June 20, 2023: Amjad Aref Al-Ja’as, 48, died from serious wounds suffered a day earlier in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, when Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians and injured more than 100, including 26, who suffered serious wounds.
Amjad is the father of Wasim Amjad Aref Al-Ja’as, 19, who was among nine Palestinians, including one woman and siblings, killed by Israeli army fire in the Jenin refugee camp on January 26, 2023.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed Amjad’s death at dawn on June 20 and said he was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire Monday, June 19, during the massive Israeli invasion of Jenin.
The Health Ministry added that Amjad was rushed to a hospital in Jenin and was later moved to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus due to the seriousness of his wounds, but succumbed to his injuries despite all efforts to save his life.
It confirmed that the soldiers killed five Palestinians, including a child, and injured at least 100, including 23 who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp.
The Palestinians who were killed by the army Monday in Jenin have been identified as Ahmad Yousef Saqer, 15, Khaled Azzam Asa’sa, 21, Qassam Faisal Abu Seriyya, 29, Qais Majdi Adel Jabarin, 21, from Jenin, and Ahmad Khaled Daraghma, 19, from Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank.
The Israeli army said seven soldiers were injured when Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device weighing more than 40 kilograms near their armored military vehicles and added that the explosion caused serious damage to the vehicle, although it was armored.
On the same day, Israeli soldiers killed Zakariya Mohammad Zakariya Za’oul, 20, and injured two after the army invaded Husan village, west of Bethlehem, in the West Bank.
Amjad was from Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC
June 19, 2023: Zakariya Mohammad Zakariya Za’oul, 20, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also shot and injured two young men after the army invaded Husan, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
June 19, 2023: Ahmad Khaled Fayez Daraghma, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers during a massive invasion of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.
Earlier in the invasion, The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli military vehicles rammed one of its ambulances while transporting wounded Palestinians to the hospital and added that the soldiers shot a journalist, Hazem Nasser, with a live round in the abdomen. It also said that the soldiers continued to fire toward him until he reached an ambulance on foot.
June 19, 2023: Qais Majdi Adel Jabarin, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed five other Palestinians, including a child, and injured more than 100, including 23 who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
June 19, 2023: Ahmad Yousef Saqer, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed five other Palestinians, including a child, and injured more than 100, including 23 who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
June 19, 2023: Qassam Faisal Abu Seriyya, 29, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed four other Palestinians during a massive invasion of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, the army used military helicopters and drones to fire missiles at Palestinian resistance fighters.
June 19, 2023: Khaled Azzam Asa’sa, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also killed four other Palestinians and injured more than 45, ten seriously, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Health Ministry added that the soldiers injured at least 45 Palestinians, including ten who suffered life-threatening wounds; thirteen of the wounded Palestinians were shot with live fire.
June 15, 2023: Khalil Yahia Anis, 20, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also injured about 185 Palestinians, including three who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Nablus, in the northern West Bank, before wiring and detonating a Palestinian home.
Hundreds of Palestinians protested the invasion and the demolitions while armed resistance fighters also exchanged fire with the soldiers and detonated explosive charges.
The PRCS added that the soldiers also shot three Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, rammed one with their jeep, and caused more than sixty to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
June 13, 2023: Fares Abdul-Mon’em Mohammad Hashash, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers who also injured eight Palestinians, including a child, in
The invasion started when undercover soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp wearing press vests, but the locals noticed them before an Israeli army sharpshooter on a rooftop of an invaded home shot and seriously injured a teenage boy, identified as Tha’er Hashash, whose flesh was scattered on nearby walls and doors.
June 09, 2023: Mahdi Samir Mohammad Bayadsa, 29, was killed by Israeli soldiers at the Rantis military roadblock west of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank.