighters and Israeli forces broke out.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/palestinian-youth-martyred-in-nablus
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The Israeli occupation forces martyred Monday at dawn a young Palestinian man and wounded five others during an incursion into Nablus in the northern West Bank.
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According to local sources, the martyr was identified as Jameel Kayyal, 31, who was shot by the occupation forces directly in the chest during the incursion into the Ras Al-Ain area near the old city of Nablus.
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The sources indicated that two of the wounded Palestinians were run over by an IOF military vehicle.
During the incursion, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the area and confronted a group of resistance fighters who threw explosive bombs, trying to repel the attack.
On Sunday, a Palestinian youth was wounded following confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces near the entrance of the town of Beita, south of Nablus, during "night confusion" activities.
According to Palestinian news agencies, members of the resistance opened fire Saturday on the illegal "Evyatar" settlement outpost built on the top of Mount Sbeih in Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Daily confrontations are ongoing in the town of Beita since last June, in protest of the establishment of the new "Evyatar" settlement.
It is worth noting that in addition to the "night confusion" activities, the Palestinian youths have been developing new forms of resistance held on a weekly basis.
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Palestinian woman killed as settlers continue attacks in West Bank
A Palestinian woman was killed on Friday after an Israeli settler rammed his car into her and fled the scene. After questioning, the settler was released by Israeli police.
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/12/palestinian-woman-killed-as-settlers-continue-attacks-in-west-bank/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet
Several Palestinians were injured and one woman was killed on Friday, as a wave of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and their homes has swept across the occupied West Bank.
On Friday afternoon Palestinian media outlets reported that a Palestinian woman was killed after an Israeli settler allegedly rammed their car into her on a main highway outside the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
Wafa News identified the woman as 63-year-old Ghadeer Fuqaha Masalmeh from Sinjil. https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/127349
Sinjil's mayor reportedly wrote on Facebook that Masalmeh and her husband were standing by the entrance of the town, which is located near a major throughway connecting Ramallah and Nablus, waiting for a taxi when an Israeli license-plate car rammed into her "before speeding away in a deliberate hit and run attack."
According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli driver who hit Masalmeh fled to the nearby Shiloh settlement, where he allegedly reported the incident to Israeli police. Quoting police, the Times of Israel said the settler, "was briefly questioned by officers, and his vehicle was impounded pending further investigation."
The settler was reportedly released, but was summoned for "further investigation."
As for the reason he fled the scene, "the man told officers he feared to stop near the West Bank town following the incident," the Times of Israel wrote.
Masalmeh is the third Palestinian to be killed in the West Bank over the past week. Earlier this week, 22-year-old Hikmat Abdul Aziz Mousa was killed after Israeli forces shot at his vehicle, allegedly causing it to crash and catch on fire, killing Mousa.
Hours later, Israeli forces shot and killed 26-year-old Mohammed Abbas as he was driving in the al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah.
Settler attacks continue unabated
Masalmeh is the latest victim of a wave of settler violence that has swept across the West Bank, following the killing of an Israeli settler last week outside the illegal Homesh outpost.
Following the shooting of the settler, Israeli forces embarked on a widespread manhunt for the alleged perpetrators, eventually arresting at least three Palestinians from the town of Burqa, which is located near Homesh.
Since then, Israeli settlers have perpetrated a series of revenge attacks on Burqa and the surrounding villages that have injured several Palestinians and caused damage to their property.
Such attacks have continued across the West Bank over the course of the past week, and escalated on Thursday after thousands of settlers and right-wing leaders marched past Burqa and the surrounding towns on their way to Homesh, where the settlers called for revenge on Palestinians and the official reestablishment of the outpost, which was evacuated in 2005.
https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1474308399252881419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1474308399252881419%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmondoweiss.net%2F2021%2F12%2Fpalestinian-woman-killed-as-settlers-continue-attacks-in-west-bank%2F
The march led to confrontations between Palestinians from Burqa and armed Israeli soldiers who escorted the settlers on their march. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that 42 Palestinians, including one journalist, were wounded after being hit with rubber-coated steel bullets, while another 83 suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired by the army.
Hours later, in the middle of the night, Israeli settlers reportedly descended on Burqa, attacking several homes with rocks and attempting to break into homes on the outskirts of the village.
https://twitter.com/RZabaneh/status/1474094245741047810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1474094245741047810%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmondoweiss.net%2F2021%2F12%2Fpalestinian-woman-killed-as-settlers-continue-attacks-in-west-bank%2F
"The escalation of settler terror against our people in the West Bank will be confronted with the escalation of acts of resistance, and the occupation army and its settlers will pay the price for these crimes," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement.
"The continuation of comprehensive resistance in all its forms, especially armed ones, is the practical and real response to the crimes of the occupation and settlers," the Hamas movement said in a separate statement.
2021 has seen a staggering rise in settler violence, with UN OCHA reporting at least 450 settler attacks against Palestinians and their property as of December 6th. According to OCHA documentation, of those attacks, 118 of those incidents resulted in the death or injury of Palestinians.
According to B'Tselem, 2021 saw a rise in settler violence of 28.6 percent compared to last year.
Despite a clear rise in settler attacks on Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently said otherwise, calling settler violence a "marginal" issue.
https://twittervideodownloader.com/download
To download Twitter videos ... maybe ?
first download didn't work.
Quote from: abduLMaria on December 26, 2021, 09:11:43 AM
https://twittervideodownloader.com/download
To download Twitter videos ... maybe ?
first download didn't work.
I use ubuntu 20.04 and youtube-dl :
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /mnt/Downloads/ubu2004/axel/
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# youtube-dl --external-downloader axel -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuzMnC_E4Rw
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/ubu2004/axel$ cd ..
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/ubu2004$ cd ..
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads$ cd temp/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$ youtube-dl -F https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1474308399252881419
[twitter] 1474308399252881419: Downloading guest token
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hls-2176 mp4 848x480 2176k , avc1.64001f, mp4a.40.2
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$ youtube-dl -f http-2176 https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1474308399252881419
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$ youtube-dl -O Yehuda.Shaul.mp4 -f http-2176 https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1474308399252881419
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$ youtube-dl -o Yehuda.Shaul.mp4 -f http-2176 https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1474308399252881419
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$ ll Yehuda.Shaul.mp4
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/temp$
youtube-dl can be downloaded here : https://crashrecovery.org/youtube-dl/DEB/ubuntu2004/
For the rest i always carry a bootable usb stick with Ubuntu 20.04
which works on any laptop. When the live install is booted, i don't install
of course but download this : https://crashrecovery.org/2004.zip :
unzip it and run : ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sh fresh-install-ubu2004-live.sh
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ABDUL-AZIZ HIKMAT MOUSA
December 21, 2021
https://israelpalestinenews.org/three-more-palestinians-killed-during-last-days-of-2021/
Abdul-Aziz Hikmat Mousa, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers at Dothan military roadblock, near Ya'bad town, southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli sources claimed the Palestinian fired shots from his car at a military vehicle at the roadblock causing it to catch on fire. No injuries were reported among the soldiers.
It alleged that, as he approached the roadblock, he rammed his car into the burning military vehicle before the soldiers opened fire on him causing his car to ignite as well.
The Israeli army also prevented Palestinian ambulances from reaching the area, and installed many roadblocks around it, in addition to many villages and towns, south of Jenin.
Firefighters arrived to put out the conflagration and found Mousa had passed away in his car and his corpse was burnt inside his car.
Military roadblocks are historically extremely dangerous for Palestinians and are often the stage for extrajudicial killings under various allegations.
"Even in the worst-case scenario of an intentional car-ramming, the Israeli officers who shot this unarmed civilian while he was trying to run in the opposite direction violated Israel's own rules of engagement that stipulate using lethal force only and strictly when necessary to repel a direct threat to life," reports Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
After the soldiers killed Abdul-Aziz, hundreds of Palestinians marched towards his family's home while chanting against the illegal Israeli occupation and calling on the International Community to hold Israel accountable for its crimes.
On June 23, 2020, the soldiers killed Ahmad Mustafa Erekat, 26, at the "Container" military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem, while he was preparing for his sister's wedding that was scheduled to take place later that day.
The soldiers claimed that Ahmad 'tried to ram them with his car' – a claim that his family says is beyond ridiculous.
The head of Abu Dis Town Council, Ahmad Abu Hilal, said the soldiers shot Ahmad with multiple rounds and left him to bleed to death, before taking his corpse away.
Abu Hilal added that Ahmad was driving to Bethlehem city to fetch his sisters and his mother from a hairdressing shop in Bethlehem, as the family was preparing for the wedding of one of his sisters, which was supposed to take place on the same day.
Abdul-Aziz was from Marka village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
The head of Abu Dis Town Council, Ahmad Abu Hilal, said the soldiers shot Ahmad with multiple rounds and left him to bleed to death, before taking his corpse away.
Abu Hilal added that Ahmad was driving to Bethlehem city to fetch his sisters and his mother from a hairdressing shop in Bethlehem, as the family was preparing for the wedding of one of his sisters, which was supposed to take place on the same day.
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MOHAMMAD ISSA ABBAS
December 22, 2021
https://israelpalestinenews.org/three-more-palestinians-killed-during-last-days-of-2021/
Mohammad Issa Abbas, 26, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the al-Biereh city, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that its soldiers were looking for Palestinians who were spotted approaching the Psagot colony and fired a few live rounds.
It added that its soldiers then invaded the outskirts of al-Biereh city looking for Palestinians, before they came under fire from a passing vehicle, and fired at the car, wounding a young man.
The slain Palestinian was not the driver but was apparently on the passenger side of the vehicle; no soldiers were injured in the incident.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that Mohammad was shot in the back before he was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex where he succumbed to his serious wounds.
Israeli sources said "it is believed" that the slain Palestinian was the one who fired the shots at Psagot. However, the allegation cannot be verified and remains speculation on the part of the Israeli military.
The invasion into al-Biereh led to protests before the army fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and concussion grenades.
After Mohammad's death, dozens of Palestinians marched to Palestine Medical Complex while chanting against the illegal Israeli occupation and its constant violations.
On Wednesday night, dozens of soldiers invaded the Sateh Marhaba area in al-Biereh city and initiated a comprehensive search campaign.
The young man is the sixth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli soldiers this month alone.
On December 21, the soldiers killed Abdul-Aziz Hikmat Mousa, 22, at Dothan military roadblock, near Ya'bad town, southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On December 12, 2021, the soldiers killed Jamil Mohammad al-Kayyal, 31, in Nablus city in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On December 10, 2021, the soldiers killed Jamil Abu Ayyash, 31, during the weekly protest against the illegal Israeli colonies in Beita town, southeast of Nablus.
On December 6, 2021, the soldiers killed Mohammad Nidal Younis, 15, at a military roadblock near Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, after the army claimed he intentionally rammed his car into the roadblock.
On December 04, 2021, the army killed Mohammad Shawkat Salima, 25, after he stabbed an Israeli settler in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. He was first shot and injured and was lying on the ground before the soldiers fired a second live round that killed him.
In addition, one Israeli was, identified as Yehuda Dimantman, 20, was killed on December 16, 2021, by Palestinians who opened fire at his car, near the evacuated Homesh colonialist outpost, which was built on Palestinian lands north of Nablus.
Mohammad was from the al-Am'ari refugee camp, south of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Conscience-Less-Ness of the Israeli's is beyond the comprehension of most humans.
But then, they have 2000+, or 5781, years of practice, depending on how you count.
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BAKEER HASHASH, 21 (LEFT), AND MUSTAFA FALANEH, 25 (RIGHT) WERE KILLED IN TWO SEPARATE INCIDENTS ON JANUARY 6TH, 2022.
Israeli soldiers, settlers kill two Palestinians, injure two others
Thursday morning, Israelis forces killed a young Palestinian man in a predawn raid on the Balata refugee camp. Hours later an Israeli settler committed a car-ramming attack against a Palestinian man near Ramallah, killing him.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/israeli-soldiers-settlers-kill-two-palestinians-injure-two-others/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet
Two Palestinians were killed on Thursday morning in the occupied West Bank, while two others were seriously injured in four separate incidents when they were run over by Israeli vehicles.
Israelis forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man in the predawn hours of Thursday morning, during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
The young man was identified as 21-year-old Bakeer Hashash, a resident of the camp. Hasash is the first Palestinian to be killed by Israel in the occupied territory in 2022.
Israeli forces were conducting an arrest raid on the camp, reportedly sparking armed confrontations with locals. The Israeli army claimed that they "fired back" at gunmen, killing one person.
Just hours later, an Israeli settler committed a car-ramming attack against a Palestinian man near a checkpoint west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, killing him.
The man was identified as 25-year-old Mustafa Falaneh, a resident of the Ramallah-area village of Safa and father of an 18-month old girl, Wafa news agency reported.
Falaneh was reported to be on his way to work inside Israel, and was crossing the street near the Beit Sira checkpoint when an Israeli settler ran into him, killing him. The Times of Israel reported that Israeli police were "investigating the incident."
Hours after Falaneh was killed, Wafa reported another car-ramming attack, in which an Israeli settler ran over a woman in the Nablus area. She was identified as 48-year-old Shafiqa Bisharat.
Wafa quoted eyewitnesses as saying that prior to ramming into Bisharat, the settler had "attempted to run over sheep" and was harassing Palestinians in the area.
The killing of Hashash and Falaneh come less than 24 hours after a harrowing incident that left an elderly Palestinian activist seriously injured and fighting for his life.
On Wednesday afternoon, an Israeli truck driver ran over 75-year-old Suleiman al-Hathalin, referred to by locals as Hajj Suleiman, in the village of Umm al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills, during an Israeli police raid on the village.
Locals told Palestinian media outlets that Israeli police raided the town alongside a flatbed tow truck in order to seize unlicensed vehicles from the area. As the truck was leaving the village, it rammed straight into al-Hathalin, crushing him.
The truck reportedly belonged to a private company contracted by the Israeli police, and was allegedly being driven by an Israeli settler. After hitting al-Hathalin, the truck fled the scene. The incident took place in full view of Israeli police, who locals said did nothing to stop the truck or assist al-Hathalin.
Al-Hathalin was evacuated to a Hebron hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition. Activists from Masafer Yatta said that al-Hathalin was suffering from a fractured skull, and several serious injuries to his spine, ribs, and hip.
'Premeditated attacks'
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry released a statement on Thursday expressing concerns over the recent car-ramming attacks on Palestinians, saying it has reason to believe the attacks were "premeditated."
"We consider the incidents of running over Palestinians, which have become a phenomenon.... crimes, whether intentional and deliberate or by negligence," the statement said.
In December, 63-year-old Ghadeer Masalmeh https://mondoweiss.net/2021/12/palestinian-woman-killed-as-settlers-continue-attacks-in-west-bank/ was killed when an Israeli settler ran her over on a main road outside the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah. The settler fled the scene, and according to Israeli reports, was released after being questioned by Israeli police.
The ministry lamented the lack of action on part of Israeli police to investigate the attacks on Palestinians, saying that if the situation was reversed, and it was a Palestinian who hit an Israeli with their car, Israeli authorities "would have assumed that the incident was intentional and would have opened fire at the car involved before even checking the facts."
"This situation confirms not only the racism of the occupying state in dealing with the Palestinians but also the absolute disregard for their lives as if they have no value," the ministry statement said.
The office of President Mahmoud Abbas echoed similar sentiments, and called on the U.S. government and other international bodies to hold Israel accountable and pressure the state to "stop its ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people."
According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, 2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2014, with Israeli forces and settlers killing 319 Palestinians in the occupied territory.
2021 also saw a staggering rise in settler violence, with B'Tselem reporting a 28.6 percent rise in settler violence compared to the previous year.
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Israeli soldiers assault, kill 80-yr-old Palestinian man
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-assault-kill-80-yr-old-palestinian-man/
Israeli soldiers invade Palestinian village at midnight; cuff, blindfold, assault 80 year old Omar Abdul-Majid As'ad; then leave his dead body on the ground and leave...
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/elderly-palestinian-man-killed-after-israeli-soldiers-assaulted-him-near-ramallah/
Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, on Wednesday at dawn, that an elderly man was killed after Israeli soldiers detained and repeatedly assaulted him near Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The sources said the man has been identified as Omar Abdul-Majid As'ad, 80, from Jaljulia village, north of Ramallah. [His name is also written as Omar Abdalmajeed Asaad and Omar Abdulmajeed Asad.]
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The Mayor of Jaljulia, Fuad Motea', said the soldiers invaded the village and abducted Omar, before constantly assaulting him in an under-construction home, before leaving him on the ground.
Motea' also added that the elderly man was detained by the soldiers in the al-Ein area in Jaljulia before he was cuffed, blindfolded, and assaulted by the soldiers.
He stated that Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but were unable to resuscitate the man, before moving his corpse to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
His nephew, Mohammad, told Palestine TV that several army vehicles invaded the village after midnight, before forcing him out of a car, cuffed and blindfolded him, and started to drag him on the ground before taking him to the under-construction building.
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He added that after the soldiers repeatedly struck his uncle in the under-construction home, and after realizing that he was dead they just left him on the ground and left the area.
"He was an old man with respiratory issues; the soldiers had no reason to abduct him, let alone to cuff and blindfold him, and to take him to an under-construction home, where they constantly assaulted him, and then just left him there!" Mohammad said.
The Palestinians found his corpse approximately at 4 at dawn in the under-construction building, after the soldiers withdrew from the village.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers detained several Palestinians during the invasion, and the slain elderly man was the only one who was taken to the building.
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SULEIMAN AL-HATHALIN CONFRONTS ISRAELI SOLDIERS DURING THE DEMOLITION OF HIS HOUSE UNDER THE PRETEXT OF BUILDING WITHOUT A PERMIT IN YATTA SOUTH OF HEBRON IN THE WEST BANK, ON DECEMBER 6, 2021. (PHOTO: APA IMAGES/MAMOUN WAZWAZ)
Iconic Palestinian activist succumbs to wounds sustained after he was run over by Israeli police truck Hajj Suleiman was a pillar of the community in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills, and an icon of anti-occupation resistance.
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A 75-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank died on Monday, after succumbing to wounds he sustained when he was run over during an Israeli police raid last week.
Suleiman al-Hathalin, or 'Hajj Suleiman' as he is known by locals, passed away on Monday morning in a hospital in Hebron, where he was in critical condition since he was run over earlier this month. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed his death in a statement.
Hajj Suleiman was a pillar of the community in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills, and an icon of anti-occupation resistance, and was widely known across Palestine, as he was frequently photographed facing off against Israeli soldiers during demonstrations in Umm al-Khair and the surrounding villages.
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A PHOTO TAKEN ON OCTOBER 22, 2021. SULEIMAN AL-HATHALIN TAKES PART IN A RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE AT ISRAELI JAILS, IN THE WEST BANK CITY OF HEBRON. THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED THAT THE ELDERLY SULEIMAN AL-HATHLIN SUCCUMBED TO HIS WOUNDS HE SUSTAINED AFTER BEING RUN OVER BY AN ISRAELI FORCES VEHICLE A FEW DAYS AGO IN YATTA SOUTH OF HEBRON IN THE WEST BANK. (APA IMAGES/MAMOUN WAZWAZ)
He sustained critical injuries when a flatbed tow truck, contracted by Israeli police, ran over him during a police raid on Umm al-Khair on January 5th, during which the police seized a number of unlicensed vehicles in the village.
He suffered from a fractured skull, and serious injuries to his spine, ribs, and hip.
At the time, Hajj Suleiman's family and fellow activists accused Israel of an "assasination attempt" against the popular activist, saying they held Israel fully responsible for the "deliberate attack."
Local activists said that the truck, which was allegedly being driven by a privately contracted Israeli settler, purposely ran into Hajj Suleiman, who was standing on the side of the road when he was hit.
According to eyewitness testimony, the truck immediately fled the scene, followed by Israeli police, who did not stop to call an ambulance or offer Hajj Suleiman medical assistance.
"At the end of the day, I believe Hajj Suleiman was deliberately assassinated by the Israeli occupation," Fouad al-Amour, an activist from the South Hebron Hills and a friend of Hajj Suleiman told Mondoweiss after his death.
"What happened was not an accident, and the occupation alone is responsible," he said.
Al-Amour added that although Hajj Suleiman is gone, his legacy will "live on forever in Masafer Yatta, through us, our children, and our children's children."
Hajj Suleiman is the 5th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since the beginning of 2022.
Earlier this month, on January 6th, 21-year-old Bakeer Hashash was shot by Israeli forces during a night raid on the city of Nablus. On the same day, 25-year-old Mustafa Falaneh was killed after he was run over by an Israeli settler outside of Ramallah.
On January 13th, 80-year-old Omar Abdulmajeed Asaad died of a heart attack after he was violently detained by Israeli forces in the middle of the night, who left him out in the cold in an abandoned building, unconscious with his hands tied.
On Monday, just hours after Hajj Suleiman was pronounced dead, Israeli forces shot and killed another Palestinian, Faleh Jaradat (age unknown), at a junction near the Hebron-area town of Sa'ir, claiming he was attempting to carry out a stabbing attack.
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Palestinian dies of tear gas inhalation in Qalandia camp
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2022/1/25/Palestinian-dies-of-tear-gas-inhalation-in-Qalandia-camp
A Palestinian citizen was pronounced dead on Monday evening after he inhaled tear gas during an Israeli police raid on Qalandia refugee camp in occupied east Jerusalem.
According to local sources, 57-year-old Fahmi Hamad died after he was rushed in the morning to a hospital as a result of his suffering from an acute respiratory problem after police forces stormed the camp and embarked on randomly firing tear gas grenades.
Hamad already had chronic health issues and was unable to endure the intensity of the tear gas that was fired by the police near his home, local sources said.
Earlier in the morning, six young men were reportedly injured by rubber bullets and another one was arrested during clashes with police forces in Qalandia camp.
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Israeli soldiers assault, kill 80-yr-old Palestinian man
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Israeli soldiers invade Palestinian village at midnight; cuff, blindfold, assault 80 year old Omar Abdul-Majid As'ad; then leave his dead body on the ground and leave...
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Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, on Wednesday at dawn, that an elderly man was killed after Israeli soldiers detained and repeatedly assaulted him near Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The sources said the man has been identified as Omar Abdul-Majid As'ad, 80, from Jaljulia village, north of Ramallah. [His name is also written as Omar Abdalmajeed Asaad and Omar Abdulmajeed Asad.]
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The Mayor of Jaljulia, Fuad Motea', said the soldiers invaded the village and abducted Omar, before constantly assaulting him in an under-construction home, before leaving him on the ground.
Motea' also added that the elderly man was detained by the soldiers in the al-Ein area in Jaljulia before he was cuffed, blindfolded, and assaulted by the soldiers.
He stated that Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but were unable to resuscitate the man, before moving his corpse to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
His nephew, Mohammad, told Palestine TV that several army vehicles invaded the village after midnight, before forcing him out of a car, cuffed and blindfolded him, and started to drag him on the ground before taking him to the under-construction building.
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He added that after the soldiers repeatedly struck his uncle in the under-construction home, and after realizing that he was dead they just left him on the ground and left the area.
"He was an old man with respiratory issues; the soldiers had no reason to abduct him, let alone to cuff and blindfold him, and to take him to an under-construction home, where they constantly assaulted him, and then just left him there!" Mohammad said.
The Palestinians found his corpse approximately at 4 at dawn in the under-construction building, after the soldiers withdrew from the village.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers detained several Palestinians during the invasion, and the slain elderly man was the only one who was taken to the building.
Israhell fucked up when they killed this Palestinian, but only because he was an American citizen, and probably not much will happen beyond what is described in these articles.
In Parable for Occupation, Autopsy Shows Israeli Troops mistreated American on West Bank, leading to his Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-UkCYYL-b8&t=10s
QuoteAs'ad appears to have been arrested on Wednesday for driving while Palestinian and for declining to go along quietly when the Israeli troops "checked" him. They took him to a building under construction. They blindfolded him so tightly that his eyes bled on his eyelids. They cuffed him with zip ties so tightly that it left his wrists raw. Palestinian eyewitnesses said they beat him, and he had abrasions and bruises on his head. He abruptly slumped to the ground and was unresponsive, according to the Palestinians who were there. They said he was not sitting up in a chair when the soldiers left, according to Bethan McKernan at The Guardian.
So the Israeli soldiers became alarmed and called for an ambulance, right?
Wrong.
They left him there sprawled on the ground. Abandoned him.
This was the military Occupation version of a hit and run.
Their brutal treatment of this old man induced a heart attack, and they left him there to die instead of giving him first aid.
Because Mr. As'ad was an American, the US State Department politely asked for a "clarification."
If Iran had done this to an American it would be on cable news 24/7 and dire threats would be made. Israel? We send them $4 billion a year of your money.
The soldiers responsible will not be disciplined, the Israeli military says, because they followed standard procedure.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.juancole.com/2022/01/occupation-mistreated-american.html
Wisconsin lawmakers demand probe of elderly Palestinian-American's deathUS Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore ask State Department to investigate Omar As'ad's death and whether IDF soldiers involved used equipment procured with American aid
ARTICLE HERE: https://www.timesofisrael.com/wisconsin-lawmakers-demand-probe-of-elderly-palestinian-americans-death/
Israeli soldiers fired over killing of elderly Palestinian US national QuoteTwo Israeli military officers will be fired from their positions while a third, a battalion commander, will be reprimanded over the death of an elderly Palestinian-American found dead after being detained by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Israeli military's statement, the death of Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, who had lived in Milwaukee before retiring to his native Palestinian hometown of Jiljilya, resulted from "a moral failure and poor decision-making".
FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220201-israeli-soldiers-fired-over-killing-of-elderly-palestinian-us-national/
B'Tselem condemns Israeli probe into death of elderly Palestinian American QuoteWest Bank (In Palestine Today)-B'Tselem, a leading Israeli rights group, has condemned an Israeli army probe into the death of an elderly Palestinian-American man last month as containing "empty words".
Israel's military said on Monday that it was dismissing two officers and would reprimand a battalion commander over the death of Omar Muhammad Asaad, 80, saying it had resulted from "a moral failure and poor decision-making".
[...]
The two officers, a platoon and a company commander, will be stripped of their commands and "not serve in commanding roles for two years," the military said.
The three soldiers were part of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion of religious Jews.
B'Tselem described the punishments handed to the commanders as a "slight rebuke".
[...]
US response
Omar, who holds American citizenship, is a father of seven children who live in the United States. He moved to America in the 1970s, where he settled with his family. He returned to live in Palestine in 2012.
His death had sparked calls for an investigation by the US State Department and from members of Congress from Wisconsin, where Assad had previously lived for decades, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
B'Tselem said it had recorded 77 Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israeli security forces in the West Bank last year.
More than half of those killed were not implicated in any attacks, it added.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://inpalestine.site/archives/16875
I would like to see the Palestinians develop a Custom of LEAVING major cities such as Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Jerusalem, Dimona, ONE DAY A WEEK.
It has to become a very regular habit.
It would facilitate an Attack on the Terror State (of Israel), so that it can be performed without harming any innocent Palestinians.
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Relatives of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Salah, 16, who was killed after Israeli forces entered the village of Silat Al-Harithya, mourn during his funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, on Feb. 14, 2022.
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinian teens in 24 hours, 5 Palestinians in a week
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Tuesday afternoon, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel over the past week to five; eleven have been killed since the start of 2022.
by Yumna Patel, reposted from Mondoweiss, February 15, 2022 https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/israeli-forces-kill-2-palestinian-teens-in-24-hours-5-palestinians-in-a-week/
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah, on Tuesday afternoon, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel over the past week to five.
The young man, identified as Nihad Barghouti, a resident of the town of Kufr Ein, was reportedly shot in the abdomen during confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Nabi Saleh.
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Barghouti is the fifth Palestinian, and second teenager, to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank over the course of a week.
On Monday Israeli forces killed 16-year-old Mohammad Akram Abu Salah during a raid on the village of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin. [His age is also given as 17.]
Israeli forces were raiding the village in order to prepare for the punitive home demolition of Palestinian prisoner Muhammed Jaradat, who was accused of killing an Israeli settler last year.
The raid sparked protests in the village, which drew crowds of Palestinians from Silat al-Harithiya and the surrounding villages, including the neighboring town of al-Yamoun, where Abu Salah was from.
According to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), Israeli snipers were stationed at positions around the village. When a Palestinian gunman reported fired towards Israeli military jeeps, Israel forces fired heavily towards the area where the shots came from.
After the confrontations had subsided, however, Israeli forces " suddenly and without warning" began firing indiscriminately at the crowds of Palestinians, DCIP said, injuring dozens of people.
Among those injured were Abu Salah, who was shot in the eye, while his cousin was shot in the hand as he attempted to aid Abu Salah. DCIP said that the two were running away when they were shot by a sniper positioned approximately 250 meters (820 feet) away.
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On Tuesday February 8th, Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinians during a targeted raid in Nablus, in what the Palestinian Ministry of Health condemned as an "assassination."
The three Palestinian men were identified as Adham Mabrouka, Ashraf Mubaslat and Mohammed al-Dakhil, all members of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Israeli forces, who were traveling undercover in vehicles with Palestinian license plates, surrounded the men's vehicle and opened fire on it in broad daylight, showering the car with bullets. Photos and videos of the vehicle show it riddled with dozens of bullet holes.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Israel for its "heinous brutality", saying in a statement: "This crime is part of a series of criminal field executions carried out by the occupation forces in accordance with the instructions and directives of the political and military level."
Israeli forces and settlers have killed 11 Palestinians since the start of 2022.
Quote from: yankeedoodle on February 18, 2022, 06:39:48 PM
Israeli forces and settlers have killed 11 Palestinians since the start of 2022.
That's a very conservative estimate.
They're murdering at least 1 Palestinian a day, and we're 50 days into the year.
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Muhammad Rizq Shehade Salah
(Defence for Children International-Palestine)
Israeli forces fatally shoot child, block ambulance
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israeli-forces-fatally-shoot-child-block-ambulance
Israel fatally shot a Palestinian child on Tuesday and left him to bleed while preventing an ambulance from reaching him.
Muhammad Rizq Shehade Salah was about 100 meters from the Israeli-built separation barrier in al-Khader village south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank when an Israeli soldier shot him in the torso with live ammunition.
The Israeli army claimed he had been throwing a Molotov cocktail, according to Haaretz.
But the military statement actually quoted by the newspaper is much more vague. It says that Israeli soldiers "identified three suspects who arrived at a location where Molotov cocktails were repeatedly thrown at Israeli vehicles recently."
No Israelis were reported injured in the alleged incident.
As the 13-year-old lay bleeding and injured on the ground, Israeli forces approached him and stripped him of his clothes, video footage shows.
The army prevented a Palestinian ambulance from reaching him, Defense for Children International-Palestine confirmed.
The bleeding and injured child was left on the ground for 30 minutes until Israeli forces put him on a stretcher and transferred him to Route 60, a highway used by Israeli settlers where Israeli gunfire has killed multiple Palestinians.
The boy's father, Rizq Shehade Salah, arrived at Route 60 to inquire about his son's condition. Two Israeli ambulances were on the scene.
But Israeli forces "threatened him with their firearms" and prevented him from approaching, according to DCIP.
The Israeli army then seized Muhammad's body and held it overnight until they handed it over to his family on Wednesday.
Muhammad is the second Palestinian child Israel has killed this year.
DCIP notes that last year was the deadliest for Palestinian children since 2014.
On 13 February, an Israeli sniper shot Muhammad Akram Abu Salah in the eye, killing him, in Silat al-Harithiya village near Jenin.
He succumbed to his wounds in the early hours of the next day.
Abu Salah was killed while Israeli troops invaded the village to demolish the home of a Palestinian prisoner accused of involvement in the killing of an Israeli in December.
Such punitive home demolitions are a form of collective punishment – a war crime.
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Israeli forces killed Shadi Najm, Abdullah al-Hosary, and Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa on Tuesday in two different incidents
Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in one day
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-kill-three-palestinians-in-one-day/
Two Palestinians were killed Tuesday in an Israeli raid on the town of Jenin. A third was shot by Israeli forces near Bethlehem, allegedly for throwing stones; soldiers turned an ambulance away, and the victim bled to death.
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On Tuesday at dawn, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that Shadi Najm, 18, died from serious wounds he suffered on Monday night after the soldiers shot him with live rounds in Jenin city.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot Najm in the head before the medics rushed him to a hospital in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Najm was admitted to surgery and died from his wounds at the Intensive Care Unit. The Israeli bullets shattered his skull and lodged in the brain.
The sources added that the soldiers also shot many Palestinians with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
The head of Urgent Care at Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin said that Shadi was admitted to surgery before succumbing to his serious wounds.
He added that the Palestinian was shot with a live round in the stem of his brain.
Palestinian national and popular factions declared a general strike in Jenin to mourn the deaths of Shadi Najm in addition to Abdullah al-Hosary, 22, who was killed during a fire exchange with Israeli soldiers in Jenin late on Monday at night.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also abducted two former political prisoners in Jenin during extensive and violent invasions and searches of homes.
The killing of the two Palestinians also led to massive protests in Jenin, before the soldiers attacked the protesters with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said several Palestinians were injured, and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
On Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man at the main entrance of Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Department said the soldiers shot and killed Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa, 21, near Beit Fajjar.
It added that the slain young man is from the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
After shooting the young man, the soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from reaching him before he bled to death.
The soldiers wrapped his body with a plastic sheet and took it to an unknown destination.
According to Israeli soldiers, the soldiers "observed the young man hurting stones towards their direction and shot him."
Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie said Ammar was one of its students studying Information Technology.
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ISRAELI FORCES SHOT AND KILLED 15-YEAR-OLD YAMEN KHANAFSEH IN THE JERUSALEM-AREA TOWN OF ABU DIS ON SUNDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2022. (PHOTO: DCI-PALESTINE)
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, 15 and 19 years old, in Jerusalem
Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians over the past week, and 16 Palestinians since the start of 2022. Of the 16 Palestinians killed, three were children.
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Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers on Sunday in separate incidents in occupied East Jerusalem.
According to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Yamen Khanafseh on Sunday night in the Jerusalem area town of Abu Dis.
DCIP said that "after shooting Yamen, Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters toward an ambulance and prevented it from reaching him," adding that there were no confrontations in the area at the time that the boy was shot.
Israeli army forces said in a statement that "Israeli soldiers operating in the village of Abu Dis identified two suspects throwing firebombs at one of the army positions in the area. Yamin Jaffal was wounded by Israeli fire and later succumbed to his wounds. The second suspect fled the scene."
"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, using excessive force and unjustified intentional lethal force," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. "If a child is suspected of committing a criminal act, they should be apprehended in accordance with international standards and afforded due process of law."
According to DCIP, Israeli forces seized Khanafseh's body after killing him, and that it was not clear if or when he would be returned to his family.
"While it is unclear if Israeli authorities will continue to withhold Yamen's body from his family, Israeli authorities continue to implement a policy of confiscating and withholding Palestinian bodies in violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law," DCIP said in a statement.
On Sunday morning, Israeli forces killed another Palestinian teenager, 19-year-old Karim Jamal al-Qawasmi, during an alleged stabbing attack in the Old City in East Jerusalem.
Israeli police claimed that al-Qawasmi, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur, "came up to the police officers with a knife and attacked one of them in the city's Muslim Quarter at around 4:30 a.m," the Times of Israel reported.
The police officers opened fire and shot al-Qawasmi, who was declared dead at the scene.
Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians over the past week, and 16 Palestinians since the start of 2022. Of the 16 Palestinians killed, three were children.
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Ahmad Hikmat Seif, 23, died of his wounds after being shot by Israeli army gunfire.
Palestinian Injured by Israeli Army Gunfire Dies of His Wounds
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-injured-israeli-army-dies-wounds-ahmad-hikmat-seif/
Ahmad Hikmat Seif was seriously wounded by Israeli military fire on March 1, and has succumbed to his wounds.
reposted from Palestine Chronicle, March 9, 2022 https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-injured-by-israeli-army-gunfire-dies-of-his-wounds/
A Palestinian man who was critically injured last week by Israeli army gunfire in the village of Burqa, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, has died of his wounds early Wednesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Local sources told WAFA that Ahmad Hikmat Seif, 23, was shot three times in his belly and back on March 1, when Israeli soldiers attacked a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners.
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Seif was admitted to the hospital in Nablus with critical wounds until he was pronounced dead this morning.
Burqa and nearby villages have been a daily scene of confrontations with soldiers and Israeli settlers who attempt to return to the former nearby settlement of Homesh, evacuated in 2005.
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THREE PALESTINIANS WERE KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES ON TUESDAY MARCH 15TH.
Israel kills three Palestinians, including 17-year-old, during night raids
Israeli night raids on Palestinian towns are commonplace, and often a nightly occurrence, especially in the occupied West Bank. Since the start of 2022, at least six Palestinians were shot and killed during Israeli night raids.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/israel-kills-three-palestinians-including-17-year-old-during-night-raids/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-hgs-mailpoet
Palestinians woke up on Tuesday morning to the news that Israel had killed three more Palestinians, including one minor, in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and southern Israel.
All three killings occurred during Israeli raids on Palestinian towns and neighborhoods, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of 2022 to 20.
In the West Bank, the Israeli military killed 17-year-old Nader Haitham Rayyan in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, and Alaa Shahaam, 22, in the Qalandiya refugee camp in Ramallah.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nine Palestinians were wounded during the raids on Balata and Qalandiya camps.
The ministry said that Rayyan was shot three times, in the head, abdomen and hand. Three other Palestinians from Balata were also injured during the raid, including at least one who was shot in the chest and was reported to be in critical condition.
Middle East Eye quoted an eyewitness as saying that Rayyan "was on his way to a stall selling tea and coffee which belongs to his family when Israeli forces opened fire at him and his friend while they were riding on a motorbike."
Wafa News Agency reported that one person was detained during the raid on Balata.
Rayyan is the second Palestinian from the Balata refugee camp to be killed since the start of the year. On January 26th, 21-year-old Bakeer Hashash was killed by Israeli forces during a night raid on the camp.
In the Qalandiya refugee camp, Israeli forces shot 22-year-old Alaa Shahaam in the head during a raid Tuesday morning, instantly killing him. Six others from the camp were also injured with live ammunition, according to the Ministry of Health.
In another raid on a Palestinian-majority town of Rahat in the Naqab region in southern Israel, an Israeli special forces unit shot and killed 27-year-old Sanad Salem al-Harbed, a father of three, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli police claimed that al-Harbed fired gunshots at its forces during a raid on the town, and that the unit "neutralized the gunman who posed a threat."
Israeli night raids on Palestinian towns are commonplace, and often a nightly occurrence, especially in the occupied West Bank. The raids, which provoke resistance from Palestinians, are often violent and feature the serious injury and killing of Palestinians.
Since the start of 2022, at least six Palestinians were shot and killed during Israeli night raids.
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Israeli forces shoot, kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Jenin
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_shoot_kill_16_year_old_palestinian_boy_in_jenin
Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old boy with live ammunition in the northern occupied West Bank this morning.
Sanad Mohammad Khalil Abu Atiya, 16, was shot and killed with live ammunition by Israeli forces around 8:15 a.m. on March 31 in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. An Israeli soldier shot Sanad as he approached Yazeed al-Saadi, 22, moments after al-Saadi was shot in the back of the head. The bullet struck Sanad in the right side of his chest and exited out his back, according to documentation collected by DCIP.
"Israeli forces frequently use live ammunition in unjustified circumstances, ignoring their obligation under international law to only resort to intentional lethal force when a direct, mortal threat to life or of serious injury exists," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. "Systemic impunity has fostered an environment where Israeli forces know no bounds."
Sanad was killed as Israeli forces were leaving the area after conducting a search and arrest operation in nearby Jenin refugee camp, Haaretz reported. Palestinian residents reportedly threw stones at the armored Israeli military vehicles as they withdrew from Jenin refugee camp towards Jenin's Al-Zahra neighborhood, according to information gathered by DCIP.
An eyewitness reported that gunshots were fired from the refugee camp as the Israeli vehicles left the area. Palestinian residents who were throwing stones began to flee, as one of the armored Israeli military vehicles drove in reverse pursuing those who were fleeing, an eyewitness told DCIP.
An Israeli soldier exited the passenger side of the jeep, took a shooting position, and fired around 15 live ammunition rounds in quick succession, the eyewitness told DCIP. The soldier shot al-Saadi in the back of the head, and al-Saadi fell to the ground about two meters (six feet) from a car that Sanad and the eyewitness were hiding behind. Sanad was shot as he approached al-Saadi in an attempt to render aid, the eyewitness told DCIP.
Ambulances were able to reach Sanad a few minutes later, and he and al-Saadi were both transported to Ibn Sina hospital where they were pronounced dead, according to documentation collected by DCIP.
Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.
Sanad is the fifth Palestinian child shot and killed by Israeli forces in 2022, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Nader Haitham Fathi Rayyan, 16, was killed by Israeli forces on March 15 outside the entrance of Balata refugee camp located southeast of Nablus on March 15. Israeli forces shot and killed Yamen Nafez Mahmoud Khanafseh in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem on March 6. Israeli forces shot and killed 13-year-old Mohammad Rezq Shehadeh Salah on February 22 in Al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem. An Israeli sniper shot and killed 16-year-old Mohammad Akram Ali Taher Abu Salah with live ammunition on February 13 while Israeli forces deployed in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya near Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by DCIP.
2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014. Israeli forces and armed civilians killed 78 Palestinian children, according evidence collected by DCIP.
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Little Fatma Jalal al-Masri missed out on medical intervention thanks to Israel's arbitrary decision to deny her permission to travel an hour to a Jerusalem hospital.
Israel on the hook for death of one-year-old Fatma Jalal al-Masri
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-on-the-hook-for-death-of-one-year-old-fatma-jalal-al-masri/
A baby girl has died after Israel denied her permission to leave Gaza to get medical treatment in Jerusalem. This is a breach of international law, but sadly not an uncommon event.
reposted from Israel-Palestine Timeline, March 25, 2022 https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/fatma-jalal-al-masri-2/
Fatma Jalal al-Masri, 1, was declared dead at the Gaza European Hospital after she was denied access to a hospital outside Gaza by Israeli authorities at the Erez crossing. Fatma was subjected to Israel's arbitrary and discriminatory permit system, which delays access to hospitals outside the Strip and denies care in around 30 percent of urgent cases.
The continued movement restrictions by Israeli authorities on Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip systematically violate inhabitants' right to health by aggravating health conditions and placing numerous barriers to health access.
According to Al Mezan, Fatma's legal representative, she was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect in 2021. Despite having obtained a medical referral from the Palestinian Ministry of Health and confirming three hospital appointments at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Israeli authorities denied Fatma the requisite exit permit to travel to Jerusalem for the appointments, the last of which was on 5 March 2022.
The young patient's health deteriorated over the course of several months of denied care and she died three weeks after her last missed appointment.
Al Mezan deeply regrets Fatma's death and strongly condemns Israel's ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip and its associated restrictions on the movement of Palestinians, which includes denying patients access to the hospitals in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel, and abroad.
Al Mezan's documentation shows that since 2011, 71 Palestinians—including 25 women and nine children—have died following Israel's denial of requests for exit permits and delays. Notably, Israel's targeted, discriminatory permit system is one of the practices and policies at the core of its apartheid regime against the Palestinian people as a whole.
This case is yet another example of Israel's continuing violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and its obligations as an occupying power, notably to respect and ensure freedom of movement in occupied territory and to guarantee the right to health of the occupied population.
These obligations bear greater weight when involving children and as provided in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel has an obligation to ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child. Delaying access to necessary medical care for a toddler for more than five months is unwarranted and grave.
Al Mezan emphasizes that Israel is fully responsible for Fatma al-Masri's death as the occupying power and relevant duty bearer in these circumstances.
The State's persistent breaches of its international law obligations require the intervention of the international community and accountability of perpetrators.
Al Mezan calls on the international community—in particular, the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions—to uphold their moral and legal obligations vis-à-vis the protected Palestinian people and to ensure Israel complies with its obligations under international law, ends the closure and blockade on the Gaza Strip, and stops its ongoing restrictions of Palestinian patients' access to medical care outside the Gaza Strip.
Israel steps up pace of West Bank killings
Maureen Clare Murphy
14 April 2022
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-steps-pace-west-bank-killings
Human rights groups are calling for international action as Israel escalates its repression against Palestinians in the West Bank, killing 11 Palestinians in the territory since last Friday.
A 12th Palestinian from the West Bank was killed during an Israeli police raid on workers in the coastal city of Ashkelon on Wednesday.
Five Palestinians were killed in the West Bank late Wednesday and Thursday.
Two Palestinians – Shas Kamamji, 29, and Mustafa Abu al-Rub, 30 – were shot and killed near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.
That city has been subjected to severe Israeli movement restrictions as a form of collective punishment after a Palestinian from a nearby village shot and killed three people at a Tel Aviv bar last week.
Following the Tel Aviv attack, Israel's prime minister, Naftali Bennett, granted "full freedom of action to the army, the Shin Bet [Israel's state security agency] and all security forces in order to defeat the terror."
At least nine Palestinian civilians – including two children and two women – have been killed by Israeli forces since Bennett's announcement, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
Kamamji was killed in Kafr Dan village when Israeli forces opened fire at a crowd of people throwing stones at military vehicles. Another person, reportedly a 17-year-old, was critically injured.
Shas Kamamji is the brother of Ayham Kamamji, one of six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa prison inside Israel last September in what was viewed as a devastating blow to the reputation of Israel's security apparatus.
Ayham Kamamji remained at large for nearly two weeks before being rearrested in Jenin.
After Israeli forces withdrew from the area early Thursday, Abu al-Rub was found with a live bullet wound to the chest and pronounced dead upon arrival to hospital.
"No eyewitnesses were available to speak about the circumstances of his death," the Palestinian Center for Human Rights stated.
Another Palestinian, 20-year-old Omar Muhammad Alayan, was killed during an arrest raid in Silwad village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah late Wednesday.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights stated that Israeli snipers occupied the rooftops of three residential buildings in the village as military forces surrounded and fired toward a two-story home before raiding it.
Palestinians confronted the raiding forces as they withdrew from Silwad, throwing stones and empty bottles towards their vehicles, causing one to collide with a wall near a roundabout.
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Another video shows an Israeli military vehicle that was damaged in Silwan on Wednesday night being towed the following day:
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During the raid on Silwad, Israeli forces fired bullets and tear gas towards stone-throwing Palestinians, wounding several, including Alayan, who died after being shot in the chest.
Teen killed over Molotov cocktail
Also on Wednesday night, Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Qusai Muhammad Hamamra as Palestinian youths confronted soldiers near the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the central West Bank.
The teen "sustained multiple gunshot wounds from a distance of around 20 meters," according to Defense for Children International-Palestine, which added that "at least one bullet struck him in the head."
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The rights group said that Israeli forces prevented Palestinian paramedics from treating the wounded boy and evacuated his body in a military vehicle before returning it to his family hours later.
The Israeli military claimed that soldiers shot at Hamamra after he threw a Molotov cocktail at troops.
The teen is the seventh Palestinian child shot and killed by Israel in 2022 and the third killed after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail towards troops during the same period.
Last month, Israeli forces shot and killed Nafez Mahmoud Khanafsheh near a military base in the Jerusalem area, claiming that the 15-year-old was throwing Molotov cocktails.
The military made a similar claim when attempting to justify the shooting and killing of Muhammad Rizq Shehade Salah, 13, in al-Khader village south of Bethlehem in February.
Like in the case of Hamamra, Israeli forces prevented Palestinians from providing first aid to Khanafsheh and Salah as they bled to death on the ground.
Hamamra is the second Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Husan village this week.
Israeli occupation soldiers extrajudicially executed Ghada Sabateen, 44, after she allegedly acted in a "suspicious" manner as she approached them on Sunday.
Video of the incident shows that soldiers fired on the unarmed widow and mother of six at point blank-range.
The woman was returning home after visiting relatives when she was killed, her family told media, rejecting suggestions that she intended to die in an act of "suicide by soldier."
Eighth fatality in Beita
Also on Wednesday, Israeli forces shot Fawaz Hamayel, 45, in the chest in Beita village near Nablus. The father of three succumbed to his injuries the following day.
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Hamayel is the eighth Palestinian killed in Beita since Jewish settlers established Evyatar, an outpost on land belonging to the village, in May last year. Most were killed as Israel violently repressed weekly protests against the settlement outpost, where the Israeli military maintains a permanent presence.
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A massive funeral procession made its way through Beita on Thursday:
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"Institutionalized impunity"
More than 40 Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israeli forces throughout historic Palestine so far this year.
On Thursday, Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization, made an urgent appeal to the United Nations over the "intensifying level of violence against Palestinians by colonial settlers committed with institutionalized impunity."
The group noted intensified reprisal attacks by settlers against Palestinians after an Israeli was killed in the West Bank, allegedly by two Palestinians, in mid-December, and after a series of attacks killing several people in Israel in recent weeks.
The group noted a recent statement by Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, calling on Israeli citizens to carry arms.
"Whoever has a license to carry a weapon, this is the time to carry," Bennett said.
Medical Aid for Palestinians, a UK charity, stated on Thursday that it was "gravely concerned" over escalating violence against Palestinians and "reports that health workers have been prevented from reaching and treating some of the injured."
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that "since the beginning of April, we have recorded five cases of denied access to treat the injured, as well as three cases of assault on our medical teams, and an attack on an ambulance."
The paramedic group declared a state of emergency in the West Bank on Wednesday night.
On Thursday night, the Israeli military announced the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, the beginning of the Passover holiday.
Friday and the following days are expected to be particularly tense as Passover coincides with the second Friday of Ramadan, when thousands of Palestinians pray at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound.
In an inflammatory move, the extremist Temple Mount Faithful Movement group has reportedly offered a "cash prize" to anyone who successfully performs rituals of sacrifice – such as slaying an animal – during Passover at the al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Hamas warned that if those rituals were performed, they would "cross all red lines" and would be considered a "direct assault on the beliefs and feelings of our people."
The leaders of resistance factions in Gaza convened on Wednesday night in a show of unity.
"We are declaring a general mobilization in all places where our people are located. We are calling on the masses to come out in the hundreds of thousands to protect our nation and our mosque," the groups said in a joint statement.
The last major military confrontation between Hamas and other resistance factions in Gaza, on the one hand, and Israel, on the other, erupted after Israeli police stormed al-Aqsa mosque while it was filled with Ramadan worshippers last May.
More than 250 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 67 children, were killed during the 11 days of intense violence that month.
Palestinian armed groups fired thousands of rockets from Gaza during the fighting, killing around a dozen people in Israel.
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18-year-old Palestinian martyr Ahmad Masad
IOF kill 18-year-old Palestinian, storm Jenin Camp
Palestinians are standing up to the attacks of the Israeli occupation in Jenin Camp, which resulted in the martyrdom of Ahmad Massad and the arrest of several others.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-kill-18-year-old-palestinian-storm-jenin-camp
A young Palestinian man, Ahmad Masad, 18, was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday in Jenin camp.
In addition, a number of other Palestinians were injured after they stood up to the storming of the camp by the IOF.
Occupation forces conducted several arrests, including two young men, and two liberated prisoners from Qabatiya, one of whom is the son of captive Jamal (Al-Heija), a Hamas leader.
Injured Palestinians were rushed to Ibn Sina Hospital, and a young man was reported to be in critical condition before he succumbed to his injuries.
https://twitter.com/NewpressPs/status/1519158274519711747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1519158274519711747%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.almayadeen.net%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fiof-kill-18-year-old-palestinian-storm-jenin-camp
The director of Ibn Sina Hospital, Gani Jokha, told Palestinian media that a young man was killed by a live bullet to the head, and three others were injured.
At dawn today, large forces of the occupation army stormed the city of Jenin and its camp. The Palestinians responded to the attacks of the occupation forces, who fired live bullets on them.
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'Israel' shot, killed 23 Palestinians in April, including 3 children
May 4, 2022
https://qudsnen.co/israel-shot-killed-23-palestinians-in-april-including-3-children/
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces shot and killed 23 Palestinians during the month of April.
Last month, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 23 Palestinians, including three children and two women, were fatally shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces.
The Palestinian martyrs who were shot dead by the Israeli forces are:
1. Ahmad Yunis al-Atrash, 29, was shot in the head and killed during confrontations in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 1 April.
2. Saeb Abahrah, 30, and Khalil Tawableh, 24, and Saif Abu Labdeh were killed during a raid in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank on 2 April.
3. Raed Hazem, 28, was killed in an alleged shootout with Israeli forces several hours after he shot and injured three Israeli settlers at a bar in Tel Aviv on 7 April.
4. Ahmad Naser al-Saadi, 23, was killed while defending Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli raid on 9 April.
5. Muhammad Ali al-Ghunaim, 19, was shot in the town of al-Khader near Bethlehem on 10 April.
6. Ghada Sabateen, 44, was killed after she allegedly acted in a "suspicious" manner in Husan village near Bethlehem on 10 April.
7. Maha Kathem al-Zaatari, 24, was shot dead near the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron for allegedly stabbing and lightly wounding an Israeli officer on 10 April.
8. Muhammad Qassim, 16, was shot in the stomach and killed by Israeli forces during a raid in Jenin on 10 April.
9. Abdullah Srour, 40, was killed by an Israeli military commander in the city of Ashkelon on 12 April.
10. Muhammad Assaf, 34, was shot in the heart and killed while driving his nephews to school in Nablus in the northern West Bank on 13 April.
11. Omar Muhammad Alayan, 20, was shot in the chest and killed during an Israeli arrest raid in Silwad village near Ramallah in the central West Bank on 13 April.
12. Qusai Fuad Hamamra, 16, was shot and killed after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail in Husan town on 13 April.
13. Shas Kamamji, 29, and Mustafa Abu al-Rub, 30 – were both shot and killed in Kafr Dan village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on 14 April.
14. Mustafa Abu al-Rub, was shot with a live bullet in the chest and pronounced dead upon arrival at hospital in Kafr Dan village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on 14 April.
15. Shawkat Abed, 17, died from his injuries after being shot in the stomach in Kafr Dan village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on 14 April.
16. Fawaz Hamayel, 45, died from his injuries after being shot in the chest in Beita village near Nablus the previous day on 14 April.
17. Hanan Khadour, 18, succumbed to her injuries two weeks after she was shot by an Israeli sniper while riding in a taxi in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on 19 April.
18. Lutfi Labadi, 18, died from his wounds, four days after being shot in the head during an alleged exchange of gunfire with Israeli forces in Yamoun village near Jenin, on 22 April.
19. Ahmad Ibrahim Oweidat, 20, was shot in the head and killed during confrontations in a Jericho refugee camp overnight 25 April.
20. Ahmad Massad, 18, was shot in the head and killed during confrontations with raiding Israeli soldiers in Jenin refugee camp on 27 April.
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Tha'er Khalil a-Yazouri, shot dead by Israeli forces on May 11, 2022. (His name is also sometimes given as Thayer Khalil Yazouri.)
Israeli forces killed Palestinian boy a few hours after they killed Shireen Abu Akleh
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-killed-palestinian-boy-a-few-hours-after-they-killed-shireen-abu-akleh/
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teen and shot another teen in the leg a few hours after they killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, and injured another journalist...
So far this year, Israeli occupation forces have killed 45 Palestinians, including 35 civilians: 8 children, 3 women & a female journalist; 17 Israelis have been killed... Two reports below:
Reposted from IMEMC News https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-teen-near-ramallah-6/
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenage boy on Wednesday and injured another in the al-Biereh city, near Ramallah in the central West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers fatally shot Tha'er Khalil a-Yazouri [also written as Thayer Khalil Yazouri], 16, in Jabal at-Tawil area in the al-Biereh city.
It stated that the child, a student of the al-Hashimiyya School in al-Bireh, was shot with a live round in the heart and added that the soldiers shot another child, 17, with a live round in the leg.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs at many schoolchildren after several army jeeps invaded the area.
On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a prominent Palestinian journalist, Al-Jazeera TV correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, and injured another journalist after targeting them with sniper fire when many journalists gathered to cover an invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
On Wednesday dawn, the soldiers killed a prominent Palestinian journalist, Al-Jazeera TV correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, and injured another journalist after targeting them with sniper fire
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Amjad al-Fayed, 17, killed by Israeli forces on May 21, 2022 in West Bank city of Jenin.
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The sisters of 17-year-old Palestinian Amjad al-Fayed mourn their brother's death.
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen In Jenin
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-teen-in-jenin/
In yet another raid on the Palestinian city of Jenin, Israeli forces shot seventeen-year-old Amjad al-Fayed to death with eleven live rounds to his upper body... Another teen is in critical condition...
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), May 21, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-teen-in-jenin-2/
Israeli soldiers killed, Saturday dawn, a teenage boy and seriously injured another Palestinian after the army invaded the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin, leading to protests.
Medical sources in Jenin have confirmed the identity of the slain teen as Amjad Waleed al-Fayed [also spelled al-Fayyed], 17, and added that the soldiers shot the teen with nearly eleven live rounds in the upper body.
The sources added that the army also shot and seriously injured another Palestinian, eighteen years of age, before being rushed to a hospital in Jenin.
The Israeli army said the Amjad was killed during exchanges of fire that took place after the army invaded the refugee camp.
It is worth mentioning that the slain Palestinian teen is the nephew of Amjad and Mohammad al-Fayed, who were killed in the massive Israeli offensive in the Jenin refugee camp in April of the year 2002.
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GHAITH YAMEEN, 16, WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES IN NABLUS ON WEDNESDAY MAY 25, 2022.
Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian in Nablus
Israeli forces killed 16-year-old Ghaith Yameen in Nablus during a raid early Wednesday morning. The killing comes just days after Israeli forces killed 16-year-old Amjad Walid Hussein Fayed in Jenin.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/05/israeli-forces-kill-16-year-old-palestinian-in-nablus/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-hgs-mailpoet
Israeli forces killed a 16-year-old Palestinian in Nablus during a raid on the city early Wednesday morning, just days after killing another Palestinian youth in Jenin.
The teenager was identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health as Ghaith Yameen from the Ras al-Ain neighborhood of Nablus. He was pronounced dead shortly after 2:00 am after he was shot in the head with a live bullet by Israeli forces.
Yameen was shot near Joseph's Tomb in eastern Nablus, after Israeli forces escorted a group of Israeli settlers to perform prayers at the site, sparking confrontations with local youth.
The shrine, which is revered by Muslims, Christians, and Jews, is a flashpoint in Nablus and the frequent site of violent confrontations. The Israeli military often escorts large groups of Israeli settlers to the area, provoking the local Palestinian community.
During the raid in which Yameen was killed, at least 88 Palestinians were wounded, including 19 rubber-coated steel bullet injuries, and 67 cases of tear gas suffocation, the ministry of health reported.
The killing of Yameen comes just days after Israeli forces killed 16-year-old Amjad Walid Hussein Fayed in Jenin.
Yameen is the 12th Palestinian child to be killed by Israel since the start of the year.
May 28, 2022 Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Zaid Ghunaim during a raid near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
His death raises the number of Palestinian teenagers killed in May to five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O0JzI0fv9k
Israel kills three Palestinians in 24 hours in West BankIsraeli forces killed two Palestinians during raids overnight in Jenin and Bethlehem, just hours after killing a Palestinian journalist in Hebron and attacking her funeral. Their deaths bring the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of the year to 60.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/06/israel-kills-three-palestinians-in-24-hours-in-west-bank/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-hgs-mailpoet
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians overnight during raids on Jenin and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday morning to three.
Late Wednesday night Israeli forces raided the town of Yabad in Jenin in order to demolish the family home of Diaa Hamarsheh, who was killed in March after he carried out a shooting attack in Tel Aviv that killed five people.
A large number of Israeli troops along with a bulldozer raided the town and cordoned off the area around the Hamarsheh family home before blowing it up. Israeli snipers positioned themselves on the roofs of houses in the area, Wafa news agency reported.
The demolition raid sparked protests in the town, with Israeli forces firing live ammunition and tear gas at Palestinians who threw stones at the military forces. The Israeli military claimed that it fired on Palestinian gunmen, and that "a hit was detected," the Times of Israel reported.
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Bilal Awad Kabaha
Bilal Kabaha, 24, was killed after he was shot in the chest and thigh. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that at least two other Palestinians were critically wounded with live ammunition in the neck, abdomen, and face. Wafa reported six injuries with live ammunition.
During the raid on Yabad, Israeli forces also reportedly arrested Diaa Hamarsheh's father and took him in for interrogation.
Israel issued a demolition order on the Hamarsheh family home last month, as part of its policy of punitively demolishing the homes of Palestinians who carry out attacks on Israelis. The policy, which violates international law, has been widely condemned by rights groups.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem has condemned the practice as "court-sanctioned revenge" carried out on family members who have not committed crimes, amounting to collective punishment.
Later in the night, in the predawn hours of Thursday morning, Israeli forces raided the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents of the camp.
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Ayman Mahmoud Mheisin
The ministry of health said that one Palestinian, identified as 29-year-old Ayman Muhaisen, was killed during the raid. According to residents of the camp, Muhaisen was a former prisoner.
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The Israeli army said it raided the camp in search of a suspect who allegedly threw a molotov cocktail earlier in the week, reportedly "lightly injuring an undercover Border Police officer," the Times of Israel said.
"During the operation, suspects hurled explosives and threw stones at the forces, who responded with gunfire. Hits were identified," the army said in a statement.
At least nine Palestinians were reportedly arrested during raids across the West Bank overnight on Wednesday.
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Ghufran Warasneh
Palestinian journalist killed Wednesday morning
The killing of Kabaha and Muhaisen came hours after Israeli forces killed 31-year-old Ghufran Warasneh, a Palestinian journalist, near the al-Arroub refugee camp in the Hebron district of the West Bank.
Warasneh was a resident of the nearby town of al-Shuyukh, and had recently been released from Israeli prison in April, following a three month sentence.
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The Israeli army claimed that Warasneh was holding a knife, and that its forces shot her as she "advanced toward an [Israeli army] soldier who was conducting routine security activity" in the area.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that Warasneh, who had reportedly just started a new job at a local radio station, posed little to no threat to the armed soldiers stationed in the area when she was shot.
According to the Ministry of Health, Warasneh was shot in the chest. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli forces prevented medics from approaching her for 20 minutes after she was shot.
She was evacuated to the al-Ahli hospital in Hebron where she was pronounced dead.
Video footage from Warasneh's funeral procession on Wednesday afternoon showed armed Israeli troops attacking mourners, pushing them and firing sound bombs into the crowd.
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The killing of Warasneh, Kabaha, and Muhaisen brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel this year to 60, according to Mondoweiss documentation.
13 children killed
Thirteen Palestinian children have been killed so far by Israel this year, the latest victim being 14-year-old Zaid Ghnaim from the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Ghnaim was shot and killed on May 27th by Israeli forces. According to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), Ghnaim was shot in the shoulder from a distance of 15-10 meters (20-65) as he was fleeing from soldiers. The bullet ruptured his lung, causing severe internal bleeding.
He was evacuated to a hospital in Bethlehem where he was pronounced dead.
The Israeli army claimed they fired on Palestinians who were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, but DCIP said that according to eyewitness testimony it collected, "the area was quiet and calm" when Ghnaim was shot.
He was the 13th Palestinian child killed by Israel this year.
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Samih Jamal Mahmoud Amarna, 37, shot by Israeli soldiers shot in Ya'bad town, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on June 1, 2022. Died June 11, 2022.
Palestinian dies from wounds suffered earlier, 7th killed by Israel
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-dies-from-wounds-suffered-june-1/
Invading Israeli soldiers shot Samih Jamal Mahmoud Amarna, 37, and detonated a Palestinian home in the northern West Bank. Amarna is the seventh Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers this month. (No Israelis have been killed.)
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-june-1/
On Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a Palestinian man died from serious wounds he suffered on June 1, after Israeli soldiers shot him in Ya'bad town, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry said the soldiers shot Samih Jamal Mahmoud Amarna, 37, causing serious wounds during protests that took place after the soldiers invaded the town and detonated a Palestinian home. [His name is also reported as Amarneh.]
During the invasion, the soldiers killed Bilal Awad Kabaha, 24, and injured at least six, including three who suffered serious wounds.
One of the wounded is a medic who was shot while trying to provide the essential aid to the seriously wounded young man.
After the soldiers shot Amarna, Palestinian medics rushed him to a hospital in Jenin before he was transferred to the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah due to the seriousness of his condition.
The invasion was conducted to demolish the home of Dia' Hamarsha, 27, who was killed by an Israeli police officer, on March 30, 2022, after allegedly shooting to death five Israelis in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
On the same day, the soldiers killed a Palestinian woman, Ghofran Haroun Warasna, 31, at the entrance of the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Also on June 1, a Palestinian resistance fighter, Yasser Atiya al-Masri, 41, died of wounds he sustained when he was hit by shrapnel from an Israeli missile during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in May of 2021.
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Mahmoud Fayez Abu Ayhour, 27.
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Young Palestinian Man, Injure Five, In West Bank
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-young-palestinian-man-injure-five-in-west-bank/
Soldiers shot Mahmoud Fayez Abu Ayhour, 27, from Halhoul town north of Hebron, with live rounds. The bullets perforated the diaphragm and severed the thoracic aortic artery, his heart, and lung.
Reposted from IMEMC https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-young-palestinian-man-injure-five-in-west-bank/
On Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded Halhoul town, north of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, leading to protests before killing a young man and wounding five.
Local sources said a large military force invaded Halhoul and obstructed traffic before storming a money exchange shop, confiscating a large sum of cash, and welding it shut.
The invasion led to protest before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, killing a young man and wounding five.
Dr. Sharif at-Tardi, the spokesperson of the al-Mezan Specialty Hospital in Hebron, said the soldiers shot Mahmoud Fayez Abu Ayhour, 27, from Halhoul town north of Hebron, with live rounds.
He added that the bullets perforated the diaphragm and severed the thoracic aortic artery, his heart, and lung.
Dr. at-Tardi stated that the young man was rushed to the hospital in a profoundly serious condition and succumbed to his serious wounds during surgery.
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The soldiers also shot two Palestinians with live rounds and one with rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to two others who were shot with high-velocity gas bombs in their heads.
The slain young man's uncle said Mahmoud wasn't participating in the protests and did not pose any threat to the soldiers but was working at a construction site in the area when the soldiers started firing live rounds at random.
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THE THREE PALESTINIANS WHO WERE KILLED IN JENIN ON FRIDAY MORNING. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Jenin The three slain Palestinians were identified as Baraa Lahlouh, 24, Yusuf Salah, 23, and Laith Abu Srour, 24, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed this year to 66.
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Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and injured several others during a raid overnight in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday.
According to Palestinian media, a massive Israeli military convoy raided Jenin in the early predawn hours of Friday morning, and ambushed a car in the al-Marah area of the city, firing dozens of rounds of live ammunition at the vehicle.
The three slain Palestinians were identified as Baraa Lahlouh, 24, Yusuf Salah, 23, and Laith Abu Srour, 24, according to Wafa News Agency. A fourth person in the car was reportedly seriously injured, but survived, Al Jazeera reported.
The Israeli army claimed that during the raid on Jenin they were fired upon from the vehicle that Lahlouh, Salah, and Abu Srour were inside of.
"The soldiers closed in on them and neutralized the gunmen who had opened fire," the army said in a statement.
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Wafa reported that fierce confrontations erupted between Palestinians in Jenin and Israeli forces following the killing of the three young men. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that eight Palestinians were injured overnight during the raid.
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Jenin on Friday afternoon to participate in the funeral procession of the three young men.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the killings, calling it a "hideous crime," and criticized "the insistence of the international community and countries that celebrate human rights on ignoring Israel's crimes and the daily violations committed against defenseless Palestinian citizens, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity."
The killing of the three young men brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of the year to 66. Of the 66 Palestinians killed, 20 were killed in the Jenin area, according to Mondoweiss documentation.
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Israeli Colonizer Fatally Stabs A Palestinian Near Salfit https://imemc.org/article/israeli-colonizer-fatally-stabs-a-palestinian-near-salfit/
On Tuesday, an illegal Israeli colonizer fatally stabbed a young Palestinian man on his land in Iskaka village, east of Salfit, in the central West Bank.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the young man, Ali Hasan Harb, 27, was stabbed in the heart and died from his serious wounds.
Eyewitnesses said an Israeli colonizer stabbed Harb when he and several other Palestinians intercepted an attack by the illegal colonizers, who invaded their lands and installed an outpost in the al-Harayeq area of the town.
"I was at home when a shepherd phoned us telling the family that several Israeli colonizers are installing an outpost on our land," his cousin Firas Naim Harb said, "We went to our land, and once we arrived there, the colonizers ran away and stood at a distance before several other colonizers joined them and invaded our lands again."
"The Israeli army then arrived in the area and started firing gas bombs at us, and before we knew it, a colonizer ran towards us and stabbed Ali before the soldiers prevented us from helping him," he added, "The soldiers pointed their guns at us and threatened to shoot us if we approach Ali who was bleeding on the ground. We told the soldiers that we need to provide first aid to Ali and that they can shoot us if they want to, but we have to help him; he was bleeding for thirty minutes."
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"At least fifteen colonizers and armed guards of the Ariel illegal colony were on our land, and despite the presence of Israeli soldiers, one of the colonizers ran towards Ali and stabbed him in the heart," Firas stated.
The Palestinians had to carry Ali for more than three kilometers to reach a nearby road before the medics rushed him to Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit, where he was pronounced dead due to his serious wounds.
A spokesperson for the Israeli police claimed, "It is unclear who stabbed the Palestinian," and alleged that the police were "investigating the incident," however, the police did not make any arrests.
The ministry said the 28-year-old, identified as Ali Hassan Harb, had been stabbed in the heart by a settler.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh, issued statements denouncing the crime and calling for international protection for the Palestinian people living under illegal Israeli colonialist occupation.
It is worth mentioning that, on May 14, 2021, Israeli soldiers killed his cousin, Awad Ahmad Harb, 27, in the same area.
The office of President Mahmoud Abbas called on the International Community to help end the escalating Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, especially since these deadly violations are carried out without repercussions and are not only committed by the occupation soldiers but also by the illegal colonizers living on stolen Palestinian lands.
"We keep witnessing these crimes, and the international community fails to act. For example, we saw what terrorist colonizers did to the Dawabsha family in Nablus when they firebombed their home as they slept, burning the family to death, including the 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, and we also saw what the colonizers did to Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 16, in Jerusalem, when they kidnapped him and burnt him to death by dowsing him in fuel and pouring it down his throat before setting him ablaze...."
The president's office called on the International Community to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and help establish a sovereign, independent, contiguous Palestinian state.
On any other Planet, a Group of People that acted like the Israeli Jews - would Simply and Rapidly be EXTERMINATED.
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West Bank: Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli forces near Silwad
Jun 25, 2022 A Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abdallah Hamed, 16, died from his wounds hours after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said Saturday.
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in Jenin, bringing 2022 child death toll to 16
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On Saturday July 2nd Israeli forces shot 17-year-old Kamel Alawneh in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin. He succumbed to his wounds a day later.
Alawneh was was shot in the abdomen and arm, and was pronounced dead on Sunday afternoon, making him the 78th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces this year, and the 16th Palestinian child killed by Israel since the start of 2022.
Kamal was scheduled to take his final high school exams this month, with one scheduled for today.
Israeli military jeeps raided the town of Jaba south of Jenin, sparking protests and confrontations with Palestinians in the area, during which Israeli forces were reported to have fired live ammunition as well as teargas, plastic coated steel bullets, and stun grenades into residential areas.
Haaretz reported that an Israeli military spokesperson accused Alawneh of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the soldiers, though no Israelis were injured in the alleged incident, and no evidence was provided to back up the claims.
According to Dr. Tawfiq Shobaki, the head of the surgery department at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin where Alawneh was treated, the teen was injured with two bullets, the first to his abdomen and a second to his right elbow.
Dr. Shobaki also confirmed to Mondoweiss that the bullet shots were fired directly at Alawneh, exiting from his back.
Alawneh was reportedly named after his older brother of the same name, who was killed by the Israeli army in 2003, during the Second Intifada.
Israeli raids on Jenin
Since the start of the year, Israeli forces have killed 28 Palestinians in the district of Jenin alone, including Al Jazeera veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.
Just last week, Israeli forces killed 23-year-old Muhammad Maher Marei from Jenin refugee camp.
Of the 16 children killed by Israel in 2022, seven were killed in the Jenin district.
Israeli military raids are common practice in the occupied West Bank, and take place on a near nightly basis. Under Israeli military law in the West Bank, soldiers do not require a judicial warrant justifying the need to invade and intrude on private Palestinian spaces, including peoples' homes.
According to UN documentation,Israeli invasions happen more than 200 times per month exposing children and adults alike to army abuses and denial of right to protection, shelter, and refuge under international law.
The Israeli military regularly raids areas that fall under 'Area A' of the territory, which is under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, under the highly criticized policy of security coordination between the two.
Jenin continues to be the center of confrontation and resistance against Israel's military occupation and its control of Palestinian lives, access to resources, and basic rights and freedoms.
Killing of Palestinian children
The targeted killing of Palestinian children and teenagers poses additional concerns to Israel's breach of international law, and the continued disrespect to human lives and futures.
Following the killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Ramallah on June 25th, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) said"Israeli soldiers know no bounds and kill Palestinian children with impunity."
"Palestinian children will continue to be targeted. They will continue to be unlawfully killed without actual justice and accountability," he said.
Israeli forces have killed two thousand one hundred and fourteen (2,114) Palestinian children and minors since 2000. That is an average of ninety-six (96) children and minors killed per year. No accountability measures are taken in order to impede and obstruct the common targeting of Palestinians by armed soldiers- often under the pretext of throwing stones or participating in protests as per the right to assembly and right to resist occupying powers enshrined under international law.
Another striking trend shows that since 2019, the annual number of criminal investigations against Israeli soldiers suspected of harming Palestinians has been on the decline, according to Israeli human rights group Yesh Din.
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Israeli Soldiers Beat A Palestinian Worker To Death Near Tulkarem
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Early on Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers beat a Palestinian worker to death near a breach of the illegal Annexation Wall in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian, Ahmad Harb Ayyad, 32, was attacked and repeatedly struck by the soldiers until he lost his life when he and other workers tried to cross.
The slain Palestinian man is from the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip but has been living in the West Bank and was working in construction inside the Green Line to support his family.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds and gas bombs at Palestinian workers in the same area, wounding one.
The Ayyad family in Gaza said Israel informed them about their son's death and added that the Israeli occupation authorities allowed the transfer of his corpse to them through the Erez (Beit Hanoun) Terminal in northern Gaza.
His funeral procession was held at a local mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza before being buried at the Shuhada Graveyard, east of Gaza city.
The Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions issued a statement denouncing the Israeli crime and said that Ahmad is not the first worker to be killed by the Israeli occupation army, in addition to the hundreds who have been shot and injured and those who have been abducted and imprisoned.
The Federation added that many workers from the Gaza Strip have to leave their homes and families in the impoverished region to look for work in the West Bank or Israel and face constant violations.
It called on the International Labor Organization to intervene and ensure Israel abides by International Law and stops its deadly violations against the Palestinian workers.
On June 19th, 2022, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian worker, Nabil Ahmad Taiseer Ghanem, 53, near the Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank. On the same day, the soldiers attacked workers and detained thirteen Barta'a towns southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank.
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Shot By Israeli Soldiers Last Tuesday, Palestinian Man Dies From Serious Wounds
https://imemc.org/article/shot-by-israeli-soldiers-last-tuesday-palestinian-man-dies-from-serious-wounds/
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed, on Friday night, the death of a Palestinian man who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire last Tuesday near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian, Hussein Hasan Qawareeq, 60, was shot by Israeli soldiers and suffered critical injuries before being rushed to Beilinson Medical Center, where he eventually succumbed to his wounds.
The slain man's brother, Khaled Qawareeq, said the Israeli medical center officially informed the family of Hussein's death.
Israeli soldiers shot Hussein at the Huwwara military roadblock south of Nablus after the army claimed he did not heed their commands to stop. His family said Hussein had a mental illness.
Hussein was from Awarta village, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Also Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that a Palestinian teenage boy, Amjad Nash'at Abu Alia, 16, was killed by Israeli fire in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, and injured several others.
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Killing the best & brightest.
That's one way to prevent another Fakhrizadeh from being born.
The Iranian nuclear scientist that Israel murdered.
I am pretty sure that Gaza sits on either de-composed Granite or Granite rocks. That gives them the basis to refine Uranium and start up a nuclear power research facility.
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16-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli settler fire, witnesses claim
Eyewitnesses say Amjad Abu Alia was shot by fire that came from the direction of Israeli settlers, who were documented shooting and throwing rocks at Palestinians in the area.
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On Saturday, July 30th, the town of al-Mughayyir, bid farewell to one of their children, Amjad Nashaat Abu Alia, who was shot and killed one day prior, on Friday July 29th.
Abu Alia, only sixteen years old, was killed as he tried to escape Israeli settlers and soldiers who were firing live ammunition and throwing stones at unarmed Palestinian protestors in the village, which lies in the Ramallah district of the occupied West Bank.
Abu Alia was participating in a demonstration along with residents of the town and visiting activists, as an attempt to curb the escalating settler attacks on their village in recent weeks.
As the unarmed protestors raised Palestinian flags and chanted against the settler-colonial expansion, they were met by the Israeli settlers from the neighboring Adei-Ad illegal outpost. The Israeli army also fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators.
According to eyewitnesses, a number of armed Israeli settlers also assaulted the demonstrators as well as journalists and threw rocks at them as soldiers stood by.
The settler violence, in tandem with that of the army, sparked further confrontations by local Palestinian youth from the village who throwing stones back. Video footage taken by journalists at the scene showed Israeli soldiers firing live ammunition at the demonstrators while settlers threw rocks at the Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses and journalists told Mondoweiss that a number of armed settlers also fired live ammunition at the Palestinians. It remains unconfirmed if the bullet that killed Abu Alia came from Israeli soldiers or the settlers.
Abu Alia was evacuated to a hospital after he was shot in the chest with live ammunition, and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. At least two other Palestinians were injured with live ammunition, including one who was shot in the thigh and was reportedly in critical condition. Three others were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets.
Ramallah Governor Dr. Laila Ghannam told journalists that "we haven't yet investigated the matter deeply, but we witnessed that the gunshot that hit the youth came from the side of the settlers, not from the army."
According to Haaretz, the Israeli army said it was "aware of the claim" that a Palestinian was killed, but did not elaborate. This is a trend that continues to persist with the Israeli army.
Abu Alia is the 17th Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli violence since the start of this year.
Settlers armed with pistols & M16s: 'It was horrifying'
Hadi Sabarna, a Palestinian photojournalist who was at the scene the moment Abu Alia was shot, told Mondoweiss that it was both Israeli soldiers and settlers who fired in Abu Alia's direction.
"It was horrifying, there was a young settler and she was in casual dress with her phone in one hand and a pistol in the other," he said.
"There were also the settlers that had their M-16's with them. It was as though the army was training them to shoot and attack, and interfered only to serve the settlers," continued Sabarna.
Maher Naasan, a Palestinian activist who was at the demonstration, and was also injured with a rubber bullet to his chest, told Mondoweiss that, "the kid [Abu Alia] was targeted by the settlers. He didn't pose any threat to their lives."
Naasan added that the settlers escalated the situation from the beginning, when they showed up to the protest armed with guns and began attacking the Palestinian protesters.
Sabarna explained that it wasn't simply the army, but that one of the settlers also fired at Abu Elia the moment the army fired.
Remembering the scene near the main street in al-Mughayyir, Sabarna explained "Amjad and youth were running away from settlers who were throwing stones."
"The soldiers went after the shabab (youth) and shot at them, with settlers still attacking from behind the soldiers."
As soldiers and settlers continued targeting the youth, who were at this point attempting to flee the armed violence Sabarna says, "the shabab threw stones back as protection." The settlers and the army continued to fire at the Palestinians, eventually striking three of them, including Abu Alia.
"Amjad was thirsty, when the shots were fired I saw he had a water bottle in his hand," Sabarna recalled to Mondoweiss. "He opened the bottle but he didn't have the chance to drink from it, he ran with the bottle in his hand."
Emboldened settler assaults
Al-Mughayyir, a small town just 27 km northeast of Ramallah, has a population of 3,102 residents. For years the community faced unrelenting threats of intensifying settler assaults and forcible annexation with the Israeli military as the vanguard.
Just a few weeks ago on July 10, settlers attacked a Palestinian man in al-Mughayyir, who needed to be hospitalized for his injuries. In January 2019, a mob of armed settlers attacked the town and killed Hamdi Naasan, 38, and pursued and injured more than 30 of the town's residents. Despite attempts by Palestinian youth to throw stones at settlers as a deterrence, nine Palestinians were critically injured with live ammunition and hospitalized at the time.
"This is something that keeps happening. Our peaceful protests come in light of the violence we see from settlers that have closed down entrances to the village, assaulted shepherds in the area, and attacked us," Naasan said.
In 2011 and 2014, Israeli settlers from Adei-Ad burned the mosque in al-Mughayyir in two separate incidents, desecrating a place of worship. The Adei-Ad outpost, which was established by a handful of Israeli settlers in 1998, is illegal under international law and Israeli law.
Despite being ordered to evacuate the outposts in the early 2000s, the settlers maintain a presence there and frequently engage in attacks on Palestinians in the surrounding areas, including al-Mughayyir. There is a plan to make Adei-Ad part of the nearby Amihai settlement, thereby legalizing the outpost.
"We live between an army that closes off our access to our lands and kicks out the Palestinian under the pretext of 'closed military zone,' yet somehow lets Israeli civilians and citizens to go as they please," Naasan said.
"This is all part of settlers trying to drive us out."
Deliberately inflicting unnecessary Cruelty on Gentiles - and animals.
It's What Jews Do.
Expelling them 109 times didn't work.
The Next Step is obvious.
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Israeli forces gun down teen, wound two others in Hebron
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Palestinian minor is shot dead with an explosive round to the heart.
reposted from WAFA, the Palestine News and Info Agency, August 9, 2022 https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/130373
Israeli forces Tuesday afternoon gunned down a Palestinian teen and wounded two others in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Health Ministry.
The Ministry said that 17-year-old teen Mo'men Yassin Jaber succumbed to his critical injuries sustained from Israeli military live gunfire during confrontations in downtown Hebron.
Jaber was hit by an explosive round that pierced and stopped his heart. He was rushed to Al-Ahli Hospital's intensive care unit, where medics attempted to resuscitate him, but to no avail.
The Ministry pointed that the other casualty, who remained unidentified, sustained live gunfire injury in the femoral artery. He was immediately admitted to the operating room.
Witnesses said that Israeli snipers deployed on rooftops in the area also hit 15-year-old minor by a live round in the foot. The minor was ultimately detained.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops manning the checkpoint at the entrance of the Hebron city neighborhood of Tal Rumedia assaulted Fayzeh Abu Shamsiya for filming them while holding a minor. She was evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
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SAMEER AL-HOMS, FATHER OF EMAN, HOLDING UP A NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM NOVEMBER 2005 THAT READS: "EXONERATION OF THE KILLER OF MARTYRED CHILD EMAN AL-HOMS." (PHOTO: MOHAMMED SALEM)
Israeli court acquits soldier of the murder of 13-year-old girl in 2004 Palestinians go to the Israeli Supreme Court to demand justice, but there is no justice to be found in a colonial court
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After 18 years of seeking justice for their murdered 13-year-old daughter, who was killed during the Second Intifada by an Israeli soldier, the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed the Al-Homs family's case against their daughter's murderer in July.
Eman Al-Homs was brutally killed in 2004 by Israeli forces in the Tel Al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. On that day, the hospital told the family that their daughter's body had been riddled with over 23 bullets — fired into her body after her death.
The Al-Homs family sued the Israeli army in 2004, citing the testimony of eyewitnesses as well as the testimony of the soldiers themselves, who were members of the brigade that carried out the murder and testified against the officer that, according to them, made the "confirming kill." 18 years later, the Israeli court ruled to dismiss the case.
Eman Al-Homs' family petitioned the Israeli court, looking for justice, yet all they found out was that "the Israeli judiciary offers no justice at all," Eman's father, 68-year-old Sameer Al-Homs, tells Mondoweiss.
The day of the killing
When Eman and her sister Heba,16, prepared themselves to leave home to go to school at 6 a.m. on October 5, 2004, neither them nor their family knew that this would be the last time they walked together. Since their schools were in opposite directions, Eman and Heba separated at some point through their journey. Eman's school was near an Israeli military tower known as Zo'rob, which confiscated a wide area in Rafah. The fence separating the school from the Israeli-controlled area was dilapidated, in some places had collapsed altogether, through which Eman wandered, unaware of her impending fate.
When the girl walked through the area, clearly wearing a school backpack and dressed in a school uniform, the Israelis shot her on sight.
According to the eyewitness who informed the family of what happened, when Eman heard the sound of the guns, she panicked from fright and disorientation, and appeared not to know where to go.
The family was first made aware that something wasn't right when the school called, asking whether Eman had gone to school or not. Only 10 minutes before, he had heard on a local radio station that a school girl was murdered at Zo'rob. Now worried, he called the station to ask about the name of the girl, only to hear the name of his own daughter.
The family told Mondoweiss that the Israeli forces first gunned her down from a distance, and when the vehicle reached her, the officer walked over towards her body and filled her with several more bullets.
"I was so shocked when I heard it — she was an innocent girl who just left home early for school in pursuit of her dreams, and she came back home a corpse, riddled with bullets," her father says. "It is very hard for any father to see his daughter like that. Now add to that the feeling when you are told that it is now impossible to seek justice for her soul."
Al-Homes could barely contain his rage and indignation. "For 18 years, we have waited for justice for our child, killed in the worst conditions one can imagine, and we got nothing from the Israeli courts. But my daughter's killer was rewarded and offered compensation. This system only protects killers," he said bitterly.
When the family went to collect her from the Zo'rob military tower, "Israeli forces threw down her body from a high hill of sand," her brother Sarhan says. "I went to her and held her body. It was full of thorns and sand from the fall, mixed up with her blood."
At the hospital, a doctor who was also a relative of the family confirmed that over 23 bullets were fired into her body after her death. "The bullets left burns where they entered her body," Sarhan says, explaining that the doctor told them a bullet shot into a live person's body leaves a different mark than if they were dead — the latter appearing as a burn mark at the entry site. He holds up a photo of Eman's body, wearing her school uniform clearly marked by the bullets and displaying the tell-tale burn marks. Her family keeps the photo as evidence to this day.
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PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING EMAN AL-HOMS'S BULLET WOUNDS. (PHOTO: MOHAMMED SALEM)
No justice in a colonial court
Eman's story received widespread international media attention in 2004 when her father first started the legal case, suing the Israeli captain responsible for the killing — referred to as "R" by the court. Israeli attorney Leah Tsemel was representing the family, and assured them that they had a strong case.
The family's only knowledge of the case came from their lawyer, as they could not travel from Gaza to Israel to stand in court.
Be'er Sheva District Court Judge Shlomo Friedlander said that the shooting was in violation of international law. However, he accepted the Israeli government's position that the killing was carried out as part of a "wartime action."
By this ruling, the Israeli government was not liable in the case, and could not be required to pay compensation, according to Haaretz.
He was also charged with the illegal use of his weapon, while also being accused of obstruction of justice after asking his soldiers to alter their testimonies to the military investigators that were probing the incident, according to Haaretz.
The family's case was based on the testimonies of other soldiers serving alongside captain R. They said at the court that they had seen their commander make a "confirming kill," only to change their testimonies later.
R's father told Haaretz that the military court's ruling reinforced his faith in the IDF and the judicial system, adding that he expected a full apology.
As for Eman's father in Gaza, the whole world won't be able to give him closure for the murder of his daughter now, he told Mondoweiss.
"This is the Israeli justice that we got. After all these years of waiting, they prove that my daughter's blood is not worth anything to them — and now they've rewarded her killer," he says.
This is clearly stated in the ruling of the Israeli judge presiding over the case:
Quote"There is no expression of ulterior motives, including revenge. The remarks reflect the danger entailed in the deceased's infiltration near the post, from the point of view of the soldiers, and their combat response to this threat until it was completely neutralized."
Israeli attorney Leah Tsemel, who represented the Homs family, says she wasn't surprised by the court's ruling. "It has been proven once again that the blood of a Palestinian, even if she was young and small, doesn't count for much."
The Palestinian courts have no power to prosecute Israeli criminals, so Palestinians go to the Israeli Supreme Court to demand justice for their loved ones — but there is no justice to be had in a colonial court system.
"All cases Palestinians submit to the Israeli courts in order to get justice are failing, because the Israeli judiciary system is politicized. When it comes to the Palestinians, this system only works to cover and protect Israeli crimes committed against Palestinians. We can see that clearly by looking into the Israeli court decisions," Tahseen Elayyan, a legal researcher at Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, told Mondoweiss.
"Sometimes the sentence for the deliberate murder of Palestinians is a few months in jail, a sentence that is also decreased by the pressure that Israeli officials put on the court — in the rare case when an Israeli is found guilty," Elayyan continued. "This justice system is not neutral and offers no justice to Palestinians"
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SAMEER AL-HOMS WITH A POSTER OF HIS DAUGHTER IN HIS FAMILY HOME IN RAFAH (PHOTO: MOHAMMED SALEM)
Taking it global
But if there is no court in all of Palestine that can bring Israelis to account for their crimes against Palestinians, where should Palestinians seek justice?
Palestinian organizations have attempted to sue Israeli criminals in European courts, under the principle of "extraterritorial jurisdiction," which forces these countries to investigate the crimes that are presented to them regardless of where they were committed and who committed them.
"Unfortunately, all such cases have been rebuffed by the governments of these countries, because they will not confront Israel — countries like Britain, Spain, and Belgium," Elayyan says. "These countries changed their laws to escape having to prosecute Israelis."
After finding no justice in Palestinian courts, Israeli courts, or European courts, the last recourse available to Palestinians is the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"The ICC is a last resort for Palestinians," says Elayyan. "But so far there have been no actual steps on the ground by the ICC, despite the fact that it announced a year ago that it will investigate war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories."
"If the ICC fails to bring justice for Palestinians, this will send a very negative message — that international law cannot bring justice for you. We don't want that to happen, and the ICC investigation is still ongoing."
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem issued a report in May 2016 about the response of the Israeli courts to crimes committed by Israeli soldiers. "B'Tselem has demanded an investigation in 739 cases in which soldiers killed, injured, or beat Palestinians, used them as human shields, or damaged Palestinian property," the report reads.
But an analysis of the responses B'Tselem received as to how the military law enforcement system handled these 739 cases are telling. In a quarter of cases (182), no investigation was ever launched, and in nearly half of the cases (343), the investigation was closed with no further action; actual charges brought against the implicated soldiers in only 25 cases. Another 13 cases saw soldiers referred for disciplinary action, while 132 cases remain at various stages of processing, and the Military Advocate General's Corps was unable to locate 44 others.
Family disappointed
Eman Al-Homs's family seek a just closure to their case, and want to see their daughter's killer behind bars. Yet after all these years, all they got from the Israeli courts was a slap in the face.
"She was killed in a horrific way, and her soul deserves justice. I wanted to go to her grave and tell her that I did that for her, but I don't think that will happen in this world," her father says.
It is no question in Sameer's mind what would happen had the roles been reversed. "What if the murdered girl were Israeli, and her killer were Palestinian? Do you think the case would have dragged on for so long?" he asks in indignation. "Do you think that the Israeli court will have dealt with him like the way it dealt with our daughter's killer?"
Sameer Al-Homs plans on taking his daughter's case to the ICC.
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Palestinian Child Dies From Serious Wounds She suffered In Gaza
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On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a child died from serious wounds she suffered during Israel's recent onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
The al-Makassed Hospital in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, said the child, Layan Musleh Sha'er, 10, was admitted after being transferred from Gaza, suffering a shrapnel wound to the head, causing significant damage to her brain.
The child, from Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza strip, was clinically dead upon arrival and remained hooked to a respiratory machine after the surgeons tried to save her life until she succumbed to her serious wounds.
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She was a school student and a member of a Palestinian folklore dance team (Dabke); the last time the slain child and her Dabke team performed was last month at the Nuwwar Education Center in Gaza.
Her death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells during the three-day offensive (August 5, 6, and 7) on Gaza to 48, including one elder, three women, and sixteen children. The number of wounded Palestinians is 360, including 19 elders, 58 women, and 151 children.
On Tuesday, The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, 41, died from serious wounds he suffered last Saturday, during the Israeli bombardment of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the Health Ministry confirmed that a child died from serious wounds she suffered on August 6th, after the Israeli army bombarded the Um an-Nasr village in Beit Hanoun.
It said the child, Hanin Abu Qayda, 10, was seriously injured when the Israeli army fired missiles at a civilian car, killing her grandmother, Na'ama Mohammad Abu Qayda, 62, and wounding seven family members.
Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells during the three-day offensive on Gaza (Friday-Saturday-Sunday – August 5, 6 and 7) to 47 Palestinians, including one elder, three women, and fifteen children. The number of wounded Palestinians is 360, including 19 elders, 58 women, and 151 children.
The Palestinian Housing Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli bombing of residential towers and homes in Gaza has led to the destruction of 18 units, in addition to partially damaging 71 units and rendering them unsafe, and 1675 units that sustained partial damage but remained structurally sound.
In the West Bank, medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Mo'men Yassin Jaber, 16, with an expanding bullet and seriously injured another Palestinian, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, Ibrahim Nabulsi, 30, Islam Sbouh, 22, and Hussein Jamal Taha, 16, in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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Another Palestinian Dies From Wounds Suffered In Israeli strikes on Gaza
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Shehda Abu Salah, 41, is the 47th Palestinian to die from Israel's onslaught against Gaza named 'Operation Breaking Dawn'... Israeli forces have also killed 4 in the West Bank... In all, 16 Palestinian teens & children were killed and 151 were injured... over 2,000 Gazan homes were damaged
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On Tuesday, The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said a man died from serious wounds he suffered last Saturday, during the Israeli bombardment of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The sources said Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, 41, was seriously injured when the army fired missiles and shells at homes and buildings in Beit Hanoun, killing many Palestinians and wounding dozens.
He was seriously injured Saturday, the second day of the three-day Israeli onslaught on the Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the Health Ministry confirmed that a child died from serious wounds she suffered on August 6th, after the Israeli army bombarded the Um an-Nasr village in Beit Hanoun.
The Health Ministry said the child, Hanin Abu Qayda, 10, was seriously injured when the Israeli army fired missiles at a civilian car, killing her grandmother, Na'ama Mohammad Abu Qayda, 62, and wounding seven family members.
Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells during the three-day offensive on Gaza (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) to 47 Palestinians, including one elder, three women, and fifteen children. The number of wounded Palestinians is 360, including 19 elders, 58 women, and 151 children.
The Palestinian Housing Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli bombing of residential towers and homes in Gaza has led to the destruction of 18 units, in addition to partially damaging 71 units and rendering them unsafe, and 1675 units that sustained partial damage but remained structurally sound.
In the West Bank, medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Mo'men Yassin Jaber, 16, with an expanding bullet and seriously injured another Palestinian, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, Ibrahim Nabulsi, 30, Islam Sbouh, 22, and Hussein Jamal Taha, 16, in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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THE FAMILY OF MURDERED PALESTINIAN AHMAD AYYAD, BEATEN TO DEATH BYISRAELI FORCES, HOLD UP HIS PHOTO INSIDE THEIR HOME IN GAZA CITY ON JULY 5, 2022. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)
Lynched by Israeli soldiers: father from Gaza killed in the West Bank
Ahmad Ayyad was on his way to work in Israel to help out his family in Gaza when he was attacked by Israeli soldiers and beaten to death.
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4-year-old Ameer Ayyad and his 5-year-old sister Banan sit in the middle of the funeral crowd. Neither of them seem to understand that they will not see their father Ahmad ever again. Neither were they aware that the rushed hugs they'd given him on June 28 alongside their mother would be their last.
Ahmad, 32, had gone to the West Bank to treat a colonic disease. He was one of the few people from Gaza who was able to obtain permission to work in Israel, and while he was there he sought treatment during the extra days on his permit.
On July 4, the family received a call from the Nablus Specialized Hospital, to inform them that Ahmad had passed away from a heart attack. But earlier that day, they had already received news of his death, but under entirely different circumstances.
"He was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers," Mahmoud Ayyad, Ahmad's brother and a GP at the Shifa hospital in Gaza, told Mondoweiss. "And it shows on his body."
That day, a group of Palestinian workers tried to get to their workplaces in Israel by going through a breach in the separation wall north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Ahmad was among them when the Israeli soldiers shot at them, injuring one. Ahmad fell down, and the soldiers descended upon him and brutally assaulted him. He was then moved to the hospital, where he died of a heart attack.
Palestinian workers have routinely entered through breaches in the separation wall in order to seek employment in Israel. Ahmad was one of them, but he was also receiving treatment at the same time. "He always [went to work in Israel] after finishing up his treatment. He would work there for weeks, and then go back to help his family," Mahmoud said.
Open season on killing Palestinians
Sitting next to me at the funeral wake, Mahmoud is now wearing black, his eyes swollen as he struggles to recount the moment he saw Ahmad's body. "His body was turgid and blue. I examined it myself, and there were no injuries other than those he received during the beating," he said.
On the same day of his death, the family received Ahmad's body via the Erez crossing. Hours later, they buried him in Gaza's eastern martyrs' cemetery, at night.
The Israeli army issued no statements about the incident. The eyewitnesses contacted the family and recounted the series of events to them. The Israeli soldiers had fired upon the Palestinian workers, injuring one of them; they then stormed the rest of the group, by which time Ahmad had fallen to the ground. "When the Israeli soldiers saw him down, they beat him up," an eyewitness told the family.
"We could see the bruise marks left by the beating, they were all over his head, chest, back, and neck. His body was already weak from illness, and he couldn't endure the blows the soldiers dealt," his brother said.
Following Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's statement on April 8 granting the Israeli army and the Shin Bet (the Israeli intelligence agency) free rein to quell "terrorism," which the Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Ministry considered to be a greenlight for killing Palestinians, the Israeli army proceeded to deploy the systematic use of excessive force against Palestinians.
53 Palestinian civilians were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between January and July 10, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Manipulating the cause of death
The family of Ahmad Ayyad confirmed the beating he received at the hands of the Israeli military, yet the hospital reports make no mention of the blows on his body.
Ahmad's father, Harb Ayyad, 58, accuses the Nablus Hospital of hiding the evidence in its report. "They should expose the occupation by telling the truth about my son's death. He died while being lynched by Israeli soldiers."
"He never had any heart issues, and the cause of death is clearly written all over his body. He suffered blows to critical parts of the body, such as the neck and chest. Maybe he got a heart attack while he was being beaten up, but the main reason is the barbaric attack he faced," said his brother Mahmoud.
Mondoweiss reached out to three doctors at the Nablus Specialized Hospital for comments regarding the father's accusation, but none of them said a word about the beating.
The head of the cardiology department at the hospital, Dr. Bahaa Fattouh, said that the hospital received the patient from another hospital in Tulkarem: "The hospital called us and told us we are going to get a patient suffering from a heart attack, and we received him accordingly."
"The patient arrived at the hospital in critical condition, suffering from a fatal clogged artery. His arteries were damaged, and we tried to open them up, but the patient's condition only worsened, his heartbeat was irregular, and he could not last for more than 20 minutes," said Dr. Fattouh.
No solace for a grieving family
The father wanted to make his family happy regardless of his pain and his condition, his wife, Nour Ayyad, 28, told Mondoweiss. "He was always calling to check in on the kids, and telling them that he'd coming home before Eid to bring them gifts," she said, while sitting in the humble home that used to be used for storage, and which her husband later built up into a home for their family.
"How can those two innocent kids enjoy their childhood now? How will they grow up...without their father? What was my husband's sin? Please, can anyone answer me?"
As she speaks, her kids are watching and listening, staring at her, partly in sadness, partly in confusion.
It is apparent that they are not entirely aware of the loss of their father yet. . They did not see their father's body when it was moved from the hospital to the cemetery.
"They think that this [funeral] home is to receive their father when he comes with the gifts and clothes that he promised them before he hugged them goodbye" their mother says.
They ask their grandfather when their father is coming, but they barely receive a response from the elder. Instead, he takes his grandchildren in his arms and strokes their heads soothingly. "Soon, soon."
"This is what Israel is doing to us. It's turning our kids into orphans and planting pain in every house," Nour said.
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41 Days After Her Death, Palestinians Hold Funeral For Woman Who Died In Israeli Prison
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On Thursday, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the funeral procession and ceremony of a Palestinian woman who died in Israeli prisons 41 days earlier due to medical neglect and mistreatment by the Israeli occupation authorities. Israel initially refused to release her corpse.
The woman, Sa'diyya Farajallah, 68, from Ethna town west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, died on July 2, 2022, less than seven months after Israeli soldiers abducted her.
The married mother of eight was the oldest female detainee imprisoned by Israel and was subject to medical neglect while in prison.
The Israeli army transferred her corpse to the Palestinian side at the Tarqoumia terminal near Hebron before Red Crescent medics moved her to the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, where specialists examined her body before being released to her family.
The funeral procession started in front of the hospital before heading to her town, holding the funeral ceremony at the local mosque and then burying her at the Shuhada graveyard in the center of Ethna.
Her family held Israel accountable for her death, especially since she was denied access to medical attention and her medications and called on the International Community to act and help save the lives of the Palestinian detainees, especially the ones holding extended hunger strikes demanding an end to their arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges or trial.
Sa'diyya died at the Damoun Israeli prison after eight months of imprisonment, including two months in solitary confinement, despite her health and chronic conditions.
She was abducted on December 18, 2021, near the Ibrahimi Mosque after illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted her and hurled insults at her before a female Israeli soldier fired some rounds in her direction and abducted her.
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Young Palestinian Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Gaza
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On Friday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that a young man died from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
The Nasser Medical Center in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, said the young man, Anas Khaled Anshasi, 22, died in the Intensive Care Unit from his serious wounds despite all efforts to save his life.
Medical sources said Anshasi was seriously injured when an Israeli army drone fired missiles at several Palestinians east of Khan Younis.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said Anshasi's death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles and shells during the three-day offensive (August 5, 6, and 7) on Gaza to 49, including one elder, three women, and sixteen children. The number of wounded Palestinians is 360, including 19 elders, 58 women, and 151 children.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a child, Layan Musleh Sha'er, 10, died from serious wounds she suffered during Israel's recent onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday, The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, 41, died from serious wounds he suffered last Saturday, during the Israeli bombardment of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the Health Ministry confirmed that a child died from serious wounds she suffered on August 6th, after the Israeli army bombarded the Um an-Nasr village in Beit Hanoun.
It said the child, Hanin Abu Qayda, 10, was seriously injured when the Israeli army fired missiles at a civilian car, killing her grandmother, Na'ama Mohammad Abu Qayda, 62, and wounding seven family members.
The Palestinian Housing Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli bombing of residential towers and homes in Gaza has led to the destruction of 18 units, in addition to partially damaging 71 units and rendering them unsafe, and 1675 units that sustained partial damage but remained structurally sound.
In the West Bank, medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Mo'men Yassin Jaber, 16, with an expanding bullet and seriously injured another Palestinian, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, Ibrahim Nabulsi, 30, Islam Sbouh, 22, and Hussein Jamal Taha, 16, in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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RELATIVES OF FIVE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WHO WERE KILLED DURING AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA HOLD PLACARDS NEXT TO THEIR GRAVES, IN JABALIA IN THE NORTHERN OF GAZA STRIP ON AUGUST 16, 2022. (PHOTO: ASHRAF AMRA/APA IMAGES)
After initially blaming Palestinians, Israel admits to airstrike that killed 5 children in Gaza
Israel has admitted to conducting the airstrike that killed 5 Palestinian children in Gaza after initially blaming their deaths on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
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The Israeli army has admitted to conducting the airstrike that killed five Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip earlier this month, after initially blaming their deaths on a misfire from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
The airstrike occurred on August 7th, the last day of a three-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, dubbed by the Israeli military as "Operation Breaking Dawn."
The strike targeted the al-Faluja cemetery in the town of Jabalia, and struck five children while they were visiting the grave of their grandfather. The youngest victim of the strike was just three-years-old.
Nathmi Karsh, 15, Hamed Nejm, 16, Mohammad Nejm, 16, Jamil Ihab Nejm, 13, and Jamil Najim al-Din Nejm, 3, were all killed in the strike. The Nejm boys were all cousins, and Nathmi Karsh was their close family friend and neighbor.
Immediately after the airstrike, senior military officials told Israeli media that the children were "most likely" killed by a PIJ misfire. The airstrike on the cemetery came just hours after a separate strike in the Jabalia refugee camp that killed eight Palestinians, including three children, which the army also blamed on PIJ.
Haaretz reported that in the case of the five boys killed in the cemetery, "despite their off-the-record assessments, senior IDF officers never commented publicly about who was responsible."
Following an army inquiry, Haaretz reported on Tuesday that "several defense sources" confirmed to the newspaper that it was in fact an Israeli airstrike that killed the five boys.
During Israel's three-day operation in Gaza, 49 Palestinians were killed including 17 children, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.
Israel claimed the operation was "preemptive," and was carried out to target PIJ military sites across Gaza, with the purpose of crippling the group, which has the second largest militarized presence in Gaza following Hamas. Over the course of three days the army assassinated several high-ranking PIJ officials, including Tayseer al-Jabari, the head of the group's military wing.
'We collected their body parts with our hands'
Thirteen-year-old Jamil Ihab Nejm's father, Ihab, recounted to Mondoweiss the day that his son was killed.
Jamil was with his cousins and friend at their home when he left to go to the store. While he was out, Jamil and the four boys went to the nearby cemetery, where their late grandfather is buried.
"The cemetery is just 10 meters away from our home," Ihab said, adding that Jamil and his cousins frequently visited their grandfather's grave, as the cemetery was one of the only open spaces the boys had access to to play and spend time together outside.
"When the bomb fell, my wife screamed out loud before even knowing what had happened," Ihab recounted. "I went immediately to the cemetery to search for my son, when I recognized a piece of his t-shirt. That's when I knew he was there."
Ihab told Mondoweiss that Jamil and the other boys were blown to pieces by the airstrike.
"Our sons were targeted in front of our eyes. We collected their body parts with our hands," he said.
The boys were killed just hours before a ceasefire between Israel and PIJ went into effect in Gaza. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, three of the boys had been undergoing trauma therapy before they were killed.
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Update: Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Man, Injure Another And Abduct Five, In Tubas https://imemc.org/article/one-seriously-israeli-soldiers-shoot-two-palestinians-abduct-five-in-tubas/
Update: The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed the death of Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, 58, from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers shot him while leaving a local mosque, following dawn prayers in Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank.
Salah was rushed to a local hospital and was admitted to surgery but succumbed to his serious wounds, especially since the soldiers shot him with a live round in the head.
Medical sources said the soldiers invaded Tubas and attacked protesters with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, shooting Salah in the head while he was leaving a mosque in the city following dawn prayers.
Palestinian medics provided the urgently needed treatment to the injured man before rushing him to a hospital due to the seriousness of his concision.
Local sources said the family was preparing to celebrate his daughter's wedding scheduled to be held on August 26th.
The soldiers also shot a young man with a live round in the thigh during protests that took place after the army invaded Tammoun town, south of Tubas.
The soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes in Tubas, and in Tammoun town before abducting five Palestinians.
Kamal Bani Odah, the head of the Tubas office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), said the soldiers abducted Ma'moun Na'im Abu Odah, Mustafa Bani Odah, in addition to Moath and his brother Ayed Farhan Bani Odah, from Tammoun, and a college student Akaram Hakam al-Kharraz from his home on Tubas.
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Ibrahim al-Shaham, father of assassinated Mohammad al-Shaham, mourns his son's death at the hands of Israeli soldiers
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Jerusalem
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Mohammad Shaham, 21, woke up to banging on his family home's door in the middle of the night; Israeli soldiers shot him in the head at point blank range without explanation or even verifying his identity first.
reposted from IMEMC– the International Middle Eastern Media Center, August 15, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-jerusalem-3/
On Monday dawn, undercover Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man in his home in Kafr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
The soldiers shot Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham, 21, with a live round in the head after storming his home.
His father said a soldier shot Mohammad, who was born in the nearby Qalandia refugee camp, with a live round to the head from point-blank range the moment he opened the door for the soldiers invading his home and proceeded to ransack the property.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds in the property before ransacking it.
His father added that the soldiers left Shaham bleeding for about 40 minutes before they took his corpse and withdrew from the town.
The soldiers also fired several live rounds in the property causing excessive damage.
The father added that the invasion into the property took place around 3:30 at dawn, before one of the soldiers put the pistol against his forehead and killed him.
"This is an assassination in cold blood, just like they did in Jenin, and what they are doing across occupied Palestine," the father added, "The soldiers didn't ask for our names, ID cards or ask any questions, they just stormed the property and assassinated by son. Just five months ago, exactly on March 15, the soldiers killed his cousin."
His cousin's name is Ala' Mohammad Shaham, 22, he shot also shot in the head in the Qalandia refugee camp, where the soldiers also shot and injured six other young men with live rounds, who were all transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
The family denied the Israeli military allegations that claimed the Palestinian attempted to stab the soldiers, adding that the Israeli reports are just meant to justify killing him with a cause or justification.
Protests occurred after the soldiers and undercover officers invaded the town, before the soldiers shot at least six young men with live rounds in their legs and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and abducting several Palestinians.
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The family of Mohammad Marzouq Arayshy, 25, mourn his death. He is the fourth victim of a massive Israeli raid on Nablus that also injured at least 40 Palestinians
Palestinian, 25, dies from wounds from Israeli raid on his city – Nablus
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Mohammad Arayshy is the 4th Palestinian to die after a massive Israeli raid on the city of Nablus on August 9th. Israeli forces also fired on ambulances as they tried to reach the wounded.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, August 23, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/seriously-injured-palestinian-dies-from-his-wounds-2/
On Tuesday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a young man, who was shot and seriously injured two weeks earlier in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, had succumbed to his wounds.
The Health Ministry officially identified the young man as Mohammad Marzouq Arayshy, 25, and said the young man remained in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit
The funeral procession started in front of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, before the Palestinians marched to Nablus's Old City to his home, before heading to the Shuhada graveyard.
It is worth mentioning that Mohammad was seriously injured on August 9th, 2022, when the Israeli army initiated a massive offensive into Nablus, killing three Palestinians and wounding at least 40.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army fired many live rounds at Palestinian ambulances, prevented many medics from entering the areas it was invading, and later published a propaganda picture claiming the ambulance "was being used to shelter those throwing stones at the soldiers."
However, a video from the scene shows the medics and a few Palestinians trying to get the seriously wounded young man into the ambulance so that it can speed up to the hospital.
Due to ongoing protests, the medics loaded the seriously wounded Palestinian as fast as possible, and the soldiers were still firing at the protesters.
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PCHR: "Child Dies After Israeli Authorities Deny His Travel for Treatment Abroad"
https://imemc.org/article/pchr-child-dies-after-israeli-authorities-deny-his-travel-for-treatment-abroad/
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli occupation Forces' (IOF) continuous obstacles on the travel of Gaza Strip's patients, denying them access to the Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and Israeli hospitals for receiving or resuming their medical treatment.
These obstacles have aggravated the suffering of thousands of patients and resulted in the death of 4 patients; the last one was Faroud Mohammad Ismail Abu Naja (6), whose travel permit for treatment at Hadassah hospital in the occupied Jerusalem, was denied.
Suleiman Ahmad Abu Naja (56), the deceased child's grandfather, from Yabna refugee camp in Rafah, said that his grandson, Farouk Mohammed Isma'il Abu Naja (6), was denied travel for treatment at Hadassah- 'Ein Karem Hospital as he suffers from cerebral atrophy.
Abu Naja added that his grandson received a medical referral for treatment on 12 January 2022 at Hadassah- 'Ein Kerem Hospital in Israel; the referral is funded by the Christian Aid Ministries. He applied to have a travel permit from the Israeli occupation authorities; however, the latter replied that his request is still under study. Thus, the child could travel for treatment on the given appointment.
Abu Naja said that they obtained another appointment on 10 August 2022 and then re-applied for the travel permit, but the Israeli authorities kept replying that the request is "under study". While waiting for the Israeli approval, the child's health deteriorated until he died at the European Gaza Hospital on Wednesday evening, 24 August 2022.
According to the Health Department of the General Authority for Civil Affairs (GACA) statistics, since the beginning of this year, the Israeli authorities have obstructed the travel of 4,169 patients from the Gaza strip for treatment abroad since. Most of these patients suffer serious diseases that lack treatment at the Strip's hospitals.
IOF invoke various reasons and excuses to prevent Gaza patients from traveling for treatment; including requests under study, summoning patients for a security interview, requests denied for having a relative illegally residing in the West Bank or Israel, and the treatment available in Gaza hospitals.
These restrictions come with the deterioration of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip triggered by the Israeli-imposed closure for 16 years, as the Gaza Strip hospitals suffer from acute shortage of essential drugs and medical devices and insufficient number of specialized health professionals; rendering the hospitals unable to treat many serious diseases and so raising the number of patients referred for treatment abroad during the past years.
In light of the above, PCHR calls on the international community, including the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, and the UN bodies and international organizations to exert pressure on the occupation to assume their legal responsibilities towards the residents of the Gaza Strip, including patients, and to ensure an appropriate and safe mechanism is provided for their travel.
PCHR calls on the international community to pressure Israel to lift the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip in line with Security Council Resolution No. 1860, and to import the medical supplies used in radiotherapy, chemical drugs and periodic examinations for cancer patients that are not available in Gaza hospitals.
Israel's 'Operation Breaking Dawn' killed 49 Palestinians. These are their stories.
49 Palestinians, including 17 children, were killed during the three-day Israeli assault on Gaza from August 5 – 7, 2022. Here is a profile of each life that was lost.
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Samer Khaled and Yazan Affana were killed in two separate attacks by Israeli forces Thursday morning.
Invading Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians on Thursday morning
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-kill-2-palestinians-thursday-morning/
Samer Khaled and Yazan Affana are just the latest in a particularly deadly spate of shootings by the Israeli military.
In the last three months Israeli forces have killed approximately 70 Palestinians –13 of them minors, including two five-year-olds. No Israelis were killed.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 1, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-army-kills-a-palestinian-in-ramallah/
On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man after the army invaded the Al-Biereh city in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said many army jeeps invaded the city, leading to protests before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said the soldiers killed a young man, Yazan Naim Affana, 24, after shooting him with live fire while the army withdrew from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Biereh city.
They added that Affana, from the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem and south of Ramallah, was shot with live rounds in his heart.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and buildings and abducted a young man.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 1, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-nablus-2/
Early Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers fatally shot a young Palestinian man in front of the main entrance of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian sources said the young man, Samer Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, from the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus, was shot with a live round in the neck while sitting in his car.
The sources added that undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the area and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.
The soldiers also invaded the Balata refugee camp, searched homes, and abducted a former political prisoner, Jasser Abu Hamada.
The Israeli army fired a barrage of live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, resulting in serious damage to a store causing it to catch fire and burn.
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The funeral of Ali Harb, who was stabbed to death by an Israeli settler the previous day, in the village of Iskaka, occupied West Bank, June 22, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
A settler stabbed and killed a Palestinian. Now he'll carry on life as usual
The State Prosecutor's decision to close the probe into Ali Harb's killing sends a clear message: whoever harms Palestinians will not be held accountable.
https://www.972mag.com/settler-stabbed-killed-ali-harb/
On Aug. 25, Israel's State Prosecutor Office announced its intention to close the investigative file opened following the fatal stabbing of Ali Hassan Harb, a 27-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Iskaka in the north of the occupied West Bank. The closing of the case without an indictment against the offending settler (whose name is prohibited from publication) is further proof of the impunity and protection that Israeli law enforcement provides to Israelis who harm Palestinians, even in cases as serious as murder.
On June 21, 2022, a group of Israeli settlers invaded land that belongs to the villagers of Iskaka with the intention of setting up an illegal outpost. Members of the Harb family and others arrived at the scene to prevent settlers from taking over their olive groves. A verbal confrontation ensued, which Palestinian eyewitnesses say did not involve physical violence on their part. During the incident, a settler stabbed Ali Harb to death.
Hours later, Israeli news site Ynet reported that the police claimed the stabbing may have resulted from an internal conflict among the Palestinians and not a confrontation with the settlers. This false claim, which the police were not ashamed to release even before Harb had been buried, was apparently the first indicator of the conduct to be expected in the investigation.
It later became clear that the Israeli authorities were investing the bulk of their energy in trying to clear the name of the army, in part by refuting the claim of the Palestinian eyewitnesses that the incident took place in front of Israeli soldiers who did nothing to prevent the stabbing or to arrest the culprit after the fact. According to eyewitnesses, Harb did not die immediately, but rather after soldiers prevented his family from reaching his side or rushing him to the hospital.
In the days after the stabbing, Israel's security forces outdid themselves by invading the homes of members of the Harb family and other eyewitnesses from the village and arresting them. Israeli investigators tried to convince them to retract the claim that soldiers were present at the scene and that the army delayed assistance to the victim. They were soon released without charge.
Now, two months into the investigation, the Prosecutor's Office has decided to close the case on grounds of "insufficient evidence," because, in their words, "it was not possible to rule out [the suspect's] version that he acted in self-defense." However, it seems that the killer did not act the way any reasonable person who is left with no choice but to take a life — as a last resort of self-protection — would.
First of all, he did not turn himself in to the police and instead ran from the scene. Even after it was revealed that the police were looking for the offender and found the knife used in the stabbing, he continued with his daily routine. What's more, in photos taken in the moments before the stabbing, a person who the Palestinian eyewitnesses identify as the culprit is seen with a rubber glove on one of his hands.
The settler was finally arrested on suspicion of murder and obstruction of justice only a day after the incident, when he arrived at the police station to file a counter-complaint against the Palestinians. It is likely that by then he had consulted with a lawyer to formulate a course of action.
A number of testimonies taken by police from others at the scene also contradicted the suspect's claim that he was in danger. A video from moments before the stabbing shows that shouts and curses were exchanged between the parties, but there was no physical violence. The documentation also shows that there were armed security guards from the Ariel settlement at the scene; this is in addition to the claims by eyewitnesses that Israeli soldiers were present too.
If there had been a real threat to the life of the culprit or others, the security guards would surely have acted to protect the Israeli citizens. The fact that no one was injured in the incident except for Ali Harb sows further doubt concerning the version of events as told by the offender, who claimed that he had to defend himself and others.
Yet despite all this, the Prosecutor's Office closed the investigation file.
The case closure is, first and foremost, heartbreaking news for Ali Harb's parents; although their son will never return, they at least had hopes that his killer would pay a heavy price. At the same time, the closing of this case sends a clear message to settlers: whoever harms Palestinians will not be held accountable.
Palestinians know that their blood is cheap in the eyes of Israeli authorities, and the impunity that the system grants to Israelis who harm Palestinians extends far beyond this single case. According to Yesh Din's data, 92 percent of police files investigated between 2005-2021 in incidents of ideologically motivated crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians were closed with no indictment filed. Eighty-one percent of these cases were closed in circumstances indicating a failed and negligent investigation.
The offending settler, who entered the Harb family's lands with the aim of usurping them by erecting an illegal outpost, confronted the family who wanted to drive him and his gang away and killed a young man with the swing of a knife — and now he will continue his life as if nothing happened.
It is clear to everyone that if the situation was reversed — if the stabber had been Palestinian and the victim Israeli — the suspect would have been arrested immediately, if the security guards had not decided to shoot him on the spot. He would have been designated a terrorist, an indictment for murder would have been filed against him, he would have been sentenced to a long prison term, and the army would likely have destroyed his parents' house.
But alas, the settler who killed Ali Harb belongs to a special group of Israeli civilians in the West Bank that enjoys a variety of privileges, including a license to commit harm and even kill without consequence.
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Taher Mohammad Zakarna, 19, killed by Invading Israeli forces.
Invading Israeli soldiers kill 19-year-old, injure another, abduct 5, in Jenin
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Invading Israeli soldiers shot Taher Mohammad Zakarna, 19, in the head in Qabatia town, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-shoot-two-palestinians-one-seriously-abduct-five-in-jenin/
Updated: On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city and Qabatia town, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killed a young Palestinian man, injured another, and abducted five.
Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that the soldiers killed Taher Mohammad Zakarna, 19, in Qabatia town, south of Jenin.
He was shot with three live rounds, one in the head and two in the thigh, and succumbed to his serious wounds at the ar-Razi hospital in Jenin.
Another Palestinian was injured with live fire after Israeli soldiers shot him in Qabatia.
The soldiers also abducted five Palestinians, including one who was kidnapped from a bakery where he works.
Updated From:
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Two Palestinians, One Seriously, Abduct Five, In Jenin
Published on: Sep 5, 2022, at 08:43
On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and Qabatia town, south of Jenin, shot two Palestinians, including one who suffered serious wounds and abducted five.
Medical sources in Jenin said the soldiers shot a young man, Taher Zakarna, with a live round in the head, in Qabatia, inflicting life-threatening wounds, during protests that erupted after many army jeeps invaded it.
They added that the soldiers also shot and moderately injured another young Palestinian man during the invasion.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked several homes and buildings and abducted a young man, Odai Manasra, from his work at a bakery they stormed in Qabatia.
In Jenin city, the soldiers stormed and searched several homes before abducting four young men, Amin Sa'adi, Nawras Ghawadra, Mohmmad Nasif Ghawadra, and Nidal Saba'na.
Palestinian resistance fighters also exchanged fire with the Israeli soldiers who invaded several parts of Jenin city.
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Mohammad Mousa Mohammad Saba'na died Tuesday after being shot in the chest while filming an Israeli invasion in Jenin.
Invading Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian photographing them, Injure 17 In Jenin
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As Palestinians in Jenin protested Israel's illegal demolition of a Palestinian home, Israeli forces opened fire on the protesters, killing Mohammad Saba'na and injuring others. Saba'na, 29, was holding his smartphone and documenting the Israeli invasion when soldiers shot him in the chest and other parts of his body. This is the sixth Palestinian in a week to die at Israeli hands...
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 7, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-one-palestinian-injure-nine-in-jenin/
On Tuesday dawn, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killing one Palestinian and injuring at least nine, two seriously. (PCHR, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, reports, "One Palestinian was killed, and 17 others, including 6 children, a woman, and a paramedic were injured").
Medical sources said the soldiers killed Mohammad Mousa Mohammad Saba'na, 29, after shooting him with live rounds in the chest and other parts of his body.
The Palestinian was holding his smartphone and documenting the Israeli invasion before the soldiers targeted him with a barrage of live rounds.
They added that at least seven Palestinians were also shot with live fire, including two who suffered life-threatening wounds, and at least two additional Palestinians were rammed by military vehicles.
Medical sources have confirmed that five of the seven Palestinians were shot with live fire to the upper parts of their bodies.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said many more Palestinians were injured, all shot with live fire and likely received treatment by medics from local hospitals and medical centers, and those rushed to medical centers by civilian cars.
The invasion was carried out by more than 100 armored military vehicles, including bulldozers, from several directions after surrounding and isolating Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp.
The soldiers also stormed, ransacked many homes and buildings, and used their rooftops as firing posts for their snipers.
In addition, the soldiers invaded an apartment building in the Eastern Neighborhood and forced the families, including many children, out of their homes.
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Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, died after a sudden and unexplained deterioration of health, while in Israeli custody.
Palestinian Detainee Dies in Israeli Jails, Another Victim of Medical Negligence
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Mousa Haron Abu Mehamid, from Bethlehem, was arrested for being in East Jerusalem without a permit. Since 1967, 231 Palestinian security detainees have died in Israeli prisons, including dozens who have died due to medical negligence.
reposted from PCHR – the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, September 3, 2022 https://pchrgaza.org/en/new-victim-of-medical-negligence-palestinian-detainee-dies-in-israeli-jails/ [/b]
Palestinian Detainee in Israeli jails, Mousa Haron Abu Mehamid, from Bethlehem, died today in the morning at the Israeli hospital "Assaf Harofeh." The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for a prompt and impartial investigation into Abu Mehamid's death circumstances and is strongly concerned that he might be a new victim of the medical negligence policy in the Israeli jails.
According to PCHR's follow-up, at around 06:00 on Saturday, 03 September 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities announced the death of Mousa Haron Abu Mehamid (40), from Beit Ta'mor village, eastern Bethlehem, noting he was a Palestinian detainee in al-Ramlah Prison.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Society said in a statement that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Mehamid after he entered occupied Jerusalem without a permit. His health condition had recently deteriorated after he got a microbe, without explaining what type or how he got it. Afterwards, he was referred to "Assaf Harofeh" hospital in Tel Aviv at the beginning of the month.
Haron Abu Mehamid said to PCHR's fieldworker that his son, Mousa, was arrested in June 2021 near Beit Safafa village in occupied East Jerusalem, allegedly for being illegally present in the occupied city without a permit. [Beit Safafa is a Palestinian town just south of West Jerusalem, inside annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. For more information see this.] He added that his son did not suffer any disease, and only 2 months ago he visited him, confirming his son was in good health.
Abu Mehamid's death sheds the light on the general deterioration of Palestinian detainees' conditions in the Israeli jails as there are 4550 Palestinians, including 175 children and 32 women, detained in 23 prisoners and detention facilities inside Israel in inhuman and cruel conditions that lack the standard minimum rules of the treatment of prisoners and detainees in detention. Among the detainees, there are 600 ill detainees; some of them suffer chronic and serious diseases.
According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, 231 security detainees have died in the Israeli prisons, including dozens who have died due to medical negligence policy since 1967.
PCHR hereby holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the death of Palestinian detainee Mehamid, who is the fourth detainee to die since the beginning of 2022, and for the lives of hundreds of ill detainees, who would face the same fate if the policy of deliberate medical negligence continued, especially under the unhealthy imprisonment conditions where prisoners are denied adequate healthcare. Similarly, PCHR:
1. Calls for a prompt and impartial investigation into the death circumstances.
2. Calls upon the International Committee of Red Crescent (ICRC) to intensify and ensure efficacy of their follow-up of the conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails and their imprisonment conditions.
3. Calls upon the international community to compel Israel to respect the rules of the international law and international humanitarian law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention and the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
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17 year old Haitham Hani Mubarak, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on September 8th, 2022.
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen Near Ramallah
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-teen-ramallah-haitham-mubarak/
Israeli forces claimed that a Palestinian teen had 'attacked them with a hammer' before they used lethal force against him, and abducted his body. This is the seventh Palestinian to die at Israeli hands in a little over a week.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 8, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-ramallah-6/
On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child near the main entrance of Beitin village, northeast of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed Haitham Hani Mubarak, 17, from Abu Falah village, east of Ramallah, but lives with his family in Betunia town, west of Ramallah.
The Israeli army is still refusing to transfer Haitham's corpse to his family.
Media sources said the soldiers shot the Palestinian near the Beit El military roadblock, near the entrance of Beitin, and closed the roadblock and the entire area around it. [These roadblocks are part of Israel's control over Palestinians under Israeli occupation.]
Israeli Channel 7 News claimed the Palestinian attacked Israeli soldiers with a hammer before a soldier opened fire and killed him and added that the soldiers also found a knife the Palestinian allegedly carried.
Channel 7 added that one soldier sustained light facial wounds and received treatment at the scene.
The soldiers also stopped and searched dozens of cars and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
In addition, the army pushed many military vehicles into the area and conducted extensive searches in lands near the northern entrance of the nearby Al-Biereh city and many surrounding areas.
Dozens of soldiers were later deployed in the area and started closing more streets and isolating junctions and many Palestinian communities.
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Hamad Abu Jilda was shot by invading Israeli forces Tuesday
Palestinian From Jenin, 24, Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Tuesday
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Another Palestinian has been killed by Israel's shoot-first policy – the eighth so far this month. (And an additional Palestinian died in an Israeli prison from medical negligence). Hamad Abu Jilda leaves behind a pregnant wife and a child.
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On Sunday dawn, the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, said a young man died at dawn from serious wounds he suffered Tuesday, September 6, in Jenin, after Israeli soldiers shot him.
The hospital said the Palestinian, Hamad Mustafa Abu Jilda, 24, from Jenin refugee camp, was shot and seriously injured by the Israeli army fire after dozens of military vehicles invaded Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp.
He was receiving treatment in Jenin and had to undergo several surgeries due to the seriousness of his wounds; he remained in a coma at the Intensive Care Unit until he succumbed to his injuries.
After his death, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the streets of Jenin city, carrying his coffin and chanting for ongoing resistance and steadfastness until liberation and independence, in addition to denouncing the escalating Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.
It is worth mentioning that Abu Jilda was also a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for 2.5 years.
The slain Palestinian is a married father of one child named Hamad, and his wife is pregnant with the second child.
Hamad was named after his uncle, who was killed by the Israeli army in 1992 in Jenin.
On September 8, Haitham Hani Mubarak, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers near the main entrance of Beitin village, northeast of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
On September 7, the soldiers killed Younis Ghassan Tayeh, 21, in the al-Far'a refugee camp, south of Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
On September 6, the soldiers killed Mohammad Mousa Saba'na, 29, and injured at least nine Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
On September 5, the soldiers invaded Jenin city and Qabatia town, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killed a young man, Taher Mohmmad Zakarna, 19, injured another, and abducted five.
On September 2, the soldiers killed Fadi Mohammad Fayez Ghattas, 19, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting soldiers, near Beit Einoun village junction, northeast of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On September 1, the soldiers killed Yazan Naim Affana, 24, after shooting him with live fire while the army withdrew from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Biereh city after the army invaded the Al-Biereh city in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
On the same day, the soldiers killed Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, in front of the main entrance of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On September 3, Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, a Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel, died at an Israeli medical center.
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ODAY SALAH, 17, WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES IN THE TOWN OF KAFR DAN IN THE NORTHERN OCCUPIED WEST BANK DISTRICT OF JENIN ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2022. (PHOTO: WAFA NEWS AGENCY)
17-year-old Palestinian sixth killed by Israeli forces in a week
Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian teenager Oday Salah in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin on Thursday morning. Since the beginning of the year, Israel has killed 149 Palestinians, 34 in the Jenin area.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin on Thursday morning, just 24 hours after two Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in confrontations in Jenin.
17-year-old Oday Salah was fatally shot with a bullet to the head after Israeli forces raided his village of Kafr Dan in the predawn hours of Thursday morning, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Wafa News Agency reported that the Israeli army raided the village and stationed snipers on rooftops. The raid sparked confrontations in the town, during which time the soldiers opened fire at a number of young men "who attempted to block their passage and protested the raid," Wafa said.
Salah was pronounced dead at the Khalil Suleiman Government Hospital in Jenin, and three others were injured.
The raid on Kafr Dan targeted the homes of Ahmed Ayman Abed, 23, and Abdulrahman Hani Abed, 22, cousins from Kafr Dan, who were killed the day before after they carried out a shooting at an Israeli military checkpoint outside Jenin that resulted in the death of an Israeli army officer.
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Jameela Abu Arabiya holds up a photo of her son Hosni, 25, who died by suicide in Gaza in July 2022.
Suicide in Gaza: "A message of anger"
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Hosni Abu Arabiya, 25, was unemployed and in debt. On 22 July, when the landlord came by the family home in Gaza's Beach refugee camp, Hosni pleaded with him for more time to come up with rent.
But the landlord refused.
"He told us that if we hadn't paid the rent by 30 July, he would force us to leave the house," Hosni's mother Jameela, 55, said.
Hosni owed money to another landlord as well, and Jameela estimated that he owed around $1,500 in total, an amount that would have seemed impossible to Hosni to pay. When working, he would typically earn between $4 and $11 a week, either as a plasterer or as a worker at a poultry slaughterhouse.
Not 15 minutes after the landlord had left, Jameela heard screams from the next room.
"I still don't know where he bought a liter of gasoline," she said. "He poured it on himself and on the ground and lit it. Fire spread all over his body. He started shouting and I rushed to hug him to extinguish the fire. The neighbors also came to put out the fire and they called the ambulance."
Hosni and his mother rode in the ambulance together. She said he was crying for her forgiveness because of the burns covering her body as well as his.
"He said he didn't intend to burn himself or me, I swear he didn't," she said. "He did that out of oppression and poverty."
Once they reached the hospital, Hosni was sent to the intensive care unit. Jameela had first and second degree burns on her hands, legs and head.
Several hours later, she left the hospital, but her son died the next morning due to the severity of his burns.
"He lived and died oppressed," Jameela said, noting that Hosni had to leave school at the age of 10 to work at the poultry slaughterhouse due to his father's kidney issues.
"All he wanted was a house and a stable source of income," she said. "Not one of the officials called us to know why Hosni burned himself. Should we burn ourselves to get governmental aid? No one cares about us, no one."
Message of anger
During the the first half of 2020, the Independent Commission for Human Rights – based in the West Bank city of Ramallah – documented a total of 12 suicides in the Gaza Strip, in addition to three to five attempts daily.
According to Mostafa Ibrahim, an advocacy coordinator at the commission, the commission documented 15 suicides in 2018 and 373 attempts.
That year, 87 percent of those individuals were less than 30 years old, he said.
And these are only the documented suicides. Due to stigma surrounding death by suicide, many attempts likely go unreported.
Yasser Abu Jame, the director general of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, said that the reasons for suicide in Gaza range from social to economic.
The 15-year Israeli siege and the numerous wars on the Gaza Strip have only deepened the sense of isolation and despair among Gaza's youths, he said, not to mention the material fact of poverty.
In 2020, more than 1 million Palestinians in Gaza lived beneath the poverty line – a poverty rate of 56 percent – due to the siege. As of March 2022, unemployment stood at 75 percent among college graduates aged 19 to 29.
"Burning oneself is a message of anger from youths to shed light on the hardships they face in their lives," Abu Jame said.
The outlook for future generations of Palestinians living in Gaza is equally dire. According to a June 2022 report from Save the Children, four out of five children report living with "depression, grief and fear."
"An Israeli bullet turned my life into hell"
"I lost hope in life," Rami, 37, said.
Rami, who requested to be identified by a pseudonym, used to own a marble workshop that employed 16 workers. He earned a relatively comfortable monthly income of $800 to $1,000.
Yet, because of the Israeli blockade, which has inflicted huge damage to Gaza's economy, his business flopped.
"I started selling my machines and tools to provide for my five-member family," he said. "Then I had to close the workshop in May 2018."
His circumstances further deteriorated three months later, in August 2018, when an Israeli sniper shot him in his right leg during the Great March of Return.
During these marches, Palestinians in Gaza peacefully sought to claim their right to return to their homeland.
But from March 2018 to July 2019, Israel killed at least 311 Palestinians, including 44 children. More than 34,000 people were injured during that time.
Rami's injury was so severe that doctors recommended amputation. But he refused, instead seeking treatment locally and in Egypt.
"The shock was when an Egyptian medical delegate in Gaza told me that I had chronic necrotizing inflammation, which exacerbated my wound," he said. "After the first surgery, I got my leg amputated three times in three years."
After the last surgery, in June 2020 in Gaza, Rami wasn't prepared for the mental impact of the amputation.
"When my children were allowed to see me the next day, they burst into tears and asked me: 'Dad, where is your leg?'"
A rush of negative thoughts streamed into his head. "I will be powerless, unemployed and a burden to society for all my life," he thought.
He overdosed on a prescribed medication and woke up from a coma after two weeks in intensive care.
When he returned home a week later, his family asked him why he tried to end his life, but he could not answer them.
Speaking to The Electronic Intifada from his home in Gaza, Rami wore a black jalabiya and spoke of the past two years with a heavy sorrow in his voice.
Since recovering from his overdose, life has not gotten easier. He has been diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure and, in 2021, he had to undergo a cardiac catheterization.
"An Israeli bullet turned my life into hell," he said.
Currently, his sole source of income is $175 a month, paid by the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza.
"Do you have a shekel in your pocket?"
In Yasser Abu Jame's work as a psychiatrist, he has observed an uptick in discussions of death among youths in Gaza. Many of them see no point in living and, when faced with yet another setback in a life that is full of setbacks, it is difficult to cope.
Khaled, 23, for instance, who requested to be identified by a pseudonym, was hopeful for his future.
Throughout 2018 and 2019, he was working for his family's profitable currency exchange business. Yet, in 2019, their business could not withstand the pressure of the Israeli blockade and collapsed.
The family lost an estimated $400,000 in savings.
"Then I had to work as a vendor in public markets, earning 20 shekels [almost $6] or less for 12 hours of work," he said, even though he has a college degree in business administration.
Even amid these difficulties, Khaled found love. And the feeling was reciprocated.
But, when, in June 2021, another man asked for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, Khaled lost all hope.
"My girlfriend refused, but her mother forced her to agree to him [the other man]," he said. "I told my father to ask for her hand for me, but he refused and asked me: 'Do you have a shekel in your pocket?' So, he didn't stand with me."
Khaled jumped out a third-story window.
"I fell on a chicken coop and then fainted," he said. "Luckily, I only had some scratches on my body and none of my bones were broken. I left the hospital after three days."
Khaled wishes he could emigrate but he lacks the funds to do so.
"If there wasn't an occupation or a siege," he said, "we could build up our business again."
Until then, Khaled continues to work long hours for low wages.
"The available work for Gaza youths is slavery," he said. "I usually think of ending my life sometimes, but my religious thoughts ban me."
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Mohammad Osama Abu Jom'a, dead at age 23.
Israeli Soldiers Kill 23-year-old Near Ramallah
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Lethal force was used against yet another Palestinian – Mohammad Abu Jom'a. This is the 12th Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers this month; one Israeli was also killed during that time.
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On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in Modi'in Illit illegal colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands west of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The slain Palestinian has been identified as Mohammad Osama Abu Jom'a, 23, from the at-Tour town in occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli sources claimed that the Palestinian mildly injured eight Israeli colonizers after he allegedly "lunged at a car, tried to open its doors and attacked the Israelis with a knife and pepper spray." (Jom'a's family dispute this claim and give a different account of the incident – see below.)
Israelis alleged that two "Israelis were stabbed and suffered light wounds, and six were maced with pepper spray before an off-duty police officer who happened to be in the area fatally shot the Palestinian."
Israeli medical sources said the injured Israelis were all treated by medics at the scene due to their mild wounds.
According to Israeli reports, Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai arrived at the scene and met Senior Staff Sergeant "Major D." a Border Police officer who killed the Palestinian Mohammad Osama Abu Jom'a, and saluted him.
The man only referred to a Major D. stated that he was in his car with his wife when the Palestinian opened the door and "tried to stab them," he also presented his version of the "sequence of events" that led to him fatally shooting Mohammad.
The officer claimed that, after the Palestinian tried to open the car's door to stab his wife, he stepped on the gas and sped away to a distance of about 20 meters before getting out of the vehicle and heading to Mohammad.
The officer also claimed that he only drew his weapon and fired several shots when he saw the Palestinian running toward him and alleged that Mohammad continued to run in his direction before he fired more rounds at him.
The Border Police commissioner, Amir Cohen also "thanked the officer" for his "professionalism and for saving lives...."
The family of the slain Palestinian, Mohammad Osama Abu Jom'a, denied the Israeli allegations and said that Mohammad and one of his relatives worked at the colony and added that an argument broke out between Mohammad and his employer before a colonizer used pepper spray, leading to a scuffle and the subsequent fatal shooting.
They added that no knife or sharp objects were involved, and that Mohammad's life could have been spared if the off-duty officer in plain clothes did not elect to use his firearm and used other means to defuse the situation.
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Child Killed After Falling From Altitude As Israel Soldiers Chased Him In Bethlehem
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that a child, only seven years of age, died after falling from a high altitude when Israeli soldiers chased him and many schoolchildren when Israeli soldiers invaded Tuqu town, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded the Khirbat ad-Deir area in Tuqu and chased many children while walking back to their homes.
The Health Ministry said the child has been identified as Rayyan Yasser Suleiman, 7, and added that Palestinian medics rushed him to the Emergency Department of Beit Jala governmental hospital, but he had no heartbeats, and all efforts to save his life failed.
After the child's death, many soldiers invaded his family's home and ransacked it, before interrogating his parents and other Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers have killed 35 Palestinian children, 19 in the West Bank and 16 in the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year, the Health Ministry stated.
Also Thursday, the soldiers invaded a Palestinian school in the southern area of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, before attacking and injuring many schoolchildren and teachers.
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians and injured forty-four, some seriously, in a massive invasion of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Added October 1, 2022
Updated: Palestinian Child Dies From Heart Attack After Israeli Soldiers Chased Him In Bethlehem
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Updated: The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that a child, only seven years of age, has died from a heart attack after Israeli soldiers chased the terrified child to his home, accusing him and his brother of throwing stones at them.
Initial reports indicated that the soldiers chased Rayyan Yasser Suleiman, 7, and many other schoolchildren when the army invaded Tuqu town, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, before he fell from an altitude and died.
However, further investigations and testimonies, including one of his teachers, revealed that the soldiers literally scared the child to death when many soldiers stormed and ransacked his family's home to abduct his brother.
The Israeli army claimed the soldiers wanted "question the parents about a stone-throwing incident. However, it is not unusual for the Israeli occupation army to abduct and interrogate small children.
The Health Ministry said Palestinian medics rushed Rayyan to the Emergency Department of Beit Jala governmental hospital, but he had no heartbeats, and all efforts to save his life failed.
After the child's death, many soldiers invaded his family's home and ransacked it before interrogating his parents and other Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers have killed 35 Palestinian children, 19 in the West Bank and 16 in the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year, the Health Ministry stated.
Also Thursday, the soldiers invaded a Palestinian school in the southern area of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, before attacking and injuring many schoolchildren and teachers.
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians and injured forty-four, some seriously, in a massive invasion of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that a child, only seven years of age, has died from a heart attack after Israeli soldiers chased the terrified child to his home, accusing him of throwing stones at them.
Initial reports indicated that the soldiers chased Rayyan Yasser Suleiman, 7, and many schoolchildren when they invaded Tuqu town, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, before he fell from an altitude and died.
However, further investigations and testimonies, including one of his teachers, revealed that the soldiers literally scared the child to death when many soldiers stormed and ransacked his family's home to abduct his brother.
His teacher said Rayyan had breakfast with the other children and had a normal school day until the school day was done and the children started heading back to their homes, especially since most of them walk to school back and forth every day as many villages and towns, including Tuqu, are relatively small.
Israeli soldiers are constantly deployed near schools in the town and several other areas in the occupied West Bank, in the mornings and the afternoons, an issue that frequently leads to protests,
The Israeli army claimed they wanted to arrest his brother, but it is not unusual for the Israeli occupation army to abduct and interrogate small children.
The Health Ministry said Palestinian medics rushed Rayyan to the Emergency Department of Beit Jala governmental hospital, but he had no heartbeats, and all efforts to save his life failed.
Initial reports were conflicted when the soldiers chased the child, causing him to fall from an altitude or if he had a heart attack. However, what is clear is that the soldiers literally scared the child to death when their invasion caused him, despite his very young age, to have a fatal heart attack.
After the child's death, many soldiers invaded his family's home and ransacked itn before interrogating his parents and other Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers have killed 35 Palestinian children, 19 in the West Bank and 16 in the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year, the Health Ministry stated.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill Four, Injure Forty-Four Palestinians, In Jenin
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Updated: The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians and injured forty-four, some seriously, in a massive invasion of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Ministry said the fourth slain Palestinian has been identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Barahma, 30, from Anzah village, southwest of Jenin.
The Ministry added that the soldiers also shot forty-four Palestinians, including several young men who suffered life-threatening wounds, and children.
Most of the wounded Palestinians were shot in the head, neck, and chest, and several Palestinians were shot in the abdomen area.
Two of the seriously wounded Palestinians have not been identified due to their serious upper-body wounds, and the hospital is appealing to the Palestinians to help identify them and to donate blood.
The soldiers also killed Abdul-Rahman Fathi Khazem, 27, Mohammad Hisham Abu Na'sa, 25, from Jenin refugee camp, and Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 26, from Jenin city.
The Palestinians announced a general strike in several parts of the occupied West Bank and haled massive protests in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, and several other areas of the occupied territory, causing many injuries.
Also, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli colonizers invaded Madama village near Nablus and injured eight Palestinians.
Sep 28, 2022, at 12:18: Updated 2: The Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed three Palestinians, Abdul-Rahman Fathi Khazem, 27, Mohammad Mahmoud Barahma, 30, and Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 26. At least Forty-four Palestinians have been injured, three serious, including one whose skull was shattered by a bullet fired by an Israeli army sharpshooter.
Abdul-Rahman was ambushed between Palestinian homes before the soldiers executed him before he noticed them, eyewitnesses have confirmed.
He is the brother of Ra'ad Fathi Khazem, 29, who, on April 8, 2022, was killed by Israeli forces while hiding near a mosque in Jaffa. The soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp to abduct his father.
The massive Israeli invasion of Jenin and Jenin refugee camp is still ongoing amidst ongoing protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.
The Health Ministry said the number of wounded Palestinians arrived to at least forty-four, including several serious injuries.
One of the wounded Palestinians is a seriously injured child who the Israeli soldiers shot with two live rounds in the chest and the thigh, severely a main artery.
Ambulances are still moving wounded Palestinians to hospitals in Jenin, while many are still trying to reach the areas of protests, especially in Jenin refugee camps and near Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin city.
Some of the wounded were shot in the head and the chest; the extent of their wounds is to be determined.
Palestinian civilians are also using their cars to transport wounded Palestinians to hospitals.
Updated:
Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure Fourteen, In Jenin
Sep 28, 2022, at 11:18
Updated 1: The Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed three Palestinians, Abed Fathi Khazem, 27, Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Wanna, 30, and Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 26.
The Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 24, from Jenin, after shooting him with a live round in the head. The soldiers also shot and injured fourteen, including at least two who suffered serious wounds.
The Health Ministry said an Israeli sharpshooter shot Ahmad with a live round in the head during an exchange of fire near the main entrance of the refugee camp, inflicting very serious wounds before he succumbed to critical injuries at a hospital in Jenin.
The Health Ministry also confirmed nine injuries, including two who suffered life-threatening wounds, and added that the latest injury was when one Palestinian was shot with a high0velicty gas bomb in the thigh was standing near several medics.
Also among the wounded was a child who was shot in the leg, the Health Ministry stated.
The Israeli army is ongoing with its invasion and is using armed drones and sharpshooters, Palestine TV said.
Palestine TV added that the army repeatedly pretended to be withdrawing from the area and waited until dozens of Palestinians gathered in the streets before advancing and firing live rounds on them.
The soldiers also frequently targeted Palestinian ambulances, medics, and reporters with live fire to force them to leave.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds at several schools in the area, causing damage, and anxiety attacks among the children in a kindergarten.
Amry sharpshooters were still operating in the area, and continue to fire at Palestinians in the streets, amidst ongoing protests.
The number of injuries could be higher than confirmed because the soldiers are still isolating the invaded area, and are attacking medics, ambulances and journalists.
Israeli army sharpshooters are still occupying rooftops of several buildings and are firing at Palestinian protesters. The army's armed drones also continue to operate in the area.
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Nine Palestinians, Two Seriously, In Jenin
Sep 28, 2022, at 10:25
On Wednesday, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded the areas surrounding the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and surrounded a home before firing a missile at it, in addition to shooting at least nine Palestinians, two seriously.
Palestine TV said the armored military vehicles, including two bulldozers, surrounded the family home of Ra'ad Fathi Khazem, 29, who, on April 8, 2022, was killed by Israeli forces while hiding near a mosque in Jaffa, before an armed drone fired a missile at it.
The army said its soldiers invaded Jenin to arrests Ra'ad's father and his brother and alleged that the brother is responsible for firing live rounds at soldiers of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps near the Al-Jalama roadblock two weeks earlier.
The home is at the entrance of the refugee camp, and the army fired the missile at it without invading the refugee camp because it was expecting heavy armed resistance.
The attack led to protests in several parts of Jenin before the soldiers targeted the Palestinians with live fire and fired many rounds at ambulances and medical teams trying to evacuate wounded Palestinian.
Dr. Wisam Bakr, the director of Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, said the soldiers shot two Palestinians with live fire in the chest and the head, inflicting life-threatening wounds, in addition to shooting at least two seven young men. Palestine TV said one of the wounded is the brother of Ra'ad Hazem.
The soldiers also closed the Jenin refugee camp and surrounding areas and attacked Palestinian journalists to prevent them from entering the city to document the invasion and the unfolding events.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded several tall buildings and ransacked them before occupying their rooftop to use them as firing posts for their sharpshooters.
The sharpshooters on top of the buildings, and others hiding behind trees and homes, fired many live rounds at Palestinian protesters, including many rounds toward journalists and press vehicles.
Palestinian children in schools in the invaded area in Jenin and Jenin refugee camps were told to hide under the desks and behind the concrete walls in their classrooms due to the intensity of Israeli army fire, especially the sharpshooters.
School administrations said they advised the children to remain in their educational facilities because of the ongoing invasion and the extensity of Israeli army fires in the streets.
Salam Taher, the director of the Education Ministry in Jenin, said many children suffered severe anxiety attacks, and added that the children in classes on the upper floors were taken to the lower levels to avoid direct Israeli army fire.
She added that the schools are taking all precautionary measures to ensure the safety of the children and staffers in the schools.
Furthermore, the army deployed dozens of additional soldiers, closed and surrounded Jenin city, and deployed many armored vehicles to surround several areas, especially near and around the Jenin refugee camp.
