June 16th, 2021: Dr. Mai Affana, 29, was shot and killed by Israeli forces while she was in her car at the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces opened fire at Afaneh, who was a doctor, and the mother of an eight-year-old girl, when she drove her vehicle down a road that was under construction, at the entrance to Hizma town. Local sources reported that Afaneh apparently had accidentally driven her vehicle down the wrong road and was trying to turn around when she was shot.
The army claimed that the slain woman “attempted to ram her car into a number of Israeli soldiers before exiting the vehicle with a knife” the Anadolu Agency reported.
But the Israeli authorities offered no evidence to back their claim. The claim also goes against the forensic evidence showing that Mai was in her car when she was shot and killed.
On Friday, July 16th, Palestinians held a peaceful protest in Abu Dis town, on the one month anniversary of Mai’s killing, demanding the Israeli occupation authorities hand over her body to her family.
Her body had been withheld by the army since she was shot and killed near Hizma town on June 16, 2021.
Video from Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic)
May was from Abu Dis town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
June 12, 2021: Ibtisam Khaled Ka’abna, 28, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, after she allegedly attempted to attack them.
June 10, 2021: Obeida Saif Dahdouh, 9, was killed when an undetonated Israeli explosive that was dropped during the recent Israeli offensive on Gaza, exploded near him.
June 10, 2021: Jamil Mahmoud al-‘Ammouri, 24, was one of three Palestinian Authority security officers who were executed by undercover Israeli soldiers in Jenin city, in the northern West Bank, in an unprovoked Israeli attack on the Palestinian Intelligence office.
Colonel Taleb Salahat, the head of the Palestinian Intelligence headquarters in Jenin, said Taiseer was from Sanour village, south of Jenin, and ‘Olweiwi was from Zawata village near Nablus. The Palestinian Security Officers were executed by the undercover Israeli soldiers while they were on night guard duty.
June 4, 2021: Diana Ziad Abu al-Ouf al-Yaziji, age unknown, died from serious wounds she suffered when the Israeli army fired missiles, on May 16th, into homes in Gaza city, killing 37 Palestinians, including her two daughters.
She was injured when the army fired many missiles and shells into homes and residential buildings in the al-Wehda Street, in the center of Gaza city, killing 37 Palestinians, including her daughters Rawan and Shaymaa.
June 4, 2021: Yahia Bassem al-Ejla, 24, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli offensive.
June 2, 2021: Fadi Sadiq Mousa Washha, 34, died of wounds sustained two weeks prior when he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers while participating in a protest in solidarity with the people of Gaza, where bombs were raining down, killing whole families crushed under the rubble of their homes.
May 25, 2021: Osama Ashraf Abu Reeda, 23, died from serious wounded he suffered during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza.