September 24, 2023: Majdi Ehab Ghabayen, 18, died from serious wounds he suffered on September 13, in an explosion in Gaza City on September 13, 2023, bringing the number of deaths to six.
After the explosion, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that five Palestinians were killed, and twenty-six others, including children, were injured.
The Health Ministry stated that Majdi was among three Palestinians who suffered life-threatening wounds and added that five other Palestinians suffered moderate or moderate-to-serious injuries.
The Palestinians killed in the incident were identified as Mohammad Omar Qaddoum, Ra’ed Rawhi Yahia Ramadan, 17, Abdul-Nasser Rami Nofal, 18, Ali Jom’a Ayyad, and Baraa Wael Al-Zard, 18, who is reported to be the son of a Hamas leader.
Sources described a “suspicious object” as the cause of the explosion, while another source quoted eyewitnesses who stated, that a members of an Israeli engineering unit arrived at the site, adding that occupation soldiers opened fire at those in the vicinity, and prevented them from leaving the place, until the device exploded.
The exact cause of the explosion was not confirmed at the time of writing this report; however, it was described as an “accidental explosion”.
An eyewitness account offers some further details about the nature of the device.
What happened with us near the fence, there was a suspicious object, a camera-like object, its width was about 10 centimeters (3.9 inches), with a half meter length (19.7 inches). The object was completely black. We were ambushed, one of the youths decided to check it with a stick, but it immediately exploded.
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On that day, hundreds of Palestinians gathered along the border fence between Gaza and Israel, to commemorate the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2005.
Soldiers fired live rounds and tear gas canisters at demonstrators, injuring five with live rounds, they were transported to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
One man was shot in the head with a tear gas canister, while a number of others sustained inhalation injuries from exposure to tear gas.
Sources added that Palestinian youths detonated small crude explosive devices near the border fence.
Majdi was from the Al-Atatra area in Beita Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC
September 24, 2023: Osaid Farhan Abu Ali (Jab’awi), 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Nur Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part.
September 24, 2023: Abdul-Rahman Suleiman Abu Daghash, 32, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Nur Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part.
September 22, 2023: Abdullah Emad Abu Al-Hasan, 18, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Kafr Dan town, west of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
September 20, 2023: Dirgham Mohammad Yahia Al-Akhras, 19, was killed by undercover Israeli soldiers who infiltrated the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp southwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part.
September 19, 2023: Ata Yasser Ata Mousa, 29, died from serious wounds he suffered when Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured on Tuesday evening after the army killed three Palestinians and injured at least thirty, some seriously, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Eyewitnesses said more than thirty undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp and fired a barrage of live rounds at the Palestinians, forcing them to leave the streets before surrounding two homes and exchanging fire with Palestinian fighters.
The army also attacked Palestinian ambulances with live fire, while a military drone also fired a missile at an electricity transformer in the center of Jenin refugee camp, causing a power blackout in the refugee camp and some parts of Jenin city.
September 19, 2023: Yousef Salem Yousef Radwan, 25, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also injured eleven during processions near the perimeter fence along the eastern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip.
The soldiers also shot two Palestinians with live fire east of Khan Younis and east of Rafah in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
September 19, 2023: Mahmoud Khaled Ararawe, 24, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed two other Palestinians and injured at least thirty in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin.
Eyewitnesses said more than thirty undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp and fired a barrage of live rounds at the Palestinians, forcing them to leave the streets before surrounding two homes and exchanging fire with Palestinian fighters.
September 19, 2023: Rafat Omar Khamayseh, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed two other Palestinians and injured at least thirty in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin.
September 19, 2023: Mahmoud Ali Nafe’ Saadi, 23, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed two other Palestinians and injured at least thirty in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin.