February

Mithqal Suleiman Rayan

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February 11, 2023: Mithqal Suleiman Abdel Halim Rayan, 27, was shot and killed on Saturday evening, by Israeli paramilitary invaders, in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.

The mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Ibrahim Asi, told the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency, “The young man was killed by a live bullet fired by an armed and angry settler towards a group of young men in the village.” He confirmed that the armed, paramilitary colonial settlers were guarded by the Israeli occupation forces as they carried out their assassination of the unarmed Palestinian civilian.

Mithqal Rayan was the father of three young children: a 4-year-old boy, a two-year-old son, and a baby girl.

Israeli colonizers have targeted the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, for their colony expansion. They have been forcibly expelling Palestinian landowners and taking over their land – claiming that their ancestors once lived there 2,000 years ago, so they have the right to take the land from its owners by force. Most of these paramilitary Israeli settlers come from Europe, the US and the former Soviet Union, with no direct or indirect ancestral ties to the land of Palestine.

Earlier on Saturday, Israeli colonial settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees, and destroyed an agricultural building, as part of their forced takeover of Palestinian land in Qarawat Bani Hassan.

Israeli forces have been helping the Israeli paramilitary settlers in their forced takeover of Palestinian village land- last week, the soldiers uprooted an olive grove, and in January the army demolished a Palestinian home located in the area that the Israeli colonizers have targeted to take over.

Mithqal was from Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit in the central West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Ahmad Abu Ali

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February 10, 2023: Ahmad Abu Ali, 48, died in Israeli prison due to medical neglect by the Israeli prison authorities.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that a detainee from Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, died at an Israeli medical center after he was denied essential medical treatment and was only moved to Soroka medical center when he neared death.

The PPS said the detainee Ahmad Abu Ali, 48, from Yatta town south of Hebron, was two years away from finishing his twelve-year prison sentence.

It added that the married father of nine had various chronic health conditions, including heart disease and diabetes, but did not receive the needed professional medical treatment and health checkups, an issue that caused further complications.

The PPS held Israel responsible for Ahmad’s death, especially after deliberately neglecting his urgent medical needs, and demanded the Israeli occupation authorities to release detailed and credible information about the health conditions of all ailing detainees and those who were shot before being abducted and imprisoned.

“What happened with Ahmad is part of ongoing Israeli violations against the detainees, especially denying them the right to proper and professional medical treatment; this is an illegal policy that slowly kills the ailing detainees,” the PPS said, “Many Palestinians detainees have died in Israeli prisons, including the few past years, because they didn’t receive the needed medical treatment, and several others were tortured to death.”

Following his death, the Israeli authorities closed all sections and all prisons where Palestinian detainees are held and enforced a strict lockdown, anticipating protests and hunger strikes by the detainees.

The Palestinian detainees in all prisons and detention centers have decided to return all their meals and declared a three-day strike to mourn Ahmad’s death.

Ahmad‘s death brings the number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 to 235, including 75 patients. Dozens of former detainees also died from medical conditions that went untreated while imprisoned by Israel for many years.

More than 600 Palestinian detainees suffer from various health conditions, including 24 who have various forms of cancer.

Ahmad was from Yatta town south of Hebron. Source: IMEMC

Hussein Khaled Qaraqe’

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February 10, 2023: Hussein Khaled Qaraqe’, 31, from Al-Isawiya town in Jerusalem, was shot and killed by multiple Israeli gunmen after his vehicle ran off the road and struck a crowded bus stop of Israelis, killing a six-year old child and a 20-year old man, and wounding several others.

According to an eyewitness, Hussein, who was driving the car, tried to indicate to the Israelis around the crashed car, many of whom were armed, that it was an accident and not to shoot him. But after a rock was thrown at the car, and the driver moved, he was shot by multiple shooters and killed.

The Israelis who were killed in this incident have been identified as six-year old Yaakov Paley, from Ramot, and Alter Shlomo Liderman, 20, from Jerusalem.

Yaakov’s funeral was held on Friday afternoon, with family members in attendance.and was restricted to family members and neighbors. Alter was a newlywed, who was married four months earlier.

Yaakov’s brother Asher Menachem Paley, 8, who was critically injured in the attack succumbed to his wounds, Saturday, February 11.

One eyewitness told the Israeli paper Ha’aretz that at first, it appeared to be an accident when the vehicle ran off the road and onto the crowded bus stop.

Alter Shlomo
Alter Shlomo, one of the two Israelis killed

Another eyewitness told reporters, “For about a minute, several people with guns stood around the vehicle and pointed at the driver, but did not shoot. The driver made a sign with his hands as if to say ‘no,’ and everyone held their fire. At some point, someone threw a large stone at the vehicle, the attacker moved, and everyone fired at him.”

The driver of the vehicle, a 31-year Palestinian construction worker and father of three, had been injured six months before in a construction accident. He had been renting an apartment in Jerusalem to be able to get to job sites without having to cross from his hometown in al-Isawiya each day and potentially get stopped at a checkpoint and unable to make it to work.

Following the incident, which was either an accident or a so-called ‘lone wolf’ attack, Israeli security officials met to discuss the punishment they are planning for the besieged Palestinian population living under Israeli martial law in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated that he had given an order for Israeli police to establish checkpoints throughout the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Isawiya “and to stop everyone one by one, and just check each vehicle.”

These types of checkpoints, particularly on Friday afternoon, wreak havoc on the commutes of thousands of workers, teachers and students trying to get home.

Israeli troops invaded the home of the Palestinian driver Hussein Khaled Qaraqe’ and dragged out his wife, father and two brothers, in front of the three young children. The soldiers took them to a military base for so-called ‘enhanced interrogation’.

In at-Tour village, where other relatives of the deceased Khaled Qaraqe’ reside, Israeli troops invaded and abducted an additional six family members.

According to the Jerusalem Post, two children were listed as critically injured in the attack, two adults were seriously injured, and two suffered moderate wounds before the child, a six-year-old boy, and the young man succumbed to their wounds.

Israeli Ynet News said soldiers and police officers were searching for “other potential suspects,” adding that they entered a synagogue with their guns drawn during the search.

Also Friday, an Israeli colonizer rammed a Palestinian with his car in the Qalqas area, south of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank. Medical sources said the Palestinian, Sufian Mohammad Al-Jo’ba, 38, suffered a fracture in his arm and was moved to a hospital in the city.

Hussein was from Al-Isawiya town in Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC, Times Of Israel

Sharif Hasan Rabba’

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February 09, 2023: Sharif Hasan Rabba’, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the entrance of the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army claimed that the young man attempted to stab a soldier before other soldiers at a nearby roadblock opened fire and killed him.

The army added that the incident did not lead to any injuries among the soldiers and described it as a foiled “attempted attack against the soldiers.”

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the young man’s death and added that the soldiers shot him after they stopped his car in the Al-Dalba area near the main entrance of the refugee camp.

Sharif was heavily bleeding before the soldiers cut his clothes off and checked for a pulse, but refused to allow Palestinian medics to approach him before the army took him away.

His death brings the number of Palestinian Israeli soldiers killed this year to 43, including nine children and one woman. Eight of them were killed this month.

  1. February 07, 2023: Sharif Hasan Rabba’, 22
  2. February 07, 2023: Hamza Amjad Al-Ashqar, 17
  3. February 06, 2023: Malek Lafi, 22
  4. February 06, 2023: Tha’er Khaled Awadat, 27
  5. February 06, 2023: Adham Majdi Awadat, 22
  6. February 6, 2023: Ibrahim Wa’el Awadat, 21
  7. February 6, 2023: Rafat Wa’el Awadat, 21
  8. February 03, 2023: Abdullah Samih Qalalwa, 25

Sharif was from the Ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Hamza Amjad Al-Ashqar

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Hama AshqarFebruary 07, 2023: Hamza Amjad Al-Ashqar, 17, from Askar Al-Jadid refugee camp in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, after shooting him with a live round in the face. The assassination took place on Tuesday before dawn.

Media sources said several armored military vehicles invaded Nablus, leading to protests by local youth, some of whom threw stones at the invading military force.

The Israeli soldiers in their armored vehicles fired a barrage of live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at the children and youth in the refugee camp.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers shot the child when the military vehicles were withdrawing from the Housing Projects in the Askar al-Jadid refugee camp in Nablus.

In a video of the invasion, taken by a local Palestinian resident on their phone, the Israeli army vehicles are seen withdrawing, and as they are withdrawing, the soldiers fired several live rounds. Then a man can be heard screaming, “ambulance… ambulance..” when Hamza was shot in the head.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers also shot six Palestinians, including one who suffered serious wounds, and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

The PRCS added that the soldiers attacked one of its ambulances and stopped medics who were rushing to provide aid to wounded Palestinians.

In related news, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said its fighters managed to down and take possession of an Israeli military drone during the military’s invasion of Nablus.

Palestinian fighters of the Lion’s Den group, which unites fighters from various factions, said they exchanged fire with the soldiers invading Nablus.

On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians, including two siblings, injured many others, and abducted eight, in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.

The refugee camps in the West Bank are made up of the three generations of Palestinians displaced in 1948 when Israel was created on the land of historic Palestine, and they were displaced from what had been their homes in what is now Israel.

Since 1948, the state of Israel has never declared its borders and has encroached further and further onto Palestinian land in a blatant attempt to colonize all of historic Palestine while displacing its original inhabitants.

The Israeli army has killed 42 Palestinians, including nine children and one woman, since the beginning of this year.

Hamza was from Askar al-Jadid refugee camp, in the Nablus district in the northern West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Malek Lafi

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February 06, 2023: Malek Lafi, 22, was one of four Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during an invasion of the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp south of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Among those killed were a pair of brothers. The Israeli soldiers also injured many other Palestinians and abducted eight.

The slain Palestinians were identified as Rafat ًWa’el Owadat, 21, and his brother Ibrahim, 27, Adham Majdi Awadat, 22, and Malek Lafi, 22.

Tha’er Khaled Awadat, 27, was initially reported as killed – and the Israeli military did nothing to correct those accounts, having taken the bodies of the slain Palestinians, including Tha’er’s. But ten days later, on February 16th, the Israeli military informed the Palestinian Authority that Tha’er was still alive but in critical condition, hooked to life support machines at an Israeli Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Israeli soldiers took the corpses of the deceased away after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to take them.

The Israeli army and the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) said they carried out a joint operation to capture Palestinian fighters in the refugee camp and exchanged fire with them.

Photo By Quds News

The army added that its soldiers killed the five Palestinians, who they claimed were all resistance fighters. The army spokesperson also said that the invasion was targeting alleged Hamas fighters suspected of firing at a restaurant in the illegal Vered Yeriho Israeli colony on January 27h.

The army also claimed that soldiers spotted one of the Palestinians suspected of involvement in the shooting before he fled while firing at them, leading to a pursuit ending at a building in a refugee camp where the fighters were hiding, resulting in an exchange of fire.

The Palestinian Health Ministry described the attack as a slaughter and said three of the wounded were not resistance fighters, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds.

The Israeli army has frequently been invading the refugee camp since January 27, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters and demolishing several homes and structures.

The army also said its soldiers arrested six Palestinians during the invasion, including two believed to be affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Palestinian sources have confirmed that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including siblings, during the offensive and identified them as Shaker Amarna, Mohammad Riyad Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Wa’el Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Fakhr Oweidat, and his brother, Mohammad, Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat and his brother Ahmad.

The offensive in the refugee camp started before dawn, Monday, when the soldiers shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Aqbat Jabr camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.

Last Sunday night, undercover soldiers killed Ahmad and his brother Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat in a coffee shop at the main entrance of the refugee camp.

Various armed resistance groups and political factions, including Al-Qassam Brigades, the National Resistance Committees, and the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP), issued statements mourning the slain Palestinian fighters and vowing retaliation and ongoing resistance until liberation.

Ismael Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said the resistance against the occupation will never cease until ending the illegal Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, and added that the resistance fighters in Jericho “were heroes who fought with courage and determination.”

Haniyya added that the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people only lead to more determination and ongoing resistance.

Malek was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Adham Majdi Awadat

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February 06, 2023: Adham Majdi Awadat, 22, was one of four Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during an invasion of the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Among those killed were a pair of brothers. The Israeli soldiers also injured many other Palestinians and abducted eight.

The slain Palestinians were identified as Rafat ًWa’el Owadat, 21, and his brother Ibrahim, 27, Adham Majdi Awadat, 22, and Malek Lafi, 22.

Tha’er Khaled Awadat, 27, was initially reported as killed – and the Israeli military did nothing to correct those accounts, having taken the bodies of the slain Palestinians, including Tha’er’s. But ten days later, on February 16th, the Israeli military informed the Palestinian Authority that Tha’er was still alive but in critical condition, hooked to life support machines at an Israeli Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Israeli soldiers took the corpses of the deceased away after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to take them.

The Israeli army and the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) said they carried out a joint operation to capture Palestinian fighters in the refugee camp and exchanged fire with them.

The army added that its soldiers killed the five Palestinians, who they claimed were all resistance fighters. The army spokesperson also said that the invasion was targeting alleged Hamas fighters suspected of firing at a restaurant in the illegal Vered Yeriho Israeli colony on January 27h.

The army also claimed that soldiers spotted one of the Palestinians suspected of involvement in the shooting before he fled while firing at them, leading to a pursuit ending at a building in a refugee camp where the fighters were hiding, resulting in an exchange of fire.

The Palestinian Health Ministry described the attack as a slaughter and said three of the wounded were not resistance fighters, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds.

The Israeli army has frequently been invading the refugee camp since January 27, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters and demolishing several homes and structures.

Photo By Quds News

The army also said its soldiers arrested six Palestinians during the invasion, including two believed to be affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Palestinian sources have confirmed that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including siblings, during the offensive and identified them as Shaker Amarna, Mohammad Riyad Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Wa’el Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Fakhr Oweidat, and his brother, Mohammad, Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat and his brother Ahmad.

The offensive in the refugee camp started before dawn, Monday, when the soldiers shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Aqbat Jabr camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.

Last Sunday night, undercover soldiers killed Ahmad and his brother Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat in a coffee shop at the main entrance of the refugee camp.

Various armed resistance groups and political factions, including Al-Qassam Brigades, the National Resistance Committees, and the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP), issued statements mourning the slain Palestinian fighters and vowing retaliation and ongoing resistance until liberation.

Ismael Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said the resistance against the occupation will never cease until ending the illegal Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, and added that the resistance fighters in Jericho “were heroes who fought with courage and determination.”

Haniyya added that the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people only lead to more determination and ongoing resistance.

Adham was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Ibrahim Wa’el Awadat

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February 06, 2023: Ibrahim Wa’el Awadat, 21, was one of four Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during an invasion of the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Among those killed were a pair of brothers. The Israeli soldiers also injured many other Palestinians and abducted eight.

The slain Palestinians were identified as Rafat ًWa’el Owadat, 21, and his brother Ibrahim, 27, Adham Majdi Awadat, 22, and Malek Lafi, 22.

Tha’er Khaled Awadat, 27, was initially reported as killed – and the Israeli military did nothing to correct those accounts, having taken the bodies of the slain Palestinians, including Tha’er’s. But ten days later, on February 16th, the Israeli military informed the Palestinian Authority that Tha’er was still alive but in critical condition, hooked to life support machines at an Israeli Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Israeli soldiers took the corpses of the deceased away after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to take them.

The Israeli army and the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) said they carried out a joint operation to capture Palestinian fighters in the refugee camp and exchanged fire with them.

Photo By Quds News

The army added that its soldiers killed the five Palestinians, who they claimed were all resistance fighters. The army spokesperson also said that the invasion was targeting alleged Hamas fighters suspected of firing at a restaurant in the illegal Vered Yeriho Israeli colony on January 27h.

The army also claimed that soldiers spotted one of the Palestinians suspected of involvement in the shooting before he fled while firing at them, leading to a pursuit ending at a building in a refugee camp where the fighters were hiding, resulting in an exchange of fire.

The Palestinian Health Ministry described the attack as a slaughter and said three of the wounded were not resistance fighters, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds.

The Israeli army has frequently been invading the refugee camp since January 27, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters and demolishing several homes and structures.

The army also said its soldiers arrested six Palestinians during the invasion, including two believed to be affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Palestinian sources have confirmed that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including siblings, during the offensive and identified them as Shaker Amarna, Mohammad Riyad Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Wa’el Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Fakhr Oweidat, and his brother, Mohammad, Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat and his brother Ahmad.

The offensive in the refugee camp started before dawn, Monday, when the soldiers shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Aqbat Jabr camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.

Last Sunday night, undercover soldiers killed Ahmad and his brother Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat in a coffee shop at the main entrance of the refugee camp.

Various armed resistance groups and political factions, including Al-Qassam Brigades, the National Resistance Committees, and the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP), issued statements mourning the slain Palestinian fighters and vowing retaliation and ongoing resistance until liberation.

Ismael Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said the resistance against the occupation will never cease until ending the illegal Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, and added that the resistance fighters in Jericho “were heroes who fought with courage and determination.”

Haniyya added that the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people only lead to more determination and ongoing resistance.

Ibrahim was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Rafat Wa’el Awadat

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February 6, 2023: Rafat Wa’el Awadat, 21, was one of four Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during an invasion of the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Among those killed were a pair of brothers. The Israeli soldiers also injured many other Palestinians and abducted eight.

The slain Palestinians were identified as Rafat ًWa’el Owadat, 21, and his brother Ibrahim, 27, Adham Majdi Awadat, 22, and Malek Lafi, 22.

Tha’er Khaled Awadat, 27, was initially reported as killed – and the Israeli military did nothing to correct those accounts, having taken the bodies of the slain Palestinians, including Tha’er’s. But ten days later, on February 16th, the Israeli military informed the Palestinian Authority that Tha’er was still alive but in critical condition, hooked to life support machines at an Israeli Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Israeli soldiers took the corpses of the deceased away after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to take them.

