April 24, 2023: Hatem As’ad Abu Najma, 39, was killed by an armed Israeli man in Jerusalem after he reportedly injured seven Israelis in what the army called a ramming attack.
Media sources said the colonizer fatally shot Hatem, a married father of five children from Beit Safafa town, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli sources said the Palestinian “rammed several Israelis with his car in Davidka Square,” nearly one block away from “Mahaneh Yehuda” market, wounding seven, including a man, about 80 years old, who suffered serious wounds and a woman in her 30s who suffered moderate-but-stable injuries.
The seriously wounded man is reported to be sedated and hooked to a respiratory machine at the Intensive Care Unit at the Sha’are Zedek Medical Center.
The Jerusalem Post quoted the Israeli police stating that the Palestinian “sped up at an intersection deliberately ramming pedestrians” and added that he then “slowed down and stopped before an armed civilian shot and killed him.”
A video from the scene shows the colonizer shooting the Palestinian man through the closed side window of his car while he posed no threat or even attempted to leave it.
The Israeli military and internal security said Hatem was not known to have any affiliation with Palestinian political faction or armed groups and added that he had a history of mental illness.
After the incident, which potentially could have been a traffic accident, several Israeli teenagers gathered in the area, chanting “We want vengeance” while raising Israeli flags and “Ben-Gvir go home,” referring to the fanatic right-wing Israeli National Security Minister, Itama Ben-Gvir.
It is worth mentioning that Ben-Gvir phoned the man who killed the Palestinians, and “expressed his gratitude and the gratitude of the state of Israel for his actions that prevented a much larger incident.”
Earlier Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho city in the northeastern West Bank, killed Suleiman Ayesh Hussein Oweid, 20, before taking his corpse away, injured three, and abducted three others, including two siblings.
Hatem, a married father of five children from Beit Safafa town, south of occupied Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
April 24, 2023: Suleiman Ayesh Hussin Oweid, 20, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho city in the northeastern West Bank.
April 11, 2023: Mohammad Ghazi Abu Thera’, 35, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed another Palestinian in the same attack, near Deir al-Hatab village, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
April 10, 2023: Mohammad Fayez Balhan, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
They added that the soldiers surrounded and isolated the refugee camp before undercover soldiers invaded it and encircled a home.
April 08, 2023: Ayed Azzam Mahmoud Salim, 20, was killed by soldiers at the main entrance to Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
After his death was confirmed, dozens of Palestinians held protests before the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades, and closed the main entrance of the town.
April 03, 2023: Mohammad Mustafa Juneidi (Abu Bakr), 43, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
April 03, 2023: Mohammad Nasser Sa’id Hallaq, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
April 01, 2023: Mohammad Raed Nayef Baradiya, 23, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
April 01, 2023: Mohammad Al-Asibi, 26, died from serious wounds he suffered a day earlier after Israeli soldiers shot him at the Bab Al-Silsila (Chain Gate) leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem after alleging he attempted to snatch a weapon from a soldier, an allegation that witnesses denied.