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Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed another Palestinian in Qabatia town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers shot Abdul-Hadi with live rounds in the neck and the chest, inflicting serious wounds.

The Health Ministry added that the medics rushed Abdul-Hadi to a hospital in Jenin, but he succumbed to his serious injuries.

It added that the soldiers also killed Habib Mohammad Abdul-Rahman Kamil, 25, after shooting him with a live round in the head.

The two were killed after many military vehicles invaded Qabatia, leading to protests, and fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

During the invasion, the soldiers shot at least three other Palestinians who were rushed to hospitals in Jenin.

The Israeli army said its invasion of Qabatia was planned in coordination with the Shabak and the undercover forces and was reportedly “based in intelligence regarding the location of Palestinian fighters” and added that the soldiers managed to arrest one Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Alawna.

The army claimed Alawna was involved in many shooting incidents against the soldiers and added that the soldiers located weapons during searches of homes and buildings.

On the same day at dawn, the soldiers killed Samir Awni Harbi Aslan, 41, in the Qalandia refugee camp, north of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and abducted fifteen young men. He was the fourth Palestinian to be killed by the soldiers in 24 hours.

The deaths of the three Palestinians within a few hours bring the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first twelve days of this year, 2023, to nine, including three children.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed the following names of the nine Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first twelve days of this month, January 2023.

Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18, Qabatia, Jenin.
Habib Mohammad Kamil, Qabatia, Jenin, 25.
Samir Awni Harbi Aslan, 41, Qalandia refugee camp, Jerusalem.
Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19, ath-Thaheriyya, Hebron.
Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21, Balata, Nablus.
Fuad Mohammad Aabed, 17, Kafr Dan, Jenin.
Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, Al-Yamoun, Jenin.
Adam Essam Ayyad, 15, Deheishe refugee camp, Bethlehem.
Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, Nablus.

ِAbdul-Hadi was from Qabatia, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Samir Awni Aslan

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Harbi Aslan, 41, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers invading the Qalandia refugee camp at dawn. According to eyewitnesses, the soldiers first assaulted and brutalized Samir’s son, and when Samir came out to try to protect his child from the soldiers, they shot him in the chest and killed him.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the slain man, Samir Awni Harbi Aslan, 41, a father of eight children from the Qalandia refugee camp, was killed after the soldiers shot him with live fire in the chest.

The Health Ministry added that, after shooting and seriously wounding Samir, the soldiers prevented the locals and Palestinian medics from reaching him to administer first aid and move him to a hospital.

The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said:

“Baba (Dad) help me,” shouted Ramzi, 17, calling on his father, Samir Aslan, to save him from the Israeli occupation soldiers who broke into his home in Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, at dawn this morning and arrested him.

At his son’s call, Samir, 41, rushed out of his apartment on the third floor of their four-story building. When he reached the entrance of the building, the soldiers aimed their guns at him and prevented him from coming out, forcing him to return to his home.

Samir could not bear the sight of his eldest son being arrested and handcuffed, knowing very well how brutal and barbaric the soldiers could be. But when he couldn’t see his son, he went to the roof of his building to watch what the soldiers were doing with his son. But as soon as he went up a wooden ladder placed on a wall on the roof, a sniper stationed in another building located directly behind his house shot him.”

The Qalandia Media Center said the soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and abducted fifteen Palestinians, including children and five former political prisoners.

The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Osama Na’im Hamad, Ali Hamad, Shafiq Awwad, Mo’tasem Awwad Hamsho, Adham Awwad, Ramzi Aslan (the son of the slain man), Eyad Emteir, Ahmad Emteir, Kamal Abu Ghweila, Ali Ibrahim Zayed, Karim Abu Latifa, Ehab Abu Latifa, Adam Badran, Mustafa Al-Jouri, and Mohammad Salah Al-Jouri.

National and Islamic factions in Qalandia issued statements mourning the slain man and calling for a general strike in the refugee camp.

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers killed Sanad Mohammad Othman Samarma, 19, after he reportedly stabbed and moderately injured an Israeli colonialist settler near Havat Yehuda illegal colony built on stolen Palestinian lands in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Also Wednesday, The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that a seriously injured young man, Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21, who Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured earlier in Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, has succumbed to his wounds.

The number of Palestinians whom Israeli soldiers killed in the first twelve days of this year, 2023, is now seven.

Besides Samir, Sanad, and Ahmad, the soldiers killed Fu’ad Mohammad ‘Abed, 17, from Kafr Dan near Jenin, and Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, from Al-Yamoun near Jenin, Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, from Nablus, and Adam Essam Ayyad, 15, from Bethlehem.

Samir was from the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC, WAFA

Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid

January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21, was shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers during an Israeli military invasion of the Balata refugee camp where he lived.

The Health Ministry identified the slain young man as Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21, a journalism student from the Balata refugee camp, and added that he succumbed to a serious gunshot wound to the head.

The Health Ministry added that that several Palestinians were also shot by Israeli soldiers who invaded the refugee camp and surrounded a home leading to protests.

The soldiers fired a barrage of live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.

In a statement, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh Movement, said Ahmad was one of its members and added that he shot while exchanging fire with Israeli soldiers invading Nablus.

It also stated that its fighters fired several live rounds after Ahmad’s killing at a colonialist settler’s car near Ramallah, in the central West Bank, and at the Al-Jalama military roadblock, northeast of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, on Wednesday evening.

The Al-Aqsa Brigades added that resisting the Israeli occupation is the duty of every Palestinian and that resistance is an internationally guaranteed right to any nation living under occupation.

Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Nablus, said the soldiers shot a young man, in his twenties, with a live round in the head.

He added that the injured young man was rushed to Rafidia hospital in Nablus and was immediately admitted to surgery.

The young man has been identified as Ahmad Abu Jneid, a journalism student at the Al-Quds Open University – Nablus Branch.

The young man was injured after undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp and surrounded homes before several army vehicles invaded the area, leading to protests.

The soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, seriously wounding the young man and causing several other injuries, mainly due to the severe effects of tear gas inhalation.

Eyewitnesses said the army pushed many more military jeeps into the Be’er Ayyoub area, east of the Balata refugee camp, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked several homes, causing excessive property damage, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.

The army said it invaded the refugee camp to arrest “wanted” Palestinians, but the soldiers withdrew after exchanging fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.

Palestine TV said the soldiers hurled grenades at a home they surrounded to abducted Palestinian resistance fighters, in addition to firing Energa anti-tank rifle grenades at it, causing excessive damage.

Ahmad was from Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Source: IMEMC

Sanad Mohammad Samamra

January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Othman Samamra, 19, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after he reportedly stabbed and moderately injured an Israeli colonialist settler near Havat Yehuda illegal colony built on stolen Palestinian lands in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

His family said Sanad had nothing to do with the stabbing and added that he was herding the family’s sheep on lands in the Shweiki area, east of the town, when the soldiers shot him.

In a brief statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Civil Affairs Committee informed it that the soldiers fatally shot Sanad Mohammad Othman Samamra, 19, from the Ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron.

It added that Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers refused to allow them to approach the young man to provide essential first aid.

Israeli sources said the injured colonizer, 25 years of age, suffered moderate stab wounds and was fully conscious when the medics arrived at the scene and administered the needed medical attention.

Hours after his death, dozens of soldiers invaded the Ath-Thaheriyya town before storming and ransacking his family’s home, causing excessive damage.

The invasion led to massive protests before the soldiers fired several live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, in addition to assaulting several Palestinians.

Medical sources said many Palestinians suffered the severe effects of tear gas inhalation, cut, and bruises.

Sanad was from Ath-Thaheriyya in the southern West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Amer Abu Zeitoun

January 5, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed Amer after shooting him in the head and the leg.

The Health Ministry added that the soldiers also shot three other Palestinians, one seriously.

Media sources said undercover soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp and ambushed the Palestinians before many army vehicles that surrounded the refugee camp invaded it.

Amer, who was walking to his home, was shot shortly after he noticed the undercover soldiers hiding in an alley and ran to warn the residents about their presence.

Many Palestinians protested the invasion before the soldiers fired a barrage of live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs at Palestinians, injuring three Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered serious wounds.

During the invasion, the army also closed and isolated many neighborhoods and streets.

The Israeli soldiers also invaded and ransacked many buildings and positioned their sharpshooters on rooftops before the soldiers surrounded and stormed the home of a former political prisoner, Hasan Al-Araishi, and abducted him after attacking and injuring him and several members of his family.

Media sources said the soldiers also abducted a young Palestinian man after shooting him with live fire.

In addition, the soldiers stopped Palestinian ambulances while heading to Balata to provide the needed medical attention to the wounded.

On its part, the Lion’s Den unified resistance group said its fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers invading Nablus city and Balata.

One of the invading Israeli military vehicles sustained damage after being targeted with an explosive charge before the army surrounded and isolated the refugee camp and pushed more armored military vehicles into it.

The slain child is the fourth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank in the first four days of this year, 2023.

On Tuesday, January 03, the soldiers killed a child Adam Essam Ayyad, 15, after the army invaded the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

On Monday dawn, January 02, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians, killed Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, and Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17, and injured at least eight others, one seriously.

Amer was from the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Saed Mousa Al-Qatanani

January 4, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 04, 2023: Saed Mousa Al-Qatanani, 37, died from serious wounds he suffered two days earlier in an accidental shooting in the Gaza Strip.

Saed died from serious wounds he suffered two days earlier in an accidental shooting. Two of his brothers were assassinated by the army in 2012 and 2009.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, Saed was one of its senior fighters from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

The Brigades added that Saed died on Wednesday evening and added that the fighter was one of its senior members who participated in countering Israeli soldiers invading Gaza in previous Israeli offensives.

The Brigades added that its fighters will never abandon the path of resistance until liberation and independence.

“Our fighters will remain committed to the struggle for liberation,” the Al-Quds Brigades said, “Our weapons will always have just one target, the illegal Israel occupation.”

Saed is the brother of Fadi Mousa Qatanani, who was assassinated by the Israeli army on November 21, 2012, after an Israeli war jet fired a missile at his home, and Ali Mousa Qatanani, who was assassinated by the Israeli army on April 1, 2009.

Adam Essam Ayyad

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

A large Israeli military force invaded the refugee camp before the soldiers stormed, violently searched homes, leading to protests, and fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers killed Adam after shooting him with a live round in the chest.

The sources said Palestinian medics provided the seriously injured child with the needed first aid and rushed him to a hospital in Bethlehem, but he succumbed to his wounds.

The soldiers also shot another child with a live round in the arm before the medics rushed him to a hospital.

During the searches of homes in the refugee camp, the soldiers abducted a young man Anan Ahmad Sarabta.

The child is the third Palestinian to be killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank in the first three days of this new year, 2023.

On Monday dawn, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and killed Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, and Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 25, and injured at least eight others, one seriously.

Last year, in 2022, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Adam, the only child of his parents, was from the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed

January 2, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians.

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said the soldiers also killed Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17, from Kafr Dan, after shooting him with live fire in the chest and the right thigh.

Atiya added that the soldiers also killed Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, after shooting him with several live rounds in the chest.

The soldiers also shot eight Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Furthermore, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli army vehicles in several parts of the town.

The soldiers surrounded the homes of Ahmad Ayman ‘Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani ‘Aabed, 22, whom the soldiers killed on September 14, 2022, and ransacked the properties before wiring and detonating them, and abducted Abdul-Rahman’s brother, Maher.

Palestine TV said the apartment of Ahmad’s parents was 140 square meters and provided shelter to six family members, while the two apartments of Abdul-Rahman’s parents were 250 square meters and provided shelter to seven family members.

Palestine TV added that Abdul-Rahman’s father and his grandfather own the apartments that were demolished after an Israeli court denied the family’s appeal and claimed that Abdul-Rahman lived in both homes.

The two Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed during an exchange of gunfire near the village of Jalama, north of Jenin.

The soldier killed during the invasion on September 14 was identified as the deputy commander of the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion, Maj. Bar Pelach, 30.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched from Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital carrying the corpses of Fuad and Mohammad, chanting for unity, ongoing resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation, and denouncing the escalating Israeli crimes.

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights condemned the Israeli army’s ongoing escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) and commission of more murders against Palestinians.

PCHR also denounced the ongoing house demolitions as part of Israel’s collective punishment policy under cover of the Israeli judiciary, in blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits reprisals against protected persons and their property.

Fuad was from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Site: IMEMC

Mohammad Samer Houshiyya

January 2, 2023January 12, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians.

Samer Atiya, the head of the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin city, said the soldiers killed Mohammad after shooting him with several live rounds in the chest.

Atiya added that the soldiers also killed Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 25, from Kafr Dan, after shooting him with live fire in the chest and the thigh.

The soldiers also shot eight Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Furthermore, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli army vehicles in several parts of the town.

The two Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed during an exchange of gunfire near the village of Jalama, north of Jenin.

The soldier killed during the invasion on September 14 was identified as the deputy commander of the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion, Maj. Bar Pelach, 30.

Mohammad was from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Site: IMEMC

Naim Mahmoud Bedir

December 23, 2022January 5, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

December 23, 2022: Naim Mahmoud Theeb Bedir, 23, was shot and killed by Israeli police before dawn in Kafr Qassem, in the Southern Triangle area (inside the undeclared borders of what is now Israel), claiming that he was trying to carry out a ramming attack against the police.

The man’s family rejected the Israeli narrative, saying, “The Israeli police killed our son in cold blood, and the police story that he tried to attack them is false.”

The family told reporters, “The Israeli police, after killing our son Naim in cold blood, stormed our home and ransacked all our belongings in front of the children, who were screaming and crying, terrified as the soldiers destroyed our home.”

During the home invasion, the Israeli police abducted several of Naim’s family members to bring them back to the police station for questioning. Israeli forces are known for their torture techniques, which they call ‘enhanced interrogation.’

The police claimed that Badir called the police, saying that a violent incident had occurred, but that when the police arrived, he ran towards them with a weapon and then got into his car and drove toward the police, mildly injuring two.

The police further claimed that two of its members were slightly injured and were subsequently transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. The police spokesperson said that the district commander then arrived at the site and conducted a field assessment of the situation.

The police then deployed dozens of its members in the village of Kafr Qassem, sent reinforcements, including members of the special units, and turned the city into a military base, according to local sources.

According to the Israeli police, a search of a building near where Badir was killed turned up “a weapon, ammunition, Molotov cocktails, and a knife.” But there is no evidence that Badir was in that building.

A video clip taken from the scene shows a number of Israeli police officers shooting live rounds into a Palestinian vehicle as it is moving backward.

The Israeli police said that they considered the incident in Kafr Qassem as a “hostile sabotage operation,” noting that after the attack, the police conducted searches for other suspects.

Naim was from Kafr Qassem, in what is now Israel. Source: IMEMC