Reports remain scarce due to Israel's isolation and closure of the Jenin refugee camp and the fact that the army is preventing journalists and medics from entering it.
Ambulances, medics and journalists are trying to enter the refugee camp, but the soldiers continue to prevent them and are threatening to target them with live fire.
Armed military drones are still flying over Jenin and Jenin refugee camp.
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Sa'ed al-Koni
Israeli Soldiers Assassinate Palestinian – 14th this month (1 Israeli dead)
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On Sunday, invading Israeli forces killed yet another Palestinian. Sa'ed al-Koni, 26, had tried to resist the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation. Israeli soldiers ambushed him and injured three others...
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 25, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-assassinate-a-palestinian-injure-three-in-nablus/
On Sunday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, assassinated one Palestinian, and injured three others.
Media sources said the slain Palestinian has been identified as Sa'ed Adnan al-Koni, 26, and added that the soldiers also shot at least three others with live fire.
The Palestinian was killed when the soldiers ambushed several Palestinians and fired live rounds at a motorcycle and a car driving in the city. The slain Palestinian was the one driving the motorcycle.
Eyewitnesses said the Palestinians in the ambushed car managed to flee the scene, but the army injured some of them.
The soldiers also abducted two Palestinians, Ashraf Kousa and Taqeyeddin Boshkar, from the Ta'awon neighborhood and the Housing Projects in the city.
Media sources said Palestinian fighters also exchanged fire with the invading soldiers.
The Israeli army said its soldiers ambushed the Palestinians and opened fire on them "after identifying them as the persons responsible for several incidents of firing rounds at Har Bracha colony," an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
The Palestinian, Sa'ed al-Koni, was identified and assassinated before noticing the soldiers who ambushed him and the other young men. The army took his corpse before leaving the area.
The army said the Golani Brigade soldiers "opened fire at armed Palestinians who were identified on a motorcycle and in a car" in Nablus.
The slain Palestinian was a member of the "Lion's Den" resistance group, which includes fighters from several factions; the group aims to unify armed resistance fighters regardless of political affiliation.
On Saturday, September 24, the soldiers killed Mohammad Ali Hussein Abu Kafia, 36, after his car accidentally collided with an empty police vehicle near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in September:
September 25, 2022, Sa'ed al-Koni, 26.
September 24, 2022, Mohammad Ali Abu Kafia, 36
September 22, 2022, Mohammad Osama Abu Jom'a, 23
September 15, 2022, Odai Trad Hisham Salah, 17
September 14, 2022, Abdul-Rahman Hani 'Aabed, 22
September 14, 2022, Ahmad Ayman 'Aabed, 23
September 11, 2022, Hamad Mustafa Abu Jilda, 24
September 08, 2022, Haitham Hani Mubarak, 16
September 07, 2022, Younis Ghassan Tayeh, 21
September 06, 2022, Mohammad Mousa Saba'na, 29
September 05, 2022, Taher Mohmmad Zakarna, 20
September 02, 2022, Fadi Mohammad Ghattas, 19
September 01, 2022, Yazan Naim Affana, 24
September 01, 2022, Samer Mahmoud Khaled, 25
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Fayez Damdoum (18), Bassel Basbous (19), Khaled Anbar (21), killed by Israeli military bullets.
Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians – two of them teens – in two dayshttps://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-three-palestinians-two-teens-in-two-days/
Twenty-two Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of September (six of them under 20 years old); one Israeli soldier has also been killed. As is often the case with Palestinians shot by Israel, two of these latest victims were denied medical assistance, and their bodies are being withheld.QuoteISRAELI SOLDIERS KILL A PALESTINIAN IN JERUSALEM
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 3, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-jerusalem-8/
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in the Al-Ezariyya town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian has been identified as Fayez Khaled Damdoum, 18, and confirmed that the Israeli soldiers shot him with a live round in the neck. [Some reports give his age as 17.]
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at the slain Palestinian while driving his motorcycle near a local mosque in the town.
Israeli Ynet News claimed that the slain Palestinian "was driving a scooter during an exchange of fire" when the soldiers shot him and alleged that Palestinian protesters also hurled an explosive charge.
Palestinian sources said there were protests in the area, and the soldiers were firing live rounds randomly, killing the young man and seriously wounding another.
The slain Palestinian was not participating in the protests and was passing through the area.
QuoteISRAELI ARMY KILLS TWO PALESTINIANS, INJURES ONE, NEAR RAMALLAH
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 3, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-army-kills-two-palestinians-injures-one-near-ramallah/
On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians and moderately wounded one near the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said several armored military vehicles invaded the area of the Palestinian Education Ministry, near the refugee camp, before fatally shooting two young men and moderately wounding another.
They added that the Palestinians were in a car, approximately at 3:30 at dawn, heading to work when the soldiers fired many live rounds at their car, killing two and moderately wounding a third before taking them and the car to an unknown destination.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Bassel Qassem Basbous, 19, and Khaled Fadi Anbar, 21, from the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp.
The wounded Palestinian, whom the soldiers also abducted, has been identified as Ra'fat Salama Habash, 19, from the nearby town of Birzeit.
Eyewitnesses said the two slain Palestinians were still bleeding when the soldiers detained them and refused to allow Palestinian medics to reach them.
The Israeli army claimed it invaded the area "to arrest wanted Palestinians when a car came at them at high speed before the soldiers opened fire at it, killing two and wounding one."
The army alleged that Palestinians tried to carry out a ramming attack against the soldiers; however, eyewitnesses denied the allegations and said the Palestinians driving the car were surprised by the soldiers invading the area before the army fired several live rounds at them.
The army took the corpses of the two slain Palestinians, and the wounded, to an unknown destination.
It is worth mentioning that the army abducted, at dawn Monday, at least sixteen Palestinians during invasions and searches of dozens of homes and buildings across the occupied West Bank.
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Invading Israeli soldiers kill one Palestinian, injure two near Nablus
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21-year-old Alaa Nasser Ahmed Zaghal was shot dead by a bullet to the head. As Israeli soldiers tried to flush out a different person taking cover inside a house, they also shot others in the area – including journalists. More than 165 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire this year, including 51 in the Gaza Strip and at least 110 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. 18 Israelis have also died. The Palestinian death toll in the West Bank is the highest on record in a single year since 2015.
reposted from Middle East Eye, October 5, 2022 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-killed-raid-nablus-west-bank
Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian man and wounded others near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday during an army raid, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The victim, who was hit with a bullet to the head, was identified as 21-year-old Alaa Nasser Ahmed Zaghal.
A large Israeli force, accompanied by army bulldozers, stormed Deir al-Hatab village near Nablus in the afternoon before surrounding a residential building and shooting at people inside.
The building reportedly housed Palestinian resistance fighter Salman Omar, who returned fire for three hours before he ran out of ammunition and was later arrested by the Israeli army.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah-affiliated resistance group, said its fighters responded to the raid with live fire as street fights with Israeli forces were reported in several locations. The Israeli army confirmed in a brief statement that it was operating in the area.
At least five Palestinians were wounded, including journalists Mahmoud Faouzi and Louay al-Samhan.
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Translation: Israeli occupation forces directly target fellow journalists and wound reporters Mahmoud Faouzi and Louay al-Samhan during their coverage of events in Deir al-Hatab village in Nablus
The raid comes amid high alert across Israel and Palestine, and sweeping restrictions on Palestinians as Israelis observe the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
Israeli forces have ramped up their near-daily raid-and-arrest operations across the West Bank in recent months to stamp out a resurgence of Palestinian armed resistance, particularly in the northern cities of Nablus and Jenin.
More than 165 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire this year, including 51 in the Gaza Strip and at least 110 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The death toll in the West Bank is the highest on record in a single year since 2015.
At least two Israeli soldiers have been killed by Palestinian fire since May.
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(L-R) Mahdi Ladadweh, 17, shot in the chest, & Adel Ibrahim Daoud, 14, shot in the head.
Israeli forces kill two more Palestinian teens
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In what has become entirely too common, Israeli soldiers have killed two more young Palestinians. The soldiers also shot at paramedics. Israeli forces have killed 117 Palestinians in the past six months, while 8 Israelis have died. The Palestinian death toll in the West Bank is already the highest on record in a single year since 2015.
reposted from WAFA – Palestine News and Information Agency, October 7, 2022 https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/131196
Two Palestinians, including a child, were shot dead this evening in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank provinces of Ramallah and Qalqilia, according to local and medical sources.
In Ramallah, a Palestinian young man was shot dead and another one injured by Israeli occupation forces during confrontations in the village of Al-Mazra'a al-Qibliya, to the northwest of Ramallah.
Witnesses told WAFA that local Palestinian villagers were countering an attack by Israeli settlers on the village when Israeli occupation soldiers opened gunfire at them, killing Mahdi Ladadweh, by a live shot in his abdomen, and injuring at least another one, the sources added.
The wounded was rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
Meantime in Qalqilia, north of the West Bank, a 14-year-old Palestinian child died of wounds he had sustained earlier today when Israeli soldiers fired live shots at him near the Israeli segregation barrier, close to the city. The child was identified as Adel Ibrahim Daoud.
Ha'aretz reports that Daoud was shot in the head.
The report also states: "In a widely circulated video online (below), Israeli soldiers appear to be attacking paramedics and others trying to evacuate Ladadwah from the scene where he was shot. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, Israeli forces wounded 50 other Palestinians in the village with live or rubber bullets and tear gas.
This video of the aftermath of the shooting of Mahdi Ladadwah shows Israeli soldiers adamantly refusing to let anyone near to help the young man.
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On Saturday, Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians Mahmoud Moayyad Sous (18) and Ahmad Mohammad Hussein Daraghma (24)
Dozens of Israeli armored vehicles, helicopters invade Jenin, kill 2, injure 11
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Once again, invading Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians – a teen & a 24-year-old. 27 Palestinians have been killed at Israeli hands since the beginning of September; one Israeli has also been killed.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 8, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-injure-eleven-in-jenin/
On Saturday dawn, many armored Israeli military vehicles invaded the Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killing two Palestinians and injuring at least eleven, three seriously.
Undercover soldiers first invaded Jenin and Jenin refugee camp, then dozens of armored military vehicles invaded the refugee camp from several directions, leading to protests.
Medical sources at Ibn Sina Specialist Hospital in Jenin said the soldiers killed Mahmoud Moayyad Sous, 18, after shooting him with a live round in the neck and added that the soldiers also shot seven Palestinians, three seriously.
One of the seriously wounded Palestinians, Ahmad Mohammad Hussein Daraghma, 24, from Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered during protests in Jenin city.
Medical sources at the Jenin governmental hospital said Ahmad suffered serious gunshot wounds to the head and succumbed to his injuries.
The head of the Jenin governmental hospital, Wisam Bakr, said the medical center provided treatment to one Palestinian who was shot in the shoulder and two in the lower extremities.
Also, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers shot six Palestinians in the lower extremities before the medics rushed them to Jenin governmental hospital.
Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, cuts, and bruises before receiving treatment from local medics.
Furthermore, medical sources at Ibn Sina hospital said an Israeli army jeep rammed Anwar Abu as-Siba' and his daughter, Eman, while standing in front of their home in the refugee camp.
The soldiers also fired dozens of gas bombs, smoke, and concussion grenades at Palestinian protesters and surrounding homes.
During the Israeli invasion, Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, while some protesters also hurled stones and pipe bombs at the army vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also used military helicopters during the invasion.
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(L) A Palestinian throws stones at an Israeli military vehicle following a lethal Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin that killed 4 Palestinians on Sept. 28, 2022. (R) Mahmoud Sammoudi, 12, from Al-Yamoun town west of Jenin, shot by Israeli forces Sept 28, succumbed to wounds Oct. 10.
12-year-old dies from injuries after Israeli soldier shot him Sept 28 in Jenin
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Mahmoud Sammoudi, 12, from Al-Yamoun town west of Jenin, succumbed to wounds inflicted by Israeli soldiers who had invaded the West Bank, killing four Palestinians outright and injuring 44. Israeli forces have killed 120 Palestinians in the past six months, while 9 Israelis have also died.
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-on-september-28-in-jenin/
On Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a child who, on September 28, was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire when the soldiers also killed four young Palestinian men in Jenin and Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
The Health Ministry identified the slain child as Mahmoud Mohammad Sammoudi, 12, from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin.
The three Palestinians killed on the day of the invasions of Jenin and its refugee camp were identified as Mohammad Hisham Abu Na'sa, 25, Abdul-Rahman Fathi Khazem, 27, Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 24, and Mohammad Mahmoud Barahma, 30.
On the day of the Israeli invasion, the soldiers injured forty-four Palestinians, including several young men and children, who suffered life-threatening wounds.
The child's death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the beginning of this year to 165.
On Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced the death of Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, an Israeli soldier who was shot by a Palestinian at a military roadblock near Shu'fat, in occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday evening. [21 Israelis have been killed this year.]
Editor's note: Thanks to the Israel lobby, American taxpayers give Israel over $10 million of their tax money per day, while another $10 million per day is expended on projects because they benefit Israel. Many people say it's time for this to end.
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Osama Mahmoud Adawi, dead at 18, at the hands of an Israeli soldier
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen Near Hebron
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Osama Mahmoud Adawi, 18, is the tenth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces this month, and the sixth teenager (three of the dead were in their 20s, one was twelve years old). Palestinians have also killed one Israeli soldier.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 13, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-hebron-5/
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian and injured several others during protests that occurred at the entrance of the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers shot Osama Mahmoud Adawi, 18, with a live round in the abdomen area, causing severe bleeding and internal organ damage.
The Health Ministry added that Osama was rushed to a clinic in the town; however, his heart stopped, and the doctors revived him before rushing him to Bethlehem Arab Society Hospital in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem.
The Health Ministry later confirmed that the young man succumbed to his serious wounds at the hospital despite all efforts to save his life.
The soldiers also injured several other Palestinians in the refugee camp; some were shot with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In related news, the soldiers shot six young Palestinian men during protests in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.
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Most recent Palestinian deaths: (top left) resistance fighter Mohammad Maher Sa'id Ghawadra, 17,; (top right) Mateen Dabaya, 25; (bottom left) Dr. Abdullah Abu At-Teen, 43; (bottom right) Qais Emad Shojaya, 23.
4 Palestinians dead on Friday: Israeli soldiers kill 3; 1 resistance fighter succumbs
https://israelpalestinenews.org/4-palestinians-dead-on-friday-israeli-soldiers-kill-3-a-resistance-fighter-succumbs/
Among the dead are a teen, and a doctor who was rendering first aid to the injured when an Israeli sharpshooter shot him in the head. Israel has killed at least 150 Palestinians since the beginning of the year; about 21 Israelis have also been killed.
by Kathryn Shihadah
Still more grieving families in the occupied West Bank Friday, as invading Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, and a fourth died from wounds incurred last month during an alleged resistance action against Israeli soldiers.
IMEMC reports that Israeli sharpshooters killed 2 Palestinians and injured many others Friday morning during a massive invasion of the occupied Palestinian city of Jenin.
An Israeli sharpshooter shot Dr. Abdullah Al-Ahmad, 43, in the head as he tried to provide medical treatment to another injured Palestinian.
An Israeli sharpshooter also shot Mateen Dabaya, 25, in the head. (Some sources place his age at 20).
Al Jazeera reports that eyewitness videos show Israeli forces also shooting at ambulances.
On Friday night, Israeli forces killed 23-year-old Qais Shojaya after he allegedly fired shots toward the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit Eil, built on confiscated Palestinian land and home to many religious extremists. Soldiers then took Shojaya's corpse.
Israel has now begun a manhunt for a second Palestinian who was apparently with Shojaya but escaped.
Friday morning, 17-year-old Mohammad Ghawadra died while under detention in an Israeli hospital. He had been injured on September 4th, when he and his cousin allegedly attacked a bus in the West Bank transporting Israeli soldiers to a military post.
According to the Israeli army, they fired and threw Molotov cocktails at the bus, injuring a few people, and one ignited inside the men's vehicle. Ghawadra sustained burns over 90% of his body.
Some Palestinians occasionally carry out resistance operations against Israeli targets, in response to Israeli land theft, home demolitions, assassinations, decades of occupation, and other forms of oppression.
Much of Palestinian resistance is nonviolent, though mainstream media rarely reports it this way, and frequently fails to report on Israeli violence.
Mainstream media are reporting that the Israeli attacks on Jenin are a response to the killing of an Israeli soldier on October 9, but neglect to report that Israeli forces had killed 20 Palestinians in the previous month and had invaded the West Bank numerous times.
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Israeli military killed Mujahed Ahmad Mohammad Daoud, age 31.
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian – 15th this month
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Invading Israeli soldiers shot Mujahed Daoud, 31, in the chest – the 15th Palestinian fatality in October and 171st in 2022. One Israeli (a soldier) has been killed this month, 21 this year.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 16, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-man-near-salfit/
On Sunday dawn, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of Mujahed Ahmad Mohammad Daoud, 31, as a result of critical wounds he sustained when the invading Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire in the chest near Salfit.
The Palestinian was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, northwest of Salfit in the central West Bank.
Mujahed was one of 5 civilians who were injured during protests that erupted in Qarawat Bani Hassan between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces on Saturday afternoon.
At the time, the Health Ministry confirmed five were injured and added that two (including Mujahed) suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds to the chest and were rushed to Salfit governmental hospital.
Mujahed was later rushed to the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah due to the seriousness of his injuries, but he succumbed to his wounds.
Local sources said that more than 10 military vehicles stormed the village on Saturday afternoon, leading to massive protests, during which a number of villagers were shot by invading Israeli soldiers.
On Friday night, the soldiers killed Qais Emad Shojaya, 23, from Deir Jarir village east of Ramallah, fired live rounds in the direction of Beit Eil colony, north of Ramallah, before he was shot.
Earlier Friday, an Israeli army sharpshooter killed a Palestinian doctor, Abdullah Al-Ahmad, 43, while trying to render first aid to wounded Palestinians in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.
During the invasion of Jenin, the soldiers also killed Mateen Dabaya, 25, from the Jenin refugee camp and injured many Palestinians, including medics, especially after the army deliberately targeted them and their ambulance.
On Friday dawn, a Palestinian,Mohammad Maher Sa'id(Ghawadra), 17, from the Jenin refugee camp, died from serious wounds he suffered along with his cousin in early September of this year before they were abducted by the soldiers allegedly for being behind an attack targeting a bus transporting Israeli soldier to a military base.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli soldiers have killed 171 Palestinians this year, 2022, including 15 this month.
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Most recent Palestinians killed: Mohammad Fadi Nouri, 16, and Odai Kamal Tamimi, 22
Israeli killing continues, with 2 Palestinian deaths on Thursday
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The 16th and 17th Palestinians killed by invading Israeli forces this month: one went down in an act of resistance, the other, 16, was shot during a protest
PALESTINIAN CHILD DIES FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED SEPTEMBER 28 IN RAMALLAH
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 20, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-dies-from-wounds-suffered-september-28-in-ramallah/
On Thursday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a Palestinian child whom Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured more than three weeks ago in Betunia town, west of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West bank.
The Health Ministry said the child, Mohammad Fadi Nouri, 16, was shot with a live round in the abdomen, leading to extensive internal organ damage and bleeding, and remained in a serious condition until he succumbed to his wounds.
Mohammad, from Betunia town west of Ramallah, was shot on September 28 during protests at the northern entrance of Al-Biereh city near Ramallah when the soldiers also shot and seriously injured many Palestinians.
The Palestinians were protesting the death of four Palestinians, Mohammad Hisham Abu Na'sa, 25 Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 24 Abdul-Rahman Fathi Khazem, 27 Mohammad Mahmoud Barahma, 30, who were killed by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
On Wednesday night, Israeli soldiers killed Odai Kamal Tamimi, 22, near Ma'ale Adumim illegal colony, east of the occupied capital Jerusalem in the West Bank, after he opened fire at security guards, mildly wounded one.
The Israeli army has been looking for Odai after holding him responsible for the death of an Israeli soldier, Noa Lazar, 18, and the serious injury of a security guard at a military roadblock near Shu'fat.
A day before the soldier's death, the army killed Ahmad Mohammad Hussein Daraghma, 24, and Mahmoud Moayyad Sous, 18, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Their deaths also came just a day after the Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian teens, Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud, 14, and Mahdi Mohammad Ladadwa, 17, and injured dozens of Palestinians near Qalqilia and Ramallah in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank.
On October 11, an Israeli soldier, Ido Baruch, 20, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered in a shooting targeting a large group of Israeli colonizers, guarded by dozens of soldiers, marching near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers killed 174 Palestinians since the beginning of this year, 2022, 123 of them in the West Bank and 51 in the Gaza Strip and added that among the slain Palestinians are 41 children.
ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILL A PALESTINIAN NEAR JERUSALEM
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 20, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-jerusalem-4/
On Wednesday night, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near Ma'ale Adumim illegal colony, east of the occupied capital Jerusalem in the West Bank, after he opened fire at security guards, mildly wounded one.
The Israeli army said the Palestinian, Odai Kamal Tamimi, 22, shot a security guard, 24, mildly wounding him in his hand.
The army added that another security guard at the scene fired at the Palestinian and killed him.
Video footage shows the Palestinian continuing to exchange fire with the officers even after he was shot multiple times.
After the shooting, the army installed many roadblocks in the area and initiated massive searches, fearing that another Palestinian might be involved in the shooting, although the assumption was not verified.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched in the Shu'fat refugee camp northeast of Jerusalem and headed to Odai's home, condemning his death and chanting against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation and escalating violations, and calling for continued resistance until liberation and independence.
The Israeli army has been looking for the Palestinian after holding him responsible for the death of an Israeli soldier, Noa Lazar, 18, and the serious injury of a security guard at a military roadblock near Shu'fat.
The army has since been constantly invading his family's home and the homes of his relatives and ransacking them, causing serious damage, in addition to interrogating and detaining many of them.
Immediately after the shooting, the army imposed a tight siege on the Shu'fat refugee camp, Anata town, and surrounding areas, and initiated extensive and violent searches of homes and buildings, abducted dozens of Palestinians.
Following Odai's death, thousands of Palestinians held massive processions in Shu'fat refugee camp northeast of Jerusalem, Qalandia, north of Jerusalem, the northern entrance of Bethlehem city, Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Ni'lin village, northwest of the city, and the northern entrance of the nearby Al-Biereh city, in addition to many areas in Jenin and Nablus in the northern part of the occupied territory.
The soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and surrounding buildings.
The soldiers also closed many roadblocks on main roads in the West Bank, including the Qalandia terminal, north of Jerusalem, and the Al-Jalama roadblock, northeast of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian national and Islamic factions declared a comprehensive general strike in the occupied West Bank Thursday to mourn the slain young man and called for raising black flags on homes and buildings and for massive processions across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, to protest the seriously escalating Israeli violations.
It is worth mentioning that, a day before the soldier's death, the army killed Ahmad Mohammad Hussein Daraghma, 24, and Mahmoud Moayyad Sous, 18, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Their deaths also came just a day after the Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian teens, Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud, 14, and Mahdi Mohammad Ladadwa, 17, and injured dozens of Palestinians near Qalqilia and Ramallah in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank.
On October 11, an Israeli soldier, Ido Baruch, 20, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered in a shooting targeting a large group of Israeli colonizers, guarded by dozens of soldiers, marching near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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Salah Breke, 19
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in Jenin raid
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Israeli soldiers killed Salah al-Braiki, 19, with a bullet to the neck. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the beginning of 2022 to 175 – including 41 children.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, October 21, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-injure-three-in-jenin/
On Friday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian and injured at least three others in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said several armored Israeli military vehicles invaded the center of Jenin city before the soldiers stormed many buildings, ransacked them, and used their rooftops as sniper posts and monitoring towers.
They added that many Palestinians protested the invasion and hurled stones at the military vehicles before the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds, wounding four, including one who suffered life-threatening injuries.
Medical sources said the seriously injured young man, Salah Breke, 19, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered after a soldier shot him with a live round in the neck.
The soldiers also stormed and ransacked many homes, causing excessive damage, and abducted a young man, Bara' Kifah Alawna, 20.
Furthermore, the army destroyed several motorcycles and the Martyrs' Monument during the invasion of the city's center.
The young man's death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire since the beginning of this year, 2022, to 175, including 41 children; 51 Palestinians were killed in the besieged Gaza Strip.
On Thursday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a Palestinian child, Mohammad Fadi Nouri, 16, whom Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured more than three weeks ago in Betunia town, west of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West bank.
Mohammad was shot on September 28 during protests at the northern entrance of Al-Biereh city near Ramallah when the soldiers also shot and seriously injured many Palestinians.
The Palestinians were protesting the death of four Palestinians, Mohammad Hisham Abu Na'sa, 25 Ahmad Nathmi Alawna, 24 Abdul-Rahman Fathi Khazem, 27 Mohammad Mahmoud Barahma, 30, who were killed by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
On Wednesday night, Israeli soldiers killed Odai Kamal Tamimi, 22, near Ma'ale Adumim illegal colony, east of the occupied capital Jerusalem in the West Bank, after he opened fire at security guards, mildly wounded one.
The Israeli army has been looking for Odai after holding him responsible for the death of an Israeli soldier, Noa Lazar, 18, and the serious injury of a security guard at a military roadblock near Shu'fat.
A day before the soldier's death, the army killed Ahmad Mohammad Hussein Daraghma, 24, and Mahmoud Moayyad Sous, 18, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Their deaths also came just a day after the Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian teens, Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud, 14, and Mahdi Mohammad Ladadwa, 17, and injured dozens of Palestinians near Qalqilia and Ramallah in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank.
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Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33
Israeli forces assassinate Palestinian resistance leader
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Palestinian resistance leader Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33, was killed while walking in the occupied West Bank. He was a married father of a 2-year old son and a 5-month-old daughter.
He had previously spent 8 years in Israeli prisons without any formal charges being made against him
The city of Nablus has been under severe martial law since August, Israeli forces infiltrating the city and its surrounding refugee camps and attacking Palestinians on a daily basis – Israeli forces have killed 86 Palestinians since August 1 (3 Israelis, all soldiers, have been killed during that time)
The West Bank has been occupied since 1967, the population is largely imprisoned by Israeli forces that control all official entrances and exits. Israel was established in 1948 through a war of ethnic cleansing – many of the inhabitants, both Muslim and Christian, fled to the West Bank and Gaza, their homes and land in what is now called Israel confiscated by the newly created Jewish state
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-resistance-leader-killed-in-apparent-assassination/
One of the leaders of the recently formed 'Lion's Den' resistance organization in Nablus was killed Sunday morning at 1:30 am when he was walking in the old city of Nablus.
According to local sources, Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33, a senior member of the Lion's Den resistance group, was walking past a motorcycle that had been loaded with explosives when the bicycle exploded, killing him.
Tamer, from the Fatayer Mountain neighborhood in Nablus city, was a married father of two children: a baby boy only two years of age and an infant girl of five months.
Palestinian sources said the bicycle with explosives was planted by an Israeli undercover force, and that the Israeli army was behind the operation to target and assassinate al-Kilani.
Al-Kilani was seen on a surveillance video around 1:30 am near the area where the motorcycle was planted.
Bakr Abdul-Haq, a Nablus correspondent with Quds News Network, said an explosive charge was placed in a motorcycle in the Al-Yasmina neighborhood in the center of the Old City of Nablus, adding that the explosion took place just approximately at 2 am, just as Tamer walked by it.
He added that the explosion severely mutilated Tamer's body, including severing his limbs and causing extensive internal organ damage, resulting in his death.
Tamer was a married father of several children and was also a former political prisoner who was repeatedly abducted and imprisoned by Israel.
Bakr said the explosive was placed in the motorcycle by a collaborator with the illegal Israeli occupation, adding that this person was pretending to be a delivery man before placing the explosive charge and fleeing the area.
Tamer was one of the prominent leaders and founders of the Lion's Den, had very close ties with resistance fighters and groups regardless of their political affiliation, and believed in unifying the resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation.
The Lion's Den issued a statement mourning the slain Palestinian, the fifth of its leaders to be killed by the army in recent months, and vowed to retaliate and continue its resistance to this illegal Israeli occupation, regardless of its offensives and assassinations.
The Lions Den announced that there would be an immediate and severe response to the assassination of one of its senior leaders.
The group said that al-Kilani's funeral would be held on Sunday afternoon in Nablus. He was 33 years old, and had helped establish the resistance group after having lost friends to the Israeli military occupation, and having spent 8 years in Israeli prisons without any formal charges being made against him. He had been suspected of being a member of the armed wing of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The PFLP issued a statement condemning his death, which they said was a targeted assassination due to his affiliation with the Palestinian resistance. In their statement, the PFLP said that "the assassination operation will not succeed in stopping the revolutionary tide that our fellow hero helped launch together with his brothers and committed comrades."
The statement continued, "The answer will be through further escalation of the resistance and confrontation with the occupation on all fronts and axes, and hitting all agents, traitors and infiltrators with an iron fist."
The city of Nablus has been under severe martial law, with Israeli forces infiltrating the city and its surrounding refugee camps and attacking Palestinians on a daily basis, since August when the new resistance group was formed.
Israeli forces previously killed two other members of the Lion's Den resistance group in targeted assassinations: Ala' Nasser Ahmad Zaghal, 21, on October 6th and Sa'ed Adnan al-Koni, 26, on September 25th.
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Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, construction worker shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Oct. 22, 2022.
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian construction worker on way to work
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Israeli soldiers shot Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, in the head. Rabi's father says Rabi was just a construction worker trying to earn a living and was engaged to be married this coming Friday
Rabi is the 19th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces this month, half of them teens/children
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-worker-near-qalqilia/
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian worker near a military roadblock of a section of the illegal Annexation Wall southeast of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers shot the workers near a military roadblock, known as 109, close to Nabi Elias village when the army fired many live rounds at Palestinian workers trying to cross.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers shot the worker, Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, with a live round in the head before Palestinian medics rushed him to Darwish Nazzal governmental hospital in Qalqilia before he was rushed to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where he succumbed to his serious wounds.
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The slain man's father, from Qalqilia, said the soldiers executed his son in cold blood, adding that Rabi was just a construction worker trying to earn a living and was engaged to be married this coming Friday.
Palestine TV said Israeli colonizers closed several streets in the area and attacked dozens of Palestinian and their cars, before the soldiers invaded it and started firing live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
It is worth mentioning that the army frequently attacks, chases, injures, and abducts Palestinian workers near the gates of the illegal Annexation Wall near Qalqilia, Jenin, and other parts of the West Bank.
[Rabi is the 19th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces this month, half of them teens/children; two Israeli soldiers have been killed this month.]
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Imad Abu Rasheed, 47, and Ramzi Zabara, 35, were killed by the Israeli army south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. (Pictured: Wife and mother of Palestinian Ramzi Zbarah who was killed by Israeli forces, attend his funeral in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 28, 2022)
Israeli forces assassinate two Palestinians in occupied Nablus
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In what Palestinian officials called a "field execution," Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians at an Israeli military checkpoint on Palestinian land Friday morning. The circumstances are unclear. In the last 5 months, Over 100 Palestinian men, women, and children on their land and 3 Israelis (occupation soldiers on Palestinian land) have been killed.
reposted from Al Jazeera, October 28, 2022 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-in-occupied-nablus
The Israeli army has shot and killed two Palestinian men at a military checkpoint south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.
The Palestinian health ministry announced just before 2am (11:00 GMT) on Friday that 47-year-old Imad Abu Rasheed was killed with bullets to his stomach, chest and head, with two others seriously wounded, at the Huwwara checkpoint on Route 60 in the northern occupied West Bank.
At 6:30am (03:30 GMT), officials reported that Ramzi Sami Zabara, 35, had succumbed to his wounds from a bullet to the heart.
The circumstances of their killing remain unclear.
The Israeli army said in a statement that its forces were "carrying out an operation close to the Hawara checkpoint" and that they "identified two suspicious vehicles and fired at them," according to Israeli media.
The identity of the other wounded man was not immediately known, but he was reported to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery at Rafidia hospital in Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank.
Both Zabara and Abu Rasheed worked for the Palestinian Authority's Civil Defence, and lived in the Askar refugee camp on the eastern outskirts of Nablus.
A Nablus-based journalist, Shadi Jarar'ah, told Al Jazeera that they were in a car, along with the wounded man, when they were shot at by Israeli forces.
Jarar'ah said Israeli forces also shot at and arrested a fourth man who was in a separate car at the checkpoint.
A video shared by local media appeared to show Israeli soldiers transferring the body of a wounded Palestinian man on a stretcher into an ambulance.
"Ugly field execution"
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a statement "we mourn the two martyrs" and said they were "killed during an ugly field execution crime carried out by occupation forces".
Shtayyeh said the two were "among the finest officers and ranks of the Civil Defense, and pioneers of national, organizational and societal work in the Askar refugee camp".
The PM also called on the "international community to provide protection to our people".
The PA foreign ministry said in its own statement that it "condemns the execution" of the two men and "considers it organised and racist state terrorism".
The city of Nablus and its surrounding villages, home to some 420,000 people, have been under a tight Israeli military blockade for more than two weeks. Hours before Friday's events, the Israeli army said it eased some restrictions on movement in and out of the Nablus area.
The siege was imposed as Israeli forces searched for suspects in an October 11 shooting in which one Israeli soldier was killed near the illegal Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron, northwest of Nablus. The recently formed Lions' Den, a small armed resistance group based in Nablus's Old City, claimed responsibility, and the man who carried it out remains on the run.
Ongoing campaign
Friday's killings come days after the Israeli army launched a large raid into Nablus's Old City and killed five Palestinian men, three of whom belonged to the Lions' Den group. The two others were unarmed barbers on their way home from work when they were shot dead by Israeli special forces on the street, residents and journalists told Al Jazeera.
Thousands turned up for the funeral of the five men, including hundreds armed with rifles and who shot live ammunition into the air – a symbol of widespread mourning and anger.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli forces have killed at least 186 Palestinians since the start of the year, including 134 people in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank and 51 in the besieged Gaza Strip. The death toll includes 41 children, 17 of whom were killed during Israel's three-day assault on Gaza in August.
The United Nations has said that 2022 "is the highest year for Palestinian fatalities in the West Bank, compared to the same period in the previous 16 years".
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Palestinians mourn neverending Palestinian deaths (Pictured: A child reacts during the funeral of Daoud Rayyan who was killed by Israeli forces on 3 November 2022)
Israeli soldiers shoot to kill – at least 4 Palestinian victims Thursday
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Thursday proved deadly for Palestinians, in a year that has seen more Palestinian deaths in the West Bank than any year since UN record-keeping began.
by Kathryn Shihadah
Israeli forces have gunned down at least four Palestinians – one a teenager – in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem today. The incidents occurred as votes are being counted in Israeli national elections, in which former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right allies are expected to win.
This violence is part of a recent uptick in Israeli attacks on Palestinians, some of them resistance groups organized to oppose Israel's 55-year occupation and apartheid policies.
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Farouk Salamah
In what has become a common occurrence, many Israeli army vehicles carrying troops raided the Palestinian city of Jenin, epicenter of the resistance, Thursday afternoon. The Israeli military indicated that the operation's objective was to target Farouk Jameel Salamah, age 28. Salamah – who was to be married this weekend – was shot in the head, chest, and abdomen.
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Mohammad Khlouf
In the same operation, Israeli soldiers also killed Mohammad Samer Khallouf, 14, as they fired on a group of protesters with live fire in Jenin refugee camp.
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Amer Halabiyeh
Earlier in the day a Palestinian man, Amer Halabiya, age 20, allegedly stabbed an officer in Jerusalem's Old City. He was shot dead, Israeli police said. Two other officers were also injured at the scene – all with light to moderate injuries.
[NOTE: In at least two recent stabbing incidents, carried out by Israeli settlers, no perpetrators were shot or arrested.]
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Daoud Rayyan
Two hours before the killing of Halabiya, another Palestinian was also shot dead near Jerusalem.
Daoud Rayyan, 42, was killed when Israeli paramilitary border guards raided the village of Beit Duggu with the intention of ransacking the home of Habis Abdel Hafeez Rayan, who had been shot to death Wednesday after allegedly carrying out an attack against Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces raiding Beit Duggu encountered a protest by Palestinians and opened fire, killing Daoud Rayyan.
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PALESTINIANS MOURN THE DEATH OF MUSAB NOFAL, WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY ISRAELI FORCES ON NOVEMBER 5, 2022.
Israeli army kills 18-year-old in the town of Sinjil
Musab Nofal is the 197th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces this year. His death comes amid rising settler attacks in the West Bank and the continuation of Operation Break the Wave.
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On Saturday evening, November 5, Musab Nofal was hit with a fatal bullet to the chest in the town of Sinjil northeast of Ramallah. The 18-year-old is the 197th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces this year.
On Sunday, November 6, Musab Nofal's family, friends, and members of the community, along with reporters and onlookers, laid him to rest in the village of Mazraa Al-Sharqiya in the Ramallah governorate.
The Israeli army reported that its soldiers had killed Nofal under the pretext that he had been hurling stones at Israeli settlers. No settlers have been reported injured.
Faten Elwan, a Palestinian journalist and cousin of the slain young man, reports that the Israeli army claims are fabrications. "Settlers attacked them as they picked olives, and they threw stones," Elwan wrote on her Facebook page. "The Israeli narrative that someone had fired from the Sinjil area is false."
Grieving under occupation
"My aunt's son was killed as he picked olives," Elwan wrote shortly after the news broke.
Friends and family must not only grapple with the loss of their kin, but must do so while navigating how the Israeli army has shaped the narrative of the circumstances of Musab's death.
While the killing of Nofal coincides with the ongoing large-scale Israeli military assault targeting Palestinian resistance, Operation Break the Wave, it also coincides with the olive harvest season. A significant part of Palestinian economic security and food sovereignty, the olive harvest season is an integral part of Palestinian culture and community, but it is also under attack.
In Sinjil, where Nofal was killed, settler attacks against Palestinian farmers have become commonplace. In April of this year, three Palestinian farmers from Sinjil were injured, including the head of the village council. These attacks have continued every month, often resulting in injury to farmers or active obstruction of access to their lands and produce. These settler attacks are an assault on Palestinian means of subsistence and economic survival.
The olive harvest season has only seen an escalation of these attacks.
Settler attacks on the rise
"We still don't know if it was the army or the settlers that shot [Musab]," Elwan explained.
Elwan's statement highlights that settlers and the Israeli army are often part of the same colonial attack on Palestinian livelihood and existence. When Palestinians develop their capacities to resist settler attacks, it is the Israeli army that swoops in to punish Palestinians for resisting. In this sense, the settlers function as the vanguard of the colonization process, and the army provides backup. This is a far cry from the common mainstream designation of settlers as radical extremists or anomalies — they are in fact an integral part of the state's colonization plans.
"Trained citizens who hold weapons in the public sphere contribute to the feeling of security," Israel's public minister Gilad Erdan said in a statement in 2018. The increase in settler outposts also coincided with the loosening of Israel's open-fire policy and relaxing the regulations for the possession of firearms by Israeli civilians.
Moreover, the Israeli Civil Administration has pushed for the legalization of Israeli farm outposts in the West Bank in September of this year. Both the Defense Ministry and the Justice Minister must approve it. By formally annexing Palestinian lands, settlers would be seen as citizens defending themselves against Palestinian terrorists, rather than invaders being repelled by the land's rightful inhabitants.
Last year, on December 24, Ghadeer Musalma, 55, was run over and killed by a settler near Sinjil on Highway 60. In a similar incident in 2014, two girls (Inas Dar Khalil, 5, and Tuleen Asfour, 8) were also run over by a settler. Dar Khalil was killed, while Asfour suffered from lifelong injuries. No settler has been held accountable for any of these crimes.
The arming of settlers in the West Bank continues to lead to the death of Palestinians, as Israel remains immune to international diplomatic, political, and economic accountability for its daily crimes. At the same time, Palestinian resistance continues to rise in response.
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MOURNERS ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF PALESTINIAN MAHDI HASHASH, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES DURING AN ISRAELI MILITARY RAID INTO THE AREA OF JOSEPH'S TOMB, IN THE WEST BANK CITY OF NABLUS ON NOVEMBER 9, 2022. (PHOTO: WAJED NOBANI/ APA IMAGES)
Israel assassinates "the lion of the Balata Brigade"
Mahdi Hashash, a member of the armed Balata Brigade, was killed in an Israeli assassination attempt in Balata refugee camp as part of the ongoing Israeli campaign to root out armed resistance groups in the West Bank.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/11/israel-assassinates-the-lion-of-the-balata-brigade/?
On Wednesday afternoon, November 9, 17-year-old Mahdi Mohammad Hashash was killed near Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.
His head covered with a traditional black-and-white Kuffiyeh, his body wrapped in a Palestinian flag with a rifle laying on top of him, Hashash — whose nomme de guerre was Shimon — was laid to rest by his family and resistance fighters who had come to attend his burial.
During the funeral procession, fighters from the Lions' Den — the armed resistance group based in the Old City of Nablus — held their rifles as they marched, carrying the body of their slain comrade, "the lion of the Balata Brigade."
The Balata Brigade, Katibet Balata in Arabic, is one of the armed resistance groups that have taken shape in Nablus and Jenin throughout the past year. "Shimon" the resistance fighter was killed during armed confrontations with invading Israeli forces in Balata refugee camp, three kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to residents, Hashash had fought back against the Israeli soldiers surrounding the camp.
Injured during the early hours of confrontation, Hashash was taken to the hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.
"The Balata Brigade is currently doing battle in the streets and alleys of the camp with the Zionist Israeli forces," the group reported at approximately 3:30 a.m. Moments later, it reported that its confrontations with the army "are at point zero."
The Israeli army reported that the young fighter was killed after he had opened fire on Israelis visiting Joseph's Tomb that evening, including a Knesset member. Similar reports were made when Israeli forces were concentrating their assaults on the Lions' Den.
However, contradicting reports also indicate that the Israeli army had been conducting a military operation targeting the refugee camp.
The gathering of comrades
For days, the Israeli army has been escalating its attacks on the areas surrounding Balata refugee camp.
This comes a few short weeks after the Israeli army launched an intensified campaign of assassinations to liquidate key members of the Lions' Den. Yet despite the uninterrupted killing spree, Palestinian resistance fighters continue to show up for one another.
The raid of Wednesday morning was allegedly to target the wanted Palestinian fighter, Mohammad Abu Draa — going by the nomme de guerre, Al-Zankloni.
In a show of community and solidarity across armed groups, fighters of the Lions' Den also joined in armed confrontations on Wednesday morning, acting as back-up for their comrades in the camp.
On social media, the Lions' Den and the Balata Brigade published photos of the slain Hashash as he stood flanked on either side by early members of the Lions' Den, Adham Mabroukah and Muhammad Dakhil, who were assassinated on February 8 along with Ashraf Mubaslat in one of the first targeted assassinations to take place in Nablus this year.
One after the other, comrades and close friends of Hashash held the pale body of their slain comrade, taking turns to kiss his forehead farewell.
Al-Zankloni was able to survive the assassination attempt due to the protection provided by the armed groups of Nablus. Hours after the battle, at approximately 5:00 a.m, videos of Al-Zankloni show him still wearing an armored vest and rifle on his back.
"We tell the filthy dogs," the Balata Brigade warned in a statement published on its Telegram account at 6:28 a.m. "We will conjure hell on you and your soldiers."
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PALESTINIANS CARRY THE BODY OF RAAFAT ISSA, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES GOING THROUGH AN OPENING IN THE APARTHEID WALL OUTSIDE OF JENIN. (PHOTO: AHMED IBRAHIM/APA IMAGES)
Palestinian worker killed by Israeli forces in Jenin becomes "the martyr of daily bread"
Ra'afat Al-Issa was killed by Israeli soldiers as he travelled through a breach in the apartheid wall on his way to work. He is now known as the "martyr of daily bread."
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On Wednesday afternoon, November 9, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in Jenin — the second in the span of 12 hours. Ra'afat Al-Issa was 29 years old and shot near an opening in the apartheid wall west of Jenin.
His body remained in the morgue until his parents, who live in Jordan, were able to arrive to bury their young son, who was killed for the sake of earning a living.
On Thursday, November 10, Al-Issa's father kissed his son's cold forehead before being laid to rest in his home village of Sannour, 26 km southeast of Jenin. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, 50 of whom were killed in Jenin, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Medical negligence and intentional delay
Al-Issa was shot near the Israeli apartheid wall located in the western part of Jenin. A Palestinian worker attempting to reach his place of employment, Al-Issa was not only shot, but later denied medical care by soldiers as he bled out.
"Al-Issa's leg was blown up like a balloon," Mahmoud Al-Saadi, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jenin, told Mondoweiss. "He was shot in his thighs, hitting a primary artery, which resulted in internal bleeding, and it eventually cost him his life."
According to Al-Saadi, the injured man was delayed medical care for almost an hour and a half before finally being handed over to Palestinian medical services. "[Al-Issa's] face was pale," Al-Saadi recalled of the slain man. "He was thirsty and asking for water, which soldiers didn't seem to have given him," he said.
As a Palestinian with West Bank identification, the Israeli military would not take him for care at an Israeli hospital, despite being responsible for his injury. This practice, which extends beyond the killing of Al-Issa, has become defined as "conditional" healthcare by Palestinian analysts.
"Issa's case is threefold," Al-Saadi explained to Mondoweiss. "First is the shooting of Issa, then the movement of Issa and provision of care on the spot, and the third is the ways in which the injured man was handed to us by the Israeli army."
However, in addition to the way in which Al-Issa was mistreated, his case also sheds light on a fourth layer — the condition of Palestinian laborers working in Israel. Al-Issa, who became known as "the martyr of daily bread," exemplifies the painful cost of securing daily bread in Palestine, and the impact of the apartheid wall on the safety and financial security of Palestinians.
The martyr of "daily bread": livelihood in context
Even before the economic crisis produced by the global COVID-19 pandemic, almost 47 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and besieged Gaza were impoverished or below the poverty line. In the past decade, this phenomenon has increased at an alarming rate in the West Bank.
The apartheid wall impedes Palestinian access from the West Bank, Jerusalem, and historic Palestine (the lands now making up what is now the State of Israel).
Erected during the early 2000s, the concrete wall was ostensibly built as a strategy to deter Palestinian armed resistance. Two decades later, however, it has clearly been unsuccessful in this objective, especially in light of the resurgence of Palestinian armed resistance in the West Bank.
The apartheid wall — part of the illegal military occupation of the West Bank — also allows for better control of Palestinian movement, especially Palestinian laborers.
Palestinian laborers, even children, are often subject to systemic abuse by their Israeli employees, but also by soldiers manning the checkpoints through which they must pass. More than this, Israel holds Palestinians captive by using its permit system to deny or allow formal employment.
This forces a large segment of Palestinians to search for alternative ways of securing a livelihood, even if through informal employment. Many sneak through openings made in the apartheid wall in order to get to their place of work. The danger they face in going through these breaches has considerably increased during the past year.
Only last July, Israeli soldiers lynched and murdered 32-year-old Ahmad Ayyad from Gaza as he was going through a breach in the wall outside of Tulkarem. Ayyad had a permit to work in Israel and was battling a colon disease. As of the time of writing, there has been no accountability for the crime of his murder..
"The events are repeating themselves," Al-Saadi told Mondoweiss as he reflected on his years as a medic during the early 2000s in Jenin. "It's horrifying."
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MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL ERECTED AROUND THE SITE OF FULLA MASALMA'S DEATH (PHOTO: VIVIAN TABAR/MONDOWEISS)
Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers a day before turning 16
Fulla Masalma would have turned 16 today. Instead, she was brutally murdered yesterday by Israeli soldiers for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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At approximately 3:30 a.m. on November 14, Israeli forces invaded the neighborhood of Betunia in the Ramallah district to arrest Tareq Imwasi, 28, from his home.
During the operation, Israeli soldiers saw a Palestinian car driving on the road and opened fire from at least two directions. The passenger, 15-year-old Fulla Masalma, was killed, while the driver was injured and arrested by the Israeli army. Today would have been Masalma's 16th birthday.
"They didn't stop at killing her," Bakr Armoush, 35, told Mondoweiss. "They took her corpse and dragged it around, only to throw her in the back of the military jeep with six other soldiers and the driver, who was also injured and bleeding," he said.
With the children of the neighborhood surrounding him, Bakr recalls the image of Imwasi, blindfolded and under the rain during the dawn hours of Monday as Israeli soldiers invaded Imwasi's home. "I remember the bang of the stun grenades," Amir, 9, says as he looks at the stones marking the location where 15-year-old Fulla was killed earlier that morning in his neighborhood.
Arrest turns into slaughter
Just behind the trail of blood and the Palestinian flag is the Imwasi home.
"I woke up to the sound of banging. I checked the door and found soldiers surrounding the house," Umm Muhammad, 54, recalled to Mondoweiss.
Israeli forces had invaded the Betunia neighborhood and bombed the doors to the apartment building in which Imwasi lives. According to the family, soldiers took the cell phones of everyone in the family and forced the women to sit on the couch at gunpoint, while Abu Mohammad, Imwasi's father, was taken outside to stand in the rain amid a thunderstorm.
The black metal gate still has the scars from the assault at dawn. Next to it, a striped orange and white cat wakes up, stretches, yawns, and escapes to the living room behind the door. The smell of dinner still cooking is welcoming, while the evaporating steam contrasted with the rainy wind outside.
"They forced us all outside. I begged them to be able to go inside, because my husband is on kidney dialysis, and he can't be kept out in the rain," the Imwasi's mother said. Sitting on the same couch on which his wife and daughter were earlier being held captive, Imwasi's 60-year-old father held his head in his palms.
Almost ashamed that he was crying, Abu Mohammad tells Mondoweiss: "I told him, I'll kiss your hand, your feet," his voice broke. "I told the commander, just please stop beating my son."
Israeli search-and-arrest operations in civilian homes often mean that women are held in a room while the men are often beaten, blindfolded, and at times stripped to their underwear and forced to sit in stress positions.
"I kept telling the commander, I am sick, look at the tube," Abu Mohammad said, moving his sweater to expose the yellow tube attached to a hole in his right shoulder. "I told him, if this tube is not in me, I will die."
As his older daughter heard her father speak, her eyes swelled.
"[The soldier] put his hand on my shoulder, by the tube, and began to squeeze," Abu Mohammad said, his grimace emphasizing the deep network of wrinkles on his face.
"You will not come to my home upstairs," Tareq yelled to soldiers from his apartment on the second floor. Upstairs, five-year-old Hani and two-year-old Alma were asleep when soldiers came for their father.
"There are children here and you will not come upstairs," Tareq had repeated to the soldiers. "I will come down," he said as his children woke to the sound of sound grenades and their grandparents screaming in pain and fear.
"They took Tareq outside in handcuffs, and before putting him in the jeep, they began beating him over and over again," Umm Mohammad said. Almost 12 hours after their father's arrest, Hani's face is still pale. His eyes seem to hardly blink, as if his attention is elsewhere.
"The kids are still traumatized," their grandmother says, as the children play with their cousins in the small living room.
"All of a sudden I hear the bullets," Umm Mohammad says, turning her attention away from her son to remember that beyond their tragedy, someone was killed just outside their home. For almost four minutes, Israeli soldiers kept shooting.
"They came here to arrest the neighbor," Armoush explained as he stood on the street overlooking the site where Masalma was killed. "They took the man out in handcuffs and blindfolded him," he continued.
Bearing witness to the invasion, Armoush recollects a horrifying scene of soldiers firing live ammunition non-stop at the car. "The car was driving slowly," he explained, pointing at the direction in which the soldiers fired. "They fired from multiple directions, and they riddled the car with bullets," he said.
"If anything, it was clear that the car was trying to turn around once noticing that there was a raid," he pointed.
A CCTV video shows the moment Israeli soldiers fired at the car. Other videos provided by eyewitnesses and residents of the area also corroborated Armoush's version of events.
"They killed her," Armoush told Mondoweiss. Pausing for a short moment, he repeated, "they killed her and just walked off like that."
No mercy
"[The soldiers] showed me no mercy," Abu Mohammad said sorrowfully. "No mercy. None," he reiterated.
The soldiers not only assaulted Tareq Imwasi's family and then beat him in front of them, but no medic was called after they shot at the car carrying Masalma. The body of the young girl was taken while the injured driver was dragged up and down the street as he bled.
Just last week in Jenin, Israeli soldiers shot and killed 29-year-old Rafaat Al-Issa — a Palestinian worker who was trying to earn a living. According to the medics in Jenin, Al-Issa was also denied medical care, despite the possibility that his life could have been spared had the soldiers responded properly to the man's injuries, according to Mahmoud Al-Saadi, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jenin.
A few meters outside Imwasi's home, those that bore witness to the arrest and the killing shared similar sentiments. Umm Darwish, Armoush's 67-year-old mother, looked at the trail of blood on the street as cars shuffled by. In a low tone she smiled ruefully and said: "there is no humanity, no safety, nothing."
Since the beginning of the year, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces.
"Anything that moves becomes a target," Armoush said. "If you saw the site of the car afterwards, the blood still on the shawarma sandwich, and the bullet holes in the car," he said, almost trying to comprehend his own words. "You move, you get killed," he said as his youngest son jumped around him.
In a moment of tenderness, Armoush's eyes loosen as he watches his son.
"Look at the kids," he says in a firm voice. "Look at what they keep getting exposed to. Even the way they moved the young girl's body shows you that these stories are repeating themselves every day. Every single day," he says.
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Car riddled with Israeli army bullet holes in Beitunia that killed a 16-year-old girl.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Girl Near Ramallah
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Trigger-happy Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Territories opened heavy machine gun fire at a car that frightened them, killing passenger Fulla Rasmi Masalmeh, 16
UPDATED INFORMATION from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, November 14, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-young-palestinian-woman-near-ramallah/
On Monday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, at dawn, a teenage girl in Betunia town after shooting her with a live round in the head and added that the name published before was provided by the Israeli army and is incorrect.
In a brief statement, the Health Ministry said the slain girl has been officially identified as Folla Rasmi Abdul-Aziz Masalma, 16.
It said that the slain teen would have turned 16 Tuesday and that she was killed after the soldiers shot her in the head.
Her family is originally from Beit Awwa town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, but lives in Al-Biereh city near Ramallah.
The Health Ministry said the soldiers took the body of the slain girl and initially provided the Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee with a name of another woman who apparently had nothing to do with the incident.
An eyewitnesses said, after shooting the girl, the soldiers took her out of the car while heavily bleeding, placed her on the ground and tore her clothes, before moving her to one of their jeeps.
He added that the soldiers fired at the car three times in a short time and said that the driver was shot and went out of the car heavily bleeding and raising his hands in the air.
"He was bleeding apparently from his hand, before he stepped out of his car with his hand up in the air. The soldiers and took him to one of their jeeps," he said, "The girl was then taken out of the car and placed on the ground. She has bleeding when the soldiers carried her but dropped her on the ground, then carried her again, and took her to one of the jeeps that was at a distance."
"But the jeep they took her to already had the wounded young man who was detained by them, so they placed her on the ground, and then took her to another jeep that had no space, before moving her to another jeep where they placed her on its floor and drove away.... she was bleeding... I don't think there was any more blood in her body by then..."
"They bought Shawarma and were driving away to eat it, this is how coldblooded their murder is!", he concluded, "their blood was everywhere, including their shawarma..."
It is worth mentioning that, later on, Palestinian medics took Fulla's body to the Ramallah governmental hospital before transferring her to Doura governmental hospital near Hebron, in preparation for funeral ceremony.
By Ihab Rimawi, reposted from WAFA https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/131861
RAMALLAH, Monday, November 14, 2022 (WAFA) – Today at dawn, the Israeli occupation army killed 15-year-old Fulla Rasmi Masalmeh, in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, in a new unjustified murder without posing any danger or threat to the soldiers who were simply implementing their leadership's relaxed open fire policy toward Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Bakr Armoush, 30 years, who witnessed the cold-blooded murder of Masalmeh, told WAFA that the murder took place around four o'clock in the morning when an Israeli occupation force was in the area to arrest two activists.
"The car, in which Masalmeh was, was moving at a slow speed that did not raise suspicion. The driver apparently was surprised by the presence of the occupation military vehicles more than 200 meters away from it. When he saw the soldiers, he tried to go back. But soldiers hiding in a dark spot opened fire directly at the car," said Armoush.
"When the driver turned around in an attempt to get away from that area, soldiers in another area only 20 meters away from the first shooting site once again opened heavy machine gunfire at it, and then the car came to a total halt."
Armoush added, based on what he saw from his nearby house: "A man came out of the car from the driver's side and held up his hands. The soldiers approached him, threw him to the ground, and ripped off his shirt before arresting him. He was bleeding from the shoulder.
"Then the soldiers went to where the passenger was sitting, who was a girl, took her out of the car while she was bleeding from her head, brought a stretcher, and put her on it. They dropped her to the ground before carrying her again to one of their jeeps, and left the area."
When the soldiers left the area, residents rushed to the scene of the murder and saw the car was riddled with bullet holes, mainly to the windshield, and found sandwiches covered with blood. "Apparently the couple was eating sandwiches when they were surprised by the soldiers and tried to leave the area in a hurry," said the eyewitness.
Hours after the crime, the occupation army issued a statement claiming that the vehicle aroused the suspicion of the soldiers as it was traveling very fast, but Armoush's testimony refutes the allegations of the occupation.
According to the Israeli human rights center, B'Tselem, which documented the Israeli army killing of six Palestinians during the first half of this year in what is known as "arrest of a suspect procedure", said that the occupying state believes the life of the Palestinian is cheap and therefore the soldiers shoot immediately at any Palestinian they believe pose a threat to their lives. It said the soldiers who shoot and kill Palestinians have the full backing of the political officials and the military, with the approval of the legal advisors.
Quote"The Israeli siege and its ban on materials and equipment for use by the Civil Defense directly impacted this tragedy. The occupation is fully responsible for this disaster, which is caused byt the siege," Abdullatif Al-Qanoa, a Hamas government spokesperson at the funeral, told Mondoweiss.
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MOURNERS ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF 21 PALESTINIANS WHO DIED IN A FIRE THAT BROKE OUT IN AN APARTMENT IN JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP IN THE NORTHERN GAZA STRIP, NOVEMBER 18, 2022. (PHOTO: ASHRAF AMRA/APA IMAGES)
Tragedy in Gaza after 21 people die in fire The Abu Rayya tragedy is a direct result of the blockade, as frequent power cuts have forced families in Gaza to use alternative fuel sources to fight the dark, often in hazardous conditions.
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It was a rough night in Jabaliya refugee camp, north of Gaza City. Neighbors could not sleep peacefully after what they saw on Thursday, November 17 — the image of the woman holding the steel bars of the window on the fourth floor, screaming and pleading for help as the fire raged on in the room behind her, lighting up the area with red flame. In a second, she was engulfed by the flames and fell down.
Neighbors tried to get into the building to help her and her family, but the locked steel doors shut them out. The fire burned alive her extended family of 21 people, leaving the exact cause of the fire uncertain.
They had all gathered inside a single apartment to celebrate one of the family's sons who had completed his PhD and arrived from Egypt a week earlier, as well as the birthday of one of the grandsons. The father, Subhi Abu Rayya, 51, the mother Yusra Abu Rayya, 44, and their sons and families, were among the dead.
Neighbors in the area told Mondoweiss that a huge flame had gone up and people were trying to go into the apartment to help, but were unable due to the locked doors. The police were the first to arrive and break the doors down, while firefighters and their trucks took over 40 minutes to arrive on the scene.
The tragedy of the Abu Rayya family quickly became what everyone in Gaza was talking about, as speculations abound as to the origins of the fire. Thousands of people came from all over the Gaza Strip to participate in the funeral.
"Everyone is so shocked. Look at their faces, look at how it has affected them," Abdulnasser Abu Rayya, 41, a family relative of the victims, said as he walked through the funeral procession on the way to the cemetery. Abdulnasser has tried to understand what happened, but all that comes to his mind is a flashback from when entered the apartment that day as it was already on fire, witnessing his relatives burning alive.
"One mother was holding her two kids. Both of them were lying down on her lap. It looked like the mother was trying to protect her children from the fire. They were in there for an hour before the fire was extinguished," Abdulnasser said.
The Internal Ministry in Gaza commented on the accident, stating that initial results from investigations have confirmed that the family was storing a large amount of gasoline inside the apartment, which presumably is what caused the huge conflagration.
"When we entered the apartment, we could not definitively figure out what caused this fire," Abdulnasser told Mondoweiss. "We start to ask whether they kept gasoline in the house, or whether the cooking gas had leaked at the same time." Abdulnasser confirmed that no sound of an explosion had been heard at the time of the fire.
Using alternative fuels to fight the dark
Storing deadly materials in living quarters, such as gasoline, unsaved electricity cables, and batteries to light up glow-lamps during power outages, are fairly common in Gaza, explained by the 15-year blockade that has harshly restricted power sources in Gaza.
Due to frequently scheduled power cuts, people use alternative energy sources to fight the darkness and light up their homes. In 2006, 3 kids in the Al-Hindi family burned to death in their room at Al-Shati refugee camp, in a fire that was caused by a candle they used in their room.
Abu Rayya's neighbors said the family used a generator that ran on gasoline, which is likely why the family had stored reserves of it in the house.
"It is a painful reminder of the unlivable conditions we have to endure in Gaza," 51-year-old resident Abu Ayman Al-Bardwil told Mondoweiss. "The building is now empty. If we had normal electricity, they would not have stored all that gasoline for their generator, and they would survived."
During the winter, electricity hours are rationed to the minimum, as some areas receive power for only 3 – 4 hours a day. As a result, most households in Gaza are forced to rely on alternative fuel sources to ride out the winter.
The Hamas government in Gaza, which has held power in the coastal Strip since 2007, held the Israeli siege on Gaza responsible for the tragedy.
"The Israeli siege and its ban on materials and equipment for use by the Civil Defense directly impacted this tragedy. The occupation is fully responsible for this disaster, which is caused byt the siege," Abdullatif Al-Qanoa, a Hamas government spokesperson at the funeral, told Mondoweiss.
Al-Qanoa appealed to the international community "and the free humans in the world" to put pressure on Israel to end its siege on Gaza.
"This is just another other face of the Israeli siege," Al-Qanoa said.
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Abdul-Jalil Sa'adi, 18.
Invading Israeli soldiers kill another teen In Jenin
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On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and shot five Palestinians, killing one of them: Abdul-Jalil Sa'adi, 18
The soldiers fired live rounds at an ambulance and prevented journalists from driving to the invaded area
Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-shoot-five-palestinians-one-seriously-abduct-one-in-jenin/
On Monday, Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian and injured at least five in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Mahmoud Abdul-Jalil Sa'adi, 18, has died from serious wounds he suffered after the soldiers shot him in the abdomen.
It said Mohammad was rushed to Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin and was instantly admitted to surgery but succumbed to his serious wounds.
The Health Ministry also said the soldiers shot five Palestinians; two of them were shot in the chest, one in the abdomen, and another Palestinian in the shoulder, in addition to one who was shot in the leg.
Palestinian medics rushed to the area and moved the wounded to Jenin governmental hospital despite being attacked by the soldiers who tried to prevent them from reaching the invaded area.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mahmoud was a high school student at a local school in Jenin.
During the invasion, the soldiers surrounded a home in the Al-Hadaf area and abducted a young man, Rateb Al-Bali, after exchanging fire with him and firing several Energa shells at the property.
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Israeli Soldiers Shoot Five Palestinians, One Seriously, Abduct One, In Jenin
Nov 21, 2022 at 10:30
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, shot five Palestinian, at least one seriously, and abducted another.
Media sources said protests occurred after the army jeeps invaded the Al-Hadaf neighborhood in Jenin before the soldiers stormed and ransacked homes and used their rooftops as firing posts and monitoring towers.
They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at Palestinian protesters.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers shot five Palestinians, including one who suffered a serious gunshot wound to the chest.
One of the wounded suffered a moderate gunshot wound to the chest, and three suffered mild injuries.
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers fired live rounds at an ambulance and prevented medics and journalists from driving to the invaded area. For more of the latest news go here. https://imemc.org/article/category/types/news-report/
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PALESTINIANS CARRY THE BODY OF MAHMOUD SAADI,18, DURING HIS FUNERAL IN JENIN, IN THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK, ON NOVEMBER 21, 2022.(PHOTO: ODAY DAIBES/APA IMAGES)
Student in Jenin killed by Israeli army on the way to school
Mahmoud Al-Saadi was in his final year of high school, and his father worked all his life to secure an education for his son. Israel killed his father's joy.
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On Monday, November 21, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian high school student from Jenin refugee camp, and injured three others, during a military operation in the city of Jenin, 98 km northwest of Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Al-Saadi, 17, was on his way to Farhat Shihad Boys' School in Jenin when Israeli forces shot him in the abdomen. Almost an hour later, Al-Saadi succumbed to his wounds at the Ibn Sina public hospital. His father identified him at the hospital before laying him to rest.
Death comes knocking
Just before 8:00 a.m., a force made up of the Israeli military, border police, and the Shin Bet (internal intelligence) invaded Jenin and made its way towards the home of Rateb Al-Bali, wanted for allegedly engaging in armed confrontations with Israeli military targets.
"Turn yourself in, we know you are here. It's better for you to turn yourself in, before we topple the house on your head and on everyone in it," an Iraeli soldier was heard threatening through a loudspeaker. "I am warning you! Come out!"
"We know that you are home and everyone is at home with you," the soldier's voice could be heard by everyone in the neighborhood. "Come out and turn yourselves in before we tear down the house on you."
Injured and afraid for the safety of his family, Al-Bali turned himself in.
The home of Rateb was near Al-Saadi's school. The search-and-arrest operation, planned by some of Israel's most elite special operations units, was timed during school hours on a school-day, when children were present.
Killing a father's joy
"His friends thought he was kidding when he yelled that he had been shot," XX told Mondoweiss on condition of anonymity, in reference to the slain Mahmoud Al-Saadi. Al-Saadi's classmates, who mistook their friend's plea for a momentary impossibility, had to dodge the bullets of the Israeli army and ensure the evacuation of their injured peer.
Bleeding from his abdomen, local journalists confirmed to Mondoweiss that Al-Saadi was transferred in a private car as ambulances were unlikely to reach him in time.
One of Al-Saadi's relatives mentioned in an interview shortly after his burial that Mahmoud's father had worked all his life "to provide [Mahmoud] with a dignified future and an education."
"The occupation killed this joy," he said before breaking into tears.
A heart big enough to embrace the whole camp
More than 202 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Many of those martyred were killed during offensive Israeli military invasions in Palestinian cities and towns meant to quell Palestinian armed resistance against continued settler encroachment.
Palestinian schoolchildren and youth have not been spared the abuse of Israel's continued military offensive. Many of the killings this year have been of children, many of them killed throughout the course of the Israeli army's frequent search-and-arrest raids.
As many as 33 children have been killed in this year's on-going Israeli military offensive, Operation Break the Wave. Just last week, Israeli soldiers riddled a car with bullets when it unsuspectingly drove near a similar search-and-arrest operation in Betunia, killing 14-year-old Fulla Masalma inside the car.
Al-Saadi used to be part of the Jenin Freedom Theater, which issued a statement mourning Al-Saadi's death.
"A skilled and passionate trainer for our Child and Youth Program, he brought his unique character to this work," the statement read. "Mahmoud had a promising future ahead of him, and we were excited to see where his work in theatre would lead him."
Ranin Odeh, who had trained Al-Saadi at the Freedom Theater, also wrote a eulogy for the slain youth.
"Your heart was big enough to embrace the whole camp, its streets and its homes," the letter read. "I think of you coming to the stage, and joining the workshops to have fun and play. This is what hurts me the most, that the boy with a golden heart is gone. Believe me, the news of your martyrdom hurt my body and brings me to tears."
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A PHOTO OF MAHMOUD AL-SAADI ALONGSIDE A STATEMENT FROM THE JENIN FREEDOM THEATER CONDEMNING HIS KILLING. (PHOTO VIA E-MAIL)
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Nablus At Dawn
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On Wednesday night, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young Palestinian man who was shot and seriously injured at dawn when the soldiers invaded Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killed a child, and injured 32 young men.
The Health Ministry said the young man, Mohammad Hisham Abu Keshik, 22, was shot with a live round in the abdomen and remained in critical condition until he succumbed to his wounds.
The Palestinian was shot with an expanding bullet that caused serious damage to his abdominal organs and resulted in excessive bleeding.
His family said Mohammad was far from where the army invaded Nablus and exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters near Joseph's Tomb, east of the city.
Dozens of Israeli military vehicles, and several bulldozers, invaded Nablus leading to massive protests before the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs randomly.
The Health Ministry said the soldiers shot five Palestinians who were rushed to Rafidia governmental hospital in Nablus and added that one of the wounded suffered a serious gunshot wound to the heart, one was shot with an expanding bullet in the abdomen resulting in serious damage to his intestines that were protruding out of his body, in addition to one who was stuck with a concussion grenade in the head, and another Palestinian who was shot in the arm.
The Palestinian who was shot in the heart, Ahmad Amjad Shehada, only sixteen years of age, succumbed to his serious wounds.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, Wednesday night, the death of Mohammad Ahmad Hasan Herzallah, 30, who succumbed to serious wounds he suffered after the soldiers shot him on July 24th when the army also killed two Palestinians.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In July
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, Wednesday night, the death of a Palestinian who succumbed to serious wounds he suffered after the soldiers shot him on July 24th when the army also killed two Palestinians.
The Health Ministry said the young man, Mohammad Ahmad Hasan Herzallah, 30, was seriously injured by Israeli army fire om Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry added that the Palestinian was instantly rushed to surgery after a headshot wound and remained in critical condition at the Intensive Care unit of a hospital in Nablus until he succumbed to his serious wounds.
The Palestinian underwent several surgeries in Nablus and was moved to Beit Jala hospital in Bethlehem before he was transferred to the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah where he was pronounced dead.
Mohammad was among nineteen Palestinians injured when Israeli soldiers carried out a dawn invasion into the al-Yasmina neighborhood Old City of Nablus, in Nablus city, and killed two young men, Abboud Sobeh, 29, and Mohammad al-Azizi, 22.
On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a child, Ahmad Amjad Shehada, 16, and injured 32 Palestinians, one seriously, in addition to causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, during protests after the army accompanied dozens of colonizers into Nablus.
Israeli soldiers have killed 202 Palestinian, 150 of them in the West Bank and 52 in the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year, 2022.
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Issa Hani al-Talakat, 16
Palestinian boy in Negev dies of wounds after Israeli police shot him
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On November 1st an Israeli police officer fired at a car driven by celebrating Palestinian Israelis, and shot a boy in the neck who was walking on the side of the road. Today the child underwent an operation in Israel and died within minutes. His family has not ruled out malpractice...
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On Wednesday, a Palestinian child from the Negev died during surgery at the Israeli Soroka Medical Center a month after an Israeli police officer shot him with live fire in Arara town in the Negev during celebrations after the Knesset election.
Issa Hani Talqat, 13, suffered serious wounds when an Israeli police officer shot him on November 1st, 2022, after exit polls were published, and United Arab List (Ra'am) only won five Knesset seats.
The Israeli police claimed that the officers fired at a car "driving wildly" and "believed that the life of an officer was endangered."
Eyewitnesses said the child was walking on the sidewalk and not in the car when the officers opened fire and shot him in the neck.
The Times Of Israel said the child's condition initially improved but had several scheduled difficult surgeries and died just minutes after the surgeons started surgery to install a feeding tube in his body.
It added that the officer who injured the child was questioned by the "Internal Investigations Department," which is part of the "Justice Ministry" that investigates police wrongdoing in Israel, and the officer claimed he "suspected one of the drivers tried to run him over."
Locals in the Arab town said the police had no reason to open fire and that the child had no connection with the alleged wild driver, adding that several police officers tried to stop one of the speeding cars and fired at it when the driver did not stop.
The child's uncle, Riyad, said his slain nephew child was walking on the side of the road heading home when he was shot and seriously injured and added that Issa was recovering and even started walking while attached to a medical device, but then he suffered complications and died during surgery.
Ha'aretz reports that the family has not ruled out the possibility that medical malpractice led to his death and are waiting for the autopsy results.
Riyad stated that the investigation could reveal whether the child died of medical negligence or other causes, adding that "no matter what eventually led to his death, the police should not have opened fire, and they are responsible for his death."
Editor's note: Issa was a Bedouin Palestinian from Arara in the Negev. Bedouins, who mainly identify themselves as Palestinians, are frequently the target of Israeli racism and discrimination.
From its earliest years, Israel implemented policies designed to take over Bedouin land. A 2011 report stated: "Nearly 70,000 Bedouin live in 35 'unrecognized villages' in appalling conditions."
In 2021 United Nations human rights experts called for an end to the "violence, discrimination and incitement to racial hatred against Palestinian citizens of Israel."
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Invading Israeli soldiers kill 5 Palestinians (17 total in Nov, including 5 children)
details here: Invading Israeli soldiers kill 5 Palestinians (17 total in Nov, including 5 children)
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Ammar Hamdi Mifleh, age 22
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An Israeli pushed Palestinian Ammar Mifleh to the ground, then fired four rounds into him at point blank range.
Israeli soldier shoots, kills unarmed Palestinian at point-blank range
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As an unarmed Palestinian young man, Ammar Mifleh, resisted arrest by a well-armed Israeli soldier, the soldier took out a pistol and shot him four times at point-blank range, killing him.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, November 2, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldier-kills-a-palestinian-near-nablus/
On Friday, an Israeli soldier killed a young Palestinian man after dropping him to the ground in Huwwara town, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the slain young man has been identified as Ammar Hamdi Mifleh, 22, from Osarin village, south of Nablus.
The Health Ministry said the soldiers prevented a Palestinian ambulance and medics from approaching the wounded young man, who succumbed to his wounds before the army took his corpse to an unknown destination.
A Video documenting the Israeli attack shows the soldier wrapping his arm around Ammar Mifleh's neck and trying to drag him away before two Palestinians tried to intervene and de-escalate the situation.
The young man, who managed to get free from the soldier's neck hold, wrestled with him for brief seconds before the soldier started removing his pistol out of its holster, his rifle fell in the process, and then he pushed the Palestinian, dropping him to the ground, before firing four rounds at him.
The soldier then approached the Palestinian again and before using his pistol to fire another round in a clear indication he executed the young man although he posed no threat, before picking up his rifle.
The soldier's life was not in danger, especially since the young man was already on the ground, and he could have subdued him at gunpoint to allow other soldiers to arrest him.
Eyewitnesses said the scuffle was fast and brief and that when the Palestinians seemed to have grabbed the muzzle area of the rifle, he was trying to ensure it wasn't pointed at him.
The Israeli army claimed a Palestinian "stabbed a police officer in Huwwara" before he was shot by the soldiers, adding that the officer suffered mild wounds.
The allegation cannot be substantiated, while eyewitnesses said the fatal shooting of Ammar Mifleh had nothing to do with the alleged stabbing.
According to the army, "the Palestinian attempted to snatch the weapon from the soldier before his rifle fell" however, even that scenario does not justify firing four life rounds at the Palestinian who was already on the ground and was unarmed.
The young man's execution led to massive protests in Huwwara before the soldiers shot a young man with a rubber-coated steel bullet and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates denounced the execution of the young man and described it as "a cold-blooded murder committed by a racist Israeli occupation soldier encouraged by the extremist political and military leadership in Israel."
It added that Israel's policies allowing soldiers to use live fire against unarmed Palestinians are all part of the political incitement, hatred, and racism of the Israeli political and military leaderships and the illegal paramilitary colonizers who became a second army occupying Palestine.
The Ministry called on the International Criminal Court and the International Community to end their deadly silence, prosecute the war criminals, and end this illegal, criminal colonialist occupation of Palestine and its seriously escalating crimes.
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Mujahid Mahmoud Hamed, 32, was killed by Israeli forces near Ramallah.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Another Palestinian – fifth one in December
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-another-palestinian-fifth-december-mojahed-hamed/
Israeli soldiers killed yet another Palestinian man, Mojahed Hamed, alleging that he had shot at an Israeli military post from his car. No Israelis were injured. (Invading Israeli forces have killed about 196 Palestinians this year, while Palestinian defenders have killed 26 Israelis this year.)
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, December 8, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-ramallah-12/
On Wednesday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man in Deir Dibwan town, east of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank. The army also shot and seriously injured a young man in Kafr Ein village northwest of Ramallah.
The Health Ministry said the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed it that the soldiers killed Mojahed Mahmoud Hamed, 32, from Silwan town, east of Ramallah.
It added that the soldiers chased the young man, opened fire at him, and took him to an unknown destination before the Israeli side later informed the General Authority of Civil Affairs that the young man had died from his wounds.
The Health Ministry added that the army initially refused to allow the transfer of the corpse of the slain young man to the Palestinians, but later handed his body to a Palestinian ambulance before he was moved to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
The Israeli occupation army claimed the soldiers "neutralized a suspect who opened fire at their military post from a speeding car."
The army alleged that the soldiers "pursued the car and fired at the suspect who was driving while firing at the soldiers" and that the army initiated a search campaign "looking for more suspects" and added that no soldiers were injured in the incident.
In addition to killing Mojahed Hamed, Israeli soldiers also invaded Kafr Ein village, northwest of Ramallah, leading to protests, before shooting a young man with several live rounds in the chest, pelvis, and thigh; his wounds have been described as moderate-to-severe.
On Tuesday dawn, December 5th, the soldiers killed Omar Yousef Manna' Fararja, 22, shot six others, and abducted three, including his brother, in the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/omar-yousef-fararja/
On Friday, December 2nd, the soldiers killed Ammar Hamdi Mifleh, 22, in Huwwara town, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/ammar-hamdi-mifleh/
On Thursday, December 1st, the soldiers killed two Palestinians, Na'im Jamal Zubeidi, 27, and Mohammad Ayman Sa'adi, 26, in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-in-jenin-3/
The entire West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since 1967; all its official entrances and exits are controlled by Israeli soldiers, making its Palestinian inhabitants virtual prisoners.
Many are families that were ethnically cleansed from Israel during Israel's founding war (see this and this), and by its 1967 war. Israeli forces invade West Bank towns and villages daily.
Thanks to the pro-Israel lobby in the US, Congress disburses over $20 million per day of Americans' tax money directly to or on behalf of Israel.
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Dia Rimawi, 15, killed by Israeli soldiers near Ramallah.
Palestinian youth killed, three others wounded by Israeli army gunfire near Ramallah, one of them detained
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/132268
RAMALLAH, Thursday, December 8, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces opened fire and killed one Palestinian and wounded three others, one of them was detained, near the town of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah, according to the Ministry of Health.
It said that it was informed by the Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority that one of two youths shot and detained by the army has died while the other remains in Israeli custody in critical condition.
The youths are from the nearby town of Beit Rima.
Two of the wounded were taken to hospital in Ramallah and reported in moderate and stable condition with one shot in the chest and the other in the leg, according to the Ministry of Health.
In a later development, the Health Ministry said that the Israeli army handed over to the Palestinians the body of the slain Palestinian. He was identified as Dia Mohammad Rimawi, 15, from Beit Rima.
The other wounded Palestinian detained by the army remains in critical condition and was transferred to an Israeli hospital, said the Health Ministry.
Three Palestinians were earlier shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during an army assault on Jenin refugee camp.
With the one killed near Aboud this evening, Israel has killed 165 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the year.
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Atta Shalabi, 46, Sidqi Zakarneh, 29, and Tareq Al-Damaj, 29, killed by Israeli forces Dec. 8, 2022 in the West Bank city of Jenin.
QuoteOn Thursday, December 8, Israeli forces invaded various towns in the Jenin governorate, north of Jerusalem, killing Atta Shalabi, 46, Sidqi Zakarneh, 29, and Tareq Al-Damaj, 29.
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'A true massacre'
On Thursday during the early dawn hours, undercover Israeli special forces, intelligence units, and the army targeted resistance fighters Sidqi Zakarneh and Tareq Damaj as they were sitting in a vehicle reportedly belonging to Damaj, near a coffee shop located just outside Jenin refugee camp.
Moreover, according to eyewitnesses, during the operation targeting Zakarneh and Damaj, the targeted men did not engage in armed confrontation with the Israeli forces, and exchange of live fire was not reported indicting that their killing was a deliberate execution.
"A true massacre," an eyewitness reported to local journalists shortly after the brutal killings of Zakarneh and Damaj. "They got out of the car and their bodies were riddled, specifically their heads and faces," he said. "As [the two men] were being shot, a sniper fired at a third man," who was later identified as Atta Shalabi.
Shalabi, a 46-year-old laborer from the town of Qabatiya in Jenin, was killed during the assassination mission while he was heading to work. For Palestinian labor workers, passing through Israeli checkpoints to head to work on time requires that they leave the West Bank between dusk and dawn.
"It was a difficult sight, it was indescribable," the man stated.
Shalabi is only the most recent Palestinian to have been killed in this manner.
Excerpt above is from this larger article that includes two deaths previously reported in Obits from Palestine:
Invading Israeli forces assassinate 5 more Palestinians in two days, including 16-yr-oldhttps://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-assassinate-5-palestinians-two-days/
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Left: Jana Zakarna, 16, killed December 11, 2022; right: Taiseer al-Ja'bari, 50, died December 9.
2 more deaths: Israeli sniper shoots girl, 16, in head; 59-yr-old dies from wounds https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-responsible-two-palestinian-deaths/
An Israeli sniper shot a Palestinian teenage girl in the head during a raid of a Palestinian city; a Palestinian man died of injuries suffered in Gaza last August when Israel bombed his neighborhood.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, December 9, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-he-suffered-in-gaza-in-august/ Late on Sunday night, Israeli soldiers invaded the Eastern neighborhood of Jenin city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killed a child while standing on her home's rooftop, injured a young man, and abducted three.
The attack occurred before midnight Sunday when undercover soldiers following many several armored military vehicles invaded Jenin.
Sources at the Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin said the soldiers killed Jenna Majdi Essam Zakarna, 16, after shooting her with live fire in the head.
Jenna's family said the soldiers fatally shot her while standing on the rooftop of their home in the Eastern Neighborhood.
Her family added they found her body on their rooftop after the soldiers withdrew from the city.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched carrying the corpse of the slain child while chanting for liberation, independence and ongoing resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation.
The soldiers also stormed and ransacked many homes before abducting Hasan Ahmad Mer'ey, 30, Tha'er Jihad Hanthawi, 40, and his brother Mohammad, 33.
Furthermore, the soldiers caused damage to several parked cars and a shop during protests that took place in the Al-Bayader area in Jenin.
The Israeli army claimed it arrested a Palestinian reportedly "planning attacks against the soldiers and Israeli targets."
Furthermore, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers also shot a young man with a bullet in the leg before he was rushed to Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital suffering mild-to-moderate wounds.
Also, Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers who invaded Jenin and again while withdrawing from the city.
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IDF says 'high probability' soldier accidentally killed Palestinian teen The Israeli military conducted an internal review following Sunday's incident where a 16-year-old Palestinian girl was shot and killed https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/idf-says-high-probability-soldier-accidentally-killed-palestinian-teen-3VnVu2guIWZzCDNUXxule9?reloadTime=1670952232686 ]
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, December 9, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-he-suffered-in-gaza-in-august/ The Shehab News Agency has reported that a Palestinian man died Friday dawn from serious wounds he suffered in August of this year, 2022, during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
It said Nabil Shallah, 59, from the Sheja'eyya neighborhood east of Gaza city, has died from his wounds at a hospital in the coastal region.
The Palestinian man suffered life-threatening wounds when the Israeli army fired missiles at homes and buildings near Abu Samra Mosque in the Sheja'eyya neighborhood.
The Israeli offensive on Gaza started with the assassination of Taiseer Mohammad al-Ja'bari, 50, a senior leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, when the Israeli air force fired missiles at Burj Falasteen (Palestine Tower) in the center of Gaza City, on August 5th, killing many civilians in the apartment building and wounding dozens.
The Palestine Tower has thirteen floors and many government offices and media centers. The bombing also caused damage to many surrounding buildings, stores, and commercial facilities.
The three-day offensive on Gaza led to the death of 49 Palestinians, including fifteen children and four women, and caused 360 injuries, including 151 children and 58 women; many of the injured suffered life-threatening wounds.
Earlier Friday morning, Israeli navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats with live fire and gas bombs near the shores of the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Video added 12/17/22:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ywok0Q7r4
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Mohammed and Muhannad Mutair, killed by Israeli settler in hit-and-run
Palestinian brothers killed after Israeli settler runs them over
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-brothers-killed-after-israeli-settler-runs-them-over/
Local media report that the brothers had stopped to change a tire while running errands for their sister's wedding, when they were deliberately struck by an Israeli settler's car. The driver then fled the scene.
reposted from Al Jazeera, December 17, 2022 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/17/two-palestinian-brothers-killed-after-settler-runs-them-over
Two Palestinian brothers have been killed after an Israeli settler ran them over with his car near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
The two brothers, Mohammed and Muhannad Mutair, were "deliberately" run over at the Zaatara checkpoint, south of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency said on Saturday.
In a press statement, the director of the Jerusalem Governorate office in Qalandiya, Zakaria Fayala, said Mohammed's body was transferred to a hospital in Nablus, while Muhannad was transferred to Hadassah Hospital before his death was announced.
According to Fayala, the two brothers were travelling with three other siblings, running errands for their sister's wedding next Friday, when their car broke down. They pulled over to fix one of the tires, before the settler's speeding car "deliberately" ran into the group, resulting in the immediate death of Mohammed.
The settler then fled the scene, Fayala said.
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Muhannad's feet had been amputated by the car and he passed away not long after reaching Hadassa Hospital in critical condition, according to the Maan news agency.
Qalandiya, where the brothers lived, has announced a general strike for Sunday.
A spokesman for Fatah, the largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization, described the incident as "a new heinous crime committed by fascism".
"The Israeli occupation is determined to commit crimes, and our people are determined to respond and defend themselves," Munther al-Hayek said in a statement.
Last month, two other brothers, Jawad and Dhafr Rimawi, were killed by Israeli forces after a raid in their neighboring village.
According to the United Nations, 2022 has been the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2006.
Israeli military raids and killings in Palestinian cities and villages are taking place on a near-daily basis, in parallel with a rise in Palestinian armed attacks, as well as an increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians.
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Young Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Jenin
https://imemc.org/article/young-man-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-jenin/
On Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that a young Palestinian man succumbed to the serious wound he had suffered a week earlier after several Israeli military vehicles invaded Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry said the young man, Tamer Azmin Aref Nashrati, 23, from the Jenin refugee camp in Jenin city in the northern West Bank, died from his wounds at the Istishari hospital in Ramallah.
Various Palestinian factions vowed to continue the path of resistance until liberation and independence.
Hundreds of Palestinians participated in his funeral procession and ceremony in Jenin and marched carrying his body, calling for ongoing resistance, steadfastness, and unity.
The Jenin Brigade of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said Samer was one of its members.
Media sources said Tamer was seriously injured when an explosive charge he was preparing detonated while he was handling it as several armored Israeli military vehicles invaded Jenin and Jenin refugee camp.
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A PHOTO OF AHMAD DARAGHMEH IN HIS UNIFORM FOR THE FOOTBALL CLUB
Soccer player and resistance fighter Ahmad Daraghmeh killed in Nablus Ahmad Atef Daraghmeh was the 229th Palestinian to be killed this year and the 15th Palestinian to be killed in December alone.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/soccer-player-and-resistance-fighter-ahmad-daraghmeh-killed-in-nablus/?
On Thursday, December 22nd, Israeli forces shot and killed 23-year-old Ahmad Atef Daraghmeh, a promising soccer player, in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Israeli military forces raided Joseph's Tomb with armored military vehicles and weapons in order to escort a group of Israeli settlers to conduct prayers and religious rituals at the site.
The raid sparked confrontations with Palestinians in the area and lasted into the early hours of Thursday morning.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, three other Palestinians were injured with live ammunition, while more than 20 Palestinians were injured through tear gas inhalation.
Joseph's Tomb has become a flashpoint of Israeli violence in recent years, with several Palestinians killed during confrontations at the site over the past year. The Israeli military frequently escorts large groups of Israeli settlers to the area, provoking the local Palestinian community.
A football player and a Palestinian under occupationDaraghmeh was no stranger to Israeli incursions and abuses.
Daraghmeh's brother, Adham Daraghmeh, has been in Israeli military detention since December 28, 2021. His father, Atef Daraghmeh, has spent 12 years as a political detainee in Israeli prisons.
In footage acquired by local Palestinian journalists of the moment Daraghmeh was shot and killed, the 23-year-old is seen holding a rifle but was not shooting at the time he was shot and killed.
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Daraghmeh was buried in his hometown of Tubas on Thursday afternoon, covered in a green flag to signal a Hamas affiliation. Yet, the funeral procession showed a diversity of factional flags waving around Daraghmeh.
Several factional groups, recent and older, mourned the loss of Daraghmeh, including Palestinian armed resistance group based out of Nablus, Lions' Den, Hamas, the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) which is the leading umbrella group for the armed coalition of the Jenin Brigade.
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PALESTINIAN MOURNERS AT THE FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR AHMED ATEF DARAGHMEH, 23, KILLED DURING CLASHES WITH ISRAELI FORCES ON DECEMBER 22, 2022, IN THE TOWN OF TUBAS IN THE WEST BANK.
Daraghmeh was also a soccer player with the Palestinian Football League. Since 1967, more than 700 Palestinian athletes have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers.
Jibril Rjoub, head of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee, and the Football team released a statement condemning Daraghmeh's killing, saying "This new crime against an athlete and a Palestinian player is a new addition to the series of crimes which persist against sports and Palestinian athletes specifically."
Rjoub's statement also called for accountability, saying, "We demand that FIFA and all relevant international and regional organizations uphold their laws of human rights and to undertake punitive measures against the criminal occupation and its institutions," the statement concluded.
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh also condemned the killing and called on FIFA to condemn the assassination of the player calling for holding the criminals accountable.
A mother's painA video of Daraghmeh's mother bidding farewell to her son before his burial was shared widely on Palestinian social media Thursday, along with photos and videos of Daraghmeh playing soccer for local leagues.
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Holding the pale body of her son, Daraghmeh's mother demands everyone to be quiet "nobody speak!" she kept yelling at the hospital. "I fixed your bed and your sheets, yama" (Yama which means mother in Arabic, is used as a term of endearment as though calling the child darling).
"Where do I go without you, darling?" Daraghmeh's mother kept yelling. "Tell me where to go!" She kept holding her son's body and began kissing his feet. In shock, denial, and anger, she kept refusing to let go. His aunt next to him kept saying, "a lion, you are a lion," as though encouraging her dead nephew. Daraghmeh's brother was unable to mourn as he remained in Israeli prisons, notorious for their abuses.
On Tuesday, December 21, Palestinian political detainee and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade founder Nasser Abu Humeid, 50, succumbed to his cancer inside Israeli prisons. Abu Humeid was killed by medical negligence from the Israeli Prison Services (IPS).
At the time of Daraghmeh's killing, Israeli forces were also escalating the arbitrary imprisonment of Palestinians (holding them in jail with no trials or indictment charges) and abuses against Palestinian political detainees. This may only persist in light of right-wing extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir taking control of the Ministry of Internal Security which includes the IPS.
Daraghmeh is the 229th Palestinian to be killed this year and the 15th Palestinian to be killed in December alone.
Killing of Palestinian youths: Strategic Israeli aim for 2022
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2022/12/24/Killing-of-Palestinian-youths-Strategic-Israeli-aim-for-2022
Despite the fact that Israeli leaders repeatedly commit crimes against humanity, their hearts still possess some human traits, such as having goals and ambitions. However, their aspirations are of different nature.
An image that might come to one's mind is a group of Israeli leaders happily cherishing their achieved goals at the end of the year, bragging about the number of Palestinian youths they have managed to murder, and vowing to kill more.
If that is a goal fulfilled at the end of each year, it was outdone this year. The number of Palestinians who have been slain by Israel in the occupied territories since the start of 2022 reached 224, 48 of whom were children, whether young or old. According to the United Nations, 2022 is the deadliest year for the Palestinian people since 2005.
Stories of Palestinian young men and women who have been trying to fulfill their dreams and aspirations in several fields of life went viral after they were martyred in several areas of the occupied territories throughout the year. Their death was mourned before their art, goals, or even everyday life endeavors were crowned.
The lofty aspiration of the Palestinian young woman Donyana al-Amour was to fight for a life full of flowers and colors. Since her childhood, Donyana, from al-Fokhari village, eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, was a talented artist. She mastered creating her art works uniquely and joined the faculty of Fine Arts in the Al-Aqsa University.
Donyana was few months away from her graduation during the three-day Israeli aggression on Gaza. On the 5th of August 2022, the Israeli aerial strikes targeted her while she was in her room at home.
In spite of the fact that Donyana led a solitary life, her brother Asim said that she was a great storyteller who used to gather with the family after preparing tea in order to describe her latest drawings with a cheerful tone and amusing anecdotes. Asim concluded that "all that Donyana cared about was her family, her drawings, and her flowers," wondering why does she have to be killed.
Later in November, the lives of two Palestinian siblings were claimed by the live bullets of Israeli occupation forces. The two young men were dedicated to defending the occupied Palestinian territories against the Israeli aggression. "They didn't want to die in bed," family sources reported.
Jawad, 22, and Dhafir, 21, from Beit Rima town northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah did not only confront the Israeli raids into their village, but they also stepped up their efforts to defend the nearby villages against Israeli raids.
The siblings Jawad and Dhafir succumbed to serious injuries in the chest and the pelvis on the 29th of November during an Israeli military raid into Kafr Ein village north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian ministry of health.
"My two sons are gone," the bereaved mother wept on learning about the death of her two sons, according to a video that went viral. "Why do we raise our children? To see them cold-bloodedly murdered?" she helplessly questioned her right to cherish the life of her grown-up sons.
Not only resistance activities pose danger on the Palestinian youths' lives, but an act as simple as waiting on parents and fetching their needs is a grave risk for a Palestinian young man.
On the 2nd of December, 22-year-old Ammar Muflih from Usarin village in the Nablus district left his family's home to get medicine for his sick father. While Ammar was crossing the road of Huwara, a Jewish settler attempted to run over him. Yet he survived.
According to a video circulating on social media, an Israeli soldier tried to arrest Muflih after he survived the ramming attack, but he slapped the soldier in the face not surrendering to being detained. The soldier assaulted him and shot him at point-blank range. Instead of getting the medicine for his father, he was killed and his body is still detained.
Grasping each opportunity to shed the blood of Palestinian youths, Israel murdered the Palestinian young man Ahmad Daraghmeh on the last few days of the year.
23-year-old Daraghmeh, a footballer from Tubas, was shot dead on the 22nd of December during an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. Daraghmeh was a professional football player who played as an attacking midfielder with Thaqafi Tulkarem football club.
The manager of the team, Sabah Sabah, mournfully told local sources that football players are honored and celebrated around the world, yet in Palestine they are only killed by Israel.
Palestinian youths' stories are as countless as the Israeli killings. Despite their death, their aspirations and dreams will always be vividly narrated.
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SOME OF THE PALESTINIAN MARTYRS FROM 2022. (ILLUSTRATION: YUMNA PATEL/MONDOWEISS)
231 Palestinians were killed this year. These are their stories.
2022 has been the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
Read the stories and see the pictures of the victims here:
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/231-palestinians-were-killed-this-year-these-are-their-stories/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhKK4guNDc
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Palestinians recently killed by Israel, left to right: Adam Issam Shaker Ayyad, 15, Fuad Mohammad 'Aabed, 17, and Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22
Israel has killed three Palestinians already in 2023
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-killed-three-palestinians-2023/
Following a deadly 2022, the new year has already seen Israeli forces kill three Palestinians – a 15-year-old from Bethlehem, a 17-year-old, and a young man of 22. Two other Palestinians in their twenties were also killed in the last days of December.
ISRAELI FORCES KILL TWO PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN EARLY DAYS OF NEW YEAR
reposted from Defense For Children International – Palestine (DCIP), January 3, 2023 https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_two_palestinian_children_in_early_days_of_new_year
Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank in the first days of 2023.
Adam Issam Shaker Ayyad, 15, was shot and killed by Israeli forces around 4:30 a.m. on January 3 in Dheisheh refugee camp, just outside the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine.
Israeli forces entered Dheisheh refugee camp earlier that morning to arrest a Palestinian man. Palestinians confronted Israeli forces, who fired live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs, and tear gas canisters at the crowds. Adam sustained at least one gunshot wound to the back of his shoulder. He was transferred to Al-Hussein Hospital in nearby Beit Jala in a private car, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Fuad Mahmoud Ahmad Abed, 17, was shot by an Israeli sniper around 11:30 p.m. on January 1 in the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by DCIP. An Israeli sniper stationed on the second floor of a Palestinian home about 50 meters (164 feet) away shot Fuad in his abdomen, pelvis, and legs. A Palestinian ambulance transferred Fuad to Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, where doctors pronounced him dead around 1 a.m. on January 2.
"Palestinian children live in a hyper-militarized context where the Israeli military's nighttime and early morning incursions into Palestinian communities to arrest and intimidate Palestinian civilians is the norm," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. "The year has just begun and Israeli forces have already shot and killed two Palestinian children with complete impunity."
Fuad was killed as Israeli forces entered Kafr Dan around 10:30 p.m. to demolish the homes of two Palestinian men who allegedly carried out a shooting attack and were killed by Israeli forces on September 14, 2022. Palestinians confronted Israeli forces, and Israeli forces withdrew from the area around 11:30 p.m. Some Palestinians chased after the Israeli military vehicles, including Fuad.
Fuad and Adam are the first two Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in 2023, according to documentation collected by DCIP.
Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.
53 Palestinian children were killed in 2022, according to documentation collected by DCIP, including 36 Palestinian children shot and killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank. DCIP documented the killing of 17 Palestinian children between August 5–7 after Israeli forces launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip. DCIP continues to investigate several incidents.
ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILL A PALESTINIAN NEAR JENIN
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, January 2, 2023https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-injure-five-palestinians-two-seriously-abduct-one-near-jenin/
On Monday dawn, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians, killed two young men, and injured at least eight others, one seriously.
Samer Atiya, the head of the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin city, said the soldiers killed Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, after shooting him with several live rounds in the chest.
The soldiers also shot at least eight Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Furthermore, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli army vehicles in several parts of the town.
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Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, was killed by Israeli forces near Nablus. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Child near Nablus
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-child-near-nablus-2/
A Palestinian child has been killed by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported that a large unit of Israeli forces broke into the eastern area of Nablus, sparking confrontations with local residents.
Israeli soldiers fired live bullets, sound, and gas canisters at citizens, killing Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, after shooting him in the head.
During the raid, Israeli forces also detained former prisoner Hasan Arayshi.
With the killing of Abu Zaytoun, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of 2023 has risen to four.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhKK4guNDc
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Eyad Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man killed by an Israeli Border Police officer in 2020.
Israeli police officer who killed autistic Palestinian gets promotion https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-police-officer-who-killed-autistic-palestinian-gets-promotion-eyad-hallaq/
In a culture of impunity for Israeli police and military (and Israel in general), it should come as no surprise that the killing of Eyad Hallaq, a disabled Palestinian man, is rewarded.
by Kathryn Shihadah Most Americans are aware of the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
Five days after George Floyd's death, an autistic Palestinian man named Eyad Hallaq was killed at point blank range by Israeli police in Jerusalem. There are striking differences in the cases.
The day after Floyd's death, the officer accused of causing his death was fired; three days later he was arrested. Within ten months, the officer was tried and found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. Floyd's family received a $27 million settlement following a wrongful death lawsuit.
Eyad Hallaq's killer just got a promotion and a raise. Hallaq's family has received nothing beyond hollow condolences from Israel's finest. The officer was eventually charged with reckless homicide (2.5 years later, his trial is ongoing). An Israeli soldier who accidentally killed another soldier in 2021 was recently found guilty of reckless homicide and sentenced to 26 months; Israelis who kill Palestinians are unlikely to serve time at all.
It is commonplace for Israeli leaders and politicians – right up to the Prime Minister – to express absolute support for soldiers or police officers who have killed Palestinians in cold blood (examples here, here, and here).
Last month, Israel's police commander, Amir Cohen, praised Israeli snipers who killed an innocent teenage Palestinian girl: "our fighters acted morally, with values, with courage, with determination and saved lives. And for that, I salute them." Also last month, Israel's new defense minister, Itimar Ben Gvir, called one such soldier a hero.
Ben Gvir also called the officer who killed Eyad Hallaq a hero.
Eyad's background
Eyad Hallaq, 32 years old, lived with his parents and attended a special needs school where he was learning vocational skills.
According to the Israeli news site Ha'aretz, one of Eyad's teacher had taught him the route to his school, introduced him to the armed Israeli police officers posted along the route, and explained to them his disability. They saw the certificate that stated – in Hebrew and Arabic – that he was 100% disabled. She had promised Eyad that he needn't be afraid of these officers.
He was a familiar site. Every day for six years, he had taken this short route to his school without incident, always walking with his head down, never speaking to strangers.
The incident
On May 30, 2020, Eyad Hallaq followed the same route to school as always, carrying a bag as always – one of his chores was to drop off the household trash on his way to school. He was wearing gloves and a mask, as did many people during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic.
He passed a checkpoint – a barrier erected by Israel to enable Israeli security forces to control the movement of Palestinians – but one of the officers apparently called out an order for him to stop. Out of fear or confusion, he ran away. Officers gave chase, calling "terrorist!" and firing several times, hitting him in the leg.
At some point, his teacher found him and stayed with him to the end.
Eyad hid in a garbage room, where a number of officers converged on him. He was disoriented and terrified, but his teacher shouted in Hebrew and Arabic that he was disabled, and begged them to check the papers in his pocket.
In spite of his teacher's exhortations, his disability, the gunshot wound in his leg, his empty hands, and the absence of any threat, one officer opened fire at point blank range, shooting him three times in the abdomen and killing him.
The traumatized teacher was then taken to the police station, where she was strip searched and interrogated for hours.
Israeli police officers raided the family home and, without a word, began searching it. When one of them said, "when is the funeral?" the Hallaq family understood that Eyad was dead.
Aftermath
An investigation revealed that the officer who had fired the lethal shots (the same one who has received a promotion) was a new recruit – and was armed with an M-16 rifle. His commander had called for him to cease fire, but he allegedly "continued shooting...because he saw that Hallaq was still moving."
The area where Eyad was killed is full of security cameras – hundreds of them, monitored by Israeli police. But during the course of the investigation, according to Israel Hayom, "prosecutors claimed that none of the cameras in the area had worked and there was no footage of the incident."
Hallaq's body was taken to Israel's Institute of Forensic Medicine; in spite of the family's demand, a Palestinian pathologist was blocked from attending the autopsy.
Palestinian lawyer and member of the Israeli legislature Ayman Odeh had predicted this police cover-up, but declared,
QuoteAt the same time we must remember that those officers were the ones who pulled the trigger, but the occupation loaded the gun.
Justice will be served only when the Hallaq family and the entire Palestinian people will have freedom and independence.
The Israeli Border Police commander, Amir Cohen, stated, "We are people of the law and we respect the law. If the court decides that he is guilty – we will dismiss him from service immediately. We cannot have anyone with criminal convictions serving in our system. But as long as he has not been convicted – I have no problem with his service, which is why I recruited him to permanent service."
A trial is underway; the charge of reckless manslaughter is unlikely to stick, if history is any guide.
Israeli police culture
Commander Cohen described the officer's training: "we told him that we are living in the reality of terrorist attacks, terrorist attacks, terrorist attacks. We made it very clear to the fighters that they must be cautious and very careful; ready and alert."
(The Times of Israel reported that 2020 had seen two Israeli deaths from attacks by Palestinians – the lowest number in Israel's history; a third Israeli was killed the day after the article came out. 34 Palestinians were also killed in 2020).
Cohen added that at the time of the incident, the officer
Quoteacted in accordance with his awareness of the circumstances during those moments. He truly believed that this person was a terrorist, and I am sure that he acted as he did because of the potential danger...
[The others] were shouting "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist," and they chased after whomever they thought was a terrorist. The word 'terrorist' blasted out of the radios – these are the circumstances of the situation he was in.
The officer's commander described his own perception of Hallaq: "He had gloves and was wearing black, it all meant a terrorist for me...From my point of view I'm running after a terrorist who wants to harm innocent Jews. One that maybe has a gun or an explosive."
The attorneys for the police concurred: "As far as [the officers] were concerned, he was a terrorist for all intents and purposes. They acted in accordance with the explicit order they received from their superiors...the two acted according to protocol, while doing their best to apprehend the suspect."
Systemic bias
+972 Magazine's recent article, "The odds of a violent Israeli soldier facing charges? Under 1 percent," describes a statistical analysis done by Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization.
The group studied five years' worth of complaints by Palestinians against Israeli soldiers – 1,260 total (over 400 of the complaints involved the deaths of Palestinians). Just 3 of the death-related complaints led to indictments.
At best, the odds of an Israeli soldier being indicted is just 0.87 percent.
When such a case does reach prosecution, the charges tend to be understated, and sentences tend to be lenient. For example, Israeli soldiers who killed Palestinians have ended up with a few weeks or months of community service (see https://www.btselem.org/firearm/20181015_31_minors_killed_in_gaza_protests_in_6_months and https://electronicintifada.net/tags/nawaf-ahmad-al-attar and https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-03-28/ty-article/.premium/even-for-the-wild-west-bank-this-is-a-shocking-story/0000017f-e2ef-df7c-a5ff-e2ff97e00000)
Another study, this one by the Palestinian legal center Adalah, concluded that Israel's shoot-to-kill policy works hand in hand with a justice system (both the Police Investigation Unit and the Israeli Justice Ministry) that "defend
the shooters instead of investigating the cases and [putting] those responsible on trial."
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PALESTINIAN MOURNERS CARRY THE BODY OF AHMED ABU JUNAID, WHO SUCCUMBED TO HIS WOUNDS AFTER HE WAS SHOT EARLIER DURING CLASHES WHEN ISRAELI TROOPS RAIDED THE BALATA REFUGEE CAMP.
5 Palestinians killed in two days in the West Bank
The Israeli army continues its onslaught on the West Bank, killing five Palestinians in four separate cities, from the north of the West Bank to the south.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/01/3-martyrs-in-24-hours/?
Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in less than two days, between Wednesday and Thursday, including two teenagers.
Ahmad Amer Abu Juneid, 21, was killed with a bullet to the head in the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus; Sanad Samamra, 19, was killed in Hebron after an alleged stabbing attempt; Samir Ouni Aslan, 41, was killed with a bullet to the chest in the Qalandia refugee camp; and Habib Mohammad Abdelrahman Kamil, 25, and Abdelhadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18, were killed in Qabatiya, Jenin.
More than 231 Palestinians were killed in 2022, with the vast majority (173) killed in the West Bank. This year seems to usher in a similar trend, as Israeli forces have already killed nine Palestinians in 2023, including 3 children.
The martyr of Balata
On Wednesday morning, January 11, Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. Confrontations ensued between the army and local youth, including the exchange of gunfire by armed resistance fighters from within the camp.
One man was critically injured with a bullet to the head that morning, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH). The next day, the man, identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Amer Abu Juneid, succumbed to his wounds sustained the night before, and was declared dead at 3:30 p.m., January 12, by the MOH.
During the raid on Balata, Israeli forces fired tear gas and live ammunition during the raid the night before, endangering the lives of the refugee camp population, 60% of whom are under the age of 25.
The martyr of Hebron
In the early dawn hours of Thursday, January 12, 19-year-old Sanad Mohammad Othman Samamra was shot and killed after an alleged attempted stabbing attack near the illegal settlement of Givat Yehuda, south of Hebron. The MOH reported that Samamra was shot and killed by the Israeli army, while Israeli media reported that Samamra was shot by a settler bystander — an electrician — as Samamra carried out the alleged stabbing of another settler.
Mondoweiss has been unable to verify the details of Samamra's death as of the time of writing.
According to Israeli reports, one settler was injured.
Raid on the Old City of Nablus
On that same Thursday morning, the Israeli army also invaded the Old City of Nablus, which in 2022 became a haven for the armed Palestinian resistance group, the Lions' Den.
Five Palestinians were arrested from the Old City, including 33-year-old Iyad Nasser Shabaro, who the Israeli military claimed was an "activist in the Lions' Den group."
Though no one was killed during the Nablus raid, more than ten Palestinians were injured in the Old City, according to local news sources. Of those, five Palestinians were injured with live ammunition, including two local journalists who were transferred to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, along with two others who were injured after being rammed by military vehicles.
The martyr of Qalandia
Israeli soldiers also invaded Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah on Thursday morning at approximately 5:00 a.m., conducting sweeping arrests in the camp.
Samir Ouni Aslan, 41, the father of one of the youths being arrested, was shot by an Israeli sniper in the chest while on the roof of his home, as he tried to get a view of the arrest of his son in the street below. According to Wafa News Agency, he had previously attempted to go out into the street to prevent the soldiers from arresting his son — who had been reportedly calling for his father to help him — but the soldiers prevented him from leaving the building, after which Aslan went up on the roof of the apartment building to get a better vantage point of his son. That was when an Israeli sniper stationed on the roof of a nearby building shot Aslan in the chest.
According to Wafa, Aslan was assisted by his wife, brother, and sister-in-law in going downstairs and into the camp's alleyways to rush him to the hospital, but were accosted by an Israeli soldier who forced them to lay Aslan (still alive at the time) down on the ground for 30 minutes, before eventually allowing them to take him to the hospital. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Ramallah Medical Complex.
In the first moments of receiving news of Aslan's killing, his grief-stricken father hovered over his son's slain body while in tears, saying "my love, my love" in a cracked voice, before saying "alhamdulilah" (or "praise be to God," a common refrain in times of hardship denoting humility and gratitude for one's fate).
Fatah declared Friday a general strike over the killing of Aslan. The political faction had also called for a general call for disruption in light of the killing.
"My name is Sameera, and his name is Samir," Aslan's mother is seen saying from a couch in Qalandia refugee camp. The elderly woman kisses the hands of her granddaughter, who wears a bright pink jacket as she is carried by her mother beside her, telling her: "In your dreams, my dear. You will know your father in your dreams."
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"Tell me, someone explain to me," Samira cried. "Until when will this injustice persist?"
The martyrs of Jenin
Two martyrs were killed by Israeli forces in the town of Qabatiya, in the Jenin district of the northern West Bank, during an army raid.
The first was Habib Mohammad Abdelrahman Kamil, 25, just hours after Aslan's funeral.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. Israeli forces invaded the eastern neighborhood of Qabatiya in an undercover Mercedes bus holding a special operations unit, followed by the army.
According to local reporters, armed confrontations with Israeli forces ensued and lasted for hours. Special operations units surrounded the home of 24-year-old Mohammad Ali Kamil and destroyed the family's belongings.
Later that night, at 9:15 p.m., the MOH announced that a second Palestinian was killed in Qabatiya in the same raid. He was identified as 18-year-old Abdelhadi Fakhri Nazzal. According to the ministry, Nazzal was injured during the same raid in which Israeli forces shot and killed 25-year-old Abdelrahman Kamil.
Four others were injured by Israeli live fire during the raid, including one in the neck and the others in the chest.
EDIT - This article, which can be read here, provides the pictures. https://israelpalestinenews.org/invading-israeli-forces-kill-5-palestinians-in-west-bank/
Invading Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank
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Between Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed (top, left to right) Samir Awni Harbi Aslan (41), Sanad Mohammad Othman Samarma (19), Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid (21), (bottom, left to right) Abed al-Hadi Nazal (18), and Habib Kamil (25).
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Yazan Samer Jabari, 19, succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli army gunfire near Jenin.
Palestinian Teen Succumbs to Wounds Sustained by Israeli Army Gunfire near Jenin
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-teen-succumbs-to-wounds-sustained-by-israeli-army-gunfire-near-jenin/
A 19-year-old Palestinian teen, who was shot by Israeli soldiers and seriously injured two weeks ago in the town of Kufr Dan, west of Jenin, succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, the official news agency WAFA reported.
Yazan Samer Jabari, from the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin, was seriously injured in confrontations with Israeli soldiers who raided Kufr Dan to demolish the homes of two Palestinian residents.
Two young Palestinians were also killed and many were injured during the military raid.
With the death of Jabari, a total of 12 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army gunfire since the start of the year, including three minors.
Last year, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including 59 in the Jenin governorate alone.
Israeli forces gun down Palestinian father & 2 others, another dies of wounds
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-gun-down-palestinian-father-2-others-another-dies-wounds/
Fifteen days into 2023, thirteen Palestinians have been killed by Israel. The latest victim, Ahmad Kahala, was shot Sunday at point-blank range, and medics were blocked from saving his life.
Saturday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Khaliliyya, 23; the same day, Yazan Ja'bari, 19, died from wounds inflicted by Israeli soldiers earlier this month.
Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world.
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Ahmad Hasan Abdul-Jalil Kahala
On Sunday, just one day after three Palestinians had died from Israeli violence, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man at the western entrance of Silwad town, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden military roadblock at the entrance of the town before stopping and searching cars.
They added that the soldiers forced a driver, Ahmad Hasan Abdul-Jalil Kahala, 45, out of his car and started assaulting him after a verbal argument ensued.
The eyewitnesses stated that one of the soldiers assaulting the Palestinian shot him from point-blank range.
Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers stopped them, obstructed their efforts to provide him with life-saving first aid, and eventually allowed them to take him away.
The medics rushed Ahmad to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, but he succumbed to his serious wounds.
"Ahmad had no vital signs when we reached him," Aahed Smerat, one of the medics at the scene, said, "His son called for help, but when we arrived there, the soldiers stopped us and told us the man was under arrest, and later allowed us to take him away."
The slain man's sister, Ehman Kahala, said her brother and his son, Qussai, 18, were heading to work at a construction site when the soldiers stopped them at a military roadblock.
"They were assaulting my brother before an argument, and a brief scuffle broke out, and then they [the soldiers] just executed him...." She added.
His sister added that the slain man is a married father of five; two boys and three girls, and one of his daughters will graduate from high school this year.
Israeli allegations
The Israeli army alleged that the Palestinian "got out of his car, approached the soldiers and attacked them with a knife, in an area where Palestinian protesters were throwing stones at the army."
Dr. Laila Ghannam, the Governor of Ramallah and Al-Biereh, said Ahmad Kahala's execution is yet another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people and called on the International Community to act instead of shielding Israel from international prosecution for its ongoing war crimes.
Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, denounced Ahmad's killing and said, "the criminals are ongoing with their crimes and violations of International law with impunity," and called for international protection for the Palestinian people.
Ahmad Kahala is the thirteenth Palestinian, including three children, to be killed by Israeli soldiers in the first fifteen days of this year, 2023.
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(left to right) Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, and Yazan Al-Ja'abri, 19 (IAK)
Three more Palestinian deaths Saturday
On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, near the main entrance of Jaba' town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Also Saturday dawn, Palestinian medical sources at Iben Sina Hospital in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, confirmed the death of Yazan Samer Ja'bari, 19, whom the soldiers shot earlier this month near Jenin.
Yazan was shot on January 2nd when the army invaded the town and detonated the home of two slain Palestinians, Ahmad Ayman 'Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani 'Aabed, 22.
The invasion led to massive protests before the soldiers fatally shot Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 21, from Al-Yamoun, and Fuad Mahmoud Ahmad 'Aabed, 18, from Kafr Dan, and injured many others, some seriously.
In 2022, the Israeli army killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
CONTEXT: The entire West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since 1967; all its official entrances and exits are controlled by Israeli soldiers, making its Palestinian inhabitants virtual prisoners. Many are families that were ethnically cleansed from Israel during Israel's founding war (see this and this and this). Israeli forces often invade the territory, frequently beating and shooting people; one example is here.
Israel was established in 1947 through a war of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population, both Muslims and Christians, and it continues to steal other people's land for illegal colonies known as 'settlements.' While Palestinians most often use nonviolent resistance, a small number use armed resistance against the invaders.
Thanks to the pro-Israel lobby in the US, Congress disburses over $20 million per day of Americans' tax money directly to and/or on behalf of Israel.
Israel boasts the fourth most powerful army in the world, behind only Russia, The US, and China.
14-year-old Palestinian succumbs to head injury by IOF gunfire
Israeli occupation gunfire kills 14-year-old Palestinian Omar Lutfi Khamour.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/14-year-old-palestinian-succumbs-to-head-injury-by-iof-gunfi
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Monday the martyrdom of 14-year-old Omar Lutfi Khamour, who succumbed to a serious injury he sustained after being shot in the head by the Israeli occupation forces in Dheisheh refugee camp in Beit Lahm.
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According to sources, large deployments of the occupation army stormed the Dheisheh camp earlier and launched a campaign of raids on Palestinian homes, resulting in confrontations, during which the Israeli soldiers fired bullets and gas and sound bombs.
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With the death of Khamour, the total number of Palestinian martyrs for 2023 rose to 14, including four children.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Ahmad Kahla was martyred through direct execution by the Israeli occupation forces, near Silwad, east of Ramallah.
According to Wafa news agency, there was a verbal confrontation between Kahla and Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint before they "forced him out of his vehicle " and shot him "point-blank".
It is noteworthy that 224 Palestinians were martyred by the IOF in 2022, including 59 martyrs from Jenin Governorate.
The Washington Post also reported that Israeli occupation forces murdered more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank than in any previous year since 2005, following the last major Palestinian Intifada (Uprising). The year 2022 was dubbed the bloodiest in the occupied West Bank.
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed a physical education teacher and a married father of six children, Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, and Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26
Israeli Soldiers Kill Two Palestinians In Jenin – 17 killed in 19 days
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-in-jenin-17-killed-in-19-days/
An Israeli sniper shot a teacher in the head as he was helping a father who had been shot by invading soldiers. The soldiers then blocked medics from coming to their aid. Their deaths make 17 Palestinians killed in 19 days
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, January 19, 2022 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-in-jenin-5/
On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, injured three, and abducted four others after the army invaded Jenin and Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed a physical education teacher and a married father of six children, Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, after shooting him in the head, and former political prisoner, Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, both from Jenin refugee camp.
Ata Abu Romeila, the secretary of the Fateh movement in Jenin, said the soldiers fatally shot Bawaqna while trying to render first aid to Jabarin, who was shot in front of his home in the As-Saha area in the center of Jenin refugee camp before an army sharpshooter shot him in the head.
The man was trying to help Adham, who was shot by an Israeli army sharpshooter and heavily bleeding, before Jawad's daughter helped drag Adham to safety a few meters away, but then an army sniper shot her father.
He added that Israeli soldiers also stopped Palestinian ambulances and prevented the medics from entering the refugee camp, forcing the residents to transport Jawad and Adham to the Ibn Sina Hospital in private cars, but they succumbed to their wounds.
The soldiers also attacked Palestinian protesters with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said the soldiers injured several Palestinians, including three who were shot with live fire to the abdomen, thigh, and shoulder, suffering moderate-but-stable wounds.
The Palestinian shot in the abdomen was rushed to surgery after a soldier shot him with an expanding bullet, causing multi-organ damage.
Two Israeli soldiers were reportedly injured by an explosive charge hurled at their military vehicle.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, including two siblings, Hasan Ahmad Zaghal and Sharaf Ahmad Abu Sharif, in addition to Aws and his brother Hani Khaled Abu Zeina.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched in front of Ibn Sina hospital carrying the corpses of Jabarin and Bawaqna, chanting for ongoing resistance, steadfastness until liberation and independence, and calling for international protection for the Palestinian people.
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian security officer, Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Last year, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate.
Israeli soldiers killed seventeen Palestinians, including four children, in the first nineteen days of this month/year:
1 - January 19, 223: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58.
2 - January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26.
3 - January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40
4 - January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
5 - January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
6 - January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja'bari, 19.
7 - January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
8 - January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
9 - January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
10 - January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
11 - January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
12 - January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
13 - January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
14 - January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
15 - January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
16 - January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad 'Aabed, 17.
17 - January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.
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Hamdi Abu Dayyeh, 40, shot and killed by Israeli soldiers near Hebron.
Palestinian man, 40, shot and killed by Israeli soldiers near Hebron
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/132845
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 17, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian man identified as Hamdi Shaker Abu Dayyeh, 40, was shot and killed today by Israeli soldiers near Hebron, according to the Ministry of Health and Palestinian security sources.
Security sources told WAFA Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint at the northern entrance to the town of Halhoul, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, opened fire at a Palestinian man, critically injuring him before he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses said the soldiers prevented Palestinian ambulances from reaching the Palestinian, whose body was held by the army.
Abu Dayyeh is the 15th Palestinian to be shot and killed by Israeli soldiers since the start of the year, including four minors.
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Tareq Odah Yousef Ma'ali, killed by Israeli settler.
Palestinian father of 3 killed by illegal Israeli colonist in West Bank
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-killed-by-israeli-colonist-tarek-maali/
Tarek Ma'ali, 42, was the father of three. He was gunned down by an Israeli whose settlement – built on Palestinian land – is not even recognized by Israel. He is the 18th Palestinian killed by Israel this year.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, January 21, 2023 https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-killed-by-israeli-colonist-near-ramallah/
On Saturday, an illegal paramilitary colonizer fatally shot a Palestinian man in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni'ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Tarek Odah Yousef Ma'ali, 42, a married father of three children from Kafr Ni'ma village.
Israeli sources claimed the Palestinian exited his car and attempted to stab a colonizer before he shot and killed him.
The killing of Tarek Ma'ali occurred in the illegal Sde Ephraim illegal colonialist outpost near the Neria colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands.
Ar-Reesan Mountain, situated on lands belonging to al-Janiya, Ras Karkar, and Kafr Ni'ma, witnesses frequent protests due to illegal Israeli annexation and colonialist activities.
The colonialist outpost, Sde Ephraim, is considered "unauthorized" by Israel because it was established without approval from the Israeli government.
All of Israel's colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." It also prohibits the "individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory".
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AREF LAHLOUH (LEFT) AND MOHAMMAD ALI (RIGHT) WERE SHOT AND KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES ON JANUARY 25, 2023. (PHOTOS: WAFA NEWS AGENCY)
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem
Israeli forces killed Aref Lahlouh, 20 following an alleged stabbing attempt on soldiers, and Mohammad Ali, 17, in Shu'fat refugee camp during confrontations with the army.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/01/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-in-west-bank-jerusalem/?
Israeli forces reportedly killed one Palestinian near Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, and injured another Palestinian in Jerusalem's Shu'fat Refugee Camp on Wednesday January 25.
On Wednesday afternoon Palestinian media outlets reported that a man had been shot and killed on a highway in the Qalqilya district of the northwestern West Bank.
While the Palestinian Ministry of Health had not yet confirmed the killing, or the identity of the deceased, Wafa news agency reported that 20-year-old Aref Abdul Nasser Lahlouh, a resident of the Jenin Refugee Camp, was killed.
The Israeli army claimed that Lahlouh attempted to stab Israeli soldiers, who were stationed at a bus stop near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim. No Israeli soldiers were injured during the alleged attack.
CCTV footage released by the army showed the man, alleged to be Lahlouh, exiting a parked vehicle before running towards the soldiers, who quickly shot him down. The footage does not clearly show if there is a weapon of any kind in his hand, as Israeli forces alleged.
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Palestinian media reported that Lahlouh was killed in front of his mother and brother, who were reportedly in the car with him.
The footage released by the army shows Lahlou's vehicle parked behind two other vehicles, including one Israeli police car. It remains unclear if Lahlouh was part of a traffic stop.
Palestinian news outlet Ma'an reported that following Lahlouh's killing, Israeli forces arrested the young man's father at the Jalamah checkpoint near Jenin, as he was on his way home from work inside Israel.
Earlier this week it was revealed that an initial probe into the Israeli army's killing of Ahmad Kahla, a 45-year-old father who was killed at a checkpoint outside Ramallah earlier this month, that soldiers killed him "unnecessarily."
At the time he was killed, Israeli forces claimed Kahla tried to stab them, though through video and eyewitness testimony, it was revealed that Kahla was in fact unarmed, and did not attempt to attack the soldiers as was initially claimed.
Teenager killed in Jerusalem refugee camp
Hours after Lahlouh was killed, Palestinian media reported that a 17 year old had succumbed to his wounds sustained during confrontations in the Shu'fat Refugee Camp in occupied East Jerusalem.
Wafa identified him as Mohammad Ali, a resident of the camp. He reportedly succumbed to gunshot wounds to the chest. Ali's death was confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Videos circulating on social media showed Israeli forces patting down and inspecting Ali's lifeless body as he lay on the ground after he was shot. According to Wafa, Israeli forces reportedly assaulted Palestinian medics as they attempted to evacuate him to the hospital.
Israeli authorities are reportedly withholding Ali's body. A general strike was declared in the Shuafat refugee camp for three days in response to Ali's killing.
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The teenager was killed during confrontations that erupted between local youth from the camp and Israeli forces, during a large-scale Israeli raid to punitively demolish the home of Udai Tamimi, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in October.
After Tamimi killed an Israeli soldier during a shooting operation at a military checkpoint outside the Shu'fat refugee camp, Israeli forces launched a massive, nearly two-week-long manhunt for him. He was killed on October 19 during a shootout in front of the gates of the mega settlement, Maale Adumim.
Israeli politicians welcomed the punitive demolition, with far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir saying "This step is very important, but not enough at all. We must destroy all terrorists' homes and deport the terrorists themselves from the country."
The Israeli policy of punitive home demolitions, which target the families of Palestinians accused of committing attacks against Israelis, has long been condemned by rights groups, who say it amounts to collective punishment.
Though in the past an Israeli military committee has made recommendations that the practice did little to actually deter attacks, the policy has continued to be practiced by successive Israeli governments, with current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being a vocal advocate for the practice.
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Nayef al-Oweidat died from Israeli air strike.
Palestinian child succumbs to wounds from last year's Israeli aggression on Gaza
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-child-succumbs-to-wounds-from-last-years-israeli-aggression-on-gaza/
Nayef al-Oweidat, age 13, suffered serious wounds during an Israeli bombing on his neighborhood. He is one of at least 206 Palestinians (41 of them minors) who died from Israeli attacks in 2022.
reposted from WAFA, the Palestinian News and Info Agency, January 26, 2023 https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/133009
GAZA, Thursday, January 26, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian child has Thursday succumbed to the serious wounds he susained during the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip last year, medical sources confirmed.
The sources said that Nayef al-Oweidat, 13, succumbed to the wounds he sustained after Israeli warplanes bombed the neighborhood of al-Hasayna, in the refugee camp of al-Nuseirat, central Gaza.
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Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin, 22, killed Thursday, January 26, 2022.
Israeli forces kill a Palestinian as he protests deaths of 9 other Palestinians
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-protests-deaths-nine-other-palestinians/
After the Israeli military killed nine Palestinians in Jenin on Thursday, they attacked a group of Palestinians protesting the killings, and killed yet another Palestinian, Yousef Mheisin, age 22.
The death toll for Palestinians in the first 26 days of 2023 is now 30, including a 13-year-old who died in Gaza Thursday from wounds Israel inflicted in a 2022 bombing,
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, January 26, 2023 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-jerusalem-6/
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near Ramallah in the central West Bank, during a procession condemning the Israeli onslaught on Jenin, leading to the death of nine Palestinians, including one woman and two siblings.
The soldiers attacked the Palestinians with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said the soldiers killed a young man, Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin, 22, after shooting him with a live round in the abdomen.
Palestinian medics rushed Yousef Mheisin to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, but he succumbed to his serious wounds despite all efforts to save his life.
The soldiers also shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Also Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed nine Palestinians, including siblings and one woman, and injured dozens of Palestinians, some seriously, during a massive offensive on Jenin city and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian child, Nayef Oweidat, 13, died from serious wounds he suffered last year during the Israeli onslaught on the coastal region.
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Palestinian youth dies of injuries sustained by Israeli gunfire
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JERUSALEM, Sunday, January 29, 2023 (WAFA) – A 24-year-old Palestinian youth died today from injuries sustained last Thursday in an Israeli military attack on Jenin refugee camp, north of the West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health.
MoH said Omar Tareq Saadi, a resident of Jenin, was critically injured by Israeli bullets during the Israeli raid on Thursday, and was announced dead of his wounds this evening.
His death brings up the death toll of the Israeli attack on Jenin last Thursday to 10. At least 20 Palestinians were injured in the attack, three of whom are in critical condition.
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Updated: "Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Hebron"
https://imemc.org/article/army-injures-three-palestinians-one-seriously-in-hebron-and-ramallah/
Updated: On Monday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli soldiers in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry officially identified the young slain as Nassim Nayef Salman Abu Fouda, 26. From Hebron.
It added that the soldiers fired several live rounds at Nassim's car near a military roadblock, known as #160, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, seriously wounding the young man in the head.
Palestinian medics rushed Nassim to the Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron before he was admitted to surgery but later succumbed to gunshot wounds to the head.
Media sources said the young man was driving near the military roadblock and started honking his car's horns before a soldier started approaching him, and added that the young man got scared and tried to drive away but struck the soldier, who immediately stood up, started firing at the car, wounding him and causing his car to crash into another vehicle.
Eyewitnesses said another soldier at the scene also fired many live rounds at the Palestinian car.
Late on Saturday night, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near the Kedumim illegal Israeli colony built on stolen Palestinian lands east of Qalqilia in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the Palestinian has been identified as Karam Ali Salman, 18, from Qusin town, west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Also Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that a young man succumbed to serious wounded suffered Thursday when the army killed nine Palestinians, including a woman, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry said the young man, Omar Tareq Ali Sa'adi, 24, from the Jenin refugee camp, succumbed to serious wounds at the Jenin governmental hospital. During the Thursday invasion, the soldiers killed nine Palestinians, including one woman, and injured at least twenty, including three who suffered serious wounds.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
- Saeb Mahmoud Ezreiqi, 24, Jenin city.
- Ezzeddin Yassin Salahat, 26, Jenin refugee camp.
- Abdullah Marwan Al-Ghoul, 18, Jenin refugee camp.
- Wasim Amjad Aref Abu Al-Ja'as, 22, Jenin refugee camp.
- Majeda Obeid, 61, Jenin refugee camp.
- Mo'tasem Mahmoud Abu Al-Hasan, 40, Al-Yamoun town.
- Mohammad Mahmoud Sobeh, 30, Burqin town.
- Mohammad Sami Ghneim, 28, Burqin town.
- Nour Sami Ghneim, 25, from Burqin.
The soldiers also killed one Palestinian, Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin, 22, in the Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, during a procession condemning the Israeli onslaught on Jenin.
Also Thursday, a Palestinian child, Nayef Oweidat, 13, died from serious wounds he suffered last year during the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Late Friday night, The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied Jerusalem, confirmed that a Palestinian child, Wadea' Aziz Abu Ramouz, 16, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers two days ago, has succumbed to his wounds.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Qalqilia
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Late on Saturday night, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near the Kedumim illegal Israeli colony built on stolen Palestinian lands east of Qalqilia in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the Palestinian has been identified as Karam Ali Salman, 18, from Qusin town, west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Israeli sources said the Palestinian was armed and was observed approaching the Kedumim colony, not far from the home of far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, before the soldiers fatally shot him.
They added that the army instructed the colonizers in Kedumim to shelter in place while the soldiers conducted massive searches in the area.
On Sunday, the army said it cleared the area and lifted the security warning that instructed the colonizers to remain in their homes.
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Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, age 25
Israeli forces kill Palestinian father of newborn with a bullet to the chest
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Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint shot Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, age 25, in the chest, then denied him medical assistance. Their reasons for attacking him are implausible.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, February 4, 2023 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-kill-one-palestinian-injure-3/
On Friday, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the West Bank, and killed a young man at the Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that the soldiers shot Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, 25, with a live round in the chest.
Abdullah, a married father of a newborn baby boy, worked in the surveying department (Land Authority) of the Palestinian Authority. His brother, Ibrahim, works for Palestine TV.
The Israeli army claimed that Abdullah tried to snatch a soldier's weapon, an allegation frequently used by the army in similar cases, and could not be substantiated.
After shooting the young man, the soldiers left him bleeding on the ground without first aid and refused to allow Palestinian medics to reach him until he bled to death.
The army also alleged that the soldiers shot the Palestinian in the legs, but when the Palestinian medics took him to a hospital in Nablus, the doctors found out that he was shot in the chest.
Abdullah Qalalwa was from Al-Jadida village, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
After receiving news of his death, his mother was rushed to a hospital after suffering shock.
In addition to killing Abdullah, Israeli forces also injured several Palestinians with live ammunition in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and Beit Dajan, east of Nablus.
Several Palestinian protesters were injured by gunshot wounds. At the same time, dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Three Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffered tear gas inhalation during the Israeli suppression of the weekly peaceful anti-settlement march in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.
The weekly protest has gone on for nearly two decades, demanding the opening of the village street, which Israeli forces closed nineteen years ago in order to colonize the village land.
Dozens of Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation as a result of the Israeli forces suppressing the weekly anti-settlement march in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, which has been organized since October 2020, to reject the establishment of a settlement outpost in the northeastern area of the village lands.
Three civilians suffered from pepper gas, as Israeli forces and settlers attacked participants in a peaceful agricultural event condemning settlements in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem. This is another area where Israeli colonizers have been taking over Palestinian land, and locals have organized weekly protests for the past several years.
In addition, Israeli settlers fenced off areas of Yanun land, belonging to the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, under the protection of the Israeli army.
The Israeli military occupation and its settlers control more than 85% of the lands of Yanun, surrounded by five settlements and outposts, which are expanding at the expense of Palestinian citizens' lands.
All Israeli settlements are a violation of international law and have been condemned by numerous UN resolutions.
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(Top, L-R) Ibrahim Owidat -27, Rafaat Owidat -21, Malik Lafi -22 (bottom, L-R) Thaer Owidat -28, Adham Owidat -22.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Five Palestinians In Jericho
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Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians in Jericho Monday who were "suspected of firing at a restaurant" in an illegal Israeli settlement – an incident in which no one had been injured. The raid comes after a weeklong Israeli siege of the city, and brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in 2023 to 43, including 8 minors.
reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, February 6, 2023 https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-five-palestinians-in-jericho/
On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians, including two siblings, injured many others, and abducted eight, in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified them as Rafaat Wael Owidat, 21, Malik Awni Lafi, 22, Adham Majdi Owidat, 22, Ibrahim Wael Owidat, 27, Thaer Owidat, 28.
The Israeli army and the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) said they carried out a joint operation to capture Palestinian fighters in the refugee camp and exchanged fire with them.
The army added that its soldiers killed the five Palestinian fighters and stated it invaded the refugee camp to capture Hamas fighters suspected of firing at a restaurant in the illegal Vered Yeriho illegal colony on January 27.
It claimed the soldiers spotted one of the Palestinians suspected of involvement in the shooting before he fled while firing at them, leading to a pursuit ending at a building in a refugee camp where the fighters were hiding, resulting in an exchange of fire.
The Palestinian Health Ministry described the attack as a slaughter and said three of the wounded were not resistance fighters, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds.
The army took the corpses of the slain Palestinians after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to approach them.
The army has frequently been invading the refugee camp since January 27, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters and demolishing several homes and structures.
The army also said its soldiers arrested six Palestinians during the invasion, including two believed to be affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Palestinian sources have confirmed that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including siblings, during the offensive and identified them as Shaker Amarna, Mohammad Riyad Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Wa'el Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Fakhr Oweidat, and his brother, Mohammad, Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat and his brother Ahmad.
The offensive in the refugee camp started earlier at dawn, Monday, when the soldiers shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Aqbat Jabr camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.
Last Sunday night, undercover soldiers killed Ahmad and his brother Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat in a coffee shop at the main entrance of the refugee camp.
Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the refugee camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.
Various armed resistance groups and political factions, including Al-Qassam Brigades, the National Resistance Committees, and the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP), issued statements mourning the slain Palestinian fighters and vowing retaliation and ongoing resistance until liberation.
Ismael Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said the resistance against the occupation will never cease until ending the illegal Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, and added that the resistance fighters in Jericho "were heroes who fought with courage and determination."
Haniyya added that the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people only lead to more determination and ongoing resistance.
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SHARIF HASSAN RABAA (LEFT), AND AHMAD ABU ALI (RIGHT), WHO WERE KILLED ON THE SAME DAY IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS. (IMAGE: SOCIAL MEDIA/MONDOWEISS)
Two Palestinians killed, including prisoner who died due to 'medical negligence'
Two martyrs were killed by the Israeli colonial system — Ahmad Abu Ali, a political prisoner who died of systematic medical negligence, and Sharif Rabaa, shot to death under the pretext of a stabbing.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/02/two-palestinians-killed-including-prisoner-who-died-due-to-medical-negligence/?
On Friday, February 10, Palestinians woke up to news about the death of Ahmad Bader Abu Ali, 48, and a Palestinian prisoner held in the notorious Negev Prison who died from medical negligence.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), Abu Ali had been suffering from various chronic illnesses, which the Israeli Prison Services (IPS) was aware of yet denied Abu Ali the necessary medical treatment, making his death a "slow killing via medical negligence."
The announcement of Abu Ali's death came one day after Israeli forces killed another Palestinian, 22-year-old Hassan Rabaa, near the Fawwar refugee camp in the southern West Bank Hebron district.
Since the start of the year, 44 Palestinians have been killed. Nine of them were children and minors, and most were non-combatant who were killed during premeditated Israeli assassination operations. Half of them were killed in the span of three days.
The killing of Palestinians inside prisons
A father of nine, Ahmad Bader Abu Ali was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Amjad Al-Najjar, the spokesperson for the PPS, also noted that Abu Ali had suffered from diabetes, and had undergone open heart surgery last year while in detention.
According to PPS, there were only two years left of Abu Ali's prison sentence before his release date.
Abu Ali, from Yatta in the district of Hebron, was moved from the Negev prison where he was being held to Soroka Medical Center at dawn on Friday. He was declared dead later that morning.
With the death of Abu Ali, the number of Palestinians killed inside Israeli prisons since 1967 rose to 235, according to PPS.
Last year, four Palestinians were killed in cases that PPS said displayed evidence of medical negligence by the IPS. The detainees were Nasser Abu Humeid, 50, Ihab Al-Kilani, 40, Saadia Farajallah, 68, and Mousa Abu Mahamid, 40.
There are currently more than 600 Palestinian political detainees who suffer from chronic illnesses which require medical treatment and constant medical supervision.
This provision of care is a bare minimum required by occupying authorities and prison services, not only under international law but even within the framework purported by the 1998 Israeli Manual on the Laws of War.
However, rights groups have routinely documented a policy of "deliberate medical negligence" on the part of the IPS inside the prisons, in addition to unsanitary living conditions, poor infrastructure in prisons, and overcrowding in cells.
Surviving the 'torture chambers'
On Friday morning, as Abu Ali was transferred to the Soroka Medical Center, all sections of the Negev prison were closed down, and detainees were forced to remain inside their cells.
In the past several months, Palestinian detainees have reported facing collective punishment practices which include isolation, beatings, denial of yard time, and nutritional deprivation. According to PPS, following the election of Israel's new right-wing government, the IPS escalated its assault on prisoners.
In the Negev, detainees had their personal possessions confiscated and are being denied blankets and warm clothes. The Negev dessert, where the prison is located, can, on some nights, drop well below 0 degrees Celsius.
The stories from prisoners in the 80s and 90s of the practices of torture and ill-treatment against Palestinians still ring loudly today.
Between 1967 and 2019, almost 73 Palestinians were killed due to Israeli torture during interrogations, and over the years, Israeli prisons and detention centers have been described by Palestinians as "torture chambers."
Yossi Peled, the Commander of the Israeli Military in the West Bank in 1993, responded to the accusations by emphasizing that "there is no torture in Israel. I served for 30 years in the IDF and I know what I am talking about." And more recently, Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has been working to end what he has called "hotel conditions" for Palestinian prisoners. The Minister has even called for the death penalty.
In addition to these measures, Israel has criminalized any financial support to prisoners or their families, further pushing communities deeper into poverty and financial precarity.
Yet since 2018, conditions for Palestinian prisoners have steadily worsened, as prisoners have gone on several hunger strikes to protest their deteriorating conditions. Gilad Erdan, then Israeli Minister of Public Security, called for actively limiting Palestinian rights "to determine ways in which conditions can be reduced to a bare minimum."
There are more than 4,700 Palestinian political detainees, including 130 children and minors, and 835 who are being held arbitrarily, with no charge or trial. Almost 1,300 of Palestinian detainees are imprisoned in the Negev.
Other incidents
On Thursday, February 9, Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian driver near the Fawwar refugee camp. The young man was identified as 22-year-old Sharif Hassan Rabaa, who succumbed to his wounds later in the day.
Quoting Palestinian security sources, Wafa News Agency reported that Israeli forces "stopped a Palestinian vehicle and opened fire at its driver," critically injuring him before arresting him.
The Israeli army claimed that Rabaa "tried to stab one of the soldiers" positioned at a checkpoint in the area, and that "the force fired and neutralized him."
In a separate incident on Thursday, Israeli soldiers in a military vehicle rammed and injured a Palestinian near the Jalameh military checkpoint near Jenin, in the northern West Bank. The young man was on his motorcycle when Israeli forces chased him and "deliberately" rammed and injured the young man, according to Wafa
On Friday morning, an Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian youth near Qalqas, south of Hebron. The man was hospitalized and is in stable condition. As of the time of writing, no reports have surfaced regarding the identity or whereabouts of the settler that attacked him.
Israelis kill a father of three and a 14-year-old
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Mithqal Suleiman Abdul-Halim Rayan, 27
PALESTINIAN FATHER OF 3 KILLED BY ISRAELI PARAMILITARY COLONIZERS
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Mithqal Suleiman Abdul-Halim Rayan, 27, was shot and killed on Saturday evening, by Israeli paramilitary invaders, in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.
The mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Ibrahim Asi, told the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency, "The young man was killed by a live bullet fired by an armed and angry colonizer towards a group of young men in the village."
He confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces guarded the armed, paramilitary colonial colonizers as they attacked the Palestinian civilians and killed Mithqal.
Mithqal was the father of three young children: a 4-year-old boy, a two-year-old son, and a baby girl.
The fatal events started unfolding when the colonizers attacked several Palestinian civilians in the northern area of Qarawat Bani Hassan and fired many live rounds at them, shooting Mithqal in the head while returning home from work.
The colonizer who killed Mithqal is one of many colonizers who constantly attack the Palestinians, their homes, and their lands.
The colonizers attacked farmers and residents in their homes, shops, and construction sites and when the locals gathered and tried to remove them, a paramilitary colonizers opened fire and killed Mithqal who worked at a concrete factory in Salfit.
The Palestinian father suffered life-threatening wounds and succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Salfit.
On Friday, the colonizers attacked many Palestinians, stole sheep from several farmers, and injured a Palestinian north of Qarawat Bani Hasan.
Israeli colonizers have repeatedly been targeting the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, for their colony expansion.
Mithqal's death brings the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli fire since the beginning of this year to 45, including nine children and an elderly woman. Four of the slain Palestinians were killed by illegal Israeli colonizers.
In addition to the 45 slain Palestinians, a Palestinian prisoner, Ahmad Abu Ali, 48, from Yatta town south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, died at an Israeli medical center after he was denied essential medical treatment and was only moved to Soroka medical center when he neared death.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said Ahmad was only two years away from finishing his twelve-year prison sentence.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli colonial settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees and destroyed an agricultural building as part of their forced takeover of Palestinian land in Qarawat Bani Hassan.
Israeli forces have been helping the Israeli paramilitary settlers in their forced takeover of Palestinian village land- last week, the soldiers uprooted an olive grove, and in January, the army demolished a Palestinian home located in the area that the Israeli colonizers have targeted to take over.
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Qusai Radwan Waked, 14
PALESTINIAN YOUTH SUCCUMBS TO SERIOUS WOUNDS FROM ISRAELI GUNFIRE
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A Palestinian youth succumbed this evening to critical wounds he sustained earlier today by Israeli gunfire during a military raid into the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the ministry of health
The ministry said that Qusai Radwan Waked, 14, who was severely injured by Israeli gunfire during a military raid in Jenin earlier today, succumbed to his wounds.
Israeli forces also raided the city and surrounded a house in al-Jabriyat neighborhood and detained former prisoner Jibreel al-Zubaidi, who spent 11 years behind Israeli bars.
Jibreel al-Zubaidi is the brother of freedom fighter Zakaria Zubaidi, from Jenin refugee camp who was able last year to escape from Israeli prison with five other freedom fighters after digging a tunnel but were all later caught. Their brother, Dawoud, was also killed by Israeli forces.
To be noted, three Palestinian youths were shot in the abdomen and sustained critical injuries during the Israeli military raid into Jenin city and refugee camp earlier today.
With the killing of Waked, the number of Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since the beginning of 2023 has risen to 47, including four who were killed by settlers' gunfire.
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Amir Bastami, dead at 22.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Another Young Man, Injure Seven
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The Israeli military invaded Nablus yet again, killing Palestinian Amir Bastami, injuring several others, arresting two, and tear gassing dozens.
(So far in the first 43 days of this year, Israel has killed at least 46 Palestinians, and in response Palestinians have killed 8 Israelis in two lone-wolf attacks)
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On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man and injured at least seven after the army invaded Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, leading to protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers fatally shot Amir ِAla' Bastami, 22, with a live round in the abdomen, in addition to shooting five with live rounds and two with rubber-coated steel bullets.
PRCS medics rushed the young man to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, but he succumbed to his serious wounds despite all efforts to resuscitate him.
The PRCS added that 75 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and an infant, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation before receiving the needed treatment.
Palestine TV said the Israeli invasion lasted for five hours and was carried out by dozens of army vehicles that advanced into Nablus from the city's northern, western, and southern parts. The soldiers also invaded several buildings and occupied rooftops before using them as firing posts.
During the invasion, the soldiers exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters, especially when they surrounded a building on Sufian Street and shot two before abducting them.
The Israeli army said its soldiers arrested two young men, Osama Tawil, and Abdul-Kamel Jouri, both are members of the Lions' Den unified armed resistance group, and alleged that the two were responsible for killing a soldier, Ido Baruch, in a shooting near Shavei Shomron illegal colony, near Nablus, on October 11, 2022.
On Sunday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a Palestinian child, Qussai Radwan Waked, 14, who was shot by Israeli soldiers at noon in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and added that the soldiers also injured two Palestinians.
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HARUN ABU ARAM, 25, SUCCUMBED TO HIS WOUNDS ON FEBRUARY 14, 2023. (MONDOWEISS/ "SAVING MASAFER YATTA"
Two years after he was shot and paralyzed, Harun Abu Aram succumbed to his wounds In 2021, Harun Abu Aram was shot in his neck at point blank range by Israeli soldiers when he was trying to prevent the confiscation of a communal generator. He was left paralyzed from the neck down.
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Two years after he was permanently paralyzed by Israeli forces, Harun Abu Aram, 25, a resident of Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday morning, February 14.
Abu Aram was a resident of Khirbet al-Rakeez, a small hamlet in the South Hebron Hills, or Masafer Yatta, as it is known locally.
In 2021 Abu Aram was shot in his neck at point blank range by Israeli soldiers during an army raid on his village. Abu Aram was shot after he attempted to prevent soldiers from confiscating a communal generator.
Abu Aram was paralyzed as a result of the shooting, and suffered a series of lung infections and other health problems that caused him to spend months in and out of hospital.
Eventually Abu Aram's arteries in his right leg sustained blockages that resulted in the amputation of his leg. According to Palestinian health officials, he was also suffering from "severe pressure ulcers in the back and pelvis, and severe infections in the lungs."
In January 2021 Israeli forces raided the home of Abu Aram's neighbor and attempted to confiscate the generator that powered both families' homes, under the pretext that it was "illegal".
Because the families' homes fall inside the boundaries of an Israeli army 'firing zone', the army prevents them from building, or accessing any sort of infrastructural networks, including water and electricity. This includes access to generators to power the small, ancient caves in which they live.
Shortly after the soldiers arrived, Harun's father, Rasmi had run down to aid his neighbor, who was attempting to take back hold of the generator. Israeli forces scuffled with Rasmi and his neighbor, striking the two with several blows. Harun ran down to his father's aid, and began pulling the generator back from the soldiers.
During the scuffle that ensued, which was fully captured on cellphone video, an Israeli soldier put his gun to Harun's neck and shot him. According to Harun's family, Israeli forces refused to call an ambulance to the scene. When the family and neighbors attempted to evacuate Harun to a hospital, the soldiers shot at the tires of their vehicle.
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By the time Harun was able to reach a hospital, a few hours had passed, and doctors informed his parents that he had suffered a severe spinal cord injury. Though he survived, he became paralyzed from the neck down.
Following the shooting of Harun, who was completely unarmed at the time, the Israeli military
conducted an internal investigation, in which it concluded that the soldiers acted in "self defense" and that they faced a "clear and present risk to their lives."
Mondoweiss interviewed Harun and his family in 2022. At the time, his mother Farissa said that she did "not want anything from them [Israel]," except justice for her son.
"I want them to let me build a room for him," she said, referring to the army's ban on any Palestinian construction in the area, and the fact that just a few months before Harun was shot, the army had destroyed the new home he had built for himself and his fiance at the time.
"[I want them] to allow him to have water and electricity," she continued. "I want the court to give us justice, not to say that a soldier was defending himself."
Because the Abu Aram family lives inside the boundaries of the firing zone, which was created in the 1980s, long after the family had already been living in the area, they are currently under imminent threat of forcible displacement.
In January of this year, the new Israeli government announced plans to expedite the forcible transfer of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in accordance with an Israeli Supreme Court ruling in May 2022 that denied the residents' appeals and ruled in favor of the military, closing the book on an extensive legal battle that lasted 20 years in Israeli courts.
More than 1,200 Palestinians, including the Abu Aram family, are under risk of imminent forcible transfer. If the Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are removed from their land, it would constitute the largest mass displacement of Palestinians since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank.
Before he died, Harun told Mondoweiss that though he was disabled while "defending his land," he would do it all over again. "If I got my arms and legs back, I would defend my land again," he said. "I will never give it up."
Harun is one of 49 Palestinians killed by Israel in 2023. Separately on Tuesday, another Palestinian, 17-year-old Mahmoud Majed al-Aydi was shot and killed by Israeli forces during a raid on the al-Faraa refugee camp in the Tubas district of the northern West Bank.
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MOURNERS CARRY THE BODIES OF THE 10 PALESTINIAN MARTYRS KILLED DURING THE ISRAELI ARMY'S INVASION OF NABLUS ON FEBRUARY 22, 2023. (PHOTO: STRINGER/APA IMAGES)
Israeli army kills 10 Palestinians in a single raid, including 2 resistance fighters The massive Israeli invasion of Nablus led to the assassination of 2 Palestinian resistance fighters, while the army fired indiscriminately at residents and killed an additional 8 Palestinians.
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At approximately 10 a.m. today, February 22, the Israeli army launched a massive invasion of the Old City of Nablus. Initial reports from local journalists reported that the army had surrounded a house harboring two Palestinian resistance fighters from the Lions' Den resistance group. By 12:38 p.m., reports streamed in that the two resistance fighters had been assassinated.
The invasion began with a commando raid by an Israeli special operations unit, which targeted the resistance fighters holed up in a house in the heart of the Old City. At the same time, large numbers of Israeli military forces invaded the Old City and city center, spreading out and firing indiscriminately at Palestinians in the area. Eyewitnesses and local journalists reported heavy Israeli gunfire, as the army fired live ammunition on crowds of Palestinians and fired tear gas canisters.
Clashes broke out throughout the city as local youth flooded the streets to face off against the invading military force with stones.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH), 10 Palestinians were killed during the raid, including the two resistance fighters, while 102 Palestinians were injured, many of them remaining in critical condition.
The Palestinian martyrs include an elderly man, Hussam Sabe B'ara, 72, Tamer Nimr Ahmad Minawi, 14, Muhammad Khaled Anbusi, 25, Musab Munir Muhammad Oweis, 26, Walid Riyad Hussein Dakhil, 23, Abdul Hadi Abdul Aziz Ashqar, 61, Muhammad Farid Sha'ban, 16, and the two resistance fighters, Hussam Bassam Isleem, 24, and Muhammad Omar Abu Bakr Juneidi, 23, and Jasser Jamil Abdul Wahhab Qan'ir, 23.
As of 12:04 p.m., the two resistance fighters were still surrounded by the Israeli army, before initial reports began to stream in that the army had assassinated them. By 12:38 p.m., local journalists reported that the Israeli army had begun its retreat from the city, while local residents went into the house that had been surrounded and retrieved the bodies of the slain fighters.
Final wills of resistance fighters
Voice recordings of the "final will" of the surrounded resistance fighters have circulated on social media, widely reported to be Hussam Isleem and Muhammad Juneidi. The resistance fighters are reportedly affiliated with the Nablus-based Lions' Den group, and the recording features the voice of Hussam Isleem as he is surrounded by the Israeli army:
Quote"I will not hand myself in. My brother [Muhammad Juneidi] and I are surrounded [...] May God never forgive every coward who sold us out. My brother Juneidi and I will be greeting all the martyrs. I just wish that you will forgive us, my brothers. Please forgive us. I love our people, I love everyone, and I love my mother. On your honor, don't let go of the rifle after we're gone. Keep on the path. I want to see men continuing [our path] after us. Don't forget the final will of al-Wadee [referring to Wadee al-Hawah] and [Ibrahim] al-Nabulsi...[Juneidi speaks in background]...listen to Juneidi's will..."
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A WIDELY CIRCULATING PICTURE OF JUNEIDI (LEFT) AND ISLEEM (RIGHT). (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)
At 11:54 a.m., the Telegram account of the Nablus Brigade, a local Nablus branch of the Islamic Jihad's armed wing and itself closely affiliated with the Lions' Den group, published a live recording of Muhammad "Abu Bakr" Juneidi as he continued to be surrounded by the army:
Quote"Know that the son of the Saraya, the son of your organization [...] remains surrounded to this moment and will not give himself up. I salute every free and honorable person in this homeland...your brother, Muhammad Abu Bakr Juneidi...we are surrounded, I and Hussam Isleem. Pray for us, and rest assured that we have continued on the path of martyrs, we did not retreat, and we remained men."
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MOURNERS AT THE FUNERAL OF MUNTASER AL-SHAWWA IN BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, NABLUS. SHAWWA WAS SHOT BY ISRAELI FORCES ON FEBRUARY 8 AND SUCCUMBED TO HIS WOUNDS ON FEBRUARY 20, 2023. (PHOTO: STRINGER/APA IMAGES)
Another youth succumbs to wounds from an Israeli raid in the West Bank
Muntaser al-Shawa is the eleventh Palestinian youth to be killed by Israel this year, and the latest martyr in Israel's war on Palestinian children and minors.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/02/another-youth-succumbs-to-wounds-from-an-israeli-raid-in-the-west-bank/?
On Monday, February 20, 16-year-old Muntaser Shawa succumbed to wounds sustained during an Israeli military incursion of Balata refugee camp in northern Nablus earlier on February 8.
Shawa's family and community took the slain teenager to his final resting place near Balata refugee camp on February 21. Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 50 Palestinians. Shawa is the eleventh youth to be killed by the Israeli army this year.
The Israeli targeting of youth
On February 8, during an Israeli invasion of Balata refugee camp, Shawa was injured with a live bullet shot by an Israeli sniper, which pierced his ear and exited from his mouth. Another Palestinian man was injured with two bullets to his hand.
Shawa was put on a ventilator for almost two weeks before he was declared dead at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, in Nablus's Rafidia hospital.
On Tuesday afternoon, Shawa's mother carried her son on her back as he was wrapped in a Palestinian flag.
In a video showing the family's final farewell to their son, the bereaved mother and aunts chanted "Allahu Akbar," (God is Great), a mantra often echoed in times of hardship as a show of humility and a recognition of the impermanence of life.
"Our martyred children," his aunt yelled in a crowd of women, "their killers will find their place in hell."
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With Shawa, the number of Palestinian children and minors killed this year rises to 11 with the youngest being Qusai Radwan, 14, killed in Jenin refugee camp on February 12, and Amer Khmour, also 14, killed in Dheisheh refugee camp on January 16.
Shawa is the second minor to be killed in Balata refugee camp this year. Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, was killed on January 5 with a bullet to the head.
Shawa suffered his injury just one day after Palestinians buried 17-year-old Hamza Amjad Al-Ashqar in Askar refugee camp at the outskirts of Nablus.
Last year was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the UN began documenting Palestinian deaths in 2005. The average age of Palestinian minors killed in 2022 was 13.
Averaging the number of Palestinian children and minors killed since 2021, data shows that a child or minor was being killed every five days in the last two years. In 2021, more than half of the Palestinian minors killed were children 12-years-old or younger. The remaining 45% were teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17.
Dehumanizing and 'un-childing' Palestinian children
The Israeli approach to Palestinian children as assumed potential threats to Israel's occupation has proved lethal for children and minors.
In addition to killings, Palestinian children and minors also face the risk of imprisonment. According to Defense for Children International-Palestine, Israel is "the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections."
One day before Shawa finally succumbed to his wounds, the Times of Israel published a blog with the title "Palestinian children are the explosives of the future." In extensive research and analysis, Palestinian professor and psychologist Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian referred to this phenomenon as the "politics of un-childing."
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, one of the leading psychologists on the case of Ahmad Manasra, explains un-childing as "the authorized eviction of children from childhood for political goals and is maintained by a violent, racist, sexist, and classist machinery that exists everywhere and always."
In this way, Palestinian children are seen not as people, but as instruments and potential threats to be quelled.
One of the testimonies upon which Shalhoub-Kevorkian draws is that of Mahmoud, a child who was targeted by Israeli forces in Jerusalem as he rode his skateboard.
"I don't fear them...What can they do? Kill me because I want to play, to live?" Mahmoud had relayed to Shalhoub-Kevorkian. "Let them kill me, this is all they can do, and the news would say, 'Mahmoud went down to play with his skateboard; he scared them, and they killed him.'"
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Gaza In 2018
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Palestinian sources have reported that a Palestinian, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the year 2018 in northern Gaza, died from his wounds on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
The sources said the Palestinian, Mohammad Sami Abu Al-Omarein, 24, was injured east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers injured the Palestinians during the Great Return March that started near the perimeter fence along the eastern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018, which also marks Palestinian Land Day.
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More than 200 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, were killed near the fence along the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip during the Great Return March protests that went in for 86 weeks.
Israeli soldiers also injured more than 33,000 Palestinians, including many who suffered serious wounds, and had their limbs amputated, especially due to the Israeli use of illegal expanding bullets,
Among the slain and injured Palestinians were many medics, such as Razan Ashraf Najjar, 22, who was killed on June 1, 2018, and journalists, such as photojournalist Yasser Mortaja, 31, who was killed on April 6, 2018.
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Palestinian From Jenin Dies From Serious Wounds Suffer Earlier This Month
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On Thursday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young man who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, two weeks ago.
The Health Ministry identified the young man as Mohammad Nabil Fawzi Abu Sabah, 29, and added that the soldiers shot him with several live rounds in the abdomen.
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians, injured more than 102, six seriously, and caused more than 250 Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and other minor wounds.
The slain Palestinians, as officially confirmed by the Palestinian Health Ministry, are:
Anan Shawkat Ennab, 66.
Adnan Sabe' Ba'ara, 72.
Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25.
Tamer Nimir Ahmad Minawi, 33.
Mos'ab Monir Mohammad Oweiss, 26.
Husam Bassam Isleem, 24.
Mohammad Abu Kabr Al-Juneidi, 23.
Walid Riyad Hussein Dakheel, 23.
Abdul-Hadi Abdul-Aziz Ashqar, 61.
Mohammad Farid Sha'ban, 16.
Jasser Jamil Abdul-Wahab Qaneer, 23.
The Health Ministry said Abu Sabah's death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers since the beginning of this year to 63, including thirteen children; for of the slain Palestinians were killed by paramilitary colonizers, and one detainee died from medical neglect.
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Mohammad Nedal Saleem, 15, was killed by Israeli forces in Qalqiliya.
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager, Injure Two Others in Qalqiliya
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Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian teenager and injured two others on Thursday night, in the town of Azzun, in the occupied West Bank province of Qalqiliya, the official news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Mohammad Nedal Saleem, 15, was shot in the back by Israeli occupation soldiers. Two other Palestinians were also injured, one of them critically.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation soldiers fired at the three Palestinian teenagers while they were at the entrance to the town, witnesses said.
Over 65 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of 2023.
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Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian, Injure Two, Abduct Six, In Jericho
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Updated: Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters in a surrounded home, killed one, and abducted at least six Palestinians.
The soldiers initially took the Palestinian, who was seriously injured, to an Israeli hospital and later informed the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs that the young man, Mahmoud Jamal Hasan Hamdan, 22, has succumbed to his wounds.
The Israeli army said it invaded the refugee camp to abduct Palestinians who are believed to be behind the Monday shooting attack that led to the death of Elan Ganeles and added that one of them sustained serious wounds while trying to retreat from the area.
Media sources said the soldiers surrounded the home of Maher Shalloon, where Palestinian fighters were hiding, and exchanged fire with them before firing a rocket at it.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Abdul-Nasser Mousa Shalloon, 55, Maher Shalloon, 44, Amer Shalloon, 39, Mohammad Shalloon, 47, and his son Saleh, 24, in addition to the seriously injured Palestinian, Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan. All of them are former political prisoners.
The army claimed the abducted Palestinians exchanged fire with the soldiers before they were taken prisoners and their weapons confiscated.
Palestinian medics tried to reach the seriously wounded man to provide essential aid, but the soldiers blocked them before taking him away.
The army initiated the attack by deploying undercover soldiers who surrounded and isolated the home before many army vehicles invaded the refugee camp.
The soldiers also opened fire at a Palestinian car, shattering its windows, before confiscating it, in addition to shooting a young man with a rubber-coated steel bullet to the head during ensuing protests.
It is worth mentioning that Jericho remained under strict siege for the third day while the army installed more roadblocks and placed sand hills on several streets.
Earlier on Monday, two Israeli Colonizers were killed in a shooting in Huwwara near Nablus.
On Sunday, a Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli soldiers while in his home in Za'tara village. Sameh Aqtash, who was murdered by Israeli forces Sunday, was in Turkey two weeks before, volunteering with a rescue team to save lives after the earthquake.
On February 23, 2023, Israeli soldiers killed Mohammad Nabil Fawzi Abu Sabah, 29, In Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
The day before Mohammad's death, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians, injured more than 102, six seriously, and caused more than 250 Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and other minor wounds.
Six Palestinians killed in Jenin during second Israeli invasion of the city this year
The Israeli army launched yet another massive military invasion on bastions of Palestinian resistance, this time in two simultaneous raids on Nablus and Jenin.
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Six Palestinians have been killed and more than a dozen injured after an Israeli military invasion of Jenin, the second large-scale offensive on the city and its refugee camp in the last two months. At the same time, the Israeli army also invaded Askar refugee camp in Nablus, injuring 12 Palestinians and arresting three others.
Initial reports from the Israeli military claim that the twin invasions were a coordinated attack aimed at rooting out the resistance cell that allegedly orchestrated the Huwwara operation on February 26, which left two Israeli settlers dead.
The six men killed in Jenin were identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) as Mohammad Wael Ghazzawi, 26, Mohammad Ahmad Salim Khlouf, 22, and Tareq Ziyad Mustafa Natour, 27, Ziyad Amin Al-Zar'ini, 29, Abdelfattah Hussein Kharrousha, 49, and Mutasem Nasser Sabbagh, 22.
Since the start of the year, Israeli forces have killed 72 Palestinians, 25 of whom were from the Jenin district alone.
The Jenin invasion
On Tuesday afternoon, at approximately 2:45 p.m., undercover Israeli special forces invaded Jenin, just outside of Jenin refugee camp, located east of the city.
Footage from local residents allegedly shows the entry of undercover special forces in a white van carrying a West Bank license plate bearing Arabic graffiti that reads "the transportation of the future." Although Mondoweiss did not independently verify these claims, previous extrajudicial assassination efforts have often included undercover forces entering locations in white vans.
The military operation was carried out at midday, coinciding with the after-school rush hour, when roads were full of civilians.
Within moments, military reinforcements of more than two dozen armored vehicles, including military jeeps and bulldozers, raided the city from the illegal settlement of Dotan southwest of the camp and the Jalameh military checkpoint northwest of the camp.
A building was surrounded and besieged by the army under the pretext that armed Palestinian fighters were inside.
Armed confrontations ensued between the army and Palestinians amid the incursion. Israeli forces fired live ammunition, teargas, and other weapons during the offensive, which persisted until the evening.
"We are surrounded in the house, special forces are in the area and are bombing our house and our neighbors' house, all the houses around," a young man, Abu Azmi, is heard saying through an audio recording. "We are, God willing, holding on to our final breath. Pray for us," the man pleaded as the 15-second recording ended. "We beg you to pray for us."
Eyad Abu al-Azmi was at home when he received a phone call from the army informing him to leave the premises. According to a post on his personal Facebook account, Abu al-Azmi reported that the army began to fire explosive devices at the house.
Within 45 minutes of the offensive, an Israeli Apache military helicopter landed near the area where confrontations continued.
After invading the camp, phone texts were sent to Palestinians in the area signed by Captain Ward — the current military Major responsible for the Jenin area.
"The Israeli army and security forces will work to enforce justice and security," the message said. "[It] will work with extreme firmness with whoever goes against the law and extends a hand to terror."
Within the hour following the text, Israeli forces had already killed Mohammad Wael Ghazzawi, 26, with a bullet to the chest, while injuring five others, including one in critical condition, according to the MOH. Two Israeli officers from the special operations Yamam Unit were injured during the offensive and were transferred to Rambam hospital in Haifa, north of Jenin.
By 5:00 p.m., another two Palestinians were killed. The Palestinian MOH identified the men as Mohammad Ahmad Salim Khlouf, 22, and Tareq Ziyad Mustafa Natour, 27. Within half an hour, another three were killed, Ziyad Amin Al-Zareini, 29, Mutasem Nasser Sabbagh, 22, and Abdelfattah Hussein Kharrousha, 49.
According to the Israeli military's media dispatch 0404, the offensive in Jenin targeted the "terrorist that killed Hillel Weigal Yaniv" in Huwwara near Nablus last month on February 26.
The media have widely reported that Kharrousha is responsible for the Huwwara shooting, which happened four days after the Israeli army had invaded Nablus and killed 11 Palestinians.
Immediately after the Huwwara shooting on February 26, Israeli settlers from nearby settlements rampaged throughout the town in an arson campaign that has been described as a pogrom, even by the Head of the Israeli army's General Command.
Sons of Askar resistance fighter arrested
Kharrousha, although killed in Jenin, is from Askar refugee camp near Nablus. Kharrousha had reportedly sought refuge in Jenin refugee camp to escape potential extra-judicial execution.
During the invasion of Jenin, another twin military offensive was taking place in Askar refugee camp in Nablus, 40 km southeast of Jenin. At approximately 3:30 p.m. Israeli military forces raided Nablus and surrounded a building on Sahel Askar, located on the periphery of Askar refugee camp.
According to the MOH, 12 Palestinians were injured during the invasion, with one in critical condition with a bullet to the abdomen. By the end of the raid on Askar, the Israeli army reported that it had arrested three brothers, Khaled, Qassam, and Abed Kharrousha — the sons of the slain Abdelfattah Kharrousha. They were transferred for interrogation by the Israeli Shin Bet, under suspicion of having allegedly aided their father.
Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinians, a Palestinian Youth Dies of Injuries
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4 more Palestinians are dead at the hands of Israel today.
Israeli special forces killed three Palestinians at point-blank range, while a 14-year-old Palestinian died after he was shot on Tuesday. Israeli forces and settlers have killed 78 Palestinians since the start of 2023, including 14 children and a woman.
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Sufian Adnan Ismail Fakhouri, 26 years old, Nayef Ahmad Yusef Malaysha, 25 years old, and Ahmad Mohammad Dheeb Fashafsha, 22 years old.
ISRAELI UNDERCOVER FORCES KILL THREE NEAR JENIN
Continuing their rapid escalation in the city and region of Jenin, Israeli forces killed three men in a targeted assassination as the three men were driving in a car Thursday morning in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.
The attack follows a massive invasion of Jenin and Jenin refugee camp the previous day, during which Israeli troops killed six Palestinian men and wounded 26 Palestinian civilians using sharpshooters on rooftops and aerial bombardment. No Israelis were wounded.
A seventh Palestinian died of his wounds on Thursday after having been wounded during the Wednesday invasion.
Israeli undercover special forces executed the three young men, Thursday morning, shooting them inside their vehicle in an extrajudicial assassination, at the entrance to the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.
Those killed were identified as Sufian Adnan Ismail Fakhouri, 26 years old, Nayef Ahmad Yusef Malaysha, 25 years old, and Ahmad Mohammad Dheeb Fashafsha, 22 years old.
The secretary of the "Fateh" movement in Jaba', Jawad Khaliliya, told the Palestinian Wafa News Agency that Israeli special forces infiltrated the town and fired from point-zero range at a Hyundai vehicle in the Al-Fwara area with three young men inside, killing the young men.
Khaliliya added that immediately following the assassination, large forces of the Israeli occupation army stormed the town, deployed snipers on the rooftops, surrounded the house of Bahaa Fayez Salatmeh, for more than two hours, abducted him and completely destroyed the contents of his house.
With the rise of the three young men in Jaba, the death toll since the beginning of this year has risen to 77 Palestinians, including 13 children and a woman, killed by Israeli forces and paramilitary colonial settlers.
12 Israelis were killed by Palestinian fighters and unknown assailants during that same time period.
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Walid Sa'ad Daoud Nassar, 14
PALESTINIAN YOUTH DIES FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED TUESDAY IN JENIN
Thursday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a child who was seriously injured by Israeli army fire two days ago, when the soldiers killed six Palestinians in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
The Health Ministry identified the child as Walid Sa'ad Daoud Nassar, 14, and said the soldiers shot him with live rounds in the abdomen, causing serious injuries.
Palestinian medics tried to reach the wounded child, but the soldiers did not allow them to reach him and later moved him to Hadassah Israeli medical center in Jerusalem.
The child was shot after the soldiers invaded Jenin and Jenin refugee camp, killed six young men, and injured at least twenty-six, including three who suffered critical injuries.
Also Thursday morning, Israeli forces killed three young men in a targeted assassination as the three men were driving in a car Thursday morning in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.
Those killed were identified as Sufian Adnan Ismail Fakhouri, 26 years old, Nayef Ahmad Yusef Malaysha, 25 years old, and Ahmad Mohammad Dheeb Fashafsha, 22 years old.
The Health Ministry has confirmed that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers since the beginning of this year is now 78, including 14 children and one woman.
Thirty-one of the slain Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 18 in Nablus, 7 in Hebron, 6 in Jerusalem, 5 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, 3 in Qalqilia, 2 in Ramallah, 2 in Bethlehem, 1 in Salfit, 1 in Tubas, and 2 in the Gaza Strip.
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Abdul-Karim Badie Sheikh, 21, was killed by illegal Jewish settlers near Qalailiya.
Jewish Settler Kills Young Palestinian Man in Northern West Bank
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A Jewish settler shot and killed a young Palestinian man on Friday morning near the northern occupied West Bank city of Qalqiliya, the official news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that an illegal Jewish settler killed Abdul-Karim Badie Sheikh, 21, a resident of the town of Sanniriya, on the outskirts of the illegal Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Shomron.
Following the killing, Israeli soldiers barged their way into Sanniriya and ransacked several houses, including the family house of the slain Palestinian.
Established in 1980, Ma'ale Shomron is one of the five illegal settlements that surround and overlook the Wadi Qana nature reserve in the northern West Bank.
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The three men who were killed were identified as Jihad Muhammad Wasfi Al-Shami (24 years), Odai Othman Rafiq Al-Shami (22 years), and Mohammad Raed Naji Al-Dabeek (18 years).
Israeli Troops Kill Three Palestinians Driving Near Nablus
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On Sunday, Israeli troops opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle near the Surra military roadblock in the Nablus area, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinians.
A fourth person who was in the car was taken into custody by Israeli forces; two workers who were nearby were wounded.
All three were declared dead on the scene after Israeli occupation forces fired many rounds of live ammunition into the vehicle they were driving. A fourth young man, Ibrahim Awartani, was abducted.
Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers invading the area.
WAFA News reported, quoting eyewitnesses, that two workers were wounded by shrapnel from the Israeli occupation bullets, while they were in the area where the three young men were targeted.
The Israeli army claimed the soldiers located and confiscated three M16 automatic rifles, a piston and several magazines of live ammunition.
The army added that the Palestinian, who was taken prisoner, was moved to an interrogation facility.
After the crime, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Surra and seized surveillance camera recordings from commercial stores, in a move that local Palestinians claimed was meant to cover up the evidence of their crime.
The killing of the three young men brings the death toll since the beginning of 2023 to 84 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and paramilitary colonial settlers, including 15 children, a woman, and a prisoner in the occupation prisons.
12 Israelis were killed by Palestinians in that same time period (at least two of whom were killed in what eyewitnesses said was a traffic accident, but which was classified as an 'attack' because a Palestinian was driving).
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Palestinians killed Thursday and Friday: Yazan Khasib, Luay Zghayyar, Nidal Khazem, Yousef Shreim, Omar Awadin
Thursday-Friday: Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians
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Two articles describe how Israeli troops have killed 5 more Palestinians, one a youth riding his bicycle, another executed although he was unconscious and posed no threat. 12 others were shot; some are in serious condition. Israel has been responsible for the deaths of 89 Palestinians since the beginning of this year, including 17 children and one woman.
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah
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On Friday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near the Beit El military roadblock, at the northern entrance of Ramallah, in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh governorate, in the Central West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs informed it that the soldiers killed Yazan Omar Khasib, 23, at the western entrance of Beitin village.
It added that the army refused to allow Palestinian medics to approach the young man before taking his corpse away.
More than an hour after he was killed, the General Authority of Civil Affairs received Yazan's corpse and took it to Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah.
The soldiers also closed roads and installed roadblocks, preventing the Palestinians from crossing.
It is worth mentioning that Yazan is from Qaffin town, north of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, but his family lives in Ramallah city.
His death brings the number of slain Palestinians since the beginning of this year to 89, including 17 children and one woman.
{NOTE: Middle East Eye adds: "The Israeli army claimed that Khasib had attempted to stab Israeli soldiers. 'The suspect drew a knife and approached the forces who responded by opening fire,' the army said."]
Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kill Four Palestinians In Jenin
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On Thursday, Israeli soldiers, including undercover forces, killed four Palestinians, including a child and a young man who was executed after being shot and seriously injured, and wounded more than 21 Palestinians, five seriously, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers killed Yousef Saleh Barakat Shreim, 29, Nidal Amin Zidan Khazem, 28, Omar Mohammad Awadin, 14, and Luay Khalil Zghayyar, 37.
Defense For Children International – Palestine Branch, said on its Twitter account: "Israeli special forces shot 14-year-old Omar Mohammad Omar Awadin in the back with live ammunition while he was riding his bike outside his parents' shop around 3 p.m. today in Jenin. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Jenin Government Hospital. (Read the DCFI report here.)
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers shot at least 21 Palestinians, including four who suffered life-threatening wounds.
It said 12 Palestinians who were shot with live fire, including four who suffered serious wounds, were rushed to the Ar-Razi Hospital, five were moved to Jenin governmental hospital, six, including one who was seriously injured and one who was rammed by an army jeep, were moved to Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital.
One of the wounded Palestinians is a child, Ahmad Farahna, will be transferred to the Al-Maqasid hospital in Jerusalem, due to the seriousness of his wounds.
Eyewitnesses said undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the center of Jenin city and executed the Palestinians before many army vehicles invaded the area and started firing dozens of live rounds at the Palestinians and surrounding homes and properties.
A video from the scene shows an undercover soldier executing the seriously wounded Nidal Amin Khazem after shooting him a live round in the head, even though he was already lying flat on his stomach, motionless and unconscious.
Palestinian medics tried to reach Nidal, but the soldiers did not allow them through before the undercover officer executed him.
There has been a serious increase of cases where Israeli soldiers executed Palestinians, including in January of this year, 2023, when the soldiers killed Ahmad Kahala, 45, a father of five, from point-blank range with two live rounds in the neck near a military roadblock under Yabrud bridge, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
A similar incident occurred on December 2, 2022, in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, when the soldiers executed Ammar Hamdi Mifleh, 22, while he was lying on the ground. After shooting Ammar on the ground once, the soldier then fired a total of four times again. Ammar was unarmed and was lying on the ground when he was shot.
After concluding its offensive in Jenin, the Israeli army said it carried out a joint operation with the undercover forces and intelligence officers, adding that one of the Palestinians, Nidal Amin Khazem, was a senior fighter of the Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic jihad, and was "behind serious attacks against Israeli targets."
The army claimed that the soldiers "neutralized a Palestinian who tried to throw a large iron object on the army, " and stated that the soldiers "fired live rounds at Palestinian fighters who engaged in a fire exchange with the soldiers," and said "its operations will continue to ensure Israel's security."
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Undercover Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Tulkarem
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On Thursday dawn, undercover Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man in the Izbat Shoufa area in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said undercover soldiers infiltrated the Shoufa area and surrounded a home before killing Amir Emad Abu Khadija, 25.
The Israeli army claimed Amir exchanged fire with the undercover officers who attempted to abduct him before they shot him dead.
The army also alleged that Amir was involved in several shooting attacks against Israeli colonizers and soldiers.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Amir was shot in the head and suffered skull fractures, brain hemorrhaging, and several gunshot wounds to his lower extremities before his body was moved to Thabet Thabet governmental hospital.
The Palestinians in Tulkarem declared a commercial strike to mourn the slain young man.
Israel has now killed 87 Palestinians in 2023 (plus approximately three who died indirectly); 12 Israelis have also been killed.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In February In Nablus
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On Tuesday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young man whom Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, in February.
The Health Ministry said the young man Amir Mohammad Lolah, 23, from Zawata village, west of Nablus, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered on February 22, 2023.
The soldiers shot the young man with several live rounds, inflicting life-threatening wounds, when many army vehicles invaded Nablus, killed eleven Palestinians, and injured more than 102, including six in critical condition, during the Wednesday invasion of Nablus.
One of the slain Palestinians, Abdul-Hadi Al-Ashqar, 61, was sent to the Najah National University where his son, Elias, who works as a nurse at the Emergency Unit, was shocked to see his father there, and despite all efforts, the father died in his arms.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the eleven slain Palestinians as:
Anan Shawkat Ennab, 66.
Adnan Sabe' Ba'ara, 72.
Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25.
Tamer Nimir Ahmad Minawi, 33.
Mos'ab Monir Mohammad Oweiss, 26.
Husam Bassam Isleem, 24.
Mohammad Omar Abu Kabr Al-Juneidi, 23.
Walid Riyad Hussein Dakheel, 23.
Abdul-Hadi Abdul-Aziz Ashqar, 61.
Mohammad Farid Sha'ban, 16.
Jasser Jamil Abdul-Wahab Qaneer, 23.
With the death of Amir Mohammad Lolah, Israel has now killed 88 Palestinians in 2023 (plus approximately 3 who died indirectly); 12 Israelis have also been killed.
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Israel occupation Forces kill Young Palestinian Physician at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
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Israeli occupation forces on Friday night shot dead a Palestinian young man in Al-Aqsa Mosque while he was trying to re-enter the holy site after being removed.
This came after Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and evacuated most of the Palestinian worshippers remaining inside.
At the same site of the killing, eyewitnesses stated they saw the Israeli occupation police assaulting a Palestinian woman who was also attempting to re-enter the mosque.
Local Palestinian media reported that the young man, identified as Mohammed Khaled Elasibi, a 26-year-old resident of the Bedouin town of Hura in Al-Naqab, attempted to protect the woman assaulted by the Israeli police. Palestinian sources reported that he had just finished medical school.
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The story of the Israeli police that Elasibi grabbed their gun has often been used to justify police killings and is not borne out by eyewitness testimony. The police deny that there was any security footage of the shooting, even though that area of Jerusalem is thick with public cameras.
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Israeli police claimed in a statement that the young man tried to grab a soldier's weapon and was subsequently shot and "neutralised".
An eyewitness confirmed he heard 20 gunshots fired in less than a minute, leaving one man wounded on the floor near Bab Al-Silsila Gate.
The administration of Al-Aqsa Mosque said that about 250,000 Palestinians performed the second Friday prayer there, while hundreds stayed inside the mosque.
One of the few Palestinians who stayed at the mosque told local Palestinian media that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the sanctuary yards and forced most worshippers out.
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Mohammad Abu Bakr and Mohammad al-Hallaq were killed by Israeli forces in Nablus. (Photo: via WAFA)
[bBREAKING: Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Two Young Palestinian Men in Nablus Raid (VIDEO) [/b]
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Two young Palestinian men were killed on Monday by Israeli gunfire during a military raid into the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the official news agency WAFA reported citing the Ministry of Health.
Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department in Nablus, said that two Palestinians – identified as Mohammad Abu Bakr and Mohammad al-Hallaq – were severely wounded and moved to the Rafidia hospital, where they were later pronounced dead.
Jibril added that the Israeli soldiers attacked Nablus with toxic gas bombs.
According to Jibril, the Israeli assault on the city resulted in 55 Palestinians getting suffocated due to inhaling tear gas bombs, while a man was injured in his foot after he was attacked by an Israeli police dog.
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A Red Crescent ambulance was directly attacked by a gas grenade by Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli forces detained two Palestinians and raided several areas in the city.
With the killing of the two Palestinians, the number of Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year has risen to 94, including 17 children.
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Ayed Azzam Saleem, 20, was killed by Israeli occupation forces near Qalqiliya.
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Young Palestinian Man near Qalqiliya
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A Palestinian young man was killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday night during confrontations between Israeli occupation forces and unarmed Palestinian civilians in the town of Azzun, near the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilia, the official news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Ayed Azzam Saleem, 20, died shortly after being critically injured by Israeli gunfire in the abdomen and chest in the town of Azzun.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation soldiers directly fired at young Palestinians who were demonstrating at the entrance to the town in protest of the daily Israeli atrocities in occupied Palestine.
Saleem, who was first reported critically injured, was rushed to the nearby Darwish Nazzal Public Hospital where he was later announced dead.
The latest Israeli crime brings up the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of the year to 95, including 17 children and an elderly woman.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child, Injure Two Young Men, In Jericho
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On Monday morning, many Israeli army vehicles invaded the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, leading to protests, before the soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian child, injured two young men, and abducted five.
Media sources said a large military force surrounded and isolated the refugee camp before undercover soldiers invaded it and encircled a home.
Minutes later, many army vehicles stormed the refugee camp and deployed sharpshooters on rooftops of nearby homes and buildings, leading to protests.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Mohammad Fayez Balhan, 15, after shooting him with three bullets to the head, abdomen, and pelvis.
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers also shot two Palestinians with live fire to the lower extremities before the medics rushed them to Jericho governmental hospital.
The Israeli army said the invasion is not directly related to the shooting that led to the death of two Israeli colonizers and the injury of their mother in the Jordan Valley on April 7th.
The army added that "it is operating to curb the rise of shooting incidents in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, two major West Bank areas that didn't witness serious security incidents the previous years.
On April 8, 2023, the soldiers killed Ayed Azzam Mahmoud Salim, 20, at the main entrance to Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On April 3, 2023, the soldiers killed Mohammad Mustafa Juneidi (Abu Bakr), 43, and Mohammad Nasser Sa'id Hallaq, 21, in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On April 01, 2023, the army killed Mohammad Raed Nayef Baradiya, 23, near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and Mohammad Al-Asibi, 26, in occupied Jerusalem.
According to the Health Ministry, Israeli soldiers killed 96 Palestinians, including eighteen children, one woman, and a young man from Houra town in the Negev, since the beginning of this year.
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Israeli Army Kills Two Palestinians, Injures One, near Nablus
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Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Tuesday, two Palestinian men and injured a third near Deir al-Hatab village, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Maan News Agency quoted the army stating that the soldiers ambushed and killed the two Palestinians near the Elon Moreh colony after they reportedly opened fire at it.
The army added that the soldiers found two M16 rifles and a pistol that the two Palestinians carried.
Ahmed Jibril, the Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, stated the army prevented medical crews from approaching the two critically injured young men.
Jibril added that its crews transported one Palestinian young to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus after soldiers shot him with a live round in the shoulder.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the slain men were identified as Saud Abdullah Saud (al-Titi), 38 and Mohammad Ghazi Abu Thera', 35.
Saud is an officer with the Palestinian National Security while Mohammad was a member of the Al-Aqsa Brigades the armed wing of the Fateh Movement, from Nablus.
Saud is a former political prisoner who was imprisoned by Israel for 16 years, and Mohammad was imprisoned for seven years.
Sources added that the Israeli army took the bodies of the young men after preventing Palestinian medics from approaching them.
On Monday, Israeli forces shot and killed Mohammad Fayez Balhan, 15, with live rounds to the head, abdomen, and pelvis.
It is important to note that 98 Palestinians, including 18 children have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
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Suleiman Ayesh, 20, died of the critical wounds he sustained by the Israeli forces' live fire during an Israeli military incursion into the Aqbet Jaber camp. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Young Palestinian Man near Jericho
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A young Palestinian man died of the critical wounds he sustained by Israeli gunfire at dawn Monday in the Aqbet Jaber refugee camp, near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that a Palestinian youth, who was identified as 2o-year-old Suleiman Ayesh, died of the critical wounds he sustained by the Israeli forces' live fire during an Israeli military incursion into the Aqbet Jaber camp.
Ayesh's body was kept in custody by the Israeli army.
Medical sources confirmed the injury of three others, one of whom was detained despite his injuries.
Israeli forces kill teen near Bethlehem
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-kill-teen-near-bethlehem
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a teenage boy in Tuqu, a village near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Friday.
The previous day, a Palestinian man was shot and killed at close range in what may amount to an extrajudicial execution.
Defense for Children International-Palestine said that Mustafa Amer Ali Sabbah, 15, was shot in the heart with live ammunition on Friday afternoon. He was the 19th Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces so far this year, the rights group added.
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The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said that the boy was killed during confrontations with the Israeli military.
The military attempted to justify the killing of the teen by telling Israeli media that "he had been involved in previous rioting."
Earlier on Friday, Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank city of Jenin, reportedly confiscating weapons and arresting a Palestinian accused of involvement in armed resistance.
Residents confronted the raiding soldiers, leading to the injury of two Palestinians, Al Jazeera reported.
Security forces officer killed
On Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed Ahmad Yaqoub Taha, 39, on a road near the West Bank city of Salfit.
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Video of the incident appears to show Taha getting out of a car and lunging toward an officer before falling to the ground. The video shows a soldier apparently firing at Taha several times while he was on the ground and presumably posed no immediate danger.
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The Times of Israel, citing the Israeli military, said that Taha drove into the opposite lane of a highway "and tried to ram his car into civilians and security forces" at a junction near the West Bank settlement of Ariel.
"The suspect then got out of his car while allegedly brandishing a knife, before being shot dead by troops," the publication added.
No Israelis were injured during the incident but a Palestinian bystander was reportedly lightly injured.
Taha was reportedly a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces.
Suleiman Taha, the slain man's brother, expressed disbelief towards Israel's claim that Taha had attempted an attack.
"This is a father of two small children, a man working in the security forces who was very committed to his work," Suleiman told the Tel Aviv daily Haaretz.
"Claims that he tried or planned to carry out an attack doesn't make sense," he added.
Uptick in violence
On Monday, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in separate incidents.
With four Palestinians killed this week, the number of fatalities is once again on the rise after a lull towards the end of Ramadan and during the Eid holiday that follows the fasting month.
Israel was reportedly under pressure from the Biden administration in Washington to de-escalate after police were documented assaulting Ramadan worshippers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque.
Armed groups in Lebanon and Gaza fired rockets towards Israel following the assaults at al-Aqsa, stoking fears of a regional war that did not come to pass.
Additional deadly violence in the West Bank, however, appears all but guaranteed as Israel informed the family of an imprisoned Palestinian accused of killing a soldier that it intends to demolish their home in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
A demolition order has already been imposed on the family of another Palestinian who Israel says was involved in the October shooting attack.
Punitive home demolitions are a form of collective punishment prohibited under international law.
Last year, Israel punitively sealed or destroyed 11 homes belonging to the families of Palestinians accused of attacks, according to the UN monitoring group OCHA. Hundreds more Palestinian-owned structures were razed or seized on the pretext that they were built without a permit.
Three Palestinians died from injuries sustained during a punitive home demolition raid in Kafr Dan village near Jenin in early January.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli police, soldiers and armed civilians since the beginning of the year, according to The Electronic Intifada's tracking.
Twenty Israelis and foreign nationals were killed by Palestinians in the same period or died from injuries sustained previously.
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PCHR: "Leaving Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan in his Cell Without Healthcare is a Decision to Kill him" https://imemc.org/article/pchr-leaving-palestinian-hunger-striker-khader-adnan-in-his-cell-without-healthcare-is-a-decision-to-kill-him/
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): May 2: Today in the morning, the death of the detainee Khader Adnan, who has been on a 87-day- hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), was announced. At dawn, Adnan was found unconscious in his cell before his death was later declared after transferring him to the hospital.
Earlier, the Israeli authorities claimed that Adnan refused to undergo medical examinations and receive medical treatment, and today in the morning, he was found unconscious in his cell, and an attempt was made to save his life before he was transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) holds the Israeli authorities fully responsible for the death of the Palestinian detainee, Khader Adnan, and calls on the international community to conduct an immediate and independent investigation into his death circumstances, including the Israeli authorities' insistence on refusing to release him despite the serious deterioration of his health condition.
Quote" IOF are well aware of his health condition, especially that he had a long series of hunger strikes in protest against his administrative detention and he needs adequate healthcare. However, after almost three months of being on an open hunger strike, he was still being held in cell without healthcare. Leaving him in these tragic circumstances is immoral, inhumane and illegal, and constitutes a decision to execute him premeditatedly. We call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate his death immediately and hold the Israeli officials accountable for this crime. ", Lawyer Raji Sourani, PCHR's Director.
Khader Adnan Mohammed Mousa (45) began his hunger strike in protest against his administration detention after he was arrested from his house in Arraba village, west of Jenin on 05 February 2023.
The Israeli occupation authorities did not respond to Adnan's demands and also refused to allow family visits despite the deterioration of his health condition. Only Adnan's wife managed to see him through the video conference during his court sessions, last of which was a day before he died.
The Ofer Military Court refused to respond to the request to release Khader Adnan, who appeared via the video conference from his place of detention before the court.
He appeared extremely exhausted, and he said that he is dying and suffering from partial memory loss, according to his wife, who attended the court session. Adnan's wife confirmed that IOF refused to transfer her husband to a civilian hospital and held him at al-Ramla Hospital under inadequate conditions despite the serious deterioration of his health condition and losing consciousness several times.
It is worth noting that Khader Adnan went on five open hunger strikes in protest against his administrative detention before, and he was released every time after a deterioration in his health condition. Then, IOF arrest him again. In total, 'Adnan was arrested 14 times and served more than 8 years in Israeli prisons.
It should be noted that so far in 2023, Adnan is the second detainee to have died in the Israeli prisons this year after Ahmed Abu 'Ali (48), who was imprisoned at Negev prison and died due to the deterioration of his health condition when he was transferred to Soroka Medical Center on 10 February 2023.
The death of the detainee, Khader Adnan, sheds light on the general deterioration in the conditions of more than 4900 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prisons, including dozens of sick detainees. Also, Adnan's death highlights the suffering of about 600 administrative detainees who are held without charge or trial in flagrant violation of their right to a fair trial, including their right to receive adequate defense and to know their charges.
The administrative detention violation of the detainees' right to a fair trial comes from the nature of the administrative detention, which is issued upon an administrative order and without any judicial decision in a manner that jeopardizes the impartial judicial proceedings, including the fair trial proceedings.
PCHR holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the death of Khader Adnan and for the lives of hundreds of detainees, who may face the same fate, if the policy of deliberate medical negligence continues, as they are held in unhealthy conditions and are not receiving adequate healthcare. Thus, PCHR:
- Calls for an immediate investigation into the death circumstances of Khader Adnan, including the Israeli authorities' insistence on refusing to release him despite the serious deterioration of his health condition.
- Urges the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to effectively follow-up the conditions of Palestinian detainees at the Israeli Prisons and their detention conditions.
- Calls upon the international community to compel Israel to respect the international law and international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, and to abide by the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
- Calls on the international community to intervene immediately to put an end to the administrative detention policy and its arbitrary and illegal use by Israel against Palestinian detainees.
- Calls upon the ICC prosecutor and the UN Commission of Inquiry to conduct an immediate investigation into Adnan Khader's death.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill Three Palestinians, Injure Four, In Nablus
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On Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers killed three young Palestinian men and injured at least four after the undercover force infiltrated the Old City of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and surrounded a home before dozens of military vehicles invaded the area.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain Palestinians as Moath Masri, 35, Hasan Qatanani, 35, and Ibrahim Jabr, 45.
It added that the remains of two of the slain Palestinians were severely mutilated due to Israeli Energia rockets and shells fired at a home the soldiers surrounded.
The Israeli attack started when undercover forces infiltrated the al-Yasmina neighborhood in Nablus's Old City and surrounded a home before a large military force invaded the area and used a drone to fire a missile at the property before firing more shells and dozens of live rounds, killing the three young men.
Palestinian medics rushed to the area of the attack, but the soldiers fired many live rounds at their ambulances, preventing them from reaching the home or its surrounding area.
Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Nablus, said the many Palestinians protested the invasion before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs.
Jibril stated that the soldiers injured 166 Palestinians, including four who were shot with live rounds, ten who fell as the army chased them, and 152 who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, especially since the army fired the gas bombs at random, many striking homes or landing near them.
Among the wounded were many schoolchildren who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in their schools near the invaded area.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education in Nablus said it had to evacuate 16 schools in the invaded area and its surroundings to ensure the children's safety, especially since the soldiers were firing many live rounds and gas bombs.
The Israeli army claimed that two of the slain Palestinians, Moath Masri and Hasan Qatanani, were responsible for a shooting attack last month, leading to the death of three Israelis from the Dee family in the Jordan Valley, last month, and alleged that Jabr aided them in fleeing the scene. The three are from the illegal Israeli colony of Efrat, built on Palestinian lands near Bethlehem.
The army also confirmed more than 200 soldiers took part in the invasion, adding that they used anti-tank shoulder-mounted missiles and stun grenades dropped from military drones.
The Health Ministry said the death of the three young men brings the number of slain Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers since the beginning of this year to 107, including 20 children and one woman.
Various Palestinian officials, national and Islamic factions, and social figures denounced the invasion and the killing of the three young men, especially since it was clear the soldiers were not there to abduct the three Palestinians but rather to assassinate them, and that is why they started the attack by firing shells at the property.
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Young Woman Near Nablus
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On Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian woman near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, after the army claimed she attacked soldiers, mildly wounding one.
Media sources said the soldiers shot Eman Ziad Ahmad Odah, 26, with a live round in the chest, near Einabus junction in the center of Huwwara town, south of Nablus.
After shooting the woman, the army closed the area and refused to allow Palestinian medics to approach her, and later, Palestinian Red Crescent medics (PRCS) were able to reach her and perform the urgently needed medical attention before rushing her to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where she was officially pronounced dead.
The Israeli army claimed the woman attacked a soldier with a knife, but the soldier pushed her away and shot her, and added that another security officer also opened fire at the woman. The wounded soldier suffered a mild injury and was moved to an Israeli hospital.
In related news, the soldiers shot a young Palestinian man in the leg during protests near Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
The army claimed that the young man attacked soldiers who stopped and searched Palestinian vehicles.
Her death brings the number of slain Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers since the beginning of this year to 107, including 20 children and two women.
On Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers killed three young Palestinian men and injured at least four after the undercover force infiltrated the Old City of Nablus, and surrounded a home before dozens of military vehicles invaded the area.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain Palestinians as Moath Masri, 35, Hasan Qatanani, 35, and Ibrahim Jabr, 45.
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IOF kill three Palestinians, injure others during Balata camp storming
Israeli occupation forces storm, search, and ransack dozens of homes in the Balata refugee camp.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced at dawn Monday that three Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded by Israeli occupation gunfire during the storming of the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Ministry identified the martyrs as Fathi Jihad Rizq, 30, Abdullah Yousef Abu Hamdan, 24, and Mohammad Bilal Zeitoun, 32.
State-run Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the occupation forces stormed, searched, and ransacked dozens of homes in the camp and besieged others, amid violent confrontations with Palestinian Resistance fighters.
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According to the agency, they also blew up the house of the Abu Shalal family, injuring a young boy and girl from shrapnel and causing damage to nearby homes.
It added that occupation forces prevented ambulance crews from reaching the casualties.
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The Nablus Battalion - Balata Groups announced that its Resistance fighters confronted the occupation forces in several areas with heavy gunfire and explosive devices.
With the latest brutal Israeli occupation crime, the number of Palestinians killed at the hands of occupation forces or illegal Israeli settlers rose to 156 martyrs, including 36 in the Gaza Strip.
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2.5-year-old Palestinian child succumbs to wounds from Israeli gunfire
Days after he was shot by the occupation forces while he was in his father's car outside their house in the village of Nabi Saleh, Mohammad Haytham Tamimi succumbs to his critical wounds.
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The 2.5-year-old Mohammad Haytham Tamimi died of the wounds he sustained when Israeli occupation forces opened fire in the town of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah, last Thursday evening, as per the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Activist Bilal Tamimi revealed that the child's family was informed of his martyrdom of a gunshot wound to the head.
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The family explained that the body of the martyred child will be handed over this evening at the Rantis checkpoint, west of Ramallah, to be transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex.
His burial ceremony is set for tomorrow in the town's cemetery.
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With the martyrdom of 2.5-year-old Tamimi, the number of Palestinian children killed at the hands of Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of this year has risen to 28.
The child Tamimi was shot in the head when Israeli occupation forces opened fire indiscriminately while pursuing Palestinian youths who allegedly carried out a shooting operation targeting an occupation military post near the town of Nabi Saleh, Palestinian sources revealed. Both baby Tamim and his father Haytham were wounded in the Israeli attack.
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Last Thursday, activist Bilal Tamimi stated that an Israeli occupation army force ambushed a vehicle at the entrance to the town, chased it, and opened fire on it, which led to the injury of the child with a bullet in the head, while his father was wounded in the hand.
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Tamimi added, in statements to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), that the child and his father were shot while in the car parked in their house 300 m away from the checkpoint.
Tamimi's mother explained that Mohammad and his father were on their way for a family visit when they were shot.
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Family Buries Slain Son Israeli Soldiers Killed In April
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Late Sunday night, the family of Hatem As'ad Abu Najma, 39, held the funeral ceremony and burial of their slain son, whom a paramilitary Israeli colonizer killed on April 24, 2023, in occupied Jerusalem.
Media sources said only the immediate family and a few Palestinians were allowed to attend due to Israeli restrictions and preconditions.
