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  Amer Abdul-Rahim Snobar, 18, was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers. (Photo: via Social Media)   

Israeli Soldiers Beat Palestinian Teenager to Death near Ramallah
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-teenagerdies-after-being-beaten-by-israeli-soldiers/

A Palestinian teenager was killed early Sunday after he was severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers near the village of Turmus-Ayya, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.

Israeli occupation forces reportedly chased Amer Abdul-Rahim Snobar, 18, while he was driving near Turmus-Ayya, caught him, and beat him up until he died.

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Snobar comes from the village of Yatma, near the city of Nablus in the West Bank.

An Israeli military statement said a Palestinian fell while escaping and hit his head while being chased by army forces.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates demanded today the formation of an international commission of inquiry to investigate the incident.

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"This crime reflects the extent of brutality and fascism that controls the political, security and military mentality of the ruling establishment in the occupying state, which allows the killing of Palestinians and the takeover of their land and property, in blatant disregard of all international laws, treaties and agreements, including the basic principles of human rights," said the ministry in a statement.

The Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court to practice its legal and moral responsibilities towards the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, and "to expedite the opening of an official investigation into those crimes, leading to the prosecution of the Israeli war criminals and those behind them."

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Updated: "Soldiers Kill A Palestinian At Huwwara Roadblock, South Of Nablus"
https://imemc.org/article/soldiers-shoot-a-palestinian-at-huwwara-roadblock-south-of-nablus/

Updated: The slain Palestinian has been officially identified as Bilal Adnan Rawajba, 29, a married father of an infant girl, only three months of age. He is from Iraq at-Tayeh village, east of Nablus, in northern West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from approaching the vehicle he was driving, despite his serious wounds, and he bled to death.

It is worth mentioning that Bilal was a captain, working as a legal Counselor with the Palestinian Preventative Security Department in the Tubas governorate, in northeastern West Bank.

He was shot, on Wednesday morning, near Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus.

The Maan News Agency published a photo from the incident showing the Palestinian still in the driver seat when he was shot by the soldiers who fired a barrage of live rounds at him.



Several shots, fired by the soldiers, could be heard in a video captured by a Palestinian while waiting in a car near the roadblock.

In a brief statement, the Israeli army said its soldiers foiled what it described as "an attempted shooting attack" by "neutralizing the attacker," and added that no soldiers were hurt.

In addition, Israeli daily Haaretz quoted the army claiming the Palestinian fired two shots at the soldiers before they fired back and killed him.

The army closed the military roadblock after the incident, preventing the Palestinians from crossing.

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  Ali Ayman Abu-Alayya, 13, succumbed to wounds he had sustained after he was shot by Israeli soldiers. (Photo: File)   

Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Child near Ramallah
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-shoot-kill-palestinian-child-near-ramallah/

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday night that a Palestinian child –  who was shot and critically injured by Israeli occupation forces during clashes earlier today in the village of al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah – had succumbed to his wounds.

13-year-old Ali Ayman Abu-Alayya succumbed to wounds he had sustained in the abdomen after he was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli occupation forces.

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Following his critical injury today, the child was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, in the center of the occupied West Bank, and was immediately placed for surgery. However, attempts at resuscitation all failed and the child was pronounced dead.

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

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

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Deaf Palestinian man shot by Israeli soldiers dies of his wounds
https://israelpalestinenews.org/deaf-palestinian-man-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-dies-of-his-wounds/

Nasser Halawa, 47, shot by Israeli forces in August, died of his wounds on Dec. 11, 2020. 

In August, Nasser Halwa started walking through the wrong line at an Israeli checkpoint. Israeli soldiers shouted at him to stop, but Halawa is deaf, so he didn't hear them. They then shot him. A few months later he died of his wounds...

Reposted from IMEMC https://imemc.org/article/injured-deaf-palestinian-dies-from-his-wounds/

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a deaf and mute man, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on August 17th, 2020, has died from complications related to his wounds.

The sources said the Palestinian, Nasser Halawa, 47, from Nablus in northern West Bank, was shot by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, and suffered life-threatening wounds.

Halwa was first moved to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, and was discharged two weeks ago, before he started receiving treatment in Palestinian hospitals, but eventually succumbed to his wounds and complications.

Muawiya Mona, the secretary of the "Palestinian General Union for People with Disability" in Nablus, said the shooting and the resulting death of Halawa is yet another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people, including people with special needs.

He added that the slain man was walking near the Qalandia Terminal when the soldiers started shouting at him, however, he could not hear them, before they opened fire at him for "refusing to heed to their demands to stop."

Eyewitnesses said they saw the soldiers opening fire at the man as he walked down the lane, dedicated for cars not pedestrians, before closing the terminal in both directions.

The Israeli army claimed the man approached the soldiers "suspiciously," and failed to heed to their demands to stop.

It also said the soldiers fired live rounds at the man, shooting him in the leg, inflicting what the military described as "light-to-moderate wounds."

On May 30th, 2020, an autistic Palestinian man, identified as Eyad al-Hallaq, 32, was shot and killed by Israeli officers, who fired many live rounds at him at the stairs of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and left him lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds for over an hour until he bled to death.

The slain Palestinian was walking to the al-Bakriyyah School for persons with special needs when the soldiers shot him.

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  Another victim of car-ramming: (l) Azzam Jamil Amer, (r) Amer with his children.   

Palestinian Dies After Being Rammed By Israeli Settler's Car
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-dies-after-rammed-israeli-settler-car/

A young Palestinian husband and father is the victim of a car-ramming by an Israeli settler. It is not known whether this was an accident or a deliberate act, but it comes at a time when settler violence is rampant.  https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/settler-violence-is-out-of-control-thanks-to-israeli-government-s-silence-42855

reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), Feb 11, 2021  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-after-being-rammed-by-colonialist-settlers-car/

Medical sources have confirmed, on Wednesday evening, that a Palestinian man died after being rammed by a speeding Israeli colonialist settler's car near Salfit, in northwestern West Bank.

The sources said the man, Azzam Jamil Amer, from Kafr Qalil village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus was struck by the Israeli colonists' car, before he was moved to an Israeli hospital where he succumbed to his serious wounds.

The Israeli police said it opened an investigation to determine whether the incident was a traffic accident or a deliberate attack.

Salfit Governor Abdullah Kamil said the Israeli colonist deliberately targeted the young man at the junction of Kifl Hares.

Kamil held Israel responsible for the young man's death, adding that Israel's colonies are illegal under International Law since they are built on occupied lands, and constitute war crimes.

The deceased husband, and father, is a day laborer who was returning home from work when the incident took place.

It is worth mentioning that many Palestinians, including children, have been killed, and dozens injured, in similar incidents across the occupied West Bank.

In August of 2020, a young Palestinian man was killed when a speeding Israel colonists' car struck him near a military roadblock, south of Tulkarem, in northern West Bank.

The Palestinian has been identified as Eqab Bashir Darawsha, 21, from Tallouza village, north of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

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   Bilal Shehada Bawatna, killed by Israeli settler car, the latest in a spate of settler violence. 

One Palestinian Killed, Two Injured, After Being Rammed By an Israeli Settler's Car
https://israelpalestinenews.org/one-palestinian-killed-two-injured-rammed-israeli-settlers-car/

reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)  https://imemc.org/article/one-palestinian-killed-two-injured-after-being-rammed-by-a-colonists-car/

An Israeli settler, driving at a high speed, hit 3 Palestinians on a nature walk, killing 1. Bawatna is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israelis this year, and the second by a car ramming.

Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem writes of the recent spike in settler violence against Palestinians:  https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210128_all_foreseen_and_not_prevented_spike_in_settler_violence_backed_and_encouraged_by_state

Settler violence has long since become routine in the West Bank. Yet since 16-year-old Israeli Ahuvia Sandak died during a police chase near the settlement of Kochav Hashachar on 21 December 2020, the number of violent settler attacks against Palestinians has sharply risen throughout the West Bank.

Over the course of five weeks, from 21 December 2020 to 24 January 2021, B'Tselem field researchers documented 49 incidents of this kind (not counting protest marches or roadblocks in which settlers did not throw stones). Twenty-eight involved physical assaults: 19 cases in which settlers threw stones at passing vehicles; three cases of shooting; and six attacks of other kinds. In the other incidents, settlers vandalized Palestinian property, damaged crops and attacked homes.

In at least 26 of the cases B'Tselem documented since Sandak's death, Israeli security forces were present at the time of the attack. Instead of arresting the assailants, in five cases they attacked the Palestinians, firing rubber-coated metal bullets or tear gas canisters at them and injuring two. In the remaining 21 cases, the forces did not do enough to prevent the attacks. [Read the full report here.  https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210128_all_foreseen_and_not_prevented_spike_in_settler_violence_backed_and_encouraged_by_state] 

Palestinian Medical sources have confirmed that one man was killed, Friday, and two were injured, after being rammed by an illegal Israeli colonist's car, while participating in a nature walk activity in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank.

Mo'taz Bisharat, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in Tubas, said one man was killed and two were injured, all from the Ramallah governorate in central West Bank, when they were struck by the speeding colonist's car near Ein al-Baida and Bardala Junctions in the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley.

Bisharat added that the Palestinians came to the area to participate in a nature walk and exploration in the Northern Plains.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) rushed to the scene and moved the corpse of Bilal Shehada Bawatna, 52, to a Palestinian hospital, while Israeli medics moved the wounded residents to the al-Afula hospital.

Bawatna is from the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city, north of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses said the Israeli colonist was driving at an exceedingly high speed when he rammed the Palestinians, killing Bawatna and wounding the two others.

The funeral procession of Bilal Shehada was held, on Friday evening, starting from Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, heading towards Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, before the Palestinians took his body to the al-Ein Mosque in the city, and conducted the burial ceremony in the Shuhada Graveyard in the city.

Bawatna is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israelis this year. [No Israelis have been killed by Palestinians this year – see this. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/ ]

On January 31, the soldiers shot and killed Mohammad Hussein Amro, 35, from Halhoul, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-man-shot-injured-by-israeli-forces-south-of-bethlehem/

On January 26, the soldiers shot and killed Atallah Mohammad Rayyan, 17, near Salfit in central West Bank.  https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/atallah-mohammad-rayan/

On February 10, a Palestinian man, identified as Azzam Jamil Amer, from Kafr Qalil village near Ramallah, was killed after being rammed by an Israeli colonists' car near Salfit, in central West Bank.  https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-after-being-rammed-by-colonialist-settlers-car/

On January 11, the Israeli police killed Bashar Zubeidat, 18, during a protest against police violence near Haifa. https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-teen-shot-and-killed-by-israeli-police-near-haifa/

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Looks to me that Israel keeps Palestinians around, so that the young Jews in the IOF can have practice murdering & being cruel to Gentiles.

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Grandmother dies of heart attack after Israeli soldiers storm her home
https://israelpalestinenews.org/rahma-khalil-abu-ahour-dies-heart-attack-soldiers-stormed-home/

After Israeli soldiers violently broke into Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour's home, causing anxiety and damage, she suffered a heart attack and died. Such home invasions occur on a daily basis, and are in violation of international law.

reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), Feb. 18, 2021   https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-woman-dies-of-heart-attack-after-soldiers-stormed-her-home/

A Palestinian woman suffered a fatal heart attack, on Wednesday at dawn, when Israeli soldiers stormed into her home in Abu Njeim village, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.

Medical sources said the woman, identified as Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour, 67, suffered a heart attack when the soldiers invaded her home.

Her family said Rahma initially suffered what seemed to be a severe anxiety attack when the soldiers stormed her home and fainted before she dropped her onto the ground.

When the medics were called to the scene, they realized she suffered a heart attack, and rushed her to the hospital where she was officially declared dead.

The family said many soldiers stormed the home at dawn, and started very violent searches of the property, leading to excessive damage, and confiscated Palestinian flags in addition to pictures of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

They added that the soldiers were very violent when they broke into the property, and the way they searched the home, terrorizing the entire family.

Ghanem Omar, the head of the Elderly Care Department of the Ministry of Social Development, condemned the Israeli invasion that led to the death of the Palestinian woman, and denounced a statement by the Israeli army in which it claimed the soldiers had nothing to do with Rahma Khalil Abu 'Ahour's death.

Omar added that Israel's policies of violent home invasions, especially late at night and early at dawn, are aimed at causing fear among the families, including the children and the elderly, and are illegal under all international humanitarian laws and regulations.

He called on the International Community to perform its moral and legal duties to stop the ongoing Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people, and to provide them with the urgently needed protection.

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  Ahmad Dola died after firefighters were prevented from entering his neighborhood to help.   

Palestinian Dies in Fire After Israeli Checkpoint Holds Up Firetruck
https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-dies-fire-after-israeli-checkpoint-holds-up-firetruck/

Israeli firefighters stay away from this Palestinian neighborhood; Palestinian firefighters were blocked from passing through the Israeli-manned checkpoint.

by Nir Hasson, reposted from Ha'aretz, March 9, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-palestinian-dies-in-jerusalem-fire-after-israeli-checkpoint-holds-up-firetruck-1.9604126

A Palestinian man died on Monday in a fire in his home in a Jerusalem neighborhood, after Israeli soldiers prevented a firetruck from passing through the Qalandiyah checkpoint to reach Kafr Aqab, located in Jerusalem's municipal borders but on the Palestinian side of the separation barrier.

The fire broke out in the Dola family's home in the early morning, seemingly from an electrical short circuit in a heater's electric cord. Ahmad, 34, woke up and went to the neighbors to call for help, and then returned home in an attempt to rescue his wife and two-month-old son.

The mother and son escaped with help from neighbors, but were later taken to hospital in serious and moderate condition, respectively, due to smoke inhalation. The father collapsed after inhaling smoke, and was later pronounced dead.

The neighbors called the fire department but when the firetruck arrived at Qalandiyah checkpoint, Israeli soldiers did not allow it to pass without waiting for a military escort. After about half an hour, the neighbors called Palestinian rescue forces from Ramallah, who also took their time in arriving, but in the end arrived and evacuated the family. The mother was in a serious condition and the baby was in a moderate condition from smoke inhalation.

In a number of past cases, rescue services were held up at the checkpoint, which separates between Kafr Aqab and the rest of the city.

Five years ago, it was announced that a fire station would be constructed at the checkpoint, and would be manned by Palestinian firemen who live in that area of Jerusalem. The station, however, never started operating.

The 80,000 residents of the Palestinian neighborhood live in harsh conditions because a large number of Israeli authorities do not operate in the East Jerusalem area.

'Kafr Aqab doesn't interest anyone'
In a rare and almost unprecedented move, Jerusalem mayor Moshe Leon visited Kafr Aqab three weeks ago, promising to advance the construction of an educational compound and sports facilities in the neighborhood, as well as provide services to residents and improve the infrastructure. Many previous Jerusalem mayors did not enter the neighborhood.

"Resident of Kafr Aqab are residents of Jerusalem, with all that it implies, and we must take care of life here in the same way we take care of life in the rest of the city," said Leon at the time.

But residents say the situation in the neighborhood is dire and nothing has changed. Samikh Abu Ramila, a well-known activist in the neighborhood, told Haaretz: "Kafr Aqab doesn't interest anyone: we don't receive any services, we have no mailboxes, the roads aren't paved, the municipality doesn't do sewage and there are no well-baby clinics. We are living a half life because of the checkpoint."

Regarding the incident, an IDF Spokesperson said that "Israeli firefighters were not allowed to enter the neighborhood because the conditions did not allow it, and because of the inherent risk of soldiers entering. The [IDF's] District Coordinating Office called Palestinian rescue services to the scene, who provided aid to the residents and put out the fire."

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Booby-trapped Israeli drones killed 3 Gaza fishermen, probe finds
https://israelpalestinenews.org/booby-trapped-israeli-drones-kill-gaza-fishermen-fishing/

An explosive Israeli drone, caught in Gazan fishermen's net, proves it once again: "fishing while Palestinian" can be lethal.
by Mohammed Asad, reposted by Middle East Monitor (MEMO), March 11, 2021  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210311-booby-trapped-israel-drones-responsible-for-death-of-3-gaza-fishermen-probe-finds/?fbclid=IwAR3z80KqoC6s3GG62Svr6ViKVaKl4UEhjdqPpIjnKFS1MHHXEVyFHWPn4pU

NOTE:  Fishing in Gaza, which used to be lucrative, has become both dangerous and difficult under Israel's hostile blockade. As Kathryn Shihadah reported:

The Oslo Accords, an agreement signed by both Israel and the Palestinian leadership in 1993, places Gaza's fishing perimeter at twenty miles offshore...In the twenty-seven years since Oslo was signed, Israel has rarely allowed fishing beyond twelve nautical miles.

One organization cataloged twenty changes in the fishing boundaries in 2019 alone – four of those were complete closures. At times, fishermen don't know where the boundaries are until Israeli soldiers start shooting at them.

As Israeli leaders have made clear time and time again, the expanding and contracting fishing boundaries are an attempt to punish all of Gaza for the "transgression" of the few who dare to stand in defiance of Israeli oppression. In reality, international law recognizes the right of an occupied population to resist its occupier, including via armed resistance.

Zakaria Bakr, head of the Fishermen's Union in Gaza, explains another Israeli policy that adds insult to injury: Israel's blockade, now in its thirteenth year, "bans almost everything we need to maintain our boats," including engines, spare parts, fiberglass, and rope. Fishing boats that escape confiscation and gunfire are still vulnerable, and half of Gaza's registered fishermen are unable to go out because their boats are in disrepair.

Israel has been censured by countless human rights groups and hundreds of United Nations reprimands over its human rights abuses of  Palestinians in Gaza. One troubling UN report warned that unless Israel changes its policies, Gaza would become "unlivable" by 2020.
B'Tselem pointed out that "rather than change its policies...Israel has made them stricter and the situation has deteriorated," adding that "Israel could change this stifling reality right now. Instead, it chooses to force Gaza residents to live in a state of poverty, stagnation, and hopelessness."

As is the reality with most elements of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, the greatest challenge in Gaza's fishing industry is not the weather, or fluctuations in the market – it's simply living to fish another day.

Booby-trapped Israeli drones exploded and led to the death of three Palestinian fishermen in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, findings of an investigation by the enclave's Ministry of Interior revealed today.

In a press conference to outline the outcomes of the report into the deaths, ministry spokesman Iyad Al-Bazm said the men were killed by occupation forces off the coast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Al-Bazm explained that occupation forces had used "drones carrying high-explosive devices" in an operation against resistance naval forces on 22 February, adding: "On the morning of March 7, two drones were suspended in the nets of two fishing boats in the sea off Khan Yunis [in Gaza]."

The fishermen handed the first drone – Matrix 600 quadcopter – to Maritime Police, they later found a second had stuck to their nets. The investigation found that this had exploded and led to their deaths.

Al-Bazm added that when inspecting the intact helicopter that was recovered by the fishermen, it was found that it had an explosive device attached to it. The pieces of the wreckage and the metal pieces that were found at the site of the explosion were then compared to the intact drone and it was found that they were identical.

On behalf of the Ministry of Interior and National Security, Al-Bazm paid his respects to the families of the three martyrs; Muhammad Hijazi Al-Laham, Zakaria Hijazi Al-Laham and Yahya Mustafa Al-Laham, two brothers and a cousin.

He called on all international institutions and bodies to work to provide protection for Palestinian fishermen in the sea off the Gaza Strip, highlighting that they are constantly exposed to attack at the hands of occupation forces.

The three were killed on Sunday after a blast ripped through their boat off the Gaza shore. The Israeli military has previously said it was not involved in this incident.

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  The funeral of Palestinian Atef Haneisheh in Beit Dajan, last week, who was killed as he protested with others against Israel's theft of their land.   

Yet another Palestinian protester killed as Israel steals his land
https://israelpalestinenews.org/yet-another-palestinian-protester-killed-as-israel-steals-his-land/

The incident is all too common: Palestinians gather on a Friday to protest the theft of their land; Israeli soldiers respond with live fire, killing a protester and enabling the land grab to go on, unhindered.
   
by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, reposted from Ha'aretz, March 26, 2021  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-palestinians-protested-theft-of-their-land-idf-officer-shot-one-of-them-in-the-head-1.9656733 

"First, we'll talk about the lands," Abd al-Rahman Haneini, the council head in the West Bank village of Beit Dajan, told us when we arrived there this week. We had come to learn about the killing of a local man, Atef Haneisheh, a 47-year-old farmer and carpenter, and father of three. Last Friday, as he took part in the village's weekly demonstration against the unauthorized settler outpost that was set up on its land, he was shot in the head and killed by an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

First, the land. Last September, residents of the village's eastern edge reported that a bulldozer was at work nightly on their land. Located east of Nablus, Beit Dajan has a population of about 4,500. Its homes are perched on a slope and its land stretches across the fertile valley below, green this time of the year.

When the council head visited the site mentioned by the villagers, he was stunned to discover that someone had carved out a dirt road about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the village, which was liable to cut the village off from its farmland, covering about 20,000 dunams (5,000 acres) of wheat fields, almond trees and olive groves. The villagers were aware that every such path could disconnect them from their property, under the auspices of the Israeli authorities. The illegal trail about 10 kilometers long led eastward from the Skali farm, an outpost established in 1998 by Yitzhak Skali.

About a month later, locals spotted a settler who arrived with 15 head of cattle and a tent; he built a fence and set up another outpost in this land of outposts around the settlement of Itamar. This is the method favored in recent years by the land plunderers: They build a cowshed or small animal pen that soon morphs into an authorized outpost; the surrounding land is then confiscated for pasture. The dirt road connected the Skali farm to its new satellite.

  Atef Haneisheh is evacuated after being killed by live fire in the head during a protest against Israeli settlements, in the Palestinian village of Beit Dajan, last week. 

Only one settler lives there at the moment; the Palestinians say his name is Kobi, others say it's Koki. In the photographs they show us, Kobi or Koki, who has a thick beard and mustache, is wearing a large white, wool kippa and holding a heavy machine gun. Footage taken by villagers about a month ago shows him speaking to them until a friend of his arrives on an all-terrain vehicle and starts to push them and beat them violently.

About a month after Kobi settled on the stolen land, the army showed up and evicted him. He moved about 50 meters away from his original location. The villagers put up a protest tent outside the outpost that had arisen before their eyes on their own land. A few days later, the IDF arrived, destroyed the protest tent and sufficed with confiscating a few tools from Kobi's outpost. Kobi and his cattle remained on the land.

These events occurred late last October. Since then Beit Dajan has held a demonstration every Friday after midday prayers to protest Kobi's outpost. A few hundred villagers march in the direction of their land and clash with the army, which awaits them and fires tear gas, rubber-tipped metal bullets, ostensibly nonlethal "tutu" bullets from .22 caliber rifles and stun grenades. Ten local residents have been wounded so far in the protests, which have not abated.

After a few weeks of demonstrations, IDF bulldozers blocked the dirt road leading to the Palestinians' land. Since then they have been unable reach their land about 4 kilometers from the village other than by entering individually on foot. Kobi, joined by a few youths, began expelling the shepherds who came to use their land, threatening them with guns and driving them back with the all-terrain vehicle. The village's demonstrations continued.

  Atef Haneisheh, Palestinian protester killed Friday   

Atef Haneisheh was a regular participant in the protests, showing up every week with a Palestinian flag. Though 47, he too threw stones at the soldiers who invaded Beit Dajan's land to protect the settlers who stole it. Haneisheh had a plot that originally belonged to his grandfather. He was the father of two sons and a daughter, the eldest 13, the youngest 7. A few months ago his 9-year-old daughter Lian was diagnosed with cancer in her leg.

This week she had an appointment for surgery at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem. Haneisheh's parents are still alive; his father, Yusuf, is 87, his mother, Zahiya, is 75. He was married to Islam, who's 37, and he worked in a carpentry shop that made furniture, owned by him and his brother. His cousin, Zaid Haneisheh, went with him to the demonstration last Friday.

At 12:30 P.M. they emerged from midday prayers and drove toward the farmland until they were stopped by an earth rampart. From there they always proceeded on foot. Last Friday's demonstration was modest at under 200 participants. The young people were in the front, the older people behind them. Haneini, the council head, who was with the older group, suddenly heard gunshots – live fire. He says he can distinguish between the sound of live bullets and rubber-tipped or so-called tutu bullets.

Never before had the army used live ammunition on the demonstrators there. Another cousin of Atef's, Hazam, who is 43, was about 40 meters behind Atef and saw what happened.

A group of demonstrators sat down to rest and drink water, Hazam tells us. Atef was among them. Two soldiers were deployed on a hill about 50 meters from Atef and the others. Atef and his friends threw stones at them, and Atef also used a slingshot. Footage shows him walking with the demonstrators in a red sweater that stands out against the backdrop, wearing a white baseball cap and white sneakers.

He's seen in a photograph slinging stones. A 47-year-old who throws stones is an infrequent sight at West Bank demonstrations – the stone throwers are usually teens and young men. But in Beit Dajan older people join in. The soldiers were too far away and too high up for the stones to have had any effect.

Suddenly, an IDF officer, closer to the demonstrators, fired in the air; a picture taken by a villager shows this. After a few rounds, he suddenly aimed his machine gun at the demonstrators. He was a few dozen meters from them.

Frightened, they sprawled on the ground in an effort to protect themselves. The officer fired a burst of three or four rounds at the stone throwers. When the shooting stopped they got up. All but one. He was the man in the red sweater, their friend Atef Haneisheh. A video taken by one of the residents captures this harrowing moment. The demonstrators burst out with bitter cries: "Sheikh Atef, Sheikh Atef." A few of the teens wept.

A mourning banner for Palestinian protester killed by Israeli forces, Atef Haneisheh, under a poster featuring the late Yasser Arafat with current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Beit Dajan this week. (Alex Levac)
There was a hole in his forehead, his blood saturated the ground. He probably died instantly. A local doctor who was there found that he had no pulse. The young people picked Atef up and, running, carried him to the cars, which were about 1.5 kilometers away, next to the earth rampart. The soldiers fired tear gas grenades at them as they ran.

In the meantime, another force arrived. A Palestinian ambulance pulled up next to the earth mound and sped Atef to Rafadia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, where he was pronounced dead. He was buried that afternoon in Beit Dajan.

The IDF Spokesperson's Unit told Haaretz: "A violent disturbance took place Friday with the participation of dozens of Palestinians near the village of Beit Dajan, in the area of the Samaria Territorial Brigade, during which disturbers of order threw stones at IDF forces. The force responded with crowd dispersal methods and by firing in the air. A claim about a disrupter of order who was a casualty and was evacuated is known. At this stage what caused the casualty is not known. The incident is being investigated."

A spring breeze blew this week in the place where Palestinian protester Atef Haneisheh was killed – a fertile, verdant valley where almond and olive trees grow, with wheat fields and hills all around. Behind one hill lurks Kobi's outpost, and atop the second hill is the Skali farm. Abu Kais, a farmer of 70, picks green almonds and hands them out.

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Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian teenager
"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, using intentional lethal force against Palestinian children when they pose no threat," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish of Defense for Children International - Palestine.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday night in the Nablus district in the northern occupied West Bank, making him the second child to be killed by Israeli forces in 2021.

The teen, identified as Saeed Odeh, 16, a resident of the village of Odala, was shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition around 9:00 p.m., according to Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP).


Odeh reportedly sustained two gunshot wounds, one in the back near his right shoulder and one in the pelvis.

According to DCIP, Palestinian medics were prevented by Israeli soldiers from reaching his body for at least 15 minutes. When they reached his body, he had no vital signs. He was evacuated by Palestinian Red Crescent medics to a hospital in Nablus city, where he was pronounced dead.

Another young man from the village was also injured with live ammunition during the incident, and was reportedly shot in the back. He was reported to be in stable condition.

An Israeli army spokesperson told AFP that there were clashes between soldiers and Palestinians at the entrance of the town, and alleged that Molotov cocktails had been thrown at the soldiers.

The army said that the soldiers "acted to stop the suspects by opening fire on them."

DCIP reported that according to information they collected, Odeh was not participating in any confrontations when he was shot.

"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, using intentional lethal force against Palestinian children when they pose no threat," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program Director at DCIP. "Systemic impunity has fostered a context where Israeli forces know no bounds."

The office of the Palestinian president condemned the killing as an "extrajudicial execution," saying "the Israeli occupation government still insists on proceeding with the same policy of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians and imposing the most severe collective punishments on the Palestinian people and its property in violation of international humanitarian laws."

Locals from Odala and the surrounding villages told Reuters that Israeli forces had been stationed at the entrance to the town for days, causing confrontations between the soldiers and local youth.

According to Palestinian media, Israeli forces had been blockading Odala and the neighboring town of Beita for three days as part of a manhunt for a Palestinian shooter who opened fire on three Israelis at a military checkpoint in the West Bank earlier this week.

The manhunt resulted in widespread search and arrest campaigns in the northern West Bank, and sparked a number of confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces, as well as an uptick in settler violence against Palestinians and their property.

The killing of Odeh sparked an outpouring of grief and frustration on social media, as Palestinians condemned the killing of the teen, who was according to family and friends, an avid soccer player with dreams of one day making the Palestinian national team.

In 2020, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, six of whom were killed with live ammunition, according to DCIP.

DCIP highlighted that Israeli forces are "rarely held accountable for grave violations against Palestinian children, including unlawful killings and excessive use of force," and that under international law, "intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present."

"However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings," the group said.

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ISRAELI FORCES KILLED 16-YEAR-OLD AHMED SHAMSA IN THE NORTHERN OCCUPIED WEST BANK VILLAGE OF BEITA. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)

16-year-old Palestinian is the fifth to be killed by Israeli forces in West Bank village of Beita since May
According to locals Ahmed Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Beita since protests against a new Israeli settlement began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
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A Palestinian teenager succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning, a day after he was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank village of Beita in the Nablus district.

The teen, identified by Palestinian officials as 16-year-old Ahmed Shamsa, was shot with live ammunition during protests in the village against the establishment of a new Israeli settler outpost on "Jabal Sabih", or Mount Sabih, on the outskirts of Beita.

Shamsa's killing comes less than a week after Israeli forces killed another teenager in Beita, 15-year-old Mohammed Hamayel, during protests on Jabal Sabih.

According to locals, Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in Beita since protests on Jabal Sabih began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.

Palestinians in Beita have been staging daily protests on Jabal Sabih, which lies on the southern end of the village, since early May, after a group of Israeli settlers set up caravans on the mountain.

"We have been protesting every single day to send a message to the Israeli settlers and the occupation that we will not let them steal our land without a fight," Ibrahim Dawoud, a local activist from Beita, told Mondoweiss.

"When we protest, we have nothing to defend ourselves against their guns except our bodies. And the Israeli occupation is killing us, simply because we are defending our land," Dawoud said.

"They did not deserve to die," Dawoud said, referring to the five Palestinians killed in Beita over the past month and a half.

"Did they not have hopes and dreams? Did they not deserve to have a future, where they could live in freedom?" he asked.

Since the first settlers arrived on Jabal Sabih, locals in Beita say that more than 60 caravans have been set up on the mountain, while the Israeli government has established water, electricity, and road networks for the settlers.

Photos being circulated on social media allege to show the rapid development of the "Eviatar" outpost over the past month, and the effects it has had on the natural environment on the mountain — which houses vast olive groves belonging to over a dozen families in the village.

A report from Haaretz showed that Israeli soldiers stationed in the area assisted in the construction of the outpost, and were photographed as helping the settlers carry the prefabricated homes onto the mountain.

Unlike Israeli settlements, which are pre-approved and subsidized by the Israeli government, Israeli outposts are "unplanned", and are also illegal under Israeli law.

Despite this, the Israeli government rarely does anything to stop the construction of such outposts, and often assists in the development (i.e. providing water and electricity networks) and the retroactive legalization of the outposts. 

According to Dawoud, the residents of Beita filed a lawsuit in Israeli court against the settlers in the Eviatar outpost, and are still waiting for a decision by the courts. But, he says they don't have high hopes.

"The courts are all part of the same system of oppression. They work hand in hand with the settlers and the army to continue the oppression of the Palestinian people," he said, pointing to the ongoing efforts to forcibly evict Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in Jerusalem.

"The crimes against the Palestinian people are happening every single day, in front of the world, but people are still silent," he said. "The injustice and oppression is never ending. The world needs to act."

Tensions rise amidst fragile ceasfire
On Wednesday Israeli forces also shot and killed a Palestinian woman, identified as 29-year-old Mai Afanah, near the town of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem. Israeli forces claimed that Afanah attempted to ram soldiers with her car.

Both Afanah and Shamsa were killed among rising tensions in Jerusalem and the West bank, following the ultra-nationalist Israeli "Flag March" that took place in Jerusalem earlier this week, during which Israelis crowds chanted "Death to Arabs" among other racist, anti-Palestinian slogans.

The provocative march prompted Palestinian counter protests across Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank, during which dozens of Palestinians were injured and arrested. In Gaza, Palestinians launched incendiary balloons over the Israeli imposed-border, setting multiple fires in southern Israel.

Several hours later in the early morning hours on Thursday Israeli forces launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, less than a month after a ceasefire was called, following the deadliest onslaught Gaza has seen in years.

Over the course of the 11-day offensive Israel killed 253 Palestinians, including 66 children. At least 13 Israelis were killed by rocket fire from Gaza.

Palestinian factions, including the Hamas movement, have warned that continued Israeli aggressions in Jerusalem and across Palestine could reignite tensions as the fragile ceasefire struggles to remain in tact.

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    Mai Afaneh, a 29-year-old mother from Abu Dis who was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank on June 16, 2021. Afaneh had a doctorate in psychology and was the mother of a five-year-old daughter. (WAFA) 

Israeli troops shoot dead young Palestinian mother
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-troops-shoot-dead-young-palestinian-mother/

Mai Afaneh had earned her doctorate in psychology in Jordan, was happily teaching at a local university, and had a good family life with her husband and 5-year-old daughter...

"She was not politically affiliated. All she cared about was her studies and helping her family and husband..."

She was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank; this is Palestinian territory, not Israel.

By Josef Federman, reposted from AP https://web.archive.org/web/20210617214021/https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-c3bd2ef3fe4f0976e3e4b2081b0e02b4

JERUSALEM (AP) — Mai Afaneh appeared to have a happy family life and a fulfilling career. So when she left her West Bank home early on Wednesday, no one thought anything was wrong.

But a short while later, her family received the devastating news that she had been shot and killed by Israeli troops, allegedly after carrying out an attempted car-ramming attack.

In just a few short moments, she became another statistic — the latest in a list of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military under unclear circumstances.

The cases play out in a similar pattern. The army reports an attempted attack by a Palestinian assailant, usually acting alone and unaffiliated with any militant group. Then, it says troops "neutralized" the attacker.

Some 20 Israelis have been killed in shootings, stabbings and car-ramming attacks since 2018, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry. [Editor's note: We were unable to confirm this claim, which appears inaccurate. The Jewish Virtual Library's "Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel", for example, lists 5 such Israeli deaths during that time. Fyi since 2018 approximately 480 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis.] Many others have been badly hurt.

But not all cases are clear. In cases without Israeli casualties, sometimes there is video evidence to support the account. Other times, there isn't.

Human rights groups say many of the attackers could have been stopped without killing them, and in some cases, have suggested innocent people were killed.

Military investigations are sometimes launched but rarely provide clarity and almost never find wrongdoing on the part of troops. Families, meanwhile, are left wondering what really happened to their loved ones.

Afaneh, who was 28, left an inconclusive trail of clues behind her. She had suffered some health problems. There were some distraught Facebook posts about Palestinians killed by Israel. But relatives said she had no reason or ability to carry out an attack.

She had earned her doctorate in psychology in Jordan, was happily teaching at a local university and had a good family life with her husband and 5-year-old daughter, relatives said.

"She was not politically affiliated. All she cared about was her studies and helping her family and husband," said her father, Khaled Afaneh.

He said the previous night she was laughing and talkative before dropping off her daughter to spend the night with the grandparents. He said she needed colon surgery, had just gotten out of the hospital and was very weak.

"Even if she really wanted to attack, they could easily stop her. There was no justification to kill her," he said, speaking at the family's home in Abu Dis, a town on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.

According to the military, Afaneh drove her car toward a group of soldiers who were guarding a construction site in Hizmeh, about a half-hour drive from her home, then got out of the vehicle brandishing a knife before she was shot.

The military said one soldier was lightly injured jumping out of the way of the car. It said there were no security cameras at the scene so it couldn't provide footage of the incident.

"I believe she lost control over the car. Maybe she entered the wrong way," said her uncle, Usama Afaneh. "I don't believe she intended to do anything. It's not her nature."

The uncle said she had told her husband that morning that she was going out to pick up some breakfast. He had no idea how she ended up so far away from the house but speculated she was on her way to the city of Ramallah, where she sometimes did work for her university.

Despite her upbeat demeanor, some of Afaneh's posts on social media were troubling.

On May 15, at the height of Israel's war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last month, she posted a photo of what appears to be a dead Palestinian child.

"We will stay here, either martyrdom or victory," she wrote. A smaller photo showed her with a Palestinian flag painted on her face. On Instagram, she wrote: "There is no more life left to live."

The following day, under the same photo of the child, she wrote on Facebook: "My little one, your tears are cleaner than Zamzam water," referring to a spring in Saudi Arabia that is revered by Muslims. "We will give birth to children even if we know that they will be martyrs in the future."

Her father played down the posts, saying they were written at the height of a bloody war and reflected the general mood of Palestinians at the time. He said he remained in shock as he searched for answers.

"I didn't expect this to happen. Actually I don't know what happened. Nobody has seen what happened," he said.

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     Ahmad Bani-Shamsa, left, was shot by Israeli forces on 16 June and died from his wounds the next day. His friend, Muhammad Hamayel, right, was killed by Israeli fire on 11 June. 

  Israel kills teen friends one week apart 
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-kills-teen-friends-one-week-apart

Israeli occupation forces killed the fourth Palestinian from the occupied West Bank village of Beita since May as settlers steal nearby Palestinian land.

Israeli forces shot 15-year-old Ahmad Zahi Ibrahim Bani-Shamsa with a live bullet to the head on Wednesday afternoon during ongoing confrontations with villagers protesting the Israeli theft of nearby land.

Bani-Shamsa and his 16-year-old friend Mahmoud had gone to a hilltop on the outskirts of the village to set some tires on fire, according to a field investigation by Defense for Children International Palestine.

Israeli forces were deployed some 300 meters away.

The boys approached an Israeli soldier and started chanting on a megaphone about their friend Muhammad Said Hamayel, a 16-year-old boy killed by an Israeli bullet to the chest last week.

A soldier then fired a single live bullet, causing the boys to flee for cover.

The boys returned to the area shortly after. The same soldier "assumed a kneeling sniping position" and fired approximately 10 bullets at the boys, DCIP said.

Bani-Shamsa fell to the ground as a bullet entered one side of his head and exited the other.

The boys were some 100 meters away and Bani-Shamsa "did not present any threat to Israeli forces at the time he was shot," DCIP said.

When his friend Mahmoud approached him and tried to help him, the soldier fired again.

Minutes later, a Palestinian from Beita arrived and helped carry Bani-Shamsa to a car which took him to the hospital.

The 15-year-old died of his injuries at dawn on Thursday. Bani-Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank this year, according to DCIP.

Bani-Shamsa and Hamayel were friends, and were killed one week apart.

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Two other Palestinians, Zakaria Hamayel and Issa Barham, have been killed by Israeli fire in Beita since the beginning of May.

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Israeli forces fatally shot Zakaria Hamayel on 28 May on Jabal Subeih in Beita village.

A former prisoner of the occupation, Hamayel was an Arabic teacher in the Jerusalem-area village of Bir Nabala.

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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen In Nabi Saleh
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-teen-in-nabi-saleh/

Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, a Palestinian teenage boy in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the slain Palestinian has been identified as Mohammad Monir Tamimi, 17.

It added the soldiers shot Tamimi with live fire in the abdomen, causing serious wounds, before Palestinian medics rushed him to Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit,  where he was immediately admitted to surgery and was then moved to the Intensive Care Unit, but later succumbed to his wounds.

Tamimi was shot when many soldiers invaded the village, and fired many live rounds, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at Palestinians who protested the invasion.

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Before his death in an Israeli prison, Abdo Yousef al-Khatib, 43, was a resident of Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and a father of four.

Israeli Prison Service accused of beating Palestinian who died in detention
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-prison-service-accused-beating-palestinian-died-detention/

After his arrest by Israeli forces on Sunday for a traffic violation, Abdo Yousef al-Khatib was heard screaming in his prison cell. The Israel Prison Service claims he died of a heart attack.
by Middle East Eye staff, reposted from MEE, July 22, 2021  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-israel-prison-service-accused-beating-palestinian-died-detention

The family of a Palestinian who died on Wednesday evening in an Israeli detention centre has accused authorities of electrocuting and beating him while in prison.

Abdo Yousef al-Khatib, 43, a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, was arrested on Sunday for a traffic violation, according to his family, and detained in the Israeli Moscovia Detention Centre, also known as al-Maskobia.

The family has accused Israeli interrogators at Maskobia of beating and electrocuting Khatib, saying that he was not suffering from any health issues before he was detained.

The Israel Prison Service (IPS), a body responsible for running prisons and detention centres, said Khatib was "found unconscious" in Maskobia on Wednesday evening. The IPS said that prison staff "attempted to resuscitate him, but were forced to declare his death".

Palestinian detainees at Maskobia told the family that they could hear him screaming.

The family, which will conduct an autopsy on his body, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli police informed them that Khatib died of a heart attack.

Fadi al-Khatib, a relative, told local media that when a group arrived at Maskobia to check on Abdo al-Khatib on Wednesday, Israeli security forces "assaulted us violently, seven of my cousins were detained, and we're waiting for tomorrow to understand the cause of the death".

The Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem Governorate declared the "Israeli occupation government and its prison administration... fully responsible for the martyrdom of al-Khatib."

It called on international organisations to react to the violations of Palestinian human rights in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

"It is unreasonable for the international community to remain a spectator of these immoral and inhuman practices, which have transcended all international norms and conventions.

Israeli prisons routinely use torture
"Beating and torture, which often amount to killing, have become a normal thing for the occupation system and its agencies, and this is a shame recorded in the history of the international community in all its forms," the PA's Jerusalem Governorate said in a statement.

Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners' rights group, said that the death of Khatib was a tragedy, and that "whoever arrested and tortured [him], from soldiers, police and the [Israeli] Prison Service, all of them belong to the occupation government and its military agencies."

According to Addameer, 4850 Palestinian prisoners are currently being held in Israeli jails, 350 of them from East Jerusalem.

Khatib leaves behind a wife and four children.




To learn more about Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, visit addameer.org, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.  https://addameer.org/


Israeli Prison Service police conduct raids on Palestinian prisons in Israel's notorious Ofer military prison.  https://www.mintpressnews.com/what-netanyahu-hopes-to-gain-from-attacking-palestinian-prisoners/257224/

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MOHAMMAD MUNIR MOHAMMAD TAMIMI, 17 (LEFT) ANDYOUSEF NAWAF MHAREB, 17 (RIGHT) WERE BOTH KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES THIS WEEK. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)

Two Palestinian teens killed by Israel, bringing 2021 youth death toll to 77
The killings of Muhammad Munir al-Tamimi and Yousef Nawaf Mhareb brought the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank since January 2021 to 11.
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Two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli gunfire in the span of just a few days in the occupied West Bank, bringing the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israel in 2021 to 77.

On Monday, 17-year-old Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, a resident of the Ramallah-area village of Abwein, succumbed to wounds he had sustained two months prior, when he was shot in the neck by Israeli forces.

According to the official PA news agency Wafa, Mhareb was in the ICU for 74 days before succumbing to his wounds on Monday. According to Arabic media reports, he was shot by Israeli forces during protests in May over Israeli aggression in Sheikh Jarrah and the Al Aqsa Mosque — protests that sparked the "Unity Uprisings" and the latest war in Gaza.

Just a few days prior, Israeli forces shot another 17-year-old Palestinian boy during protests on Friday in the Nabi Saleh village outside of Ramallah.

According to Defense for Children International — Palestine (DCIP), Israeli forces shot Muhammad Munir al-Tamimi with live ammunition in his back. The bullet exited through his abdomen, "tearing a large hole and exposing his intestines," DCIP said, adding that al-Tamimi underwent four hours of surgery before being transferred to the ICU.

He succumbed to his injuries several hours later, and was pronounced dead at around midnight.

Al-Tamimi, a resident of the neighboring town of Deir Nitham, was reportedly taking part in Friday protests in Nabi Saleh — a weekly occurrence in the village since 2009, after Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal Halamish settlement took control of the village's water spring.

Israeli forces routinely use lethal force during protests in Nabi Saleh, despite the fact that the protests are largely peaceful.

Al-Tamimi's mother told AP that Israeli forces shot her son from a "point blank range," adding that there is a video showing an Israeli soldier opening the door to the military jeep, shooting her son, and leaving.

Her claims seem to be corroborated by DCIP's findings, which states that Al-Tamimi was shot from a maximum distance of 10 feet by a soldier who was in a military jeep.

The Israeli army told Haaretz that soldiers "identified a Palestinian suspect who was hurling stones threatening one of the soldiers' life. The soldier followed the rules of engagement and shot the suspect."

"Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian children with impunity, resorting to intentional lethal force in circumstances not justified by international law," Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP, said in response to al-Tamimi's killing.

"Excessive use of force is the norm, and systemic impunity ensures that Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation can be killed at any moment with no recourse or accountability."

The killing of al-Tamimi and Mhareb brought the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank since January to 11. Including the 66 children killed during the Israeli attack on Gaza in May, the total number of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces so far in 2021 has been 77.

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MOURNERS IN BEIT UMMAR CARRY THE BODY OF 11-YEAR-OLD MOHAMMED AL-ALAMI WHO WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI SOLDERIS WHILE ON HIS WAY HOME FROM GROCERY SHOPPING WITH HIS FAMILY . JULY 29TH, 2021 (PHOTO: AKRAM AL-WAARA)

Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else. 
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father's car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed's funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.
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Moayyad al-Alami loved bringing his three children along with him when he would run errands in his hometown of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank.

It was something he enjoyed doing, as it was a chance for him to spend time with his kids when he wasn't working. So on Wednesday afternoon when his wife asked him to pick up some groceries before lunch, Moayyad took his three children, Mohammed, 11, Anan, 9, and Ahmed, 5, along with him.

"We arrived at the entrance of our street, and Mohammed asked me to turn around and go back to the store, because he forgot to buy a snack that he really wanted," al-Alami told Mondoweiss, adding that there were Israeli soldiers in the area — not an uncommon site for the family, who live right next to a permanent Israeli military base at the entrance of the town.

"So I put the car in reverse and started turning around, and all of a sudden I heard shouting and gunshots," he recounted. "I just started driving away, and yelled at the kids to put their heads down. I didn't know what to do"

After driving for about 200 meters, with his head ducked down beneath the steering wheel, al-Alami lifted his head up to turn to the back seat and see if his kids were okay.

"I saw Ahmed crouched on the floor, and Mohammed was laying in his sister's lap," he said. "I started telling Mohammed that he could get up, and that the soldiers were gone, but he wouldn't get up. And then I saw the blood."

Moayyad pulled the car over and exited his vehicle, but when he did so, he collapsed. "I lost control of my body, I couldn't get up," he said. "People around me were asking me what was wrong, and all I could say was 'they shot him, they shot Mohammed!'"

26-year-old Ahmed Sleibi was one of those bystanders.

"I was in the area attending another funeral, and I was shocked to see the father on the ground screaming and crying," Sleibi said. "Myself and some other bystanders quickly rushed to his car. It was completely riddled with bullet holes."

"We opened the backdoor of the and found the boy in a pool of blood," Sleibi recounted. "His little sister was holding him in shock trying to wake him up, and his little brother was on the floor crying."

"I cannot describe what it was like to witness this," Sleibi said. "I was the ugliest of crimes. I am a former prisoner.  I have seen prisoners, martyrs, and injured people. But something like this, I have never seen before in my life."

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Sleibi said that what stuck with him the most was the sight of the family's groceries still in the back seat with the kids, covered in Mohammed's blood.

"The bread was soaked with the boy's blood. His blood was on the bread," he said. "I don't know what else to say. I can't describe it."

Two youth killed in 24 hours
Mohammed al-Alami succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday evening, a few hours after he was transferred to a hospital in Hebron, making him the 11th Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2021, and the third in just one week.

Shortly after Mohammed's funeral, Israeli forces shot and killed another Palestinian from Beit Ummar, identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) as 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.


SHAWKAT AWAD, 20, WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES DURING PROTEST THAT ERUPTED AFTER SOLDIERS ATTACKED THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF MOHAMMED AL-ALAMI, WHO WAS KILLED ONE DAY PRIOR IN THE TOWN OF BEIT UMMAR. (PHOTO: WAFA NEWS AGENCY)

According to the MOH, Awad was shot in the head and the stomach, and was in critical condition in the hospital for hours before he succumbed to his wounds on Thursday night.

Awad was shot during protests that broke out at the entrance to Beit Ummar after Mohammed's funeral, after Israeli forces attacked the funeral procession.

Eyewitnesses told Mondoweiss that as the procession was approaching the cemetery, Israeli forces began firing at the crowds "out of nowhere," shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at people.

Medics with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that they treated multiple people for sever tear gas inhalation.

In the clashes that ensued after Mohammed's funeral, the PRCS said that Israeli forces shot 12 Palestinians with live ammunition, including Awad.

"All I wanted to do was bury my son in peace after they stole him from me," an agonized Moayyad al-Alami told Mondoweiss.

"They killed my boy, and then they wouldn't even let me bury him," he said. "That is my most basic right as a father, and they took that from me too."

'They wanted to kill us all'
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that the reason they fired at al-Alami's van was because soldiers "had identified suspects leaving a vehicle near a military outpost and digging a hole in the ground. In the hole, the soldiers found a dead baby wrapped in a plastic bag and suspected al-Alami's family car which was driving nearby," Haaretz reported.

"The soldiers tried to stop the vehicle while following the rules of engagement, which included calls to stop and the firing of warning shots into the air. According to the IDF, when the vehicle did not stop, one of the soldiers fired at one of the vehicle's wheels in order to stop the car."

Moayyad al-Alami, along with other eyewitnesses to the shooting, heavily disputed the army's claims, however.

"A family in the town had gone to bury their newborn baby who passed away in the town's cemetery, which is right next to the base," Sleibi told Mondoweiss. "There was nothing suspicious about it. No one was discarding the baby as they claimed."

As for the claims that the soldiers "followed the rules of engagement" and fired multiple warning shots before firing at the al-Alami's vehicle, Moayyad al-Alami himself, as well as several other eyewitnesses say those claims are just not true.

"There were no warning shots or attempts to stop the vehicle in any other way," al-Alami's brother Ashraf, who witnessed the shooting while he was standing at the entrance to his family's home.

"They just started firing bullets at the vehicle from all directions," he said.

Moayyad al-Alami's version of events was similar to that of his brothers and other witnesses, adding that even if the soldier's suspected him of wrongdoing, there was no reason to shoot at the car as they did.

"It wasn't one or two bullets. Mohammed was shot with five bullets!" he cried. "We found 13 bullet casings in the car. Under what circumstances would they need to fire that many bullets at the car?" he asked.

"They were trying to kill everyone who was in that car," he said. "It is obvious they weren't trying to stop the car or scare me. They wanted to kill us all."

"It's a miracle that all of us weren't killed yesterday."

'Our kids are being killed in cold-blood'

As hundreds of people poured into the community center to pay their respects to al-Alami and his family, all he could think about was his children, and his new baby on the way.

"Mohammed was our miracle," he said, adding that for the first seven years of their marriage, he and his wife struggled to get pregnant.

"When we finally had Mohammed, it was like a dream come true," he said. "He was my pride and joy. I loved giving him everything he wanted, because I loved him so much. That's why when he asked me to turn around to go buy snacks, I didn't even hesitate."

"He was my whole world, and they took him from me in just a second."

Al-Alami said that on top of mourning his son Mohammed, he's worried about his other children, Anan and Ahmed, who he says are still in a complete state of shock.

"They saw their brother die in front of them. Anan held him in her arms as he died. How are they supposed to live with that?" he asked.

Al-Alami said that the only ones responsible for Mohammed's death were the Israeli army, and the Israeli occupation.

"The world needs to do something!" he exclaimed. "You see Palestinian children are being killed, and you are doing nothing!"

"While your kids are playing in their parks and gardens, and traveling around the world, Our kids can't even leave the house without getting killed." he said. "Our kids are being killed in cold blood."

"We are asking the international community to stand up and do something, to defend our children. Is this too much to ask?" he said. "Is it too much to ask for our children to live in safety and dignity?"

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Imad Dweikat. Photo on right is from AFP (https://iakn.us/Dweikat)

Israeli troops shoot Palestinian dead in occupied West Bank
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-troops-shoot-dead-palestinian-in-occupied-west-bank/

Imad Dweikat had been shot with 'a live bullet to the chest' in Beita, the health ministry says. He's the 8th Palestinian killed by the IDF in a little over a month.
Reposted from AlJazeera  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/6/israeli-troops-shoot-dead-palestinian-in-occupied-west-bank 

Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian and injured others during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and medics have said.

Imad Ali Mohammad Dweikat, 38 [also reported at 37], was shot by "a live bullet to the chest" in the town of Beita and was pronounced dead at the hospital in nearby Nablus, the ministry said in a statement on Friday. [His name is also sometimes spelled 'Emad.]

Beita sees regular demonstrations against the illegal Israeli occupation and settlement expansion, which often lead to confrontations.

The Israeli military said on Friday that 700 Palestinians had gathered south of the Palestinian city of Nablus, burning tyres and throwing rocks and petrol bombs towards troops and border police.

Israeli forces "responded with riot dispersal means", the military said in a statement. "We are aware of reports that a Palestinian was killed and a number of Palestinians were injured."

The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance service said 21 other Palestinians had been shot by Israeli troops, most of them with rubber-tipped bullets. Others were treated for tear gas inhalation, it said in a statement.

Last Friday, some 270 Palestinians were wounded in confrontations with Israeli troops during protests in Beita and during the funeral of a young Palestinian killed the day before, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.

On July 23, 320 Palestinians were wounded or suffered from tear gas inhalation in confrontations with Israeli forces in Beita, medics said. A teenager shot by Israeli forces later died of his wounds.

The occupied West Bank is among territories where Palestinians seek statehood. Violence has simmered there since the United States-sponsored talks between the Palestinians and Israel broke down in 2014.

Palestinians have staged near-daily protests in Beita, south of Nablus, to voice anger at a nearby illegal Israeli settler outpost.

The settlers agreed to leave the outpost in July under an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, following weeks of demonstrations by Palestinians lighting fires that often engulfed the outpost in smoke.

But some of the outpost's buildings remained, locked and under military guard. Palestinians, who claim the land the outpost is on, have decided to continue their demonstrations.

Israel occupied the West Bank during the 1967 Six-Day War and all Jewish settlements there are considered illegal by most of the international community.

Almost half a million people live in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, alongside 2.8 million Palestinians.




Editor's note:  Dwikat is the eighth unarmed Palestinian civilian to be killed by Israeli forces in a little over a month, including a child and a teen; no Israelis were killed during this time. For a list of Palestinians and Israelis killed since 2000 see this Timeline.  https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/

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Palestinians and allies mourn the loss of Palestinian young men killed by Israel in Jenin: (top L-R) Raed Abdul-Latif Abu Saif, Nour Abdullah Jarrar; (bottom L-R) Saleh Ahmad Mahmoud Ammar, Amjad Eyad Azmi Husseiniyya

Israeli Soldiers Kill Four Palestinians In Jenin
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-kill-four-palestinians-jenin/

Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian West Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp on Monday, allegedly to arrest a Hamas member. Instead, they killed 4 Palestinian young men.
reposted from International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), August 16, 2021  https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-four-palestinians-in-jenin/ 

Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinians, and seriously wounded at least one, in Jenin, in northern West Bank, after the army and its undercover forces, invaded Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Medical sources at Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, have confirmed receiving the corpses of two Palestinians, identified as Saleh Ahmad Mahmoud Ammar, 19, from Jenin refugee camp, and Raed Ziad Abdul-Latif Abu Saif, 21, from Jenin city.

They added that another Palestinian, identified as Nour Abdullah Jarrar, 19, from Jenin city, was also killed by the soldiers, who took his corpse.

The soldiers also shot and seriously injured a fourth Palestinian, identified as Amjad Eyad Azmi Husseiniyya, 20, who succumbed to his wounds after the soldiers abducted him.

Media sources in Jenin said the Israeli soldiers' killing of the Palestinians took place when undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated into Jenin refugee camp using a civilian car before the soldiers stormed an under-construction residential building and secretly occupied its rooftop.

They added that many Israeli army jeeps then invaded the refugee camp and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters who were unaware of the undercover soldiers occupying the building and were killed by their gunfire.

One Palestinian, identified as Qassam Mohammad Taha, 24, suffered various gunshot wounds to his left arm and was rushed to Jenin governmental hospital.

In addition, the army invaded and ransacked homes in the Jenin refugee camp, and abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Abu Zeina.

National factions in Jenin declared a general strike to mourn the slain Palestinians.

The Israeli army claimed its soldiers, including the undercover officers, invaded Jenin to arrest a member of the Hamas movement, before an exchange of fire took place between the soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters.

The army added that no injuries were reported among the soldiers.

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Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash, 15, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on Balata refugee camp near Nablus on August 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Hashash family)

Israeli forces shoot, kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus
https://alethonews.com/2021/08/24/israeli-forces-shoot-kill-15-year-old-palestinian-boy-in-nablus/

Ramallah – Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy today in the northern occupied West Bank.

Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash, 15, was shot and killed by Israeli forces around 4 a.m. this morning as he stood on the roof of his home watching as Israeli forces conducted a raid in the Balata refugee camp located southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to information collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. Imad sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where he was pronounced dead.

"Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinian children with impunity," said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. "Systemic impunity means Israeli forces can kill Palestinian children in their homes without fear of any consequences."

Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp to conduct search and arrest operations around 3 a.m., an eyewitness told DCIP. After being awakened by gunshots, Imad and his brother went to the roof of their home to observe the raid, according to information gathered by DCIP. Imad had taken out his cell phone and was attempting to photograph or film the raid, when he was shot in the head.

Imad's brothers were initially unable to evacuate him from the home due to tear gas fired by Israeli forces, according to information gathered by DCIP. Imad was transported to Rafidia hospital in Nablus in a neighbor's taxi, where he was pronounced dead.


Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash during a raid on Balata refugee camp near Nablus on August 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Hashash family)

Imad is the 12th Palestinian child shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2021. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Mo'ayyad Bahjat Abu Sara on July 28, while he was a passenger in his father's car. Israeli forces fired 13 bullets at the vehicle as it retreated from the area in which they were deployed.

Israeli forces shot Mohammad Munir Mohammad Tamimi, 17, in the back on July 24. Mohammad underwent surgery at Salfit governmental hospital but succumbed to his wounds later that evening.

