West Bank (Palestinian) Archives - Page 42 of 89

Islam Wael Burnat

May 18, 2021November 22, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 18, 2021: Islam Wael Burnat, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with a live round in the head, after the army invaded Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked nonviolent protesters, many Palestinians were also injured.

Islam was shot with a live round in the head after the army invaded the village.

On that day, the soldiers also killed Adham Fayez Mousa Kashef, 20, at the northern entrance of al-Biereh city, near Ramallah.

Adham was from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in al-Biereh city.

Media sources in Ramallah said the soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters near the al-Biereh city, and fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets at them.

They added that the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Mohammad Ishaq Hmeid, 25, in addition to shooting at least sixty-four with live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets and causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

The Health Ministry in Ramallah has confirmed that Hmeid, from Beit Anan town, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, suffered a severe injury to the chest before he was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, where he succumbed to his wounds.

The Health Ministry added that six of the injured Palestinians suffered serious wounds.

It added that the soldiers also directly targeted a Palestinian ambulance with several rounds of live ammunition, in addition to firing at reporters and press cars.

After the death of the Palestinian, several armed resistance fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers near the northern entrance of al-Biereh. An Israeli military spokesperson said two soldiers were injured.

In related news, the soldiers shot one Palestinian with live fire in the leg in Beit Sira village, west of Ramallah.

Islam was from Bil’in village, near Ramallah. Source: IMEMC

Adham Fayez Mousa Kashef

May 18, 2021November 22, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 18, 2021: Adham Fayez Mousa Kashef, 20, was killed by Israeli army fire at the northern entrance of al-Biereh city, near Ramallah in central West Bank.

They added that the soldiers also killed a young man, identified as Mohammad Ishaq Hmeid, 25, in addition to shooting at least sixty-four with live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets and causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

The Health Ministry added that six of the injured Palestinians suffered serious wounds.

It stated that the soldiers also directly targeted a Palestinian ambulance with several rounds of live ammunition, in addition to firing at reporters and press cars.

In related news, the soldiers shot one Palestinian with live fire in the leg in Beit Sira village, west of Ramallah.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers killed one Palestinian, identified as Islam Zahda.

Adham was from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in al-Biereh city. Source: IMEMC

Islam Ghayyad Mohammad Zahda

May 18, 2021November 24, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 18, 2021: Islam Ghayyad Mohammad Zahda, 32, was killed by Israeli soldiers ear the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.

Islam, a former political prisoner, was shot to death by the soldiers near the old vegetable market in the Old City of Hebron.

The Israeli alleged that Zahda had arrived at the military checkpoint carrying a Carlo weapon and a knife, and he was shot and neutralized.

Israeli Ynet News claimed that the man tried to fire the weapon but was unsuccessful and added that he also carried explosives before one of them detonated in his hand “but he kept advancing towards the soldiers” before he was shot dead.

Locals told reporters with the Ma’an News Agency that they heard an explosion, followed by gunfire, and saw a young man lying on the ground.

Palestinian medics rushed to the scene and tried to reach the young men, but the soldiers closed the area and did not allow them through.

The soldiers also fired live rounds at reporters and residents in the area to force them away.

In a video published on YouTube, an Israeli settler in Hebron is heard shouting in Hebrew while a battalion of soldiers were taking the body of Zahda, covered in plastic, saying “He is garbage – a dog who tried to kill Jews. Just dump him like garbage.”

The Israeli military frequently claims that Palestinians whom they have killed at or near checkpoints “had a weapon” even when later evidence disproves that claim.

Zahda is the fifth Palestinian killed in Hebron in five days. On Monday, Israeli forces killed 17-year-old Obeida Akram Jawabra.

On Saturday, troops killed Hussein Atiya at-Teety, 26, on Friday, the soldiers killed Hussein Atiya at-Teety, 26, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, and on Thursday Ismael Jamal at-Tubasi, 23, was shot with a live round to the head in ar-Reehiyya village, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Islam was from Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Obeida Akram Jawabra

May 17, 2021November 24, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 17, 2021: Obeida Akram Jawabra, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with live ammunition in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.

Medical sources said Obaida sustained a gunshot wound to his chest during a protest at the entrance of the camp located near Route 60, the main route in the West Bank connecting Hebron and Jerusalem.

He was shot in the heart by an Israeli soldier deployed about seventy meters (230 feet) away fired the fatal shot, according to eyewitnesses interviewed by Defense for Children International – Palestine.

Dozens of Palestinian civilians gathered at the entrance of the camp and attempted to resist the army invasion; however, they were met with excessive use of force by the Israeli army, causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

In related news, Palestinian activist groups, on Monday, have called for mass protests on Tuesday, May 18 to show opposition to the continuous Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the past 10 days.

Rights groups began to organize via social media platforms and by early afternoon political groups and unions joined the effort.

The statement also called for mass protests all over the West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian communities inside of the 1948 Palestinian territories (Israel) to stop Israel’s vicious assault on Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Furthermore, prior to this report, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli forces have killed 21 Palestinians, including one child, and injured 3728 in the West Bank alone.

The report added that Israeli airstrikes and shelling of residential buildings and infrastructure in the besieged Gaza Strip, has killed 198 Palestinian civilians, including fifty-eight children and thirty-five women, and injuring 1300, and terrorizing the entire population of the coastal enclave.

Obaida was from the al-Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: DCI, IMEMC

Shaher Abu Khadija

May 16, 2021December 14, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 16, 2021: Shaher Abu Khadija, 41, was killed by Israeli soldiers at a military roadblock near Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Media sources said the young man drove his car into an Israeli military roadblock at the entrance of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem.

The Israeli army claimed the crash was intentional, and added that seven soldiers were injured, two critically, and added that the soldiers opened fire at the car, immediately killing the driver.

Eyewitnesses said Shaher was not trying to ram the soldiers with his car but was speeding and was surprised by the soldiers on the street, before trying to swerve to avoid them.

Shortly after the accident, the soldiers attacked nearby Palestinian homes and fired teargas bombs and stun grenades into them, in addition to abducting two young men.

Sheikh Jarrah is the neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem where the current tensions began. At least 550 indigenous Palestinians, from twenty-eight families live in Sheikh Jarrah and are facing eviction and displacement from their homes they have inhabited for more than 48 years.

Despite allegations by the illegal Israeli colonialist settlers of ownership of the Palestinian homes, the government of Jordan provided Israel with official deeds proving their ownership of the properties.

However, Israel’s government and colonialist groups, are ongoing with their attempts to control more Palestinian lands, for the benefit of its illegal colonialist activities, especially to link the neighborhood with other nearby colonies.

Shaher was from the neighborhood of Kafr Aqeb north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC

Hala Mohammad Mo’een Al-Qulaq

May 16, 2021February 12, 2022 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 16, 2021: Hala Mohammad Mo’een Al-Qulaq, 13, was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city.

The missile strikes killed seventeen members of the al-Qulaq family, ranging in age from 1 to 90, as they huddled in their homes in terror while the Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the night. Local Palestinians reported hearing as many as 150 Israeli bombs during the night.

One of the families wiped out by an Israeli missile during the barrage of bombs dropped on al-Wehda Street was that of Riyad Hasan Ishkantna, who was pulled out of the rubble Sunday morning by rescue crews, barely alive, only to be told when he reached the hospital that his wife and four young children, ranging in age from 2 to 9 years old, were all killed in the Israeli attack.

Also killed in the barrage of airstrikes on al-Wihda Street was Dr. Mo’in Ahmad al-Aloul, a neurologist and brain specialist.

