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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

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Israel kills three Palestinians in 24 hours in West Bank
Israeli 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.

  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.

   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.

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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/06/israeli-forces-kill-three-palestinians-in-jenin/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-06-18&utm_campaign=Mondoweiss+Daily+Israeli+forces+kill+three+Palestinians+in+Jenin+more&utm_content=Daily+Headlines

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.

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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
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/07/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-teen-in-jenin-bringing-2022-child-death-toll-to-16/?ml_recipient=59956048910354257&ml_link=59955976107722050&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-07-07&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-beat-a-palestinian-worker-to-death-near-tulkarem/

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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/16-year-old-palestinian-killed-by-israeli-settler-fire-witnesses-claim/?ml_recipient=62329133380666823&ml_link=62329050543162725&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-08-02&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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."

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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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-gun-down-teen-wound-two-hebron-momen-yassin-jaber/

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
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/israeli-court-acquits-soldier-of-the-murder-of-13-year-old-girl-in-2004/?ml_recipient=63144653067650308&ml_link=63144421379540978&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-08-11&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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.


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:

"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"


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
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-dies-from-serious-wounds-she-suffered-in-gaza/

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.



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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/another-palestinian-dies-from-wounds-suffered-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza/

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
Reposted from IMEMC  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-gaza-3/

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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/lynched-by-israeli-soldiers-father-from-gaza-killed-in-the-west-bank/?ml_recipient=63325669408376545&ml_link=63325613983794647&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-08-13&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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
https://imemc.org/article/41-days-after-her-death-palestinians-hold-funeral-for-woman-who-died-in-israeli-prison/

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
https://imemc.org/article/young-palestinian-man-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-gaza/

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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/after-initially-blaming-palestinians-israel-admits-to-airstrike-that-killed-5-children-in-gaza/?ml_recipient=63778675021055647&ml_link=63778600304772608&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-08-18&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-mohammad-shaham/

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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/seriously-injured-palestinian-dies-wounds-israeli-raid-mohammad-arayshy/

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.

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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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/09/israels-operation-breaking-dawn-killed-49-palestinians-these-are-their-stories/?ml_recipient=65137630561436791&ml_link=65137562009732373&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-09-02&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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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.