The Israeli army and the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) said they carried out a joint operation to capture Palestinian fighters in the refugee camp and exchanged fire with them.

Photo By Quds News

The army added that its soldiers killed the five Palestinians, who they claimed were all resistance fighters. The army spokesperson also said that the invasion was targeting alleged Hamas fighters suspected of firing at a restaurant in the illegal Vered Yeriho Israeli colony on January 27h.

The army also claimed that soldiers spotted one of the Palestinians suspected of involvement in the shooting before he fled while firing at them, leading to a pursuit ending at a building in a refugee camp where the fighters were hiding, resulting in an exchange of fire.

The Palestinian Health Ministry described the attack as a slaughter and said three of the wounded were not resistance fighters, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds.

The Israeli army has frequently been invading the refugee camp since January 27, leading to massive protests and exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters and demolishing several homes and structures.

The army also said its soldiers arrested six Palestinians during the invasion, including two believed to be affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Palestinian sources have confirmed that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians, including siblings, during the offensive and identified them as Shaker Amarna, Mohammad Riyad Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Wa’el Oweidat, Abdul-Hafeth Fakhr Oweidat, and his brother, Mohammad, Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat and his brother Ahmad.

The offensive in the refugee camp started before dawn, Monday, when the soldiers shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused at least three to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Early Saturday morning, many armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Aqbat Jabr camp, shot thirteen Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, demolished four homes, and abducted at least five Palestinians, including a father and two of his sons.

Last Sunday night, undercover soldiers killed Ahmad and his brother Ehab Mohammad Hmeidat in a coffee shop at the main entrance of the refugee camp.

Various armed resistance groups and political factions, including Al-Qassam Brigades, the National Resistance Committees, and the Popular Front for the Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP), issued statements mourning the slain Palestinian fighters and vowing retaliation and ongoing resistance until liberation.

Ismael Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, said the resistance against the occupation will never cease until ending the illegal Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, and added that the resistance fighters in Jericho “were heroes who fought with courage and determination.”

Haniyya added that the ongoing Israel crimes against the Palestinian people only lead to more determination and ongoing resistance.

Rafat was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Abdullah Samih Qalalwa

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AbdullahFebruary 03, 2023: Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, 25, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers with a live bullet fired into his heart.

The killing took place during an Israeli military invasion of several parts of the West Bank. The soldiers shot Abdullah by the Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that the soldiers shot Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, 25, with a live round in the chest.

Abdullah, a married father of a newborn baby boy, worked in the surveying department (Land Authority) of the Palestinian Authority. His brother, Ibrahim, works for Palestine TV.

The Israeli army claimed that Abdullah tried to snatch a soldier’s weapon, an allegation frequently used by the army in similar cases, and could not be substantiated.

After shooting the young man, the soldiers left him bleeding on the ground without first aid and refused to allow Palestinian medics to reach him until he bled to death.

The army initially stated that the soldiers shot the Palestinian in the legs, but when the Palestinian medics took him to a hospital in Nablus, the doctors found out that he was shot in the chest.

Abdullah was from Al-Jadida village, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

After receiving news of his death, his mother was rushed to a hospital after suffering shock.

In addition to killing Abdullah, Israeli forces also injured several Palestinians with live ammunition in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and Beit Dajan, east of Nablus.

Several Palestinian protesters were injured by gunshot wounds. At the same time, dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Three Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffered tear gas inhalation during the Israeli suppression of the weekly peaceful anti-settlement march in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

The weekly protest has gone on for nearly two decades, demanding the opening of the village street, which Israeli forces closed nineteen years ago in order to colonize the village land.

Dozens of Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation as a result of the Israeli forces suppressing the weekly anti-settlement march in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, which has been organized since October 2020, to reject the establishment of a settlement outpost in the northeastern area of ​​the village lands.

Three civilians suffered from pepper gas, as Israeli forces and settlers attacked participants in a peaceful agricultural event condemning settlements in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem. This is another area where Israeli colonizers have been taking over Palestinian land, and locals have organized weekly protests for the past several years.

In addition, Israeli settlers fenced off areas of Yanun land, belonging to the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, under the protection of the Israeli army.

The Israeli military occupation and its settlers control more than 85% of the lands of Yanun, surrounded by five settlements and outposts, which are expanding at the expense of Palestinian citizens’ lands.

All Israeli settlements are a violation of international law and have been condemned by numerous UN resolutions.

Abdullah was from the Nablus governorate in the northern West Bank. Source: IMEMC