West Bank (Palestinian)

Aref Abdul-Nasser Lahlouh

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January 25, 2023: Aref Abdul-Nasser Lahlouh, 20, was killed by Israeli soldiers after an alleged ‘stabbing attack’ near the illegal Kedumim colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands near Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that the young man, reportedly carrying a knife, arrived at the military roadblock near Kedumim colony, and attempted to stab a soldier before other soldiers shot him.

The army added that the Palestinian reportedly “chased a soldier who fired at him, causing him to fall on the ground” and continued to claim that the wounded young man “managed to get up and run towards him again before he was fatally shot.”

The army said no soldiers were hurt in the incident.

After shooting the young man, the soldiers refused to allow Palestinian medics to approach him or take his corpse away.

Furthermore, a few hours after killing him, the soldiers abducted his father, Abdul-Nasser, while crossing a military back on his way back home.

Aref’s fatal shooting brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first 25 days of this year to nineteen, including four children.

The slain Palestinians are:

  1. January 25, 2023: Aref Abdul-Rahman Lahlouh, 22.
  2. January 19, 2023: Tareq Odah Yousef Ma’ali, 42,
  3. January 19, 2023: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58.
  4. January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26.
  5. January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40
  6. January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
  7. January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
  8. January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
  9. January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
  10. January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
  11. January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
  12. January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
  13. January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
  14. January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
  15. January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
  16. January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
  17. January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
  18. January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
  19. January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Aref was from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Source: IMEMC

Tareq Odah Ma’ali

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January 21, 2023: Tareq Yousef Ma’ali, 42, was shot and killed by an Israeli paramilitary colonizer in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that Tareq Odah Yousef Ma’ali, 42, was a married father of three children, Walid, 12, Laith, 8 and Ahmad, 6 from Kafr Ni’ma village.

Israeli sources claimed the Palestinian exited his car and attempted to stab a colonizer before he shot and killed him. But there was no independent verification of that claim – and it is a frequent excuse used by Israeli settlers and soldiers when they assassinate Palestinians. The Israelis provided no evidence to back their claim.

The incident occurred in the illegal Sde Ephraim illegal colonialist outpost near the Neria colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands.

Ar-Reesan Mountain, situated on lands belonging to al-Janiya, Ras Karkar, and Kafr Ni’ma, witnesses frequent protests due to illegal Israeli annexation and colonialist activities.

The colonialist outpost, Sde Ephraim, is considered “unauthorized” by Israel because it was established without approval from the Israeli government.

All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.

Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.

Tareq was a married father of three children from Kafr Ni’ma village. Source: IMEMC

Jawad Farid Bawaqna

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January 19, 2023: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a pre-dawn invasion of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

According to eyewitnesses, Jawad had awoken by the sound of the Israeli army invasion on his street, and opened his door to find a man bleeding to death in front of his home. He bent down to try to help him and to render first aid. But the soldiers shot and killed Jawad with a gunshot to the head.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed a physical education teacher and a married father of six children, Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, after shooting him in the head, and former political prisoner, Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, both from Jenin refugee camp.

Ata Abu Romeila, the secretary of the Fateh movement in Jenin, said the soldiers fatally shot Bawaqna while trying to render first aid to Jabarin, who was shot in front of his home in the As-Saha area in the center of Jenin refugee camp by an army sharpshooter, who shot him in the head.

He added that Israeli soldiers also stopped Palestinian ambulances and prevented the medics from entering the refugee camp, forcing the residents to transport Jawad and Adham to the Ibn Sina Hospital in private cars, but they succumbed to their wounds.

The soldiers also attacked Palestinian protesters with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers injured several Palestinians, including three who were shot with live fire to the abdomen, thigh, and shoulder, suffering moderate-but-stable wounds.

The Palestinian shot in the abdomen was rushed to surgery after a soldier shot him with an expanding bullet, causing multi-organ damage.

Two Israeli soldiers were reportedly injured by an explosive charge hurled at their military vehicle.

After killing the two Palestinians, the soldiers fired many live rounds at the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin.

Dr.Mai Al-Kaila, the Palestinian Health Minister, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on the governmental hospital, especially since many bullets struck inside the children’s ward.

Dr. Al-Kaila said the attack is not the first to target medical centers, medical workers, and facilities, and called on international legal and human rights groups to intervene and help end these serious violations.

Her statements came after Israeli soldiers fired many live rounds that went through the windows of a children’s ward, the nurses changing room in the same ward, and the pediatricians’ conference room.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, including two siblings, Hasan Ahmad Zaghal and Sharaf Ahmad Abu Sharif, in addition to Aws and his brother Hani Khaled Abu Zeina.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched in front of Ibn Sina hospital carrying the corpses of Jabarin and Bawaqna, chanting for ongoing resistance, steadfastness until liberation and independence, and calling for international protection for the Palestinian people.

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian security officer, Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Last year, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate.

Israeli soldiers killed seventeen Palestinians, including four children, in the first nineteen days of this month/year: 

  1. January 19, 223: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58.
  2. January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26.
  3. January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40
  4. January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
  5. January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
  6. January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
  7. January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
  8. January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
  9. January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
  10. January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
  11. January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
  12. January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
  13. January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
  14. January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
  15. January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
  16. January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
  17. January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Jawad was from  Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Adham Mohammad Jabarin

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January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a pre-dawn invasion of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

While Adham was bleeding on the street, an older man came out of his home to try to help him and to render first aid. But the soldiers shot and killed the older man as well.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed a physical education teacher and a married father of six children, Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, after shooting him in the head, and former political prisoner, Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, both from Jenin refugee camp.

Ata Abu Romeila, the secretary of the Fateh movement in Jenin, said the soldiers fatally shot Bawaqna while trying to render first aid to Jabarin, who was shot in front of his home in the As-Saha area in the center of Jenin refugee camp by an army sharpshooter, who shot him in the head.

The man was trying to help Adham, who was shot by an Israeli army sharpshooter and was heavily bleeding, before Jawad’s daughter helped drag Adham to safety a few meters away, but then an army sniper shot her father.

He added that Israeli soldiers also stopped Palestinian ambulances and prevented the medics from entering the refugee camp, forcing the residents to transport Jawad and Adham to the Ibn Sina Hospital in private cars, but they succumbed to their wounds.

The soldiers also attacked Palestinian protesters with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers injured several Palestinians, including three who were shot with live fire to the abdomen, thigh, and shoulder, suffering moderate-but-stable wounds.

The Palestinian shot in the abdomen was rushed to surgery after a soldier shot him with an expanding bullet, causing multi-organ damage.

Two Israeli soldiers were reportedly injured by an explosive charge hurled at their military vehicle.

After killing the two Palestinians, the soldiers fired many live rounds at the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin.

Dr.Mai Al-Kaila, the Palestinian Health Minister, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on the governmental hospital, especially since many bullets struck inside the children’s ward.

Dr. Al-Kaila said the attack is not the first to target medical centers, medical workers, and facilities, and called on international legal and human rights groups to intervene and help end these serious violations.

Her statements came after Israeli soldiers fired many live rounds that went through the windows of a children’s ward, the nurses changing room in the same ward, and the pediatricians’ conference room.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, including two siblings, Hasan Ahmad Zaghal and Sharaf Ahmad Abu Sharif, in addition to Aws and his brother Hani Khaled Abu Zeina.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched in front of Ibn Sina hospital carrying the corpses of Jabarin and Bawaqna, chanting for ongoing resistance, steadfastness until liberation and independence, and calling for international protection for the Palestinian people.

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian security officer, Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Last year, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate.

Israeli soldiers killed seventeen Palestinians, including four children, in the first nineteen days of this month/year: 

  1. January 19, 223: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58.
  2. January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26.
  3. January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40
  4. January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
  5. January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
  6. January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
  7. January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
  8. January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
  9. January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
  10. January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
  11. January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
  12. January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
  13. January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
  14. January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
  15. January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
  16. January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
  17. January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Adham was from  Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Hamdi Shaker Abu Dayya

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January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, was killed by Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Hamdi was a former political prisoner and a married father of three children from Halhoul.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fateh Movement, said Hamdi, a police officer with the Palestinian Authority, was one of its members.

