2015

Anas Montaser Taha

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August 9, 2015: Anas Montaser Taha, 24, was killed by Israeli soldiers near an illegal Israeli colony near Ramallah, in central West Bank.

The Israeli army claimed that Anas stabbed an Israeli settler, wounding him lightly.

Taha was shot and severely injured, before he was moved to Shaari Tzedek Israeli Medical Center, in Jerusalem, where he succumbed to his wounds.

The Israeli settler sustained mild stab wounds before he was moved to a hospital for treatment.

The incident took place near Modi’in illegal colony, which was built on illegally confiscated Palestinian lands, west of Ramallah.

In a statement, the Palestinian foreign ministry said that a file on Israel’s policy of field execution committed against the Palestinian people is being prepared in preparation to take it to the international Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague.

According to the Middle East Monitor “At least 23 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,156 detained by the Israeli military since January 1, 2015.

The report noted that the Israeli army killed at least 42 Palestinians in the same period of 2014.

Anas was from Qotna town, northwest of Jerusalem. Source: PNN

Saad Dawabsha

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August 8th, 2015:  Saad Dawabsha, 32, died of burn wounds sustained on July 31st. He was burned to death along with his wife and 18 month old baby, Ali, when right-wing Israelis firebombed his family’s home. His four-year-old son, Ahmad, was the only one to survive the attack – with third degree burns all over his body.

The attack took place at about 2:30 in the morning, in the village of Douma, in the northern part of the West Bank near the city of Nablus.

The Israeli attackers arrived in the dead of night in the village, and began by spray-painting hate slogans against Palestinians on the Dawabsha family home. They then broke a window and threw a firebomb inside, setting off the fire that killed the baby.

The graffiti, written in Hebrew, included the phrase ‘price tag’, which is a slogan used by right-wing Israeli extremists against Palestinians – the reference being that continued Palestinian existence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would exact a price from the Israeli colonizers.

Ali’s father Sa’ad Dawabsha, and his mother Reham, 37, were also burned to death. Ali’s older brother, Ahmad, four years of age, suffered third degree burns all over his body but survived the attack.

In May 2020, nearly five years after the attack, one of the Israeli attackers was convicted of murder. The other attackers were not convicted, and still walk free.

Israel’s Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha.

Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015  attack that killed Ali Dawabsha and severely burned his older brother Ahmad and both his parents, Reham and Sa’ad when the settler, with others, threw flaming Molotov cocktails into the family bedroom. Reham and Saad later died of their wounds.

The Dawabsha family was from Douma village near Nablus. Source: IMEMC

Ali Dawabsha

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July 31, 2015:  Ali Saad Dawabsha, 18 months old, was burned to death after right-wing Israelis firebombed his family’s home. His mother, father, and four-year-old brother, were severely burned, and both of his parents later died of their wounds.

The attack took place at about 2:30 in the morning, in the village of Douma, in the northern part of the West Bank near the city of Nablus.

The Israeli attackers arrived in the dead of night in the village, and began by spray-painting hate slogans against Palestinians on the Dawabsha family home. They then broke a window and threw a firebomb inside, setting off the fire that killed the baby.

The graffiti, written in Hebrew, included the phrase ‘price tag’, which is a slogan used by right-wing Israeli extremists against Palestinians – the reference being that continued Palestinian existence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would exact a price from the Israeli colonizers.

Ali’s father Sa’ad Dawabsha, and his mother Reham, 37, were also burned to death. Ali’s older brother, Ahmad, four years of age, suffered third degree burns all over his body but survived the attack.

In May 2020, nearly five years after the attack, one of the Israeli attackers was convicted of murder. The other attackers were not convicted, and still walk free.

Israel’s Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha.

Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015  attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad and both his parents, Reham and Sa’ad when the settler, with others, threw flaming Molotov cocktails into the family bedroom.

