Aqabat Jaber

Suleiman Ayesh Oweid

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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.

Medical sources said the soldiers killed Suleiman, injured three other young men, and abduct three, including two siblings.

Jihad Abu Al-Asal, the governor of Jericho and the Northern Plains, said the soldiers fatally shot Suleiman Ayesh Hussin Oweid, 20, and took his corpse away.

Abu Al-Asal added that Civil Affairs Committee confirmed the young man’s death and added that the soldiers also injured three Palestinians, including two with live fire, and abducted one of them, Ali Othman Habash.

One of the wounded Palestinians, Suleiman Khalaf Awajna, suffered moderate wounds after the soldiers rammed him with their jeep, before Palestinian medics rushed him to a hospital in Jericho.

The Israeli army said it invaded the refugee camp to attest “wanted Palestinians,” adding that the soldiers saw two Palestinians trying to escape and shot them.

Also, the soldiers invaded many parts of the occupied West Bank, stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, and abducted at least sixteen Palestinians.

Suleiman was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho city in the northeastern West Bank. Site: IMEMC

Mohammad Fayez Balhan

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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.

Media sources said many Israeli army vehicles invaded the refugee camp leading to protests, before the soldiers fatally shot the Palestinian child, injured two young men, and abducted five.

They added that the soldiers surrounded and isolated the refugee camp before undercover soldiers invaded it and encircled a home.

Minutes later, many army vehicles stormed the refugee camp and deployed sharpshooters on rooftops of nearby homes and buildings, leading to protests.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed the child, Mohammad Fayez Balhan, 15, after shooting him with three bullets to the head, abdomen, and pelvis.

The Health Ministry added that the soldiers also shot two Palestinians with live fire to the lower extremities before the medics rushed them to Jericho governmental hospital.

The Israeli army said the invasion is not directly related to the shooting that led to the death of two Israeli colonizers and the injury of their mother in the Jordan Valley on April 7th.

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The army added that “it is operating to curb the rise of shooting incidents in Jericho and the Jordan valley, two major West Bank areas that didn’t witness serious security incidents the previous years.

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On April 8, 2023, the soldiers killed Ayed Azzam Mahmoud Salim, 20, at the main entrance to Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On April 3, 2023, the soldiers killed Mohammad Mustafa Juneidi (Abu Bakr), 43, and Mohammad Nasser Sa’id Hallaq, 21, in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On April 01, 2023, the army killed Mohammad Raed Nayef Baradiya, 23, near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and Mohammad Al-Asibi, 26, in occupied Jerusalem.

According to the Health Ministry, Israeli soldiers killed 96 Palestinians, including eighteen children, one woman, and a young man from Houra town in the Negev, since the beginning of this year.

Mohammad was from Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan

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March 01, 2023: Mahmoud Jamal Hasan Hamdan, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters in a surrounded home, and injured six Palestinians.

Palestinian medics rushed to the area and tried to reach the seriously wounded man to provide essential aid, but the soldiers blocked them before taking him away.

Media sources said the army took the Palestinian, who was seriously injured, to an Israeli hospital and later informed the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs that the young man has succumbed to his wounds.

The Israeli army said it invaded the refugee camp to abduct Palestinians who are believed to be behind the shooting attack that led to the death of former Israeli army soldier, Elan Ganeles, and added that one of them sustained serious wounds while trying to retreat from the area.

Media sources said the soldiers surrounded the home of Maher Shalloon, where Palestinian fighters were hiding, and exchanged fire with them before firing a rocket at the property.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Abdul-Nasser Mousa Shalloon, 55, Maher Shalloon, 44, Amer Shalloon, 39, Mohammad Shalloon, 47, and his son Saleh, 24, in addition to the seriously injured Palestinian, Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan, from the home and added that all of them are former political prisoners.

The army claimed the abducted Palestinians exchanged fire with the soldiers before they were taken prisoners and their weapons confiscated.

The army initiated the attack by deploying undercover soldiers who surrounded and isolated the home before many army vehicles invaded the refugee camp.

The soldiers also opened fire at a Palestinian car, shattering its windows, before confiscating it, in addition to shooting a young man with a rubber-coated steel bullet to the head during ensuing protests.

Jericho remains under strict Israeli military siege for the third day while the army installed more roadblocks and placed sand hills on several streets.

Earlier Monday, two Israeli Colonizers were killed Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 22, and his brother, Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 20, were killed in a shooting in Huwwara near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers killed Sameh Aqtash, 37, while in his home in Za’tara village. Sameh Aqtash. The slain man was in Turkey two weeks before, volunteering with a rescue team to save lives after the devastating earthquake.

On February 23, 2023, Israeli soldiers killed Mohammad Nabil Fawzi Abu Sabah, 29, In Jenin, in the northern West Bank.

The day before Mohammad’s death, Israeli soldiers killed eleven Palestinians, injured more than 102, six seriously, and caused more than  250 Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation and other minor wounds.

The slain Palestinians, as officially confirmed by the Palestinian Health Ministry, are:

  1. Anan Shawkat Ennab, 66.
  2. Adnan Sabe’ Ba’ara, 72.
  3. Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25.
  4. Tamer Nimir Ahmad Minawi, 33.
  5. Mos’ab Monir Mohammad Oweiss, 26.
  6. Husam Bassam Isleem, 24.
  7. Mohammad Abu Kabr Al-Juneidi, 23.
  8. Walid Riyad Hussein Dakheel, 23.
  9. Abdul-Hadi Abdul-Aziz Ashqar, 61.
  10. Mohammad Farid Sha’ban, 16.
  11. Jasser Jamil Abdul-Wahab Qaneer, 23.

Mahmoud was from the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank. Source: IMEMC