The Israeli army claimed the soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian in a car, reportedly after several shots of live fire targeted a military roadblock.

According to Israeli Channel 14, the army is investigating whether the Palestinian was the same person who, two days ago, opened fire at an Israeli bus near the illegal Gush Etzion colony.

Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers stopped them and did not allow them to approach the severely bleeding man, who was later declared dead at the scene before the army took his body to an unknown destination.

Hours after killing the Palestinian man, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Halhoul town, stormed and ransacked the slain officer’s home, and interrogated his family.

The invasion led to protests before the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Hamdi’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the first seventeen days of this year to fifteen, including four children.

      1. January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abu Dayya, 40.
      2. January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
      3. January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
      4. January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
      5. January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
      6. January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
      7. January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
      8. January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
      9. January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
      10. January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
      11. January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
      12. January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
      13. January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
      14. January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
      15. January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Hamdi was from Halhoul, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Amro Khaled Al-Khmour

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January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the child succumbed to a serious gunshot wound to the head.

The child was shot at dawn when many army vehicles invaded the refugee camp, violently searched homes, and abducted a young man.

He was rushed to Beit Jala hospital before he was moved to Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation due to the seriousness of his wounds before he succumbed to his injuries.

The invasion led to protests before the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Media sources said the soldiers searched several homes and abducted Mahmoud Salah Hammash, 24.

Hours after the child’s death, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in front of Beit Jala governmental hospital and marched to the child’s home in the Deheishe refugee camp.


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The Palestinians held the funeral ceremony and procession and headed to the Shuhada graveyard in the Artas nearby village while chanting for liberation and independence and calling for International Protection for the Palestinian people.

The child’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the first sixteen days of this year to fourteen, including four children.

  1. January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
  2. January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
  3. January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
  4. January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
  5. January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
  6. January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
  7. January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
  8. January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
  9. January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
  10. January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
  11. January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
  12. January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
  13. January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
  14. January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Amro was from Deheishe camp, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Ahmad Hasan Kahala

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January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Abdul-Jalil Kahala, 45, was killed by Israeli soldiers at the western entrance of Silwad town, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden military roadblock at the entrance of the town before stopping and searching cars.

They added that the soldiers forced Ahmad, who was driving with his son, out of his car and started assaulting him after a verbal argument ensued.

The eyewitnesses stated that one of the soldiers assaulting the Palestinian shot him from point-blank range.

Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers stopped them, obstructed their efforts to provide him with life-saving first aid, and eventually allowed them to take him away.

The medics rushed Ahmad to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, but he succumbed to his serious wounds.

“Ahmad had no vital signs when we reached him,” Aahed Smerat, one of the medics at the scene, said, “His son called for help, but when we arrived there, the soldiers stopped us and told us the man was under arrest, and later allowed us to take him away.”

The slain man’s sister, Ehman Kahala, said her brother and his son, Qussai, 18, were heading to work at a construction site when the soldiers stopped them at a military roadblock.

“They were assaulting my brother before an argument, and a brief scuffle broke out, and then they [the soldiers] just executed him….” She added.

His sister added that the slain man is a married father of five; two boys and three girls, and one of his daughters will graduate from high school this year.

The Israeli army alleged that the Palestinian “got out of his car, approached the soldiers and attacked them with a knife, in an area where Palestinian protesters were throwing stones at the army.”

Dr. Laila Ghannam, the Governor of Ramallah and Al-Biereh, said Ahmad’s execution is yet another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people and called on the International Community to act instead of shielding Israel from international prosecution for its ongoing war crimes.

Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, denounced Ahmad’s killing and said, “the criminals are ongoing with their crimes and violations of International law with impunity,” and called for international protection for the Palestinian people.

Ahmad is the thirteenth Palestinian, including three children, to be killed by Israeli soldiers in the first fifteen days of this year, 2023.

On Saturday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, near the main entrance of Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Also Saturday dawn, Palestinian medical sources at Iben Sina Hospital in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, confirmed the death of Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19, whom the soldiers shot earlier this month near Jenin.

Yazan was shot on January 2nd when the army invaded the town and detonated the home of two slain Palestinians, Ahmad Ayman ‘Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani ‘Aabed, 22.

The invasion led to massive protests before the soldiers fatally shot Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 21, from Al-Yamoun, and Fuad Mahmoud Ahmad ‘Aabed, 18, from Kafr Dan, and injured many others, some seriously.

In 2022, the Israeli army killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from Jenin, in the northern West Bank.

Ahmad was from Rammun town, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Yazan Samer Ja’bari

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January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19, died from serious wounds he suffered earlier in January after Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured him in the Al-Yamoun town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Palestinian medical sources at Iben Sina Hospital in Jenin confirmed Yazan’s death and said he was seriously injured by Israeli army fire on January 2.

Yazan when the army invaded the town and detonated the home of two slain Palestinians, Ahmad Ayman ‘Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani ‘Aabed, 22.

The invasion led to massive protests before the soldiers fatally shot Mohamamd Samer Houshiyya, 21, from Al-Yamoun, and Fuad Mahmoud Ahmad ‘Aabed, 18, from Kafr Dan, and injured many others, some seriously, including Yazan.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched carrying Yaza’n’s body, chanting for unity and ongoing resistance until liberation and independence.

At dawn the same day, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, both from Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, near the main entrance of Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first fourteen days of this year, 2023, to twelve, including three children.

The Palestinians Health Ministry said the soldiers killed 224 Palestinians last year, including two children; 59 slain Palestinians are from the Jenin governorate.

Yazan was from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya

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January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, was killed by Israeli soldiers killed t near the main entrance of Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Amjad and Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, from Jaba’.

Media sources said the soldiers assassinated the two Palestinians after ambushing their car near the Jaba’ town junction, fired many live rounds at them, and chased them to the Al-Fandaqumiya nearby village before firing a barrage of live rounds at their car, killing the two.

The Saraya Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said the two were members of the group and added that they exchanged fire with the soldiers on the main road between Jaba’ and Al-Fandaqumiya.

It added that one of them was injured before they drove away, but the soldiers chased them, fired dozens of live rounds at their car, and killed them.

Earlier the same day, the soldiers invaded the site of a former illegal Israeli colony in the area, installed a roadblock at the entrance of the Jaba’ town, leading to protests, and fired many live rounds at the Palestinians, wounding one in the leg.

Various Palestinian factions in Jenin issued statements mourning the two young men and Yazan Al-Ja’abri, 19, who died from his wounds at dawn and called for ongoing resistance until liberation.

The killing of the two young men brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first fourteen days of this year, 2023, to twelve, including three children.

The Palestinians Health Ministry said the soldiers killed 224 Palestinians last year, including two children; 59 slain Palestinians are from the Jenin governorate.

Amjad was from Jaba’, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra

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January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, was killed by Israeli soldiers in a targeted assassination near the main entrance of Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the soldiers assassinated the two Palestinians, Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24, and Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23, both from Jaba’, after ambushing their car near the Jaba’ town junction, fired many live rounds at them, and chased them to the Al-Fandaqumiya nearby village before firing a barrage of live rounds at their car, killing the two.

The Saraya Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said the two were members of the group and added that they exchanged fire with the soldiers on the main road between Jaba’ and Al-Fandaqumiya.

It added that one of them was injured before they drove away, but the soldiers chased them, fired dozens of live rounds at their car, and killed them.

Earlier Saturday, the soldiers invaded the site of a former illegal Israeli colony in the area, installed a roadblock at the entrance of the Jaba’ town, leading to protests, and fired many live rounds at the Palestinians, wounding one in the leg.

Various Palestinian factions in Jenin issued statements mourning the two young men and Yazan Al-Ja’abri, 19, who died from his wounds at dawn and called for ongoing resistance until liberation.

The killing of the two young men brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first fourteen days of this year, 2023, to twelve, including three children.

The Palestinians Health Ministry said the soldiers killed 224 Palestinians last year, including two children; 59 slain Palestinians are from the Jenin governorate.

Ezzedin was from Jaba’ village in the northern West Bank. Source: IMEMC