Obits from Palestine

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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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-girl-near-ramallah/

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.

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"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.     

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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/11/gloom-over-gaza-after-death-of-21-people-in-fire/?ml_recipient=72298950631098079&ml_link=72298495311086976&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-11-20&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/invading-israeli-soldiers-kill-another-teen-in-jenin/

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.


Updated From:
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.
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/11/student-in-jenin-killed-by-israeli-army-on-the-way-to-school/?ml_recipient=72571407449457749&ml_link=72570296028104176&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-11-23&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

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."


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
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-nablus-at-dawn/

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
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-july/

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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-boy-in-negev-dies-of-wounds-after-israeli-police-shot-him/

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...
Reposted from IMEMC  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-from-negev-dies-from-wounds-suffered-after-israeli-police-shot-him/

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


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
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldier-shoots-kills-unarmed-palestinian-ammar-mifleh/

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.

On 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-old
https://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.

[They admit they did it.     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 occupation
Daraghmeh 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.

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 pain
A 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.

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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/?

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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.

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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,

At 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

acted 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."

https://twitter.com/AlQastalps/status/1613499815626936322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1613499815626936322%7Ctwgr%5E6d3bc9d1ef40fd2d30a181a545cd282c84178e1e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmondoweiss.net%2F2023%2F01%2F3-martyrs-in-24-hours%2F

"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


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.

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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.


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.


(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.

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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.

https://twitter.com/GazaNownews/status/1614956023437209604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1614956023437209604%7Ctwgr%5Ec718b2294e27f43f03620846f8b411ef7595a47c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.almayadeen.net%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F14-year-old-palestinian-succumbs-to-head-injury-by-iof-gunfi

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.

https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency/status/1614953905175298048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1614953905175298048%7Ctwgr%5Ec718b2294e27f43f03620846f8b411ef7595a47c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.almayadeen.net%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F14-year-old-palestinian-succumbs-to-head-injury-by-iof-gunfi

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".