December 24, 2015: Mohammed Rafeeq Saba’na, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers at the Huwwara road block. Noureddin Saba’ana, 23, was killed in the same incident. The soldiers claimed that the Palestinians wounded two soldiers after stabbing one of them and shooting the other. Source: IMEMC
December 17, 2015: Abdullah Hussein Nasasra, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers after he allegedly ran towards them carrying a knife. Eyewitnesses said the child did not carry a weapon and never attempted to attack the soldiers. The army prevented Palestinian medics from approaching him. Abdullah was from Beit Forik town, east of Nablus. Source: IMEMC
December 3, 2015: Mustafa Fadel Fanoun, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers, along with his cousin Taher Faisal Abdul Men’em Fanoun, 19, after the two allegedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers. Faisal was from Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
December 1, 2015: Ma’moun Raed al-Khatib, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers after he allegedly attempted to stab a settler, near the Gush Etzion settlement block, south of Bethlehem. Ma’moun was from Doha city, in the Bethlehem district. Source: IMEMC
November 30, 2015: Ayman Sameeh al-Abbassi, 17, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers after the army invaded the town and “clashed” with local youths. Ayman was from Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
November 25, 2015: Ibrahim Abdul-Halim Daoud, 16, was shot in the heart by an Israeli soldier after the army invaded his village. The teenager underwent several surgeries but died of his wounds two weeks after being shot. Ibrahim was from Deir Ghassana village, north of Ramallah. Source: IMEMC
November 23, 2015: Hadeel Wajeeh ‘Awwad, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after attempting to stab Israelis. Her 14-year-old friend was seriously injured by the soldiers. A surveillance video showed an Israeli guard firing the fatal shot after Hadeel was already shot and wounded. She was from Qalandia, north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
November 23, 2015: Ahmad Jamal Taha, 16, was shot by Israeli soldiers after allegedly stabbing and killing an Israeli settler on Route 443 west of Ramallah. Ahmad was from Qunta village near Ramallah. Source: IMEMC
November 23, 2015: Alaa Khalil Sabah Hashash, 16, was shot to death by Israeli soldiers, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army claimed that Alaa approached Huwwara roadblock while carrying a knife and allegedly attempted to stab a soldier.
A Palestinian woman identified as Samah Abd al-Mumen Ahmad from Ammuriya village was shot in the head in the crossfire, witnesses said.
A bus driver, Adham al-Sharfa, stated: “I saw what happened with my own eyes as Israeli soldiers opened fire at a youth for attempting to stab an Israeli soldier and then several Israeli soldiers arrived and shot the youth more than 10 times and he fell to the ground.”
Palestinian security sources said Samah was shot in the head while sitting inside her car near where the incident occurred. Her injuries were reported as critical. No Israelis were reported injured during the incident.
Alaa was from the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. Source: IMEMC
November 22, 2015: Ashraqat Taha Qatanany, 16, was killed when an Israeli settlement leader rammed her with his car, claiming that she had a knife.
When the girl fell to the ground, another Israeli paramilitary settler pulled over and shot her multiple times.
Israeli colonial settlement leader Gershon Mesika rammed a teenage girl with his car, claiming ‘she had a knife’.
When the girl fell to the ground, another Israeli paramilitary settler pulled over and shot her multiple times.
While Israeli authorities claim that Mesika ‘thwarted a terror attack’, the claim of Mesika and the other settler that the girl had a knife contradicts other accounts of the incident.
The child did not harm or attempt to harm anyone, and a knife photographed at the scene appears to have been tossed near her dead body.
Gershon Mesika, from Elon Moreh illegal colony, is the former head of the “Samaria Regional Council”, which is a body organized by Israeli settlers living illegally in the occupied West Bank.
He rammed the child with his car, landing the car in the ditch and leaving the girl lying prone on the ground. A paramilitary settler from the car behind Mesika’s then got out of his car and fired multiple shots at the girl. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the shooting was done by an Israeli driver of a vehicle behind Mesika’s. A later article by the Israeli news agency Arutz Sheva claimed that she was shot ‘by soldiers on the scene’.
A number of recent incidents in which Palestinians were shot and killed have been questioned by Palestinians and their supporters, as the eyewitness reports that unarmed Palestinian civilians were shot by Israeli paramilitary settlers have been reported in the Israeli and international media as ‘thwarted attacks’. In several cases, the Israeli military appears to have taken credit for shootings that were actually carried out by paramilitary settler groups.
Ashraqat was from Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC