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Israeli Navy Kills A Palestinian Fisherman In Gaza
http://imemc.org/article/israeli-navy-kills-a-palestinian-fisherman-in-gaza/

Israeli navy ships opened fire, Wednesday, at Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, in northern Gaza, killing a young fisherman, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed.

Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said the navy fired many live rounds at the fishing boats, killing Nawwaf Ahmad al-Attar, 20.

The slain fisherman was killed in Palestinian waters, west of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Al-Attar was from al-Atatra area in Beit Lahia.

His death brings the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire and shells, since last Saturday, to fourteen.

One of them, identified as Akram Yousef Ma'rouf, 29, was killed on Tuesday evening, by a missile fired from an Israeli drone, into the Shaima' area, in Beit Lahia.

It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing, Mofeed al-Hasayneh, has reported that the Israeli shelling and bombardment in the Gaza Strip, since Sunday, has caused destruction and damage to hundreds of buildings and structures.

He said that eight residential units were destroyed, 50 were partially but seriously damaged, and 750 sustained light to moderate damage, and added that most of the targeted buildings are in the Gaza governorate.

The Israeli shells and missiles struck homes, the headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV, Ar-Rahma residential building, Al-Amal Hostel, Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, Ansar Governmental Center, a building owned by al-Yaziji family, in addition to many other buildings, structures and infrastructure sites.

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   Israeli soldiers shoot and kill a disabled Palestinian man on International Day of Disabled Persons 
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/12/disabled-palestinian-international/

Israel, along with the rest of the world, commemorated International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday, December 3rd, by promising greater integration of the country's 1.5 million disabled citizens, and holding different activities in parks across the country to show off it's handicap-accessible pathways and lookout points.

As Monday's activities came to a close, just across the Green Line in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli forces shot and killed a disabled Palestinian man in the back of his head.

It was around 2am when Israeli forces raided Tulkarem city, near the coffee shop where 22-year-old Muhammad Ihbali worked. He usually left work late, after the young men who frequent the shops finished their card games.

According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces were conducting a "search and arrest operation" in the area — a near nightly practice for soldiers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, that often provoke confrontations with local Palestinian youth.

The army claimed that when it began firing live fire at youth, they were merely practicing "riot dispersal methods" and "responding to the threat" of Palestinian youth who were throwing rocks at the soldiers

But videos published on social media of that night show Ihbali walking a distance away from the alleged riot, his back turned to soldiers, when he suddenly falls down, face first into the pavement.

His family, who says he had a mental disability, told Middle East Eye that he was shot in his head, and succumbed to his wounds shortly after he arrived to the hospital.

Hundreds of mourners marched through the streets of the Tulkarem Refugee Camp, where Ihbali lived with his family, on Tuesday morning and laid the young man to rest.

He was the 28th Palestinian to have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of 2018, according to UN documentation. In Gaza, at least 171 Palestinians have been killed since the Great March of Return began on March 30th.

Ihbali was one of at least five Palestinians with mental or physical disabilities killed by Israel over the past year.

On December 15, 2017, during massive protests in Gaza against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Israeli forces shot a paraplegic Palestinian man in the head, killing him. The wheelchair-ridden man, 29-year-old Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, lost both his legs during Israel's 2008 offensive on Gaza.

On March 9th, Israeli forces shot and killed 24-year-old Mohammad Zain al-Jabari during clashes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Reports at the time said he had a mental disability that resulted in a speech impediment. He was survived by his wife and four-year-old child.

On April 21, three weeks after the Great March of Return had began, an Israeli sniper shot and killed 25-year-old Ahmed Nabil Aqel, who was reportedly physically disabled and walked using crutches, along the Gaza border.

On May 15th, another double leg amputee in a wheelchair, 30-year-old Fadi Abu Salah, was killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border. His legs were severely injured in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008, forcing doctors to amputate them.

Additionally, Gaza Health Ministry reports have put the number of Palestinians injured by Israel in the Great March of Return in the thousands, at least 68 of whom have had one or both of their legs amputated.

According to UN documentation, over 1,400 Palestinians injured during the Great March of Return "may suffer long-term disability" as a result of Israeli gunfire.

Those that have suffered amputation will face additional challenges, as the Israeli siege on Gaza makes it difficult to import the necessary materials for making prosthetic limbs. Those that are available, are typically too expensive for the average Gazan family, or are too poorly made to even be functional.

In the West Bank, rights groups have even accused Israeli forces of intentionally disabling Palestinian youth in West Bank refugee camps by shooting them in their knees.

Israeli forces have been heavily criticized for what rights groups have referred to as "extrajudicial executions" and excessive use of force against Palestinians — especially youth and children — who did not pose an immediate threat or who could have been disarmed through non-lethal means, particularly during clashes.

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Israeli forces shoot dead 3 Palestinians, including teen, wound dozens more in Gaza Strip
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/12/21/583575/Palestine-Gaza-Mohammed-alJahjuh--Ashraf-alQodra-Israel

Three Palestinians, including a teenage, have been shot dead by Israeli fire and nearly fifty others have sustained injuries during anti-occupation protests along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.

Gaza's Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra said 16-year-old Mohammed al-Jahjuh was fatally shot in the neck, while 47 others, including a local journalist, were wounded by Israeli gunfire during border protests and clashes east of Gaza City on Friday.

Al-Jahjuh was "hit in the neck by a bullet (fired) by Israeli soldiers", the spokesman said.

Abdulaziz Ibrahim Abu Sharia, 27, and Maher Yaseen, 40, were the other fatalities of the Israeli attack.

The Israeli army said around 8,000 Palestinians had gathered along the fence separating Gaza from the occupied territories.

The Palestinian protesters threw rocks from behind clouds of black smoke of burning tires at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas and live fire.

Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed "The Great March of Return." Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.

The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

More than 220 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 20,000 others wounded in the renewed Gaza clashes, according to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry.

Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.

Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.

Tensions have also been running high in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli military regularly opens fatal fire on Palestinians, accusing them of seeking to attack its personnel.


PressTV-Israeli troops kill Palestinian man in West Bank
Israeli troops have shot dead a young Palestinian man driving near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Bireh.
Human rights groups have repeatedly slammed the Tel Aviv regime for its shoot-to-kill policy as a large number of the Palestinians killed at the scene of attacks did not pose any serious threat to Israelis.

Israeli troops have on numerous occasions been caught on camera brutally killing Palestinians, with the videos going viral online and sparking condemnations of the regime's military.

Since the beginning of 2018, Israeli forces have killed at least 310 Palestinians, including 54 children, and arrested over 900 others, according to a Palestinian human rights center.

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Mourning posters showing Mahmoud Nakhle.\  Credit: Alex Levac

IDF shot a Palestinian Teen, Dragged Him Around, Chased Ambulance Away
https://israelpalestinenews.org/idf-shot-a-palestinian-teen-dragged-him-around-chased-ambulance-away/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=327933a1-f896-442e-8291-2d545ac16666

The coldness of Israel and its soldiers is incomprehensible – shooting a Palestinian minor in the back, shooting at the neighbor who tried to help, threatening to shoot the ambulance driver, while the youth bled to death. This has become a common occurrence, with at least 52 Palestinian children killed in 2018.
This article, which appeared in Israeli daily Ha'aretz, was written by an outspoken Jewish Israeli journalist.
by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, Ha'aretz

What goes through the head of soldiers, young Israelis, after they shoot an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the back with live ammunition, prevent him from getting medical treatment, move him around, putting him on the ground and then picking him up again – and chase away an ambulance at gunpoint? For 15 minutes, the Israel Defense Forces soldiers carried the dying Mahmoud Nakhle, pulling him by his hands and feet, it's not clear why or where, before allowing him to be evacuated. They had already shot him and wounded him badly. He was dying. Why not let the Palestinian ambulance that arrived at the site rush him to the hospital and possibly save his life? Nakhle died from a bullet in his liver and loss of blood. He was two weeks after his 18th birthday, the only son of parents who are descendants of refugees, and he lived in the Jalazun refugee camp adjacent to Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Nakhle was killed last Friday, December 14.

Getting to Jalazun took a long time this week; it was a long and stressful trip. Overnight, terror attacks and other sights of the intifada had returned simultaneously: innumerable surprise checkpoints, such as we hadn't seen for years; long lines of Palestinian vehicles, forced to wait for hours; drivers emerging from their cars and waiting in desperation by the side of the road, anger and frustration etched on their faces; roads blocked arbitrarily, with people signaling each other as to which was open and which was closed; some cars making their way cross-country via boulder-strewn areas and dirt paths to bypass the roadblocks, until those options, too, were sealed off by the army. And also aggressive, edgy, frightened soldiers, carrying weapons that threatened just about anyone who made a move near them.



Welcome back to the days of the intifada, welcome to a trip into the past: Even if only for a moment, the West Bank this week regressed 15 years, to the start of the millennium.

The wind blows cold at the Jalazun camp. A throng of thousands of children and teenagers is streaming down the road, heading home from their schools run by UNRWA, the United Nations refugee agency. The two schools, one for boys and one for girls, are situated at the camp's entrance, on both sides of the main Ramallah-Nablus road. We were here a year and a half ago, after IDF soldiers shot up a car stolen from Israel when it stopped outside the settlement of Beit El, spraying it with at least 10 rounds, and killing two of its passengers. About half a year ago, we returned to the camp to meet Mohammed Nakhle, the bereaved father of 16-year-old Jassem, one of those fatalities. The father cried through our entire meeting, even though this was a year after he had lost Jassem.

Mahmoud Nakhle, who was killed last week, was a relative of Jassem's.

Last Friday, there was stone throwing in the valley between Jalazun's boys' school and the first houses of Beit El, across the way. The soldiers fired tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated bullets at the young Palestinians. Quite a few of the camp's residents have been killed at this spot, which has become a main arena of the struggle against the large, veteran settlement that looms through every window in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Jalazun, situated below.

The stone throwing had slowed down in the afternoon and had just about stopped when an IDF force, arriving in two vehicles, began chasing after the youths, who were now on their way back to the camp, at about 4 P.M. The latter numbered about 15 teens, aged 14 to 18. Suddenly the soldiers started shooting, using live ammunition – even as calm was apparently about to be restored. A video clip, one of several that captured the event, shows the soldiers walking along the road and firing into the air.

The wail of an ambulance slashes the air now, as we stand at the site of the incident with Iyad Hadad, a field investigator for the Israeli human-rights organization B'Tselem, who collected testimony from eyewitnesses. Nakhle chose to return home by way of a dirt path that passes above the camp. The soldiers ran after him and one of them shot him once, in the lower back. Nakhle fell to the ground, bleeding.

The occupant of the first-floor apartment in the closest building in Jalazun, just meters from the site of the incident, heard the shot, the groans and a call for help. She assumed someone had been wounded, but wasn't sure where or who he was. From her window she saw a group of soldiers standing in a circle, though she couldn't see the wounded person who lay on the ground between them. A second eyewitness saw one soldier nudge Nakhle with his foot, apparently to see if the teen was still alive. They then pulled up his shirt and pulled down his pants, apparently to check whether the stone-throwing youth was a dangerous, booby-trapped terrorist. As the video accounts show, he was left lying like that, exposed in his blue underwear. The woman from the apartment rushed out to summon help, but the soldiers fired toward her to drive her off. One bullet struck her husband's car.

The soldiers lifted Nakhle up and carried him a few dozen meters from where he'd fallen, laying him down at the side of the road. One of the eyewitnesses related that they carried him "like you haul a slaughtered sheep." The video clip shows them carrying him not in the prescribed way for moving someone who is seriously wounded, but by his hands and his feet, his back sagging.

Before the soldiers shot at the first eyewitness – whose identity is known to the B'Tselem investigator – to scare her off, she shouted at them to let the wounded person be and to allow him to be taken to hospital in an ambulance. "Leave him alone, do you want to kill him... give him aid." She also shouted at the soldiers that she was his mother – apparently hoping that the lie would stir pity in them – but to no avail. In the video shot by her daughter on her cell phone, the woman sounds overwrought, gasping for breath as she cries out, "In God's name, call an ambulance!"

After five to seven minutes, the soldiers again lifted Nakhle, once more by his extremities, and carried him a few dozen meters more, in the direction of the main road, and again laid him by the roadside. A Palestinian ambulance that had arrived at the scene was chased off by the soldiers, who threatened the driver with their rifles. As far as is known, the soldiers did not give Nakhle any sort of medical aid. The woman from the house again shouted, now from her window: "In God's name, let the ambulance take him away." But still to no avail.

It was only after a quarter of an hour, during which Nakhle continued to bleed, that the soldiers allowed an ambulance to be summoned. A video clip shows Nakhle raising one hand limply to the back of his neck, proof that he was still alive. Half-naked, he's placed on a stretcher and put in the ambulance, which speeds off, its siren wailing, to the Government Hospital in Ramallah.

The teen apparently breathed his last en route, arriving at the hospital with no pulse. Attempts were made to resuscitate him in the ER and to perform emergency surgery, but after half an hour, he was pronounced dead. Dr. Muayad Bader, a physician in the hospital, wrote on the death certificate that Mahmoud Nakhle died from loss of blood after a bullet entered his lower back, struck his liver and hit a main artery, damaging other internal organs.


Mahmoud Nakhle's father. \  Credit: Alex Levac
A group of children is now standing at the site where Nakhle fell, practicing stone throwing on the way back from school. They hurl the stones to the ground in a demonstrative fit of anger. In the mourning tent that was erected in the courtyard of the camp, adorned with huge posters of the deceased, the men sit, grim-faced, with the bereaved father, Yusuf Nakhle, 41, in the center. Disabled from birth, he is partially paralyzed in his left arm and leg. We asked him to tell us about Mahmoud's life.

"What life? He hadn't yet lived his life, they robbed him of his life," he replies softly. Mahmoud attended school until the 10th grade and then studied electrical engineering at a professional college in Qalandiyah. He completed his studies and afterward a year of apprenticeship, and was waiting to find a job as an electrician. His father was waiting for him to help provide for the family. Yusuf is a technician at a pharmaceuticals company in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah. He and his wife, Ismahan, 45, have two more daughters, aged 14 and 4. Mahmoud was their only son.

In response to an inquiry, the IDF Spokesman's Office gave Haaretz the following statement this week: "On December 14, 2018, there was a violent disturbance adjacent to Jalazun, during which dozens of Palestinians threw rocks at IDF soldiers. The soldiers responded with demonstration-dispersal measures.

"During the disturbance, a Palestinian holding a suspicious object approached one of the soldiers. The soldier fired at him. Later, it was reported that the Palestinian had been killed. The Military Police have launched an investigation into the incident. Upon its completion, the findings will be transferred to the military advocate general's office."

The spokesman's office did not respond to a question regarding the denial of medical assistance to Mahmoud Nahle.

Last Friday, the hours passed normally in the home of Nakhle family in the Jalazun camp. Breakfast, a shower; the son asks his father if he needs anything before going out around midday. Never to return. At 4:30, Yusuf's brother called to inform him that his son had been wounded and was in the Government Hospital. By the time his father arrived, Mahmoud had been pronounced dead.

"We are human beings and it is our right to live and to look after our children. We too have feelings, like all people," says Rabah, Mahmoud's uncle, the brother of his father. Yusuf has watched the video clips that document the shooting and the hauling of his dying son dozens of times, over and over. Ismahan can't bring herself to look at them.

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Killing of Palestinian by Israeli settlers 'shocking': UN envoy
Nikolay Mladenov calls on Israel to bring killers of Palestinian man Hamdi Naasan to justice.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2019/01/killing-palestinian-israeli-settlers-shocking-envoy-190127170421052.html

The UN's Middle East envoy has termed the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank "shocking and unacceptable".

Nikolay Mladenov on Sunday called on Israel to "put an end to settler violence and bring those responsible to justice".

Hamdi Naasan, 38, succumbed to his wounds on Saturday near the village of al-Mugheir after Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Adei Ad fired shots.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, Naasan was shot with a live bullet in the back. At least 30 other Palestinians were injured, of whom six were shot with live ammunition, according to Maan news agency.

Thousands gathered in al-Mugheir village to attend the funeral of Naasan.

The Israeli army temporarily obstructed mourners from reaching the burial site by putting up a roadblock between the highway and a road leading to the village. In an ensuing confrontation, the Israeli army arrested two Palestinian teenagers.

The Palestinian leaves behind his wife and four children - the oldest, a 10-year-old and the youngest, a one-year-old baby.

Al-Mugheir, a village with around 4,000 residents, is surrounded by four Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law.

'They came to kill'
Ataf Naasan, the slain Palestinian's cousin, told Al Jazeera that a group of settlers carrying weapons attacked the outskirts of their village on Saturday at noon.

Eyewitnesses told Al Jazeera that Naasan was killed while was carrying one of the wounded to an ambulance.

"When we came, they started shooting at us," Ataf said. "They aimed at our heads, our stomachs. They were firing randomly."

"When he put [the wounded man] down, they shot him," Ataf said.

Ataf emphasised that the settlers were carrying extra rounds of ammunition.

"I've never seen this before," he said. "They were prepared, and they came to kill."

Al-Mugheir residents told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army witnessed the events from 2km away, but did not intervene. 

"The army did not come until the settlers finished their ammunition. Then they started shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at us," Ataf said. "Can you believe this? They attacked us instead of arresting the settlers."

The Israeli army said in a statement that a settler from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Adei Ad had a "physical confrontation" with several Palestinians and was slightly hurt.
     
"Shortly thereafter, a conflict erupted between Israeli civilians [settlers] and Palestinians in the area, in which live rounds were fired by the civilians [settlers]," the statement said.

Tzuriel Amiur, a spokesperson from the illegal settlement of Adei Ad said that a settler had been "attacked by a group of Palestinians who stabbed him and threw stones at him".
     
In response, a group of settlers headed for al-Mugheir. They were then "ambushed" by as many as 200 Palestinians throwing rocks, Amiur said.
     
When the army arrived, "civilians and soldiers were afraid for their lives and opened fire", he said.

Amin Abu Alya, head of the al-Mugheir village council, however, said on Saturday that the settlers had opened fire before the army moved in.

"At the beginning, it was settlers shooting, then the army came and fired tear gas," he told AFP news agency by phone.
     
Asked who shot Naasan, he said it was settlers.

'Rocks against guns'
The village of al-Mugheir has long been a victim of "price tag attacks", in which Israeli settlers, often religious hardliners, enter the village to damage Palestinian property.

On January 17, settlers cut 35-year-old olive trees with electric saws and painted stars of David on rocks in an olive grove belonging to Abed al-Hai Naasan, a resident of the village, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported.

The violence in al-Mugheir has increased in the last two months, as the villagers started organising peaceful marches every Friday to protest the establishment of a new illegal outpost, Mevo Shiloh, in an abandoned army base in the area.

The villagers slammed the Israeli army and the civil administration for promising to evacuate the outpost, illegal under Israeli law, and not living up to the promise.

"They just let [settlers] do whatever they want," Ataf said. "There is no difference between the army and the settlers.

"But we are not afraid of them," he said. "We will keep resisting until they leave. Rocks against guns. We'll fight them with our bare chests."

Naasan is the fourth Palestinian to be killed in the last two days.

On Saturday, Ayman Hamed, 18, was put to rest in his village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank after the Israeli army shot and killed him the previous day. The Israeli army claimed he was throwing stones.

Israeli police killed another Palestinian, Riyad Shamasneh, during a high-speed chase near the Old City's Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning.

Gaza resident Ehab Abed, 25, was killed by Israeli fire during the weekly Friday demonstrations near Israeli fence.

The violence in al-Mugheir comes days after Israel charged a Jewish teenager with manslaughter for the death of a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank.

Over 600,000 settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 war.

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Two Palestinian teens killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Hasan Shalabi, 14, and Hamza Shteiwi, 17, were both shot by Israeli forces during the Gaza Strip's weekly protests.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/palestinian-teens-killed-israeli-forces-gaza-190208165449433.html

Two Palestinian youths were killed by Israeli fire on Friday during the weekly protest near the Israeli fence east of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry in the besieged enclave said.

Hasan Shalabi, 14, "was killed by Israeli occupation live fire to the chest east of Khan Younis" in the southern Gaza Strip, the ministry said, as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated along the heavily fortified frontier with Israel for the 46th week running.

Hamza Shteiwi, 18, was also killed after he was shot in the neck by Israeli forces, the ministry added.

Another 17 Palestinians were shot at different protest sites along the fence, including two journalists and four medics.

According to Palestinian news agency Maan, Israeli forces shot tear gas canisters at an ambulance and sprayed demonstrators with chemically enhanced sewage water east of Khan Younis.

The Israeli army declined to comment on the death, but said 6,700 "rioters and demonstrators" had been protesting along the frontier.

"They are hurling rocks at [Israeli] troops and towards the security fence, as well as a number of explosive devices that did not cross the fence," a spokesman said.

Israeli troops "responded with riot dispersal means and fired according to standard operating procedures", he added.

Palestinians have for nearly a year gathered weekly near the Israeli fence for unarmed protests, as part of the Great March of Return rallies which began on March 30. Protesters are also demanding Israel to end its 12-year blockade of the coastal strip.

Israel says it is protecting its borders and accuses Hamas, which governs Gaza, of orchestrating the protests. Hamas, the protest's organisers, and demonstrators themselves have denied this.

At least 248 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since then, the majority shot during protests, though others have been hit by tank fire or air raids. More than 23,000 others have been wounded.

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed over the same period.

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Teenager reportedly killed by IDF as March of Return continues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JPfewkrGI
RT
Published on Feb 22, 2019
A 15-year-old teenager was reportedly killed by Israeli forces as the weekly March of Return resumed along Gaza's border on Friday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Another 30 were reported injured during the clashes. Footage shows ambulances arriving and paramedics carrying injured men on stretchers before taking them for treatment.

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Palestinian children were killed in a blaze at their home after Israeli forces prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time in Hebron, West Bank

Two Palestinian children killed in home fire after Israel blocks fire trucks
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Israeli soldiers prevented a Palestinian fire truck from reaching a home fire, resulting in the deaths of two small children. This is just one example of a trend: Israelis detain or damage ambulances and attack medics on a regular basis.

reposted from Middle East Monitor  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190306-two-palestinian-children-killed-in-blaze-after-israel-blocks-fire-brigade/

Two Palestinian children have been killed in a blaze at their home in occupied Hebron after the Israeli authorities prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time.

The two children – one of whom is believed to have been just 18-months old – were burned to death in a fire at their home in the Al-Salaymeh neighbourhood of Hebron's Old City in the occupied West Bank. One was reported dead late last night, while the second succumbed to the burns received this morning after receiving emergency treatment at the nearby Hebron government hospital. A third child, thought to be the dead children's brother, also suffered severe burns in the incident and remains in intensive care, according to hospital Director Dr Walid Zalloum.

The names of the three children have not been released formally, but Palestinian news site Palestine Today named the two who were killed as four-year-old Wael Al-Rajabi and his 18-month-old sister Malik. The local police spokesman, Colonel Loai Arziqat, confirmed in a press statement that two children had died, but did not offer further information.

Though the emergency services were called, the fire brigade was prevented from reaching the scene by Israeli soldiers. In a video filmed last night at 21:50 local time (19:50 GMT), the fire engine can be seen trying to drive down a narrow street. The truck comes to a stop at a road block obstructing the way, while local residents implore the Israeli soldiers stationed there to "open the gate quickly, for the children."

The Israeli soldiers, however, did not yield to the onlookers' pleas, delaying the emergency services' response and preventing them from reaching the property. The cause of the fire remains unknown.

Ongoing outrage
Israel is no stranger to restricting emergency services' access to Palestinians in need. According to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society, since 2015 Israel has prevented ambulances from crossing checkpoints on 123 occasions. In addition, there were 386 attacks against Red Crescent teams across the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) during the same period, as well as 105 ambulances damaged.

In December, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian child then prevented him from receiving potentially life-saving medical treatment; he died soon thereafter. Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Nakhle was shot as Israeli forces suppressed protests around Al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. A few minutes later, the soldiers chased off a Palestinian ambulance, threatening the driver with their rifles and not giving Nakhle first aid themselves. Only after a quarter of an hour did the soldiers allow an ambulance to be summoned, but Nakhle died en route to hospital.

Under international law, as the occupying power Israel is forbidden from preventing access to medical care and emergency services to the people living under its occupation. According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, "The occupying power must ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation."

In addition, "Personnel of the International Red Crescent Movement must be allowed to carry out their humanitarian activities." Israel, however, continues to breach this and other articles of international laws and conventions with impunity.

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian near checkpoint in West Bank
Ahmad Manasra's death marks the fourth Palestinian killed by the Israeli army in 24 hours in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/israeli-forces-kill-rock-throwing-palestinian-west-bank-190321044559724.html

A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, marking the fourth Palestinian killed in 24 hours.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its crew treated a man with two bullet wounds at an Israeli military checkpoint near the city of Bethlehem on Wednesday and that Israeli forces had shot him.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as 26-year-old Ahmad Manasra from the village of Wadi Fuqin near Bethlehem.

Manasra, the ministry said, was shot in the chest, shoulder and hand by the al-Nashash checkpoint at the southern entrance of al-Khader village. Another Palestinian had also been shot and critically wounded.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces stationed at the checkpoint fired live bullets at a Palestinian man's car, who was with his wife and children. The man, identified as Alaa Ghayatha from the village of Nahalin, was shot in the abdomen.

Manasra, who was driving the vehicle directly behind Ghayatha, got out of his car to help Ghayatha who was admitted to the al-Yamama Hospital in critical condition. As Manasra returned to his car,  Israeli soldiers shot at him directly.

Kamel Hamid, the governor of Bethlehem, later told Palestinian local news that what happened was a direct execution of a young man, and called on the international community to intervene to put an end to the Israeli occupation.

Israeli army 'reviewing' incident

Hours later, the Israeli military issued a statement saying a soldier stationed at a post near Bethlehem had "identified rocks being thrown at Israeli vehicles [and] in response, he fired his weapon".

The statement did not identify the soldier's intended target and some Israeli media reports said warning shots were fired in the air.

"A report was received regarding injured Palestinians," the military said. "Details regarding the incident are being reviewed and the incident will be examined."

Manasra's death marks the fourth Palestinian killed in 24 hours in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday night, Israeli forces killed the alleged assailant who had killed an Israeli soldier and a rabbi in a stabbing and shooting attack on Sunday.

Omar Abu Leila, 19, was killed near the West Bank city of Ramallah after he opened fire at troops who had come to arrest him, Israel's Shin Bet security service said.

In a separate incident on Tuesday, two other Palestinians, Raed Hamdan, 21 and Zaid Nouri, 20 were killed by Israeli forces as they were driving their car near the West Bank city of Nablus.

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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians at Gaza protests
Ministry of Health says 62 Palestinians also wounded by Israeli forces in 51st weekly protest in besieged enclave.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/israeli-forces-kill-palestinians-gaza-protests-190322163832101.html

Two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces during the weekly Friday protests in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to officials.

Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the health ministry, said the two male demonstrators - aged 18 and 29 -were shot in separate incidents near the Israeli fence east of the Gaza Strip.

Jihad Harara was shot in the head east of Gaza City, while the older man, Nidal Shatat, was hit in the chest near the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, al-Qidra wrote on Twitter.

At least 62 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli forces, al-Qidra said, adding that there were at least three instances in which medical personnel and ambulances were directly targeted by Israeli tear gas at the encampments set up along the fence.

Ali Jadallah, an Anadolu Agency photojournalist, was reportedly among those wounded and was transferred at a nearby hospital for treatment.

The Israeli army did not comment on the deaths but said "approximately 9,500 rioters and demonstrators" gathered in various locations, "hurling explosive devices, hard objects and rocks" at troops.

Troops were "firing in accordance with standard operating procedures", a spokeswoman said.

'Use of excessive force'
Also on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned Israel's "apparent intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force" against civilian protesters in Gaza, and called for perpetrators of violations in the enclave to face justice.

On the final day of a four-week session, the Geneva-based forum adopted a resolution on accountability, brought by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation. The measure was backed by 23 states in favour, with eight voting against and 15 abstaining. One delegation was absent.

The resolution called for cooperating with a preliminary examination opened by the International Criminal Court in 2015 into alleged Israeli human rights violations.

The measure was based on a report by a UN inquiry which said that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests last year.

"The targeting of civilians is a serious matter that should not be condoned," Ibrahim Khraisi, Palestine's ambassador said, citing the report's findings. The toll included 35 Palestinian children, two journalists and medical workers, he added.

More than 250 protesters have been killed since Palestinians began holding regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone in March of last year.

Demonstrators demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were ethnically cleansed from in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.

They also demand an end to Israel's 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave's economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.

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PressTV
Published on Mar 27, 2019
The Palestinian Health Ministry says an 18-year-old has been shot dead in West Bank clashes with Israeli troops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J60hUXKNmtE

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Israeli Army Kills 18-Year-Old Palestinian Paramedic in West Bank
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-army-kills-18-year-old-palestinian-paramedic-in-west-bank/

A Palestinian paramedic succumbed, on Wednesday morning, to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on predawn.

Medical sources confirmed that Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, 18, who is a volunteer paramedic succumbed to his wounds.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Mizher was shot in the stomach despite wearing his reflective vest.

Four Palestinians were injured with live Israeli bullets during clashes in Dheisheh.

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Gaza killings spike ahead of Eurovision

The article, full of links and tweets and pictures, can be found here:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-killings-spike-ahead-eurovision

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Abdullah Jom'a Abdul-'Al
https://israelpalestinenews.org/abdullah-joma-abdul-al/

May 10, 2019: Abdullah Jom'a Abdul-'Al, 24, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while participating in the non-violent Great Return March protests on the Gaza-Israel border.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that the soldiers killed Abdullah, after shooting him in the pelvis, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

His death came when Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly Great Return March processions on Palestinian lands along the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, killing Abdullah and wounding 30, including four children, and one medic who was shot in the head while providing treatment to wounded Palestinians.

The medic, identified as Mohammad Abu T'eima,  was shot as he, and several other medics, were providing treatment to wounded protesters, who were shot by the soldiers on Palestinian lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers engaged in the excessive use of force against the protesters by firing a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity  gas bombs at them.

Abdullah was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

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Gaza boy killed by explosive grenade fired at his face
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/gaza-boy-killed-explosive-grenade-fired-his-face

A Palestinian boy killed by Israeli occupation forces during protests in March was fatally injured by an explosive grenade, an investigation by the human rights group Al-Haq has found.

Adham Nidal Amara, 17, was directly injured in his face, killing him, as he took part in the rallies marking the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return protests east of Gaza City on 30 March.

Two other teens, Tamer Hisham Abu al-Khair, 19, and Bilal Mahmoud Shaban Najjar, 16, were shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting in Gaza that day. A fourth person, Faris Yusif Faris Abu Hijris, 26, succumbed to wounds sustained during the protests two days later.

Unprecedented injury
The injuries to Amara's face, destroying his lower jaw, had not been seen before, even during a year of protests in which Israeli forces had inflicted what doctors said were typical of war wounds.

More than 200 Palestinians, including 44 children, have been killed during the protests and thousands more injured. Some 1,400 Palestinians were shot by live ammunition during protests on 14 May 2018 alone, the deadliest single day of protests since their launch.

The "severity of the deep injury which completely disfigured [Amara's] jaw" made it difficult for the pathologist who performed an autopsy on the boy to determine what caused it, according to Al-Haq.

Amara was standing 150 meters from the Gaza-Israel boundary fence when he was shot. An eyewitness told Al-Haq that he saw Amara fall to the ground and recorded video of the injured boy.

"The boy's lower jaw and mouth were completely shattered with blood profusely flowing from the wound," the witness said. "I did not notice any traces of smoke emanating from the wound, so I thought at the time that the cause of his injury was an explosive bullet in the face."

When Amara's body was washed for burial, his uncle "documented that a solid light-green object had been found inside [Amara's] mouth," according to Al-Haq.

The rights group stated that the bullet "is consistent with a 40 mm grenade cartridge, which may be launched from a direct-fire weapon."

Al-Haq added that the ammunition may be a type of explosive grenade prohibited under international law. The Israeli military's use of such weaponry "may amount to war crimes," the group stated.

Military weapons used against protesters
Amnesty International has previously documented Great March of Return protest injuries "caused by high-velocity military weapons, including Israeli-manufactured Tavor rifles and US-manufactured M24 Remington sniper rifles that shoot 7.62mm hunting ammunition, which expand and mushroom inside the body."

The use of "weapons designed to cause maximum harm against protesters, medics and journalists who did not pose an imminent threat to life, is simply criminal," according to Saleh Higazi, deputy director of Amnesty's Middle East program.

Al-Haq has previously documented the Israeli military's "use of unusual weapons during the [Great March of Return] such as a new type of tear gas causing seizures and fainting."

During protests on 4 May 2018, Israeli forces dropped tear gas from drones "in areas where the wounded were being treated," Al-Haq stated last year. The rights group "documented cases of fainting and seizures caused by tear gas inhalation, requiring treatment on location by paramedics as well as in hospitals across the Gaza Strip."

A humanitarian worker interviewed by an independent commission of inquiry formed by the UN Human Rights Council claimed that the gas fired at protesters by Israel "appears more like a nerve agent."

In March this year, the human rights council adopted the commission of inquiry's findings that Israel's use of lethal force against protesters warrants criminal investigation and prosecution.

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Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo'rob
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May 21, 2019: Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo'rob, 30, died from complications resulting from wounds he suffered in April 2018, when Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March processions in the Gaza Strip.

His parents said their son was shot by Israeli army fire on April 27th, 2018.

They added that he suffered various complications since then, and developed tumors that eventually led to his death, especially amidst the lack of medical supplies in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.

He was shot with an expanding bullet, and underwent several surgeries, but also suffered several infections in the wound area, eventually resulting in cancer.

Israeli soldiers have killed 307 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, and injured more than 29000, since the Great Return March procession started in the Gaza Strip, on Palestinian land Day, March 30th, 2018.

Mohammad was from Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-wounds-suffered-in-april-of-2018/

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Yousef Wajeeh
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May 31, 2019: Yousef Wajeeh, 18, was killed by Israeli police officers in occupied East Jerusalem, after he reportedly stabbed and injured two Israelis, and attempted to attack a police officer.

Israeli sources said the Palestinian came from the West Bank to attend Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the last Friday of Ramadan.

Israeli online daily, The Jerusalem Post, said an Israeli man, in his fifties, suffered critical wounds, and added that a teen, 16 years of age, suffered moderate-to-severe wounds.

It quoted the Superintendent of the Israeli Police in Jerusalem Micky Rosenfeld telling its reporter that one Israeli was stabbed and critically injured at Damascus Gate, and that the second Israel was stabbed and moderately injured when the Palestinian managed to make it through the gate to the Old City, before the officers shot him dead.

Following the incident, the Israeli army and police significantly increased their deployment in the Old City, and all areas leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The soldiers started searching hundreds of worshipers, after ordering them out of several buses in Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, and forced them to walk a long distance towards the mosque.

It is worth mentioning that this incident took place on the last Friday of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

Earlier Friday, the soldiers killed a Palestinian child near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and injured a young man from Hebron, while trying to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Media sources said the soldiers shot and killed Abdullah Luay Gheith, 16, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after opening fire at him and several Palestinians, who were trying to enter Jerusalem from Wad Abu al-Hummus area, near the villages of al-Khass and an-No'man, east of Bethlehem.

Yousef was from Abwein village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Source: IMEMC

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Abdullah Luay Gheith
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May 31, 2019: Abdullah Luay Gheith, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Bethlehem while trying to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Media sources said the soldiers shot and killed Abdullah, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after opening fire at him and several Palestinians, who were trying to enter Jerusalem from Wad Abu al-Hummus area, near the villages of al-Khass and an-No'man, east of Bethlehem.

The slain Palestinian child was shot with live Israeli military gunfire in his heart, and died instantly after the soldiers shot him.

They added that the soldiers also shot and seriously injured a young man, identified as Mo'men Abu Tbeish, 21, in the same incident.

The seriously wounded young man, from Hadabat al-Fawwar area, near Hebron, was rushed by Palestinian medics to Beit Jala governmental hospital.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers, stationed at Mazmouria military roadblock east of Bethlehem, opened fire at many Palestinians, who were not granted permits to enter occupied Jerusalem, and were trying to enter the city for prayers in Al-Aqsa.

In related news, the soldiers abducted a young man at Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, while trying to enter Jerusalem for prayers in Al-Aqsa.

Abdullah was from the city of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

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Mohammad Sobhi al-Jodeili

June 10, 2019: Mohammad Sobhi al-Jodeili, 36, a medic, died from serious wounds he suffered, on May 3, 2019, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the face in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has confirmed that the medic, from the al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza, suffered fractures in his nose, face and skull.

The soldiers shot him in Abu Safiyya area, in Jabalia, in the northern part of the coastal region, while he was providing medical care to wounded Palestinians during the Great Return March processions.

He received treatment at one of the make-shift hospitals before he was moved to a medical center in Gaza, and later was moved to the al-Ahli hospital in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, due to the seriousness of his wounds.

Mohammad was from the al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza. Source: IMEMC

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Mohammad Samir Obeid
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Israeli Forces Raid Mourning Tent of Palestinian Killed in Jerusalem (VIDEO)
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-raid-mourning-rent-of-palestinian-killed-in-jerusalem-video/

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  Mahmoud Ahmad al-Adham     
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July 11, 2019: Mahmoud Ahmad al-Adham, 28, was killed by Israeli soldiers east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud was a member of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and was shot while trying to prevent protesters from approaching the perimeter fence.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers shot and seriously injured Mahmoud Ahmad al-Adham, 28, on Thursday morning, east of Beit Hanoun, and added that the young man succumbed to his injuries on Thursday evening.

He was one of many "Field Control" officers, stationed near the perimeter fence to prevent Palestinian protesters from approaching the perimeter fence with Israel as part of an agreement meant to avoid escalation.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also fired several live rounds at the field control post east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement accusing Israel of deliberately killing the Palestinian, and said that "it is evaluating the situation, and its response to the grave Israeli violation."

His death comes after a period of relative calm along the perimeter fence, especially after the indirect "ceasefire understandings" between Hamas and Israel, to avoid tension along the fence.

He was one of the dozens of officers, and fighters, tasked with preventing any Palestinian from reaching the perimeter fence or attempting to cross it.

In a statement, the Israeli army admitted it shot and killed the fighter, after claiming that the incident was a "mistake stemming from a misunderstanding," and added that "it will investigate it."

As part of these understandings, Israel increased the fishing zone in the coastal region to fifteen nautical miles, a move that was described by Israeli officials as aiming at "preventing humanitarian deterioration," in the already besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.

Mahmoud was from Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC  https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-gaza-3/

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Omar Haitham al-Badawi

November 11, 2019:
Omar Haitham al-Badawi, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Medical sources at the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron said the soldiers shot Omar Haitham al-Badawi, 22, with a live round in the chest.

They added that the soldiers surrounded the refugee camp, and refused to allow the medics through, as they were rushing into it to provide treatment to several Palestinians, including al-Badawi.

Local then placed the seriously wounded Palestinian in a car and rushed him to the al-Mezan Hospital, in Hebron, where he died from his serious gunshot wound to the chest and the massive bleeding.

The fatal shooting took place after the army resorted to the excessive use of force against dozens of Palestinians marching in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the death of the late President Yasser Arafat, before several young men started throwing stones at the soldiers, stationed in the permanent military roadblock at the entrance of the refugee camp.

Omar was from the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron. Source: IMEMC  https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-hebron/

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Palestinian Child Dies From Serious Wounds He Suffered In October 2019
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-dies-from-serious-wounds-he-suffered-in-october-2019/

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child died, Friday, from serious wounds he suffered in mid-October of 2019, after Israeli soldiers shot in southern Gaza.

The sources said the child, Ala' Hani al-Abbassi, 15, was shot by the soldiers with a high-velocity gas bomb in his head, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

After his injury, the child received the needed first aid before he was rushed to a hospital in Khan Younis.

The child underwent surgeries and remained in a coma in the Intensive Care Unit, until he was pronounced dead, Friday.

On Friday at dawn, the Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Media sources said the army carried out ten strikes that led to extensive property damage and caused a power blackout over most of the Rafah.

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Updated: Palestinian Teen Shot Dead by Israeli Forces in Hebron
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-teen-shot-dead-by-israeli-forces-in-hebron/

Updated: A Palestinian teen, identified as Mohammad Salman al-Haddad, 17, was shot and killed, on Wednesday, after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported.

Witnesses said protests broke out in Bab az-Zawiya area, where the heavily-barricaded Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron meets the Palestinian-administered H1 section, where Israeli soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas canisters at the youths.

The Ministry of Health said al-Haddad was brought to Hebron hospital in critical condition after an Israeli soldier shot him with a live round in the heart; he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

During the protest, some soldiers even fired bursts of automatic live fire at the unarmed Palestinian protesters who hurled stones at them.

The soldiers also fired a barrage of gas bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets, and concussion grenades.

The burial of the slain Palestinian teen was held by hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron, hours after his death.

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Palestinian prisoner dies after medical neglect in Israel prison
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200422-palestinian-prisoner-dies-after-medical-neglect-in-israel-prison/

A 23-year-old Palestinian prisoner from Ramallah died in the Israeli Negev prison this morning following a delay in the provision of medical aid, according to Wafa news agency.

Jaber Al-Barghouthi fell unconscious while in the bathroom and the prison administration took more than half an hour to provide medical assistance, and only after his fellow prisoners started to shout and scream for assistance.

The prisoner was later pronounced dead, confirmed the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS).

The PPS said it holds the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) responsible for Al-Baghouthi's deatth, accusing the administration of intentionally stalling its medical response. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190912-medical-negligence-by-israel-is-a-major-cause-of-death-among-palestinian-prisoners/

It added that the detainee from Aboud town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was abducted by occupation forces four years ago and sentenced to eight years in prison.

At the time of his death, he had served four years of his sentence at the Israeli Negev prison, located in what Israel deems "a military zone" in the south of the Negev Desert near the Egyptian border.

The head of the Palestinian Detainees' and Ex-Detainees Committee, Qadri Abu Bakr, called out Israel on several violations of Palestinian prisoners' rights.



He said that in addition to the torture used during Israeli interrogations of Palestinians, detainees were also denied professional medical attention in Israeli prisons.

Al-Barghouthi is the 273rd Palestinian to die in Israeli prisons since Israel's 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem.

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'A wedding turned funeral': Palestinians mourn Ahmad Erekat
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Ahmad Erekat was in a rush. It was his sister's wedding day, and he had so much to do: pick up flowers, take his newly rented car to get to adorned with wedding decorations, pick up his sister and mother from the beauty salon, and the most important task of all — bring his sister home in a procession of honking cars and deliver her to her groom.

But Erekat, 27, never got the chance to fulfill his tradition as a Palestinian brother and bring his sister home.

While on his way to the beauty salon to pick her up, he was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the "container" military checkpoint outside of Bethlehem on Tuesday afternoon.

Photos and videos of an injured Erekat, lying bloodied on the ground in a fetal position, as armed Israeli soldiers walked past him and pointed their guns at him, flooded social media in the hours after his killing.

Israeli border police claimed that Erekat committed a car ramming attack with the intention of injuring a number of soldiers stationed at the checkpoint. One female soldier was reportedly lightly injured and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.

Israeli authorities released CCTV footage of the incident on Wednesday afternoon, which shows Erekat's car suddenly veering into the direction of the median where the soldiers' outpost is located.

Erekat's car crashes into the outpost, throwing back one of the soldiers. His figure, blurred out by Israeli authorities, can be seen immediately exiting the vehicle and seemingly, in a disoriented manner, backing away from the soldiers.

The soldiers immediately open fire on Erekat, knocking him to the ground.

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According to local media reports and witness testimony, Erekat was reportedly left on the ground bleeding for over an hour, as Israeli officers refused to give him medical treatment, and prevented any Palestinian bystanders from doing so either.

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The Palestinian Red Crescent in Bethlehem told the media that their ambulances were prevented by the soldiers from reaching Erekat's body.

In an Op-Ed for Haaretz, Dalal Iriqat, a cousin of Ahmad, claimed that when Ahmad's father arrived at the scene and saw his son lying on the ground, he called out to the soldiers, begging them to let him approach his son.

Another video circulating on social media taken by a witness to the incident, whose car was just a few meters behind Erekat's car, shows an injured Erekat lying on the ground in a fetal position, with blood streaming down the road from his body.

In the video, the man says "it's 3:50 pm, at 'the Container,' a young man was martyred right now. They shot him right here in front of us. May he rest in peace."

He added: "they left him [lying] on the ground until he died."

Family in a state of shock
In the wake of his killing, Erekat's family and friends have expressed their shock and disbelief at the situation, saying that their son could never possibly commit such an attack, especially on the day of his sister's wedding.

Palestinian-American activist and cousin of Ahmad, Noura Erakat, took to social media to express her outrage over the characterization of Ahmad by Israel as a "terrorist."

"The only terrorists are the cowards who shot to kill a beautiful young man and blamed him for it," Erakat tweeted.

Erakat echoed sentiments expressed by her extended family to the media, saying that the likelihood of Ahmad committing an attack on the day of his sister's wedding was unfathomable, suggesting instead that he might have lost control of his car and unintentionally crashed into the outpost.

"Palestinians are so securitized as a threat that we can't make human mistakes, like lose momentary control of our car, press the accelerator in a moment of haste, get in a car accident," Erakat said.

She continued, saying: "There is such deep dehumanization that the obvious question of journos  should be why is there a checkpoint [between] 2 #Palestinian cities? Why would he do this on his sister's wedding day? Why did the soldiers shoot him lethally? Why did they deny access to paramedics?....Why is his image blurred so that we can't see he is unarmed and confused?"

In Ahmad Erekat's hometown of Abu Dis, hundreds of mourners gathered around the family's home, and the wedding hall where his sister Iman was supposed to get married that night.

"Everyone is in a state of disbelief," Dr. Abdallah Abu Hilal, a local emergency medical doctor and friend of the Erekat family, told Mondoweiss.

"Ahmad was a good friend of ours, he was always happy, laughing, and friendly," Abu Hilal said. "When we heard he was martyred, we were shocked. We still are."

"He didn't have any problems in his life at the moment; he was happy. He was supposed to get married next month. Why would anyone in his position ever commit an attack? We dont believe it," Abu Hilal said

Dr. Abu Hilal was called by the family to check on Erekat's mother and sisters, who he said were in a state of total shock when he arrived.

"His sister, the bride, she was beside herself, she couldn't speak, she was in a trance," he said. "His mom was in total disbelief. She couldn't believe that she was getting ready for her daughter's wedding, and then suddenly had to prepare for her son's funeral."

"It's tragic," Abu Hilal continued. "To see the house all decorated, and ready for a wedding. And then to see what was supposed to be the wedding hall, now turned into a wake."

'He was executed'
Photos of Erekat flooded Palestinian social media following his killing, with friends sharing tributes, and strangers expressing their sadness over his killing.

One Twitter user wrote: "Ahmed was my grandma's neighbor in abu dis, Jerusalem..she says he was the kindest & happiest young man..always made everyone around him smile. He will always be remembered for his pure heart. God ease this pain on his family. May his soul rest in peace."

Others expressed frustration over what they said was an excessive use of force on part of the Israeli soldiers, specifically following eyewitness accounts the Erekat was apparently backing away from soldiers when he was shot.

Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the PLO and a relative of Ahmad's, said his nephew was "killed in cold blood," and that any accusations that he was committing an attack was a "lie."

In an interview with Democracy Now! on Wednesday, Noura Erakat explained: "What we understand is that Ahmed lost control of his car or was confused while he was in his car. That was all it took to have a knee-jerk reaction, for the car to jerk a little bit and immediately to cause the soldiers to open fire on him multiple times."

"Note that these soldiers, who are fully armed at this checkpoint, are behind barriers, are not actually out in the open, and then left Ahmed to bleed for one-and-a-half hours," she continued.

Erakat went on to stress the context under which Ahmad was killed, saying: "why is there a checkpoint between Bethlehem and Abu Dis, two Palestinian cities? Why are there checkpoints anywhere? Just think about those questions as we answer this broader question of the context that Ahmed was killed in."

Ahmad Erekat was one of 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied territory this year. His killing comes just weeks after Israeli police officer shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian man with autism, Eyad al-Halaq, in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem have been vocally critical of Israel's "shoot-to-kill" policy, and the fact that Israeli soldiers often fatally shoot Palestinians, even in instances where they could have arrested or detained alleged suspects without lethal force.

The UN Human Rights Council has said of Israel's use of force against Palestinians that Israel often uses lethal force against Palestinians "on mere suspicion or as a precautionary measure," even when their lives are not immediately in danger.

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Young Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces in Jenin
23-year-old Dalia Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year
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A young Palestinian woman was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon after she succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli military gunfire early Friday morning before dawn.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 23-year-old Dalia Samoudi died of a gunshot wound to her chest that punctured her aorta, liver, and pancreas, leaving her in critical condition.

After undergoing several surgeries, doctors were unable to save her, and she passed away.

Local media reported that Samoudi was injured during a violent Israeli search and arrest raid in the city of Jenin in the early hours of Friday morning.

According to reports from Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli forces raided the al-Jaberiyyat neighborhood of Jenin where they "interrogated and threatened to re-arrest a former prisoner after breaking into his house."

In response to the army's raid, local youth clashed with the soldiers and reportedly attempted to block the army's passage further into the city, causing the soldiers to open fire on protesters.

Palestinian media said Israeli forces fired tear gas, sound bomb, and live ammunition during the raid.

Several reports from Arabic media said that Samoudi was not a part of the clashes, but was caught in the cross-fire and was hit with a bullet while in her home, allegedly while she was attempting to close her window due to the tear gas. 

Wafa cited Mahmoud al-Saadi, Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), as saying that Israeli forces opened fire on an ambulance as it tried to reach Samoudi's house to evacuate her, leaving two bullet holes in the ambulance.

The Israeli military issued a statement on Friday, denying responsibility for Samoudi's death, saying that Israeli soldiers did not use live fire, and that it was Palestinian civilians who were using live ammunition.

"Palestinians fired live fire, hurled rocks and explosive devices towards the troops. The troops responded with riot dispersal means," Reuters quoted an army spokesman as saying.

Palestinians however denied using guns, saying that protesters were throwing rocks at the soldiers.

Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year. In many cases, the Palestinian victims were unarmed when they were killed.

Israel has long been criticized for it's "shoot-to-kill" policy, in which Israeli soldiers and police officers engage in lethal force against Palestinians in situations where it is not necessary, and their lives aren't immediately at risk.

Of the policy, Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has said: "The fact that Israeli security forces have time and again killed Palestinians who posed no danger reveals a chilling disparity between the official prohibition on such conduct and reality, including the current atmosphere in Israel, in which shooting to kill is acceptable at any time and under any circumstance, even when the danger has passed."

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Palestinian Teen Dies after Being Shot by Israeli Soldiers
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A Palestinian teen succumbed Thursday to his wounds sustained from Israeli military gunfire in Deir Abu Mashal village, west of Ramallah city, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Head of Deir Abu Mashal Village Council Imad Zahran said that he was informed by the Israeli military that Mohammad Matar, 16, died of his critical wounds after being shot by Israeli forces late Wednesday in the village. His body remains withheld by the Israeli military.

According to Zahran, Matar was one of three villagers who were wounded by Israeli military gunfire at the environs of the village and close to the settler-only bypass Road 465. He described the circumstances surrounding the incident as not clear.

"In 2019, Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three within Israel," Human Rights group B'tselem reported.

"Most of these deaths were a direct outcome of Israel's reckless open-fire policy, authorized by the government and military and backed by the legal system," the group added.