The Health Ministry in Gaza have identified the confirmed names of slain Palestinians from the al-Qulaq family as:

Amal Jamil Al-Qulaq, 34 years old
Sameh Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 28 years old
Saadia Youssef Al-Qulaq, 28 years old
Izzat Moeen Al-Qulaq, 44 years old
Adham Ezzat Al-Qulaq, 3 years old
Qusay Sameh Al-Qulaq, 1 year old
Hala Mohammed Mo’een Al-Qulaq, 13
and her sisters: Yara (10),
Rola (6)
and Lana (4)
Abdul Hamid Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 22 years old
Ameen Mohammed Hamad Al-Qulaq, 90
Mohammad Awni Al-Qulaq, 17 years old
Ayat Ibrahim Al-Qulaq, 19 years old
Ahmad Shukri Al-Qulaq, 17 years old
Reham Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 30 years old
Fawaz Shukri Al-Qulaq, 55 years old

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said that medical and Civil Defense crews pulled out thirteen dead bodies, including three women and seven children, from under the rubble of their houses on al-Wehda Street, raising the number of deaths to forty-three, most of them were children and women.

It said that slain Palestinians has been identified as Subhiya Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 73, Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qolaq, 90, Tawfiq Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 80, and his wife, Majdiya Khalil Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 82, Raja’ Subhi Isma’el al-Ifranji “Abu al-Ouf and 3 of her children, Mira Rami Riyad al-Ifranji, 12, Yazan, 13, Ameer, 9, and Hala Mohammed Mo’een al-Qolaq, 13, and her sister, Yara, 10, Rola, 6, and Lana, 4, Riyad Hasan Shkontana, and Mohammed Ahmed Musbah Ikki, 40.

The PCHR said, for the eighth consecutive day, the Israeli army continued the offensive on the Gaza Strip, in violation of the basic principles of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL): necessity, proportionality and distinction.

Tens of Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of intense airstrikes, along with artillery and gunboat shelling. The airstrikes targeted more houses and civilian facilities and intensified the destruction of roads and infrastructure, inflicting more casualties among Palestinian civilians and causing extensive damage to their properties.

It added that the Israeli army declared that the third phase of the military operation on the Gaza Strip has started and that fifty-four warplanes fired 110 missiles attacked thirty-five targets within 20 minutes, including fifteen kilometer-tunnels; according to IOF’s claims, while the facts on the ground indicate that the airstrikes targeted more houses, facilities, and streets.

The power outage crisis in the Gaza Strip aggravated as the electricity supply dropped to three to four hours a day that is inadequate for the vital facilities to provide services to the people of the Gaza Strip.

The Electricity Company stated that the components of the electricity distribution network sustained massive destruction as five main electric power transmission lines, which supply sixty megawatts, broke down since the beginning of the offensive while the rest lines break down from time to time and become out of service due to the airstrikes and destruction of many places.

The power plant warned that it would be forced to shut down this evening due to insufficient fuel supply. The Power Generating Company announced that “J4” electric power transmission line, which supplies Gaza City and passes through Street 8 and Street 10, sustained severe damage due to the intense airstrikes on the area. As a result, the electricity went off on vacant areas in the city.

The forced displacement of tens of thousands of residents from their houses in eastern Gaza Strip continued due to the violent artillery shelling as shelters were opened to receive them without so far providing adequate circumstances. Also, almost all aspects of daily life have been disrupted due to the non-stop airstrikes.

Further to PCHR’s press release published yesterday, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of airstrikes while the Israeli gunboats and artillery shelled various and indiscriminate targets across the Gaza Strip.

As a result, 23 Palestinians, including three women and seven children, while fifty-three others, including eight women and eighteen children, were injured.

Additionally, the airstrikes targeted twenty-one houses, several facilities, governmental headquarters, and infrastructure on a wide scale. Thus, the number of targeted houses has risen to 115, including multi-story buildings and several towers.

Moreover, the death toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive has risen to 204, including fifty-nine children and thirty-four women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 836, including 251 children and 184 women.

According to the daily update by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the total number of injuries has risen to 1300, including fifty serious injuries.

These large numbers of injuries have increased the burden on medical crews and the already exhausted healthcare system due to the Israeli-imposed closure and the outbreak of coronavirus in addition to the negative impact of power outage on the operation of laboratories, blood banks and surgeries, especially considering the growing number of injuries.

Also, during these days, Gaza hospitals rely on generators due to long hours of power outage, rendering hospitals in urgent need of constant supply of fuel.

Hala was from Gaza. Source: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), IMEMC

Yasin Hasan Hamad

May 15, 2021January 9, 2022 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 15, 2021: Yasin Hasan Yassin Hamad, 26, was shot by Israeli soldiers with a live round in the heart, instantly killing him, near the Annexation Wall, west of Zeita town, north of Tulkarem.

The Israeli attack took place when the soldiers invaded Zeita, leading to protests, and attacked the Palestinians with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs.

In related news, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, on Saturday evening, a young Palestinian man, identified as Hussein Atiya at-Teety, 26, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, after opening fire at his car and leaving him to bleed to death, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

The previous day, a Palestinian identified as Ismael Jamal Tubasi, 23, was killed in a similar attack by the Israeli colonists on the village. On the same day, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians in the West Bank and 39 men, women and children in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

During the escalation on May 14th, the Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, in addition to Sbeih Mountain, and the villages of Salem and Asira al-Qibliya, east of Nablus, and Orif village, south of the city, killed four Palestinians and injured dozens during ensuing protests.

Media sources said the soldiers killed Dr. Issa, a District Attorney, and a prosecutor with the Cybercrime Division with the Palestinian Public Prosecution Department.

In addition, Israeli colonialist settlers from Yitzhar illegal colony, infiltrated into the eastern area of Nablus, leading to protests, before the soldiers invaded it and shot two young men with live rounds in the abdomen and legs; one of them suffered a severe injury.

In Orif village, the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Nidal Sayel Safadi, 30, after shooting him with a live round, after several army jeeps invaded the village, and attacked protesters.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers killed Mohammad Rawhi Hammad, 30, after he reportedly attempted to ram soldiers with his car. The Palestinian is from Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah.

The soldiers also killed Yousef Mahdi Nawasra, 27, from Fahma village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, during protests near the Dothan Israeli military roadblock.

In Salfit, in central West Bank, the soldiers invaded Marda village, north of the city, and killed a young man, identified as Sharif Khaled Salman, 37, during protests that took place when the soldiers invaded the village, in addition to killing Awad Ahmad Harb, 27, in Iskaka village, east of Salfit.

Sharif had not been participating in protests but was standing outside his home when he was shot by invading Israeli forces. His mother told reporters with Ma’an News Agency, “I cannot believe that Sharif was killed. Just hours ago, he woke me up from sleep to have coffee together. He left behind a pregnant wife and three daughters.”

As tears streamed down her face, she told reporters, “I asked him to drink coffee with me, to drink it together, and to close the door for fear that his children and his sister’s children might go out to the street, because the army was out in the street, and our home is located near the main street of the village. I fell asleep while I waited for him to drink his coffee. I was awakened by the sound of gunfire and screaming. I did not know that the bullets were fired at Sharif, to end his life. The occupation deprived me of my son for no reason, just as it has deprived so many mothers.”

In Jericho, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers killed Mohammad Adel Abu Shqeir, 20, from the al-Qasab neighborhood, during protests that took place at the entrance of the city.

Yasin was from Saida town, north of Tulkarem. Source: IMEMC

Hussein Atiya at-Teety

May 15, 2021January 9, 2022 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 15, 2021: Hussein Atiya at-Teety, 26, was killed by Israeli forces who shot and killed him while he was driving his car.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed Hussein after opening fire at his car and leaving him to bleed to death, near the junction of the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

On the same day, Israeli soldiers shot nine Palestinians with live fire in Hebron city, including one who suffered a serious gunshot wound to the chest. Another Palestinian suffered a moderate wound after the army shot him near Yatta town, south of Hebron.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented a Palestinian ambulance from reaching Hussein, who was seriously wounded and bleeding out. The soldiers refused to allow the medics from approaching him, while he continued to bleed.

The soldiers also fired live rounds at the ambulance, while Hussein continued to bleed, and only allowed the medics to reach him after he died from his wounds.

The Palestinian was shot by soldiers in a fortified concrete military tower, who fired many live rounds at the car without any cause of reason.

In related news, illegal Israeli colonists attacked many homes, and burnt lands in the ar-Reehiyya village, near Hebron, before the soldiers invaded the area, and started firing live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and many homes.

The colonists also attacked homes in Tal Romedia, in the center of Hebron city, causing excessive property damage and at least one injury.

On Friday, a Palestinian identified as Ismael Jamal Tubasi, 23, was killed in a similar attack by the Israeli colonists on the village. On the same day, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians in the West Bank.

He was among nine Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire, in several parts of the occupied West Bank that day, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, and added that more than five hundred Palestinians were injured. They were protesting the Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip – on the day of the protests, 39 Palestinian men, women and children were killed by Israeli missiles dropped on their homes in the Gaza Strip.

Media sources said the soldiers killed Dr. Issa, a District Attorney, and a prosecutor with the Cybercrime Division with the Palestinian Public Prosecution Department.

In Orif village, the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Nidal Sayel Safadi, 30, after shooting him with a live round, after several army jeeps invaded the village, and attacked protesters.

The soldiers also killed Yousef Mahdi Nawasra, 27, from Fahma village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, during protests near the Dothan Israeli military roadblock.

In Jericho, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers killed Mohammad Adel Abu Shqeir, 20, from the al-Qasab neighborhood, during protests that took place at the entrance of the city.

Hussein was from the al-Fawwar refugee camp in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Nidal Sayel Safadi

May 14, 2021December 14, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 14, 2021: Nidal Sayel Safadi, 30, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Medical sources said the soldiers shot Nidal with a live round, after several army jeeps invaded the village, and attacked protesters.

He was killed after the soldiers invaded Nablus, in addition to Sbeih Mountain, and the villages of Salem and Asira al-Qibliya, east of Nablus, and Orif village, south of the city.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers killed nine Palestinians, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including four in Nablus, that day, and injured dozens, while paramilitary colonialist settlers also killed a young man.

It added that the soldiers injured at least five hundred Palestinians in the West Bank.

Nidal was from Orif village, south of Nablus. Source: IMEMC

Malek Misbah Hamdan

May 14, 2021December 10, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 14, 2021: Malek Misbah Hamdan, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers near Nablus, in northern West Bank.

Medical sources said the soldiers shot the Palestinian with a live round in the chest, in Sahel Salem area, in Salem village, east of Nablus.

Medical sources said Malek Hamdan succumbed to his serious wounds in a hospital in Nablus.

Dozens of Palestinians were injured after the soldiers invaded the village and fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinains who protested the invasion.

Malek was among nine Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire, in several parts of the occupied West Bank that day, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, and added that more than five hundred Palestinians have been injured.

The soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, in addition to Sbeih Mountain, and the villages of Salem and Asira al-Qibliya, east of Nablus, and Orif village, south of the city, killed four Palestinians and injured dozens during ensuing protests.

Media sources said the soldiers killed Dr. Issa, a District Attorney, and a prosecutor with the Cybercrime Division with the Palestinian Public Prosecution Department.

The soldiers also killed Husam Asayra, 20, with a live round to the chest, during protests that took place after the soldiers invaded Asira al-Qibliya village, near Nablus, and attacked protesters.

In Orif village, the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Nidal Sayel Safadi, 30, after shooting him with a live round, after several army jeeps invaded the village, and attacked protesters.

The soldiers also killed Yousef Mahdi Nawasra, 27, from Fahma village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, during protests near the Dothan Israeli military roadblock.

In Jericho, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers killed Mohammad Adel Abu Shqeir, 20, from the al-Qasab neighborhood, during protests that took place at the entrance of the city.

Malek was from Salem village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Source: IMEMC