In June, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teens from the occupied West Bank village of Beita located southeast of Nablus. Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Ahmad Bani-Shamsa in the head with live ammunition around 5:30 p.m. on June 16 in Beita, DCIP reported. Ahmad did not present any threat to Israeli forces at the time he was shot. On June 11, Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Mohammad Hamayel in the chest with live ammunition around 4:30 p.m. during a protest, DCIP reported.

Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.

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Palestinian boy dies after being shot by Israeli forces in Gaza
Hassan Abu al-Neil, 12, dies of wounds a week after he was shot by Israeli forces during protests at the Gaza border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/28/palestinian-boy-dies-after-being-shot-by-israeli-forces-in-gaza

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by Israeli forces during a demonstration at the Gaza-Israel border last week has died of his wounds, Gaza health officials said.

Hassan Abu al-Neil, who died on Saturday, was shot on August 21 during the demonstration organised by Gaza's Hamas rulers to mark the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem and to protest against the crippling blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt.

The firing by Israeli forces injured at least 41 Palestinians during the protests.

The Israeli military said some protesters had tried to climb the border fence and hurled "explosive devices" at its soldiers.

Another Palestinian man, later identified as a member of the military wing of Hamas, died of his wounds on Wednesday.

An Israeli soldier remains in critical condition after being shot by a protester.

The clashes were the most violent along the border since the end of the weekly Great March of Return protests in 2019. From 2018 to 2019, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza protested at the border against the blockade and for their right to return to lands they were ethnically cleansed from as Israel was founded in 1948.

Hundreds of Palestinian protesters demonstrated on Wednesday near the Gaza-Israel border, again calling for the easing of the blockade, which Israel has imposed since 2007.

Under pressure from Egyptian mediators, Hamas kept demonstrators away from the separation fence and the protests ended without a recurrence of last week's deadly violence.

Following Wednesday's protest, Israel said it was easing some of the commercial restrictions on Gaza, allowing vehicles, goods and equipment for rebuilding projects to enter the Palestinian enclave. Israel's Defence Ministry said the easing could expand further if things remain quiet.

Egypt, which had closed its border crossing with Gaza to put pressure on Hamas, also partially reopened the crossing to allow a light flow of traffic to enter Gaza from Egypt.

The Israeli government reached an agreement with Qatar on August 19, allowing the Gulf country to resume aid payments to families in the Gaza Strip, a move aimed at reducing tensions with Hamas in the aftermath of May's 11-day war – the fourth major Israeli assault on the coastal enclave since Hamas took power there in 2007.

Israel suspended aid payments in May and said the move was necessary to ensure Hamas did not benefit from cash injections.

At least 260 Palestinians were killed during May's Gaza-Israel war, including 67 children and 39 women, according to the Gaza health ministry. Hamas has acknowledged the deaths of 80 fighters. Twelve civilians, including two children, were killed in Israel, along with one soldier.

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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds He Suffered In Gaza
https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-dies-from-serious-wounds-he-suffered-in-gaza-2/

Medical sources at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza city, has reported on Wednesday morning, that a young Palestinian man died from serious wounds he suffered, on Saturday, August 21st, 2021, after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire.

The sources stated that last Saturday evening, the soldiers shot and seriously injured Osama Khaled D'eij, 32, during protests that took place near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city.

The Palestinian was rushed to the Shifa Medical Center before he was immediately admitted to surgery but remained in a critical condition at the Urgent Care Unit until he succumbed to his wounds.

Osama, from Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, was shot with expanding bullets.

His family said that he got married only a month before he was shot and subsequently died from his serious wounds.


Palestinian medics transferring Osama to hospital

On the same day, the soldiers shot and injured 41 Palestinians, including several children, during protests on Palestinian land near the fence, commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.

The holy site was burnt, on August 23rd, 1969, by Denis Michael Rohan, a fanatic Australian citizen.

Israel arrested Rohan, before alleging that he was "insane", and hospitalized him in a mental institution, and on May 14th, 1974, he was released and deported on what Israel called "humanitarian grounds, further psychiatric treatment near his family".

On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and killed a child, identified as Emad Hashash, 15, while he was on the rooftop of his home.

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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-near-ramallah-4/

Israeli soldiers killed, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian man in the western area of Beit Ur at-Tahta, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after the army attacked Palestinian workers in a crossing area of the Annexation Wall.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired live rounds at the Palestinian, identfiied as Raed Yousef Jadallah, 39, who suffered serious wounds and bled to death after the soldiers refused to allow any Palestinian to approach him, the WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency has reported.

In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian Civil Coordination Office was informed by the Israeli side that the young man has died from his wounds.

The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy.

Update: Nearly at eleven at night on Tuesday evening, Raed called his son, Yousef, 13, to meet him at the western entrance of the village, as he usually did when the father comes back home late after work.

It is worth mentioning that the road has been blockaded by the army with sandhills since the year 2016.

Raed's son, Yousef, went there with a friend, and after arriving near the western entrance, he could not see his father and tried calling his cellphone several times, before he walked further to see his father's dead boy, soaked in blood and surrounded by Israeli soldiers.

The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy. He frequently arrives late from work due to Israeli roadblocks or other demands from his work.

Wajeeh Hilal Othman, the head of Beit Ur at-Tahta, described the fatal shooting as cold-blooded murder, especially since the man was just a worker heading back home to be with his family.

Nearly at eleven at night on Tuesday evening, Raed called his son, Yousef, 13, to meet him at the western entrance of the village, as he usually did when the father comes back home late after work.

The  road has been blockaded by the army with sandhills since the year 2016.

Yousef went there with a friend, and after arriving near the western entrance, he could not see his father and tried calling his cellphone several times, before he walked further to see his father's dead boy, soaked in blood and surrounded by Israeli soldiers.

The slain man is a married father of five children, Yousef, 13, Suad, 9, Amir, 7, and a newborn baby boy. He frequently arrives late from work due to Israeli roadblocks or other demands from his work.

Wajeeh Hilal Othman, the head of Beit Ur at-Tahta, described the fatal shooting as cold-blooded murder, especially since the man was just a worker heading back home to be with his family.

On Wednesday at dawn, the slain man, was identified as Raed Yousef Rashed Jadallah, 39. He lived in Beit Ur at-Tahta and bears a Jerusalem ID card, the Maan News Agency said.

The Palestinian was a laborer who worked in occupied Jerusalem, and was crossing one of the military-controlled crossing points, when the soldiers delivered the fatal shots.

Palestinian medics managed to obtain the corpse of the slain Palestinian man, and moved it to Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah.

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Thirteen-year old Palestinian said shot dead by IDF in clashes near Nablus
Israeli army checking report of fatality, says troops used crowd control measures and live fire during 'riot'; Hamas calls death a 'war crime'
https://www.timesofisrael.com/thirteen-year-old-palestinian-said-shot-dead-by-idf-in-clashes-near-nablus/

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces near Nablus on Friday afternoon, Palestinian Authority health officials said.

According to the PA health ministry, the boy arrived at a Nablus hospital with bullet wounds to his stomach. He died despite the efforts of medical staff, the ministry said.

Local Palestinian media identified the 13-year-old as Muhammad Daadas. Clashes took place between Israeli forces and local Palestinians in the village of Deir al-Hatab village, east of Nablus, before Daadas's death.

The Israeli army said its forces had responded to a riot near the nearby Israeli settlement of Alon Moreh.

"During the disturbance, rioters threw stones at Israeli soldiers. The troops responded with riot dispersal means and live fire," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.

The army said it was "checking" reports of a Palestinian casualty.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said 71 other people were wounded in clashes, most of them suffering from the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Palestinian reports said the demonstrators were protesting against Israeli settlements and that troops used tear gas, stun grenades and live fire to disperse the demonstrations.

Two other Palestinians were injured Friday in clashes in Beita, another West Bank village where locals have protested for months against the establishment of an illegal settlement outpost.

The Hamas terror group mourned the 13-year-old, calling his death "a war crime."

"This blood shall be the fuel for our people's revolution, which will not rest until it achieves its goals," Hamas spokesperson Hazim Qasim said.

The clashes come days after Israel announced it would advance plans for 3,000 more homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, despite international criticism. Israel also advanced plans to build about 1,300 homes for Palestinians in the West Bank.

The settlement housing, the first to be advanced since United States President Joe Biden took office, sparked widespread condemnation in the international community. Many view Israeli construction in the West Bank as a serious obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

"We are deeply concerned about the Israeli government's plan to advance thousands of settlement units on Wednesday, many of them deep in the West Bank," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters last Tuesday.

Settlement construction has also split the diverse, fragile coalition that currently governs Israel. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a former leader in the settler movement, maintains power with the left-wing Meretz and Labor parties and the Arab Ra'am party, which strongly oppose settlements.