The Dawabsha family was from Douma village near Nablus. Source: IMEMC

‘Umran Abu Dheim

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May 20, 2015: ‘Umran Abu Dheim, 41, was killed by police fire after they claimed he “deliberately rammed his car into police officers, in occupied Jerusalem, wounding two, before he was shot dead. 

Palestinian eyewitnesses said the incident was a traffic accident, and not a deliberate attack.

His family said that Abu Dheim had no political affiliation, or any interest in political factions and issues.

He was a married father of five children: Rasha, 14, Hamza, 11, Raghad, 9, Hala, 6, and Mohammad, 14 months of age. He was planning to take his family on a trip to Turkey after the school year is done.

After he was killed, the soldiers invaded and ransacked his home, and interrogated several members of his family.

The Israeli police initially refused to transfer the body of the slain Palestinian to his family and insisted that the funeral procession should not contain more than twenty participants; the family refused the Israeli demands.

Mohammad Mahmoud, one of the lawyers of the Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association, said that the Israeli Authorities eventually informed him that they would transfer the body of the slain Palestinian to his family between 11 at night and midnight.

The Israeli preconditions, and extensive military and police deployment around Palestinian communities in occupied Jerusalem, failed in preventing thousands of Jerusalemite Palestinians from marching in the funeral procession, carrying flags and chanting against the Israeli

Protests took place in various parts of occupied Jerusalem, lasting all day long until evening hours, while scores of residents have been injured, including at least eleven in Jabal Al-Mokabber and Jabal az-Zeitoun (The Mount Of Olives).

Omran was from Jabal al-Mokabber in Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC

 

Mahmoud Yahia Abu Jheishah

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April 25, 2015: Mahmoud Yahia Abu Jheishah, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army claimed that Mahmoud stabbed an Israeli soldier at a military roadblock, near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron city.

After the fatal shooting, the Israeli army pushed dozens of soldiers around the Ibrahimi Mosque, the Old city and several surrounding areas.

The soldiers also installed additional military roadblocks, before stopping and searching dozens of Palestinians, and forced them away.

Mahmoud wad from Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: Al-Bawaba

Muhammad Yihya

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April 28, 2015: Mohammad Murad Yahia, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Palestinian medical sources have reported that Mohammad initially suffered a critical injury and succumbed to his wounds in a hospital in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Eyewitnesses said Israeli soldiers shot the young man, while standing near the Annexation Wall section in al-‘Arqa village, without any provocation or warning.

Resident ‘Asef Wakid said Yahia and his cousins, Ahmad, and Emad, were in their families’ orchards, close to an illegal Israeli colony, when the soldiers shot and killed Yahia in cold blood.

Wakid stated that a soldier fired one round at Yahia causing a severe injury, before the army abducted his cousins Ayman and Emad.

The Palestinians were walking and picnicking in their orchard with the soldiers killed Yahia, eyewitnesses confirmed.

Head of the Emergency Unit of the Red Crescent Society in Jenin Mahmoud Sa’di said the soldiers shot Mohammad in an orchard near a section of the Annexation Wall that isolated the Palestinians from their lands.

He added that Yahia was moved to the Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital, in Jenin, suffering a critical injury.

In addition, soldiers detained two brothers, identified as Ayman and Emad Mahmoud Saleh, while in their family’s land, isolated by the Annexation Wall.

In related news, soldiers abducted a Palestinian child in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, after invading it, and clashing with local youths.

The soldiers also fired rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs, causing several residents to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Mohammad was from al-‘Arqa village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Source: IMEMC

‘Ali Safi

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March 25, 2015: ‘Ali Safi, 20, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said Ali was serious injured a week earlier when the soldiers invaded the refugee camp and fired live rounds at protesters.

The PCHR added that the soldiers also injured seven Palestinian civilians, including five children.

On 25 March 2015, medical sources at Palestine Medical Compound in Ramallah pronounced Ali dead of his serious wounds.

His death led to massive protests in the refugee camp, and several parts of the Ramallah governorate, before the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing dozens of injuries.

Ali was from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Source: PCHR