After allowing the release of the slain man's corpse, dozens of soldiers and police officers surrounded many parts of occupied Jerusalem, especially Bab Al-Asbat Graveyard and all streets leading to it.
The soldiers and officers kept the entire area closed and isolated to prevent the Palestinians in the area from attending the funeral and lifted the siege after the burial was concluded.
Every person who attended the funeral was ordered to wear an electronic bracelet to track their movement and ensure they do not leave designated routes and areas.
Only 25 Palestinians were allowed to attend the funeral; they were barred from carrying flags or posters, were not allowed to march and chant before or after the funeral, and were ordered to disperse immediately afterward.
The family was also ordered not to receive condolences from anybody in any public area and only to welcome a limited number of mourners in their home.
It is worth mentioning that the paramilitary colonizer killed Abu Najma on April 24, 2023, after he reportedly injured seven Israelis in what the army called a ramming attack.
A video from the scene shows the colonizer shooting the Palestinian man through the closed side window of his car while he posed no threat or even attempted to leave it.
Hatem was a married father of five children from Beit Safafa town, south of occupied Jerusalem.
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Israeli occupation forces killed 29-year-old Mahdi Biadsa at the Rantis military checkpoint near Ramallah. (Photo: Social Med
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Young Palestinian Man at Checkpoint near Ramallah (VIDEO)
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Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man on Friday near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a statement that 29-year-old Palestinian Mahdi Biadsa was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Rantis military checkpoint, west of Ramallah.
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The circumstances surrounding the Biadsa's killing remain unclear and largely based on the Israeli version of events.
At least 159 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
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Palestinian elderly succumbs to wounds sustained in Israeli aggression
Elderly Palestinian Ismail Salman Ayyad, from the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, embraces martyrdom.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Friday the martyrdom of elderly Ismail Salman Ayyad, from the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, who succumbed to the wounds that he sustained in an airstrike during the latest Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip.
On May 9, the Israeli occupation launched an aggression against Gaza, as occupation warplanes targeted houses and apartments, north, center, and south of the Strip, leaving 37 martyrs, including six Palestinian Resistance leaders, and around 190 injuries.
In response to the aggression, the Joint Operations Room of the Palestinian Resistance factions launched a response operation codenamed Avenging the Free.
Egypt mediated a ceasefire between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation, as a result of which the five-day aggression against the Gaza Strip ended with an Israeli pledge to end assassinations and the targeting of civilian homes.
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Faris Abdul Munim Hashash, 19, was killed by Israeli forces in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in Balata Refugee Camp (VIDEO)
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One Palestinian was killed and eight others were injured on Tuesday afternoon during an Israeli army incursion into the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Faris Abdul Munim Hashash, 19, was brought to Rafidya Hospital in Nablus with bullet wounds to the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs, and was later pronounced dead.
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WAFA correspondent said that a large Israeli army force raided the camp and surrounded a house for an alleged wanted Palestinian.
However, the Israeli army left the camp without arresting the wanted person.
Clashes broke out resulting in the killing of Hashash and the wounding of eight others, according to the Red Crescent.
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Palestinians carry the body of Khalil Yahya Anis, 20, during his funeral in the Al-Ain refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on 15 June. (Mohammed NasserAPA images)
Israel kills teen with mental disability in refugee camp raid
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Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a punitive home demolition overnight on Thursday.
He was identified as Khalil Yahya al-Anis. Local media circulated his picture following his killing:
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Israeli authorities demolished the home of a man they accuse of the fatal shooting in October of Ido Baruch, 21, a soldier in the military's Givati brigade, which has been involved in serious crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and other places.
Collective punishment of this kind is a war crime that Israel only perpetrates against the families of Palestinians accused of harming Israelis, and never against the families of Israelis who harm Palestinians.
Israel has carried out at least 27 revenge demolitions since the beginning of 2022, according to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.
This includes more than 10 this year alone. "At the current pace, it would be the most demolitions since 2016," The Washington Post reported, citing B'Tselem's figures.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces killed a mentally disabled teenager on Tuesday during their incursion into Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli soldiers killed Faris Abd al-Munim Hashash, 19, while he was hiding behind a wall and observing the area where the army was stationed about 200 meters away.
He was shot with three live bullets, one in the abdomen and two in his thighs. Israeli forces also injured seven other people, including two children.
Local media circulated Hashash's picture following his killing:
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Israeli forces had invaded the camp as mistaravim – undercover agents dressed as Palestinians – and stationed themselves around the family home of 20-year-old Isam Husam al-Salaj, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
Agents also took positions on the roofs of nearby homes while special forces cordoned off the house with al-Salaj and his family inside.
Israeli forces, who brought military vehicles and a drone, fired live ammunition and missiles at the house.
They seriously injured al-Salaj, who was evacuated to hospital after Israeli forces withdrew.
Palestinians in the camp confronted Israeli forces in an attempt to break the siege of the al-Salaj house.
Meanwhile, four Israeli soldiers and one settler were wounded in a shooting near the illegal Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday afternoon.
A vehicle with an Israeli license plate reportedly shot at an Israeli military vehicle with soldiers inside near the West Bank town of Yabad near Jenin.
Updated: "Army Kills Five Palestinians, Injures 100, 23 Seriously, In Jenin"
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Israeli soldiers have killed five Palestinians, including a child, and injured at least 100, including 23 who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry said the soldiers killed, in Jenin, Ahmad Khaled Daraghma, 19, from Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank.
The Palestinians who were killed by the army earlier Monday have been identified as Ahmad Yousef Saqer, 15, Khaled Azzam Asa'sa, 21, Qassam Faisal Abu Seriyya, 29, and Qais Majdi Adel Jabarin, 21,
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers injured at least 100 Palestinians, including 23 who suffered critical wounds.
At least 63 wounded Palestinians, including ten who suffered serious wounds, were transferred to Ar-Razi Hospital, and 27, including twelve seriously wounded Palestinians, were rushed to Ibn Sina Hospital.
One of the wounded is a young woman shot with a live round in the head before being rushed to Ar-Razi hospital in Jenin.
The Israeli army targeted many journalists with live fire, while military sharpshooters' gunfire pinned several reporters on a rooftop of an under-construction building.
The Israeli army said seven soldiers were injured, one seriously, when Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device weighing more than 40 kilograms near their armored military vehicles and added that the explosion caused serious damage to the vehicle, although it was armored.
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It also said that the fighters managed to cause damage to six other military vehicles after detonating explosive charges near them.
The army took over nine hours to retrieve its damaged vehicles due to the heavy fire exchange with Palestinian resistance fighters.
Earlier in the invasion, The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli military vehicles rammed one of its ambulances while transporting wounded Palestinians to the hospital and added that the soldiers shot a journalist, Hazem Nasser, with a live round in the abdomen. It also said that the soldiers continued to fire toward him until he reached an ambulance on foot.
Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill Four Palestinians, Including A Child, Injure 45, Six Seriously, In Jenin
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Earlier Monday, dozens of armored military vehicles and several military helicopters initiated a massive invasion of Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, killing four Palestinians, including one child, and injuring more than 45, some seriously.
Update – The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers killed Qais Majdi Adel Jabarin, 21, in Jenin.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli military vehicles rammed one of its ambulances while transporting wounded Palestinians to the hospital and added that the soldiers shot a journalist, Hazem Nasser, with a live round in the abdomen. It also said that the soldiers continued to fire toward him until he reached an ambulance on foot.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed Ahmad Yousef Saqer, 15, Khaled Azzam Asa'sa, 21, and Qassam Faisal Abu Seriyya, 29.
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers injured at least 45 Palestinians, including ten who suffered life-threatening wounds; thirteen of the wounded Palestinians were shot with live fire.
It stated that nineteen Palestinians were rushed to Jenin governmental hospital, including a girl who suffered a serious gunshot wound to her head, and stated that one seriously injured Palestinian was rushed to the neurology department at the Ar-Razi hospital for urgent surgery, and seventeen to the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital, including three who suffered serious wounds to the head, neck, and chest.
The invasion was first started by undercover Israeli soldiers, followed by dozens of armored military vehicles and military helicopters.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes, deployed sharpshooters on rooftops, and fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
The Israeli army used military choppers to fire missiles at Palestinian fighters who exchanged fire with the invading soldiers in several parts of Jenin and detonated explosive charges, damaging at least two armored military vehicles.
The army also fired many live rounds at Palestinian ambulances trying to reach wounded Palestinians; the number of casualties could be larger than reported as the medics are still trying to enter the invaded areas but are attacked by the army.
The Israeli army said five soldiers were injured when their armored vehicle struck a bomb hidden on the road shortly after the soldiers exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters before they were airlifted by a military helicopter.
The army added that the soldiers were extracting undercover Border Police forces that infiltrated Jenin to arrest wanted Palestinian fighters and arrested two Palestinians, identified as Assem Abu Al-Haija and Mos'ab Hasan Al-Barmaki.
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Palestinian teenage girl Sadil Ghassan Turkman succumbed on June 21, 2023 to Israeli army gunshot wounds she sustained during a raid in the northern occupied West Bank town of Jenin two days ago. (Photo via Twitter)
Palestinian teenage girl succumbs to gunshot wounds suffered in Israeli raid on Jenin
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A Palestinian teenager has succumbed to Israeli army gunshot wounds she sustained two days ago as a result of the Israeli military's deadly raid on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health, identified the victim as 15-year-old Sadil Ghassan Turkman, noting she was shot in the head and passed away at Jenin Government Hospital early on Wednesday.
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Separately, 55-year-old Nasser Saleh Sanan, who was also shot in the head by Israeli army gunfire during an assault on Jenin last month, succumbed late on Tuesday to his wounds.
Early on Monday, Israeli soldiers stormed Jenin and fired live ammunition, stun grenades and toxic gas.
Combat helicopters were used for the first time in decades after the ensuing hours-long exchange of gunfire between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli army soldiers.
At least five Palestinians were killed and 45 others wounded after Israeli troops raided the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The health ministry identified the victims of Monday's attack as Ahmed Saqr, 15, Ahmed Daraghmeh, 19, Khaled Darwish, 21, Qassam Sariya, 19, Qassam Faisal Abu Sirriya, 29, and Sadil Ghassan Turkman, 15.
Four ambulances were also targeted by Israeli forces in Jenin, according to Nibal Farsakh, media and information officer at the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
They were "directly targeted with live ammunition, causing material damage to the structure and the glass of the ambulances themselves," Farsakh said.
Farsakh added that medical teams were first denied access and eventually arrived late to treat those who were injured at the scene. Some were "in a very severe condition" and needed urgent medical assistance.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the raid was to arrest two suspects and that its soldiers came under fire, which resulted in a "massive exchange of fire."
It confirmed seven of its soldiers were wounded during the attack.
According to the Quds News Network, Hazem Nasser, a Palestinian photojournalist was shot and injured during the Jenin raid.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad condemned the Israeli operation as a "heinous crime," while Hamas announced its support for resistance fighters in Jenin.
Since the start of 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including 26 children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The death toll includes 36 Palestinians, who lost their lives during a four-day Israeli army onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip between May 9 and 13.
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Ishaq Hamdi Ajlouni, 17, was killed by Israeli forces near Jerusalem. (Photo: via Social Media)
Palestinian Teenager Left to Die after Being Shot by Israeli Forces
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Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager and left him bleeding to death near the Qalandiya military checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported citing eyewitness accounts.
According to eyewitnesses, the Palestinian teenager, who was identified as 17-year-old Ishaq Hamdi Ajlouni, opened fire at Israeli soldiers stationed at the Qalandiya checkpoint, lightly injuring an Israeli guard in the hand before he was shot and fatally injured.
Ajlouni was reportedly left bleeding on the ground for hours until he was declared dead.
Ajlouni was a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kufr Aqab, which falls within Israel's wall that segregates Jerusalem from the rest of Occupied West Bank.
With this death, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year rose to 179.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday
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On Saturday afternoon, the Health Ministry confirmed the death of a Palestinian who Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured Friday when the army invaded Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry said Tareq Mohammad Khalil Idrees, 39, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus, was shot with live rounds in the abdomen and remained critical until he succumbed to his wounds.
It added that Tareq was rushed to the Specialized Arab Hospital in Nablus due to gunshot wounds to the abdomen and underwent surgery but remained in a serious condition until he succumbed to his wounds.
The Palestinian was seriously injured when dozens of soldiers invaded Nablus on Friday dawn, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.
On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers fatally shot Ishaq Hamdi Amin Al-Ajlouni, 18, after he reportedly opened fire at soldiers and security guards at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, wounding a guard and another person.
On Wednesday, June 21, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, identified as Soheib Adnan Al-Ghoul, 27, Mohammad Bashar Oweis, 28, and Ashraf Morad Sa'adi, 17.
On Wednesday dawn, a Palestinian child who suffered serious wounds after Israeli soldiers shot her during the military offensive in Jenin Monday succumbed to her injuries.
Medical sources at the Jenin governmental hospital said the soldiers shot the child, Sadeel Ghassan Turkman, 15, from the Jenin refugee camp, with a live round to the head and remained in critical condition until she succumbed to her wounds.
On Tuesday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Nasser Saleh Mohammad Sinan, 55, whom Israeli soldiers shot in the head a month earlier in Jenin.
On Tuesday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Amjad Aref Al-Ja'as, 48, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire Monday during the massive Israeli invasion of Jenin, during which the soldiers killed five Palestinians, and injured more than a 100, some seriously.
On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man and injured two after the army invaded Husan village, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
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Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah
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On Friday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man after shooting him with live fire in Um Safa village, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank's central part.
Mohammad Bahar, an Um Safa Village Council member, said the soldiers shot the young man in the chest in the Ar-Ras area in the northern part of the village.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the slain Palestinian Abdul-Jawad Hamdan Saleh, 24, succumbed to profoundly serious wounds at the Istishari hospital in Ramallah.
The Health Ministry added that soldiers shot Abdul-Jawad, from Aroura village, northwest of Ramallah, with a live round in the chest.
It is worth mentioning that dozens of soldiers invaded the village before noon Friday, anticipating a procession against establishing an illegal colonialist outpost at their village's southern entrance.
Bahar said the soldiers installed roadblocks, invaded buildings, and used their rooftops as monitoring towers before attacking the nonviolent protesters who marched following noon prayers.
Also, Israeli colonizers tried to assault several Palestinians with batons and hurled stones at them before the Israeli soldiers shot a young Palestinian man with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the arm.
It is worth mentioning that, on June 22, the colonizers installed an outpost on the stolen Palestinian lands, built barns, and brought dozens of cows.
The village has been subject to constant attacks by the soldiers who burnt homes, cars and opened fire at the Palestinians and their property.
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Mohammed Fouad El-Bayed, 17, was killed by Israeli occupation forces near Ramallah. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Minor, Critically Injure Another Palestinian near Ramallah
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during a military raid in the village of Umm Safa, north of Ramallah, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
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According to the Ministry, the victim, who was identified as 17-year-old Mohammed Fouad El-Bayed, was shot in the head with live bullets and critically injured. He succumbed to his wounds shortly after reaching the hospital.
Another Palestinian was shot in the abdomen and critically injured.
Confrontations broke out following an Israeli military incursion into Umm Safa, during which forces attacked residents with live ammunition, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Dozens of Palestinians suffocated due to tear gas inhalation.
For the past few weeks, the village has been witnessing Israeli forces and settler attacks, including the burning of homes and vehicles and the usage of live fire against residents and their homes.
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Fawzi Hani Makhalfeh, 18, was killed by the Israeli occupation army in Sebastia. (Photo: via Social media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Young Palestinian Man in Sebastia (VIDEO)
Israeli soldiers opened fire at a car in the town of Sebastia, in the north of the West Bank, on Friday night, killing a Palestinian teenager and injuring another, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Fawzi Hani Makhalfeh, 18, arrived dead at the hospital with several bullet wounds.
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WAFA reported that Israeli soldiers hit the car with over 40 bullets, killing one and injuring the other, who was later arrested.
Makhlfeh is the second Palestinian teenager shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday in the occupied West Bank after the killing of 17-year-old Mohammad Bayyad in Umm Saf, near Ramallah.
204 Palestinians, including 38 children, have been killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year.
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Israeli Forces Shoot Dead Three Palestinians in Nablus
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Israeli forces, shot dead, on Tuesday, three Palestinian young men after an exchange of fire in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Ministry of Health confirmed.
On Tuesday morning, three Palestinian young men were present in a vehicle, parked at the entrance to Jabal Gerizim (Mount Gerizim), south of Nablus.
The army claimed that one young man exited the vehicle and allegedly opened fire at soldiers who were stationed in the area.
Occupation forces opened heavy fire at the vehicle, killing all three occupants. No injuries were reported among the army.
Hebrew channel Kan claimed that the slain young men had "opened fire at a military force in the area, which in turn responded with fire and killed those inside, while M-16 rifles were found inside the vehicle."
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority informed the Ministry of Health of the death of the three young men who were identified as Noureddine Tayseer Al-Ardah, 32, Montaser Bahjat Ali Salama, 33, and Saad Maher Al-Kharraz, 43.
Security sources said that occupation forces denied ambulance crews and journalists access to the scene, and eyewitnesses said that the army deliberately destroyed the surveillance cameras in the area.
In a statement, the army claimed that all three men were armed, and alleged that there were three M16 rifles, a pistol, cartridges and other equipment found in the car.
Soldiers closed the iron gate at the entrance to Mount Gerizim, for a number of hours, preventing citizens from entering or leaving.
It was added that soldiers confiscated the bodies of the slain men, in addition to their vehicle.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian, Injure Three, In Nablus
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On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and shot three others, two seriously, in the eastern area of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank's northern part.
Media sources said many army vehicles invaded Nablus from several directions to accompany several buses filled with illegal Israeli colonizers, heading to Joseph's Tomb after the army closed many streets and alleys, leading to massive protests.
The source added that military bulldozers also closed Amman Street with sand hills to block Palestinian traffic.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Bader Samer Ribhi Masri, 19, and said the soldiers shot him in the chest before the medics rushed him to the Al-Arabi Hospital in Nablus.
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers also shot three other Palestinians with live fire, including two who suffered critical injuries, and caused dozens, mostly in their homes, to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency department of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Nablus, said a newborn girl, only twelve days of age, was among at least thirty Palestinians who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Jibril added that the soldiers also fired many rubber-coated steel bullets at a Palestinian ambulance while transporting a patient near the Balata refugee camp, damaging its windshield.
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Mohammad Farid al-Za'areer, 15, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in al-Sumo'. (Photo: via WAFA)
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Child in Hebron, Seriously Wound another in Nablus
Israeli occupation soldiers killed a 15-year-old Palestinian child near the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil, while Israeli forces raided the city of Nablus.
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Israeli forces Tuesday evening shot and killed a Palestinian child near the town of al-Sumo', to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA reported.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said it was informed by the Civil Affairs Authority of the death of Mohammad Farid al-Za'areer, 15, after he was shot by Israeli soldiers.
Security sources said that the Israeli army opened fire at the Palestinian child near the illegal Israeli settlement of "Eshtmou" and prevented medical crews from reaching it.
According to local sources, Za'areer had just successfully finished the 9th grade and was one of the top students in his class.
Raiding Nablus
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians suffered from suffocation while others were shot by Israeli gunfire during an Israeli military raid into the eastern area of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
The Ministry of Health said that a Palestinian youth with a serious injury in the abdomen and another injured in the thigh were transferred to the Rafidia Governmental hospital.
The Red Crescent in Nablus also reported dozens of suffocation cases, whereas a number of Palestinian suffocated after inhaling toxic gas fired at them by the soldiers, WAFA reported.
Additionally, a man and his wife were transferred to the Rafidia Hospital after the Israeli forces opened fire at their vehicle.
Palestinian youths closed the streets surrounding Joseph's Tomb with burning rubber tires to repel the army and settlers' incursions to the site.
The Israeli occupation forces, backed by dozens of military vehicles, including two bulldozers, stormed the eastern region of the city through the Beit Furik checkpoint, while other forces stormed the city from the Al-Tur area as military vehicles raided the western region through the Sarra checkpoint.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli occupation forces were deployed in Amman Street and the streets surrounding Joseph's tomb as Israeli snipers climbed the rooftops of a number of high buildings.
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Graduation photo of Mahmoud abu Sa'an, killed by the Israeli miliary on August 4 in Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank. (Photo: Family album, via WAFA)
Top Palestinian Highschool Graduate 'Executed' by Invading Israeli Soldiers in Nur Shams
He had recently graduated with honors, but Mahmoud Abu Sa'an, 18 is now dead as a result of what Palestinian eyewitnesses describe as point-black execution by the Israeli army.
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An eighteen-year-old Palestinian was shot at point-blank range and killed Friday at dawn during an Israeli military incursion into Nur Shams camp to the east of Tukaram, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army stormed the camp amid the heavy firing of live ammunition, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades at the camp's residents, leading to violent confrontations, the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA reported.
The young Palestinian, identified as Mahmoud Abu Sa'an, was shot in the head at point-blank range, eyewitnesses told WAFA.
Sa'an "was transferred to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after," the agency reported.
Sa'an had recently graduated with honors from high school and was reportedly ready to start his university studies in a few months.
Local mosques held special prayers for the young graduate and a large number of Palestinians descended into his family home in the camp to show support.
For its part, Aljazeera Arabic correspondent reported that Israel has repeatedly referenced the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps as their new targets following the July 3 invasion of the Jenin refugee camp.
Palestinian groups in the camp also issued statements stating they had confronted Israeli invading forces as they advanced into the area from several directions.
Millions of Palestinian refugees live in refugee camps throughout the Occupied Territories and throughout the region.
These camps have historically been a major source of resistance, including armed resistance, to the Israeli occupation.
Israel has increased its violence against Palestinians in recent months, oftentimes as a result of coordinating between the Israeli occupation army and Jewish settlers.
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Ramzi Fathi Hamed, 17, succumbed to his wounds after being shot by an illegal Jewish settler a few days ago. (Photo: via Social Media)
Palestinian Teenager Succumbs to Wounds Sustained by Jewish Settler's Bullets
A 17-year-old Palestinian teenager succumbed on Sunday morning to the wounds he sustained a few days ago near the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced.
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The mayor of Silwad, Raed Hamed, said that the youth – identified as Ramzi Fathi Hamed – was shot by an illegal Jewish settler when he was in a car near the settlement of Ofra.
Medics said Hamed died of a severe pulmonary attack while getting treatment at a Ramallah hospital after he was shot by two bullets in the chest and belly.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
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"Jewish settler violence should not be analyzed separately from the violence meted out by the Israeli army, but seen within the larger context of the violent Zionist ideology that governs Israeli society entirely," wrote Palestinian author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud.
"Settler violence has long since become part of Palestinians' daily life under occupation," according to the Human Rights Group B'tselem. "Israeli security forces enable these actions, which result in Palestinian casualties – injuries and fatalities – as well as damage to land and property. In some cases, they even serve as an armed escort, or even join in the attacks".
Over 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
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Israeli Forces Shoot and Kill a Palestinian Man, Injure Eight, in Tulkarem
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Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, before dawn Friday, a Palestinian young man, and injured eight others, during a military invasion into the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the West Bank, local sources reported.
Media sources reported that the Israeli army stormed the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, and positioned sharpshooters on the rooftops of civilian homes.
Local Palestinians protested the invasion, while armed Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the occupation army.
Occupation forces opened fire with live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades, shooting one young man, identified as Mahmoud Jihad Al-Jarad, 23, in the chest with live ammunition.
Al-Jarad was transported to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem with critical gun shot wounds to the chest, where doctors pronounced him dead shortly after arrival.
It was added that eight others were also shot with live rounds, one of whom was deemed in serious condition.
On Friday afternoon, large crowds of local Palestinians gathered in front of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital to receive the body of the slain young man.
Mourners carried the body wrapped in the Palestinian flag, on their shoulders through the streets to the slain young man's family home in the eastern neighborhood.
Family and loved ones said their final goodbyes, before performing the funeral prayer at the Othman bin Affan Mosque in Tulkarem, before laying his body to rest in the western cemetery in Tulkarem.
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Israeli Forces Shoot and Kill Two Palestinians, Including a Child, South of Jericho
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-two-palestinians-including-a-child-south-of-jericho/
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, before dawn on Tuesday, two Palestinians, including a child, during a military incursion into the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the West Bank.
Media sources said that the occupation army stormed, in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, just south of the ancient city of Jericho.
Israeli soldiers opened fire at local Palestinians under unclear circumstances, however it is presumed that the youths protested the invasion.
There is no mention of resistance from armed Palestinian fighters, however social media videos show an exchange of fire between resistance fighters and the invading army.
During the invasion, soldiers shot and seriously injured two Palestinian civilians, including a child, who were transported to the Jericho Governmental Hospital.
Medical sources said that Qusai Omar al-Walaji, 16, and Muhammad Ribhi Nujoom, 25, were admitted to hospital in critical condition, and both were pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
It was reported that the slain young men were shot with live rounds, however, no further details were provided regarding the nature of the wounds.
The Jericho chapter of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) reported that soldiers abducted Mohammed Nasr Abu Al-Assal, 20, from his home in the camp.
Later Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the Jericho Governmental Hospital to receive the body of Muhammad Ribhi Nujoom, 25, and proceeded to his family home for loved ones to say their final goodbyes.
Mourners performed the funeral prayer, and laid the body of the slain young man to rest in the martyrs' cemetery, in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp.
The body of the slain child, Qusai Omar al-Walaji, 16, was held at his family home in the "Katt al-Wad" neighborhood in Jericho city, while loved ones paid their respects.
The funeral procession began from there to the Old Jericho mosque, where the funeral prayer was performed, before the body of the child was laid to rest.
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Israeli Forces Assassinate a Palestinian Man, Bomb His Home, Injure Two Others, in Jenin
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-assassinate-a-palestinian-man-bomb-his-home-injure-two-others-in-jenin/
Israeli forces executed, on Thursday morning, a Palestinian man and destroyed his home, injured two others, and detained two, during a military assault on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Ministry of Health confirmed.
Israeli special forces invaded, on Thursday morning, followed by a large army force, in the roundabout area, in the Old City of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Local Palestinians protested the military incursion, and armed Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the attacking army.
It is important to note that the occupation army announced that one of its soldiers sustained minor injuries during the confrontations, and was transported to hospital.
During the military assault, Israeli forces fired lived rounds and shot three Palestinians, one young man was shot with live rounds in the head, chest, and abdomen.
The death of the young man was confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health who identified him as Mustafa al-Kastouni, 32.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health announced that, "Mustafa al-Kastouni, 32, was martyred after being shot by the occupation in the head, chest and abdomen, during the aggression on Jenin."
Soldiers destroyed the home of the slain man while he was present inside, although no details were provided regarding the method used by the occupation army.
Furthermore, two additional young men were shot and injured during the Israeli aggression, including a 34-year-old employee of the Ministry of Health, who was shot with two live rounds in the chest and abdomen.
Israeli forces also abducted two young men from the city, identified as Hani al-Kastouni and Hassan al-Hasis.
Sources added that since the beginning of the year, Israeli occupation forces have killed 228 Palestinians.
In the afternoon, large crowds of Palestinian mourners gathered in front of the Martyr Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin.
The young men participating in the funeral procession marched the streets of the city, carrying the body of the slain young man on their shoulders.
Mourners travelled to the home of the slain man's family home, where loved ones said their final goodbyes, before performing the funeral prayer.
The body of the slain man was laid to rest in the martyrs' cemetery, in the eastern part of the city.
Palestinians declared a comprehensive commercial strike in the city of Jenin to mourn the death of the citizen al-Kastouni.
This particular obit is for a killing done by the Palestinian Authority, which works for Israhell:
Netanyahu Praises Palestinian Authority: 'It Does the Job for Us'
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/netanyahu-praises-palestinian-authority-it-does-the-job-for-us/
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Abdelqader Zakdah, 25, was killed by Palestinian Authority forces in the Tulkarm refugee camp. (Photo: via Social Media)
'We Will Not Keep Silent': PA Forces Raid Tulkarm, Kill Fighter
A young Palestinian man was killed on Wednesday as Palestinian Authority (PA) forces clashed with Palestinian Resistance fighters in the Tulkarm refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-killed-in-tulkarm-in-clashes-with-palestinian-authority-forces/
According to the Palestine-based Quds News Network, confrontations erupted when the PA forces tried to remove barricades placed by Resistance fighters in the camp to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from raiding the area.
The PA forces reportedly opened fire at the fighters, causing the death of a 25-year-old Palestinian.
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QNN identified the victim as Abdelqader Zakdah.
Talal Dweikat, a spokesman for the Palestinian security agency, offered a different account than that conveyed by eyewitnesses.
He claimed in comments made to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that "gunmen opened fire after security forces removed dangerous materials and barriers from inside the camp, which prompted the security forces to intervene."
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Many Palestinians believe that the PA serves the interest of the Israeli occupation. Clashes between Palestinian fighters and PA security have been reported in various parts of the West Bank in recent months.
An unnamed Palestinian fighter told the news agency Reuters that the Resistance "will not keep silent."
He accused the PA of "aid(ing) the occupation forces in arresting .. youth who are on (Israel's) wanted list."
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Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam, 36, was killed by Israeli occupation forces near Tubas. (Photo: via social media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Young Palestinian Man near Tubas
The Ministry of Health said in a brief statement that Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam, 36, was killed by live bullets in the head.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-occupation-forces-kill-young-palestinian-man-near-tubas/
Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas, and killed a young Palestinian man, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Ministry of Health said in a brief statement that Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam, 36, was killed by live bullets in the head.
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The occupation forces stormed the town of Aqaba on Friday morning and surrounded a house amidst live and rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas.
Three other Palestinians were injured, two of whom with live bullets.
Israeli occupation forces also destroyed the house of 51-year-old Abdul Razeq Abu Arra and arrested him and his son B30-year-old son Bakr, along with another Palestinian youth.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Tulkarem
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-tulkarem-2/
Early Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the Nur Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank's northwestern part, killed a young Palestinian man, and seriously injured another.
Medical sources at the Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem have confirmed that the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Ayed Sameeh Abu Harb, 21, after shooting him with live fire in the head and added that the soldiers also seriously injured another Palestinian.
It is worth mentioning that Ayed was named after his uncle, who was killed 22 years ago during an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers invading Tulkarem.
The attacks started when a large military force, including several armored vehicles and bulldozers, invaded the refugee camp, especially the Al-Mahjar neighborhood, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes and deployed sharpshooters on rooftops.
Media sources added that the military bulldozers destroyed the Nablus Road at the main entrance of the refugee camp and smashed several parked cars in the Al-Mahjar neighborhood.
Many Palestinians protested the invasion and hurled stones at the invading military force while the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs.
Also, the Quds News Network has reported that Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the invading soldiers in the refugee camp and around it for about three hours.
On Monday night, several army vehicles invaded Ya'bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and fired rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at Palestinians protesting the invasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EjM70UfJ0Q
Israeli troops kill Palestinian boy near Hebron
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-troops-kill-palestinian-boy-near-hebron
Israeli troops shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in al-Arroub refugee camp, near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on Saturday.
Defense for Children International-Palestine said that Milad Munther Wajih al-Raee was shot in the back from a distance of around 20 meters during confrontations between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces at the entrance to the camp.
"Milad sustained one gunshot wound to his back and the bullet fragmented inside his abdomen, leading to massive internal bleeding," the rights group added.
More than 225 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli police, troops and armed civilians since the beginning of the year, according to The Electronic Intifada's tracking. This figure includes people who died from injuries sustained in previous years.
Those killed include at least 44 children.
Milad loved playing football, according to Palestinian news outlets:
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He also rapped about his experience growing up under military occupation:
https://twitter.com/UbaiAboudi/status/1700882578159309099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1700882578159309099%7Ctwgr%5Eb928264ef0f48b34da1ffd2095448333d0f46d61%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmaureen-clare-murphy%2Fisraeli-troops-kill-palestinian-boy-near-hebron
The Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp, located in the northern West Bank, said that the slain boy was the nephew of its former artistic director Nabil Alraee and stage manager Habeeb Alraee.
"Over the years, many of the theater's staff, visitors and students have been welcomed in the Alraee home in al-Arroub refugee camp," the Freedom Theater stated.
Profoundly impacted
The Freedom Theater has been profoundly impacted by Israeli occupation violence over the past year.
In June, Sadil Naghnaghieh, 14, was shot and killed by an Israeli military sniper while standing in front of her home during a raid in Jenin camp.
Sadil was the niece of the theater's head technician and "grew up around and on the stage of The Freedom Theater."
Last November, Mahmoud al-Sadi, a 17-year-old youth trainer with The Freedom Theater, was "shot and killed by the Israeli army on his way to school."
https://twitter.com/freedom_theatre/status/1594639319108558849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1594639319108558849%7Ctwgr%5Eb928264ef0f48b34da1ffd2095448333d0f46d61%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fmaureen-clare-murphy%2Fisraeli-troops-kill-palestinian-boy-near-hebron
Meanwhile, Israeli forces arrested Sadil's uncle Muhammad Naghnaghieh, the brother of the Freedom Theater's head technician, on 6 September.
The raiding troops "occupied the theater building, using it as a shield against any resistance fighters" attempting to repel the military, the Freedom Theater stated.
Staff were in the building at the time of the raid, turning a "vibrant, creative scene ... into one of fear and extreme tension."
Sanctuary of self-expression
The Freedom Theater added that Israel's "repeated assaults on our theater disrupt our work and undermine its role as a cultural haven and sanctuary of self-expression for children and adults."
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The theater was hit in an Israeli drone missile strike during an incursion into the camp in July. A child was injured in the strike.
The Israeli military bulldozed roads and a memorial for Palestinians killed in the camp near the theater's entrance during the raid. The Israeli military killed 13 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier was mistakenly killed by fellow troops during the two-day-long raid.
On Monday, Volker Türk, the UN's human rights chief, said that he was "profoundly shocked by the escalating violence" in the West Bank "as more Palestinians and Israelis – including children – continue to be killed and seriously injured."
Since the UN is speaking up for the Palestinians
I think a President Donald Trump or Nikki Haley will get militant about the UN, de-fund it or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVIivt-UjtI
Sixth Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in less than 24 hours
At least 238 Palestinians have been killed so far in 2023
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/sixth-palestinian-killed-by-israeli-troops-in-less-than-24-hours
Israeli forces raided the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho on the morning of 20 September. The raid resulted in the death of 19-year-old Dargham al-Akhras, who was targeted by Israeli gunfire.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Akhras was killed during a clash with Israeli forces, who raided the camp to carry out arrests.
Akhras was "shot in the head by the occupation army during its aggression against the Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho," said the ministry.
This brings the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces to six in less than 24 hours.
https://twitter.com/HaidarAkarar/status/1704371544493805985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1704371544493805985%7Ctwgr%5E40c9b24144de14e613d00721f12b7172206e873e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.thecradle.co%2Farticles%2Fsixth-palestinian-killed-by-israeli-troops-in-less-than-24-hours
The previous night, four Palestinian resistance fighters were killed in the Jenin refugee camp while expelling a special team of Israeli military forces, which had raided the camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli force entered the camp and targeted the house of Muhammad Abu al-Baha, a local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with multiple anti-tank missiles.
Fighters from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)-affiliated Al-Quds Brigades and Hamas-affiliated Al-Qassam Brigades discovered the Israeli force and confronted it with gunfire.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced they "discovered a special Zionist force that had infiltrated the Jenin camp, and a direct clash broke out with them with machine guns."
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The Israeli military sent reinforcements, including D9 bulldozers and large military vehicles. An Apache helicopter and reconnaissance aircraft were also spotted. The Israeli army cut off electricity to the camp, working to disrupt internet service and make communication difficult.
The Al-Qassam Brigade confirmed that "resistance fighters targeted an occupation bulldozer with a high-explosive explosive device, causing confirmed casualties."
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced four Palestinians were killed during the battle: Raafat Omar Khamaysa (22 years old), Mahmoud Ali al-Saadi (23 years old), Mahmoud Khaled Ararawi (24 years old), and Atta Musa (29 years old).
Thirty others were injured, including some in critical condition, and transferred to local hospitals.
In response to the deaths, the PIJ stated, "This pure blood, mixed with the blood of the martyrs in the steadfast Gaza Strip, will ignite more revenge and anger in the face of the enemy."
The Palestinian defense of Jenin came as protesters in Gaza confronted Israeli forces along the border fence.
The "Revolutionary Youth" groups called for Gazans to join popular marches along the fence separating the eastern Gaza Strip from Israel in rejection of Israel's harsh 17-year siege.
The group also launched several incendiary and explosive balloons towards Israel. Protesters in Jabalia in the north of the Strip burned tires and threw stones at Israeli forces.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Israeli forces opened fire on and killed Yousef Salem Yousef Radwan (25 years old) from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1704174016670454099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Israeli violence continues to rise in the occupied West Bank, where it is met by Palestinian resistance, and in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have been protesting due to Israel's decision to keep the Erez border crossing closed.
At least 238 Palestinians have been killed so far in 2023.
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Abdurrahman Suleiman Abu Daghash, 32, and Asaad Jab'awi, 21, were killed by Israeli occupation forces near Tulkarm. (Photo: via Social media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Two Palestinians near Tulkarm
Two Palestinians were killed during a large-scale military attack on Nour Shams Camp, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-occupation-forces-kill-two-palestinians-near-tulkarm/
Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians on Saturday night, during a large-scale military attack on Nour Shams Camp, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
WAFA correspondent said 32-year-old Abdurrahman Suleiman Abu Daghash was hit by live Israeli ammunition to his head and was rushed in critical condition to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm, where he was pronounced dead due to his injuries.
Earlier at night, 21-year-old Asaad Jab'awi was also shot dead after being hit by live ammunition in the head during the Israeli raid.
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The Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by military bulldozers, had launched a large-scale incursion into the camp after midnight, amidst heavy gunfire.
They initiated the destruction of the main road and infrastructure within the camp while snipers occupied rooftops of civilian homes.
Nearly 250 Palestinians, including 48 children have been killed by Israel since the beginning of the year.
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Abdullah Abu Hassan died after succumbing to his wounds (Screengrab/X)
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Jenin raid
Abdullah Abu Hassan succumbed to his wounds after being shot in an Israeli raid that injured many others
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-jenin-raid
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian from the town of al-Yamoun, west of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The Palestinian has been identified as Abdullah Abu Hassan, according to Palestinian medical sources who announced his death early on Friday.
According to local media, Abu Hassan succumbed to his wounds after Israeli forces opened fire while storming the town.
Abu Hassan was transferred to the Rafida Hospital, along with 15 others suffering from injuries.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health also confirmed the death, stating that a number of other Palestinians were also injured by bullet fragments, while others suffered from smoke inhalation.
Local media reported that armed Israeli forces stormed the town using heavy gunfire, with additional reinforcements sent.
Ahmed Jibril, the director of the Ambulance and Emergency Centre at the Red Crescent in Nablus, also told local media that Israeli forces prevented ambulances from reaching the town where the raid was taking place.
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Israeli forces also killed three Palestinians earlier this week on 19 September in a drone-assisted assault on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, while another died of his wounds on 20 September.
One Palestinian man was also killed by Israeli forces along the separation fence with the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.
A 19-year-old was also shot by Israeli forces on 20 September during a morning raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
The teenager, who has been identified as Dhargham al-Akhras, succumbed to his wounds after the shooting in the Aqbat Jabr camp.
According to local media, armed Israeli forces raided the camp, carried out multiple arrests, and clashed with residents, wounding at least one person as a result of live fire.
This year is shaping up to be one of the bloodiest in the occupied West Bank.
At least 222 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces this year, including 38 children, according to a tally by Middle East Eye.
A total of 185 people have died in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Another 37 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Palestinians have killed at least 30 Israelis in the same period, including six children.
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Muhammad Jibril Rummaneh, 17, was killed by Israeli occupation forces. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in Al-Bireh
Muhammad Jibril Rummaneh, 17, was killed by Israeli occupation forces at the entrance to the illegal settlement of Pegasot, near the city of Al-Bireh.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-occupation-forces-kill-palestinian-teenager-in-al-bireh/
A Palestinian teenager was killed and another wounded on Friday night after Israeli occupation forces opened gunfire at a vehicle near the city of Al-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
According to local sources, Israeli troops set up an ambush for the vehicle at the entrance to the illegal settlement of Pegasot before they opened fire at the two young men who were inside the vehicle.
Israeli occupation soldiers were seen carrying the injured young men on stretchers into the settlement for detention, eyewitnesses said.
Shortly after, Israeli ambulance vehicles arrived at the scene, although the nature of the injuries sustained by the two individuals was not immediately clear.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health later announced that Muhammad Jibril Rummaneh, 17, had died of his critical wounds.
Later images captured at the site of the shooting revealed bloodstains on the ground, underscoring the intensity of the incident.
Nearly 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of 2023.
This Palestinian obit is from the state of Illinois, in the US, but, we know that we're all Palestinians, and the jews intend to turn the entire world into Palestine so they can destroy it, and us.
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Palestinian boy fatally stabbed in Illinois hate crime
A 71-year-old man in Illinois was charged with stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring his mother in an Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian attack.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/the-shift-six-year-old-palestinian-boy-fatally-stabbed-in-illinois-hate-crime/?
A 71-year-old Illinois landlord has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of a hate crime, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Authorities say he attacked and seriously wounded one of his tenants before stabbing her 6-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume 26 times. The boy was pronounced dead at the hospital.
"Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis," read a statement from the Will County's Sheriff's Office.
Wadea's uncle, Yousef Hannon, spoke to reporters at a press conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Sunday. "We are not animals, we are humans. We want people to see us as humans, to feel us as humans, to deal with us as humans, because this is what we are," he said.
Palestinians have consistently been dehumanized by Israeli and U.S. lawmakers since Hamas's assault on October 7. GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for Gaza to be "flattened," Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley called on the Israeli government to "finish them." Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the IDF is fighting against "human animals."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) posted about the killing on her Instagram account. "I can't take this anymore," she wrote. "The hate and racist rhetoric coming out of Washington is pushing incendiary, hateful, and dehumanizing anti-Palestinian & anti-Muslim rhetoric that must be called out. Stop it! All of you."
"Wadea did not deserve his 6 year old body to be mutilated 26 times with a knife," she continued. "He didn't deserve his country to have people believe he is sub human. Allah Yerhamo."
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Jibril Awad, who was killed Thursday, was the brother of Sair Awad, whom Israeli soldiers killed in 2013.
Also Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot 16-year-old Taha Ibrahim Mahameed in the eye and the face after invading the refugee camp where he lived. They then prevented Palestinian medics from reaching him. When his father tried to move him, they shot him in the back. The youth died.
On Wednesday, during an invasion of Palestinian land, Israeli settlers (or soldiers) shot Mohammad Fawaqa in the abdomen; when Palestinians tried to reach him to provide help, both settlers and Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at them. Fawaqa died.
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Nablus and fired live bullets randomly toward protesters. Samir Sabra, age 72, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet while standing on his balcony. He died.
There are many more such examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16tdcjY-M7g
At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7th.
The foregoing is excerpted from this larger article:
It's not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bankhttps://imemc.org/article/its-not-just-gaza-israel-is-also-killing-scores-in-the-west-bank/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3o4JbXEnFM
Of course, since October 7, 2023, the kikes have killed between 10,000-20,000 Palestinians, whose pictures and names and stories/fates cannot be listed, since there are too many. But, here's a story detailing four recent victims, giving their pictures and names and stories/fates.
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Israeli forces killed four Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank – Ahmad Mohammad Hamed Abu Al-Haija, 16; Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, 17; Ammar Mohammad Faisal Abu Al-Wafa, 14; and Mohammad Riad Fathi Saleh Farhan, 15 on 26 November 2023 [@DCIPalestine/X]
Israeli forces shoot dead 4 Palestinian children in West bank
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231127-israeli-forces-shoot-dead-4-palestinian-children-in-west-bank/
Israeli forces have shot dead four Palestinian children in the Occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, according to the Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP).
The victims include 16-year-old Ahmad Mohammad Hamed Abu Al-Haija, 17-year-old Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija and 14-year-old Ammar Mohammad Faisal Abu Al-Wafa, who were killed during an Israeli military operation in Jenin on Saturday evening.
At approximately 6:30 pm on 25 November, Ammar was shot in the abdomen by an Israeli sniper positioned approximately 200 to 250 metres. The incident occurred as Ammar stood with a group of friends near his residence in the Al-Damj neighbourhood of Jenin refugee camp. Ammar's father rushed him to Al-Razi Hospital, where he was declared dead upon arrival.
Simultaneously, Ahmad was documenting the Israeli military raid with his cell phone when a soldier, stationed inside a heavily armoured military vehicle, shot him in the chest near the cinema roundabout in the centre of Jenin. Moreover, Israeli forces opened fire on the group accompanying Ahmad, resulting in multiple injuries. Ahmad was transported by ambulance to Al-Razi Hospital, where he, too, was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Ayed Abu Eqtaish, the Accountability Programme Director at DCIP, said, "While there is a so-called truce with Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, Israeli forces continue to target and kill Palestinian children throughout the Occupied West Bank with complete impunity."
He added, "In just the last 24 hours, Israeli forces have shot and killed four Palestinian boys in the Occupied West Bank, including one who was standing inside his own home, and prevented paramedics from reaching them to provide medical care. As a result, all four boys were dead on arrival when they reached the hospital."
According to DCIP, Mahmoud was also shot in the abdomen while standing at a window in his house in the Al-Zahra neighbourhood, south of Jenin refugee camp. An Israeli sniper fired the shot, before Israeli forces raided his family home, during which they confiscated his phone and identity card. Despite his father's call for an ambulance, Israeli soldiers delayed paramedics outside the building for about 40 minutes.
When the ambulance finally reached Mahmoud, it transported him to Al-Razi Hospital, where he was declared dead.
On Saturday, the Israeli forces conducted a ground and aerial incursion into Jenin from 6 pm to 6:30 am the next day. The military besieged Jenin Governmental Hospital, leading to attacks against Palestinians, resulting in five Palestinians, including three children, being killed. Mohammad Riad Fathi Saleh Farhan, 15, was shot in the stomach by Israeli forces in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the central Occupied West Bank.
Despite efforts to reach him, Israeli forces obstructed a Palestinian ambulance for about 45 minutes; however, once the ambulance arrived at Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, doctors pronounced Mohammad dead on arrival.
While the Israeli army heavily bombards the blockaded Gaza Strip, raids are also being carried out in the West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem, resulting in the detention of Palestinians.
More than 220 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli forces in the West Bank since 7 October in addition to over 2,800 others who were injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Documentation collected by DCIP reveals that at least 100 Palestinian children in the Occupied West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers this year.
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Palestinian journalist Muntaser al-Sawaf was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. (Photo: via WAFA)
Anadolu Cameraman Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza City
A journalist from the Turkish news agency Anadolu was killed on Friday in Israeli airstrikes, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/anadolu-cameraman-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-city/#
Muntaser al-Sawaf, who worked as a cameraman for Anadolu, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, according to WAFA.
https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1730625891137454501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1730625891137454501%7Ctwgr%5E0ed08cc7acc3c47400698040a47aa233486adc8f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.palestinechronicle.com%2Fanadolu-cameraman-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-city%2F
Two weeks ago, Sawaf sustained critical injuries to the face in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his family home in Gaza. The strike resulted in the killing of his mother, two brothers, and their children, and a large number of relatives.
Over 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes across various areas of Gaza since Friday morning, as Israel resumed its aggression after a seven-day truce, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said in a statement.
A four-day truce began on Friday, November 24, was extended twice, and ended on Friday, December 1, at 7 am local time today.
https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1730616677417587031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1730616677417587031%7Ctwgr%5E0ed08cc7acc3c47400698040a47aa233486adc8f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.palestinechronicle.com%2Fanadolu-cameraman-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-city%2F
Since October 7, over 15,000 Palestinians, including over 6,150 children and more than 4,000 women were killed, with another 36,000 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
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France demands clarification from Israel for the death of an employee of its Foreign Ministry in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip - "The world needs to stop supporting Israel in its murderous madness"
https://www.activenews.ro/externe/Franta-cere-clarificari-Israelului-pentru-moartea-unui-angajat-al-Ministerului-sau-de-Externe-intr-un-bombardament-israelian-in-Fasia-Gaza-Este-nevoie-ca-lumea-sa-nu-mai-sustina-Israelul-in-nebunia-sa-ucigasa-186327
Paris condemned on Saturday an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip that caused the death of an employee of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and demanded that light be shed on this tragedy as quickly as possible, according to AFP, quoted by Agerpres.
"It is with great emotion that the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has learned of the death of one of its employees, who died of injuries sustained during an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip," a statement from the Quai d 39; Orsay.
"We ask that the Israeli authorities shed all light on the circumstances of this bombing, as quickly as possible," the French ministry's press release said.
The murdered person, who worked for France since 2022 and whose identity and nationality have not been specified, had found refuge in the house of one of his colleagues at the French consulate general, together with two other colleagues and members of their families.
"Total solidarity with the bereaved agency employees of the Quai d'Orsay. It's more than time to punch the table in front of Netanyahu", LFI MP Antoine Leaument reacted on X.
"Why will it take for the world to stop supporting Israel in its murderous madness? The right to respond to Hamas, yes! But this, no!", commented on the same social network the deputy and vice-president of the committee for foreign affairs Mireille Clapot.
The house where the employee of the French ministry had taken refuge was hit by an Israeli bombardment on Wednesday evening that caused around ten victims. Part of his family had managed to leave the Gaza Strip and reach France as part of the evacuation system implemented by the French authorities.
(https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2-10-hind-scaled.jpg)Hind Rajab was fleeing Gaza City with relatives 12 days ago, when their car apparently came face to face with Israeli tanks, and came under fire. Her pleas with emergency call operators for help ended when the phone line was cut amid the sound of more. The car containing her body and those of her relatives was found today. (IAK)
6-year-old Hind never stood a chance – Day 126Details of this atrocity and many more Israhelli atrocities can be found in this If Americans Knew report: https://israelpalestinenews.org/6-year-old-hind-never-stood-chance-day-126/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFhlxnvOWk