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 Balata refugee camp east of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers shot Fares with several live rounds in the chest, abdomen, and legs.
The Health Ministry added that Palestinian medics rushed Fares to Rafidia governmental hospital, but he succumbed to his serious wounds.
The Ministry also said the soldiers shot eight with live fire, including a child, and added that four injured Palestinians suffered life-threatening wounds.
The soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from entering the refugee camp and fired live rounds at an ambulance trying to reach wounded Palestinians.
The medics were only allowed to enter the refugee camp and reach the wounded after coordination by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which contacted the Israeli side.
The Israeli soldiers surrounded a home in the refugee camp and threatened to detonate it if the Palestinians did not leave the property, in addition to storming and ransacking many surrounding homes and detaining the families.
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.
Furthermore, the soldiers assaulted and injured a Palestinian man and his wife in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, before the medics rushed them to a hospital in the city.
The army also invaded Tal Street in Nablus city before storming a building and taking measurements of the family home of Moath Al-Masri, in preparation for demolishing it.
In a statement released on June 14, the Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said the slain Palestinian suffered a mental disability and added that “the soldiers shot him 3 live bullets; a live bullet penetrated the right side of his abdomen and exited the left side of his heart, lung, and spleen, while 2 other bullets penetrated his thighs. IOF opened fire at Hashash, who was hiding behind a wall and trying to look at the area where IOF was stationed, 200 meters away from Hashash.” Read Full Statement
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers killed Moath, 35, Hasan Qatanani, 35, and Ibrahim Jabr, 45, and injured four when the army invaded Nablus and fired several shells at a home on May 4, 2023.
Fares was from the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC
May 11, 2021: Abdul-Rahman Yousef Ali Sobeh, 19, was killed by an Israeli shell targeting the apartment where he lived with his mother in the Shati’ refugee camp. He was disabled with cerebral palsy since birth. His mother was also killed in the bombing.
He was one of nine Palestinians killed during the day on May 11th when a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Amira with her son Abdul-Rahman
Media sources said the strikes targeted many homes, residential buildings, structures, farmlands, and sites run by armed resistance groups, in several parts of the Gaza strip.
Two Palestinians were seriously injured late at night, Tuesday, when an Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinians who gathered west of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
The Israeli army assassinated, on Tuesday evening, Eyad Fathi Fayeq Sharir, 35, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza city.
The army claimed Abu Sharir is one of the military leaders of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
He was killed along with his wife, who was not identified at the time of this report, when the army fired a missile into their home, also wounding 25 Palestinians in surrounding areas due to the blast.
The Israeli army also fired missiles into a residential tower, containing many floors, causing it to collapse and turning it into rubble.The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the army fired missiles into buildings adjacent to the Indonesian hospital, causing damage to the buildings and the hospital, and denounced the attack as another war crime violating International Law by targeting medical and civilian structures.
Media sources in Gaza said the Israeli missiles targeted Hanadi Tower in the al-Mina’ (Port) area, west of Gaza city, and added that the army first fired smaller missiles into the tower before the Palestinians rushed out just minutes before the further strike turned it into rubble.
Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, said if Israel continued to target civilian homes in Gaza, “Tel Aviv will be next and will witness much more than what happened in Asqalan (Ashkelon).
A Palestinian identified as Mohammad Abdul-Rauf Hallas, died on Tuesday evening, from wounds he suffered when the soldiers bombarded the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
An Israeli missile killed Kamal Taiseer Qreiqe’, 35, in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city.
Israeli sources said two Israelis were killed, and two were injured, one seriously, by Palestinian shells in Asqalan.
The Al-Jazeera News Agency has reported that the Israeli army fired missiles into a school for orphans in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza StripThe Israeli army fired missiles into a building in Gaza city, killing Sameh Fahim Hashem al-Mamlouk, 34.
A Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Yahia Mohammad Abu al-Ata, 30, was killed in one of the Israeli strikes in Gaza city, medical sources said.
The army also fired a missile at a Palestinian car, in Gaza, causing injuries, while the Israeli navy fired sporadic missiles at sites close to the Gaza shore.
The Israeli army also fired a barrage of missiles targeting homes and residential buildings in the al-Shati’ refugee camp, in northern Gaza, causing excessive damage.Medical sources in Gaza also said two Palestinians were killed, and eight were injured, when the army fired missiles into an apartment in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza. Most of the wounded are children.
The two Palestinians are senior leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and were killed in targeted assassination strikes.
As of Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that Israeli airstrikes have killed 27 Palestinians, including 9 children and one woman, and wounded at least a hundred in the Gaza Strip. Israel began its assault on Gaza Monday evening, following three weeks of Israeli settler and soldier attacks on Palestinians.
It added that at least 122 Palestinians have been injured, including more than 15 who suffered serious wounds and said that among the injured are 41 children.
In addition, the Al-Jazeera news agency has reported that the Israeli army fired, on Tuesday afternoon, several missiles and shells targeting many areas in the eastern, and northeastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources said Palestinian fighters fired more than 40 shells within a few minutes, into Asqalan and Ashdod, and added that the shells caused damage and five injuries.
They added that more than 300 shells have been fired from Gaza since Monday evening, especially when Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in retaliation to the Israeli offensive on Gaza, and the escalating violations in Jerusalem, mainly in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said it managed to fire 137 shells into Ashdod and Asqalan within five minutes and added that warned that its retaliation will be unprecedented if Israel does not end its offensive on Gaza, and does not stop its violations against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, especially in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On its part, the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad said its “response to the Israeli crimes against civilians, and resistance fighters, is just beginning.”
Its statement came after Israeli assassinated several prominent members of the group in Gaza and vowed to keep Israel on constant alert.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army decided to deploy more than five thousand reservists, across the fence with Gaza, in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources said that a man, 52, and his daughter, 16, were killed by Palestinian shells in Lod city.
They added that one Israeli was killed and three injured, on Tuesday at night, when Palestinian fighters fired dozen of shells into central Israel.
An Israeli woman, 50, was also killed by a Palestinian shell in Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv.
Three Israelis, including a child, were injured in Holon when an empty bus was hit by a shell and went up in flames.
Israeli Ynet News reported that two women were killed by shells in Ashkelon, in the southern part of the country, and added that more than 100 were injured.
The two women were the first to be killed in Israel since the escalation started; one of the women was later named Soumya Santhosh, a 30-year-old mother of a nine-year-old child. Soumya was from Kerala, India, and was working as a caregiver in Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israeli far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu said that it was not ruling out a ground offensive into Gaza, in addition to the ongoing airstrikes.
Hamas movement aid it fired dozens of shells into Israeli in response to the Israeli offensive and warned to escalate if Israel does not stop bombing Gaza.
The names of the Israelis who were killed are yet to be officially released by Israel.
Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that if Israeli does not stop bombing residential towers and homes in Gaza, it will be met with a retaliation more painful than the shells fired into Ashkelon (Asqalan).
During the Israeli aggression in Gaza from May 10th to 21st, 2021, Israeli forces killed 247 Palestinians, including 66 Children and 39 Women; 1417 wounded, including 277 women and 412 children. Nine Israelis were killed by the Palestinian resistance during the same time period.
Abdul-Rahman was from the Shati refugee camp, in central Gaza. Source: IMEMC
May 30, 2020: Eyad al-Hallaq, 32, an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police in Jerusalem. The police then left him lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds for over an hour until he bled to death.
Eyad was killed when the soldiers shot him with eight live rounds at the stairs of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, while he was walking to the al-Bakriyyah School for persons with special needs.
The police who killed Hallak claimed that they thought he had a suspicious object in his hand. But Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld confirmed to reporters that no weapon was found.
Eyewitnesses said Eyad was just walking when the soldiers started shouting at him, and he got scared by their loud voices and tried to run away.
They added that the soldiers could have easily arrested him, without resorting to the lethal and excessive use of live fire.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the killing of Hallaq was “a real crime”, and that “those who committed it must be brought to justice, and be convicted by the International Criminal Court”. He stated that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be held fully responsible for the killing.
Following the Israeli police shooting, protests erupted in the city of Jerusalem. Israeli police closed all the gates leading into Jerusalem’s old city, banning all entry and exit.
The mother of the Palestinian who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in occupied Jerusalem, said that the Israeli allegations and justifications for his brutal murder are mere lies, as the slain man was autistic, and was a child in a man’s body.
The mother was walking aimlessly around her home in Wadi al-Jouz in Jerusalem, looking lost, and unable to grasp the news about the death of her only son.
Minutes after the news about his death started spreading, she was informed that he was alive and was only shot in his leg near Bas al-Asbat in Jerusalem, but shortly afterwards it became clear that he was killed by the soldiers.
His father, Khairi al-Hallaq, shocked and in disbelief, was sitting in his home, surrounded by several young men who knew the slain Palestinian and rushed to his home, could not utter many words, except prayers and mumblings that only echoed “he was killed in cold blood, he was murdered…”
His slain autistic son, he said, may have looked like a grown man, but his brain was that of a child, who didn’t interact with anybody, and who only left home to go to the special needs school.
“Why would they kill him in cold blood like this,” he said, “They claim that they thought he carried a weapon! Why didn’t they search him, why did they have to kill him without even making sure he was carrying the claimed weapon”.
He added that his slain son started going to the special needs school around six years ago, and that he goes there every day from the morning until evening, and when he returns home, he just sits alone in his room.
His weeping mother, distraught and unable to catch a normal breath, said, “Why didn’t they just capture him… why not search him… why did they have to rush to fatal shots, to killing him in a cold-blooded manner like this.”
“He was murdered in cold-blood, he carried nothing but his mobile phone and his wallet”, she added, “He carried no weapons, he wanted to go to school because he felt bored at home, but at school he could be more active, and interact with others….”.
“Right now, after they killed him like this, my only wish is that we can have the burial ceremonies at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, before he is buried in the soil of Jerusalem,” she added, “He was an innocent person, he hated nobody, and what they did to him is a crime not only against him, but also against every person with special needs. They killed my only son, who was a child in a man’s body. They killed my only son, they killed my only son…”
Attorney Eyad al-Qadamani, who is representing the family, said that the Israeli police is investigating the fatal shooting, and so far, the police is not admitting he was killed by mistake, and are unwilling to transfer his corpse back to his family for burial.
The lawyer added that the Israeli police imposed a gag order, forbidding the release of the names of the officers involved in his death, or even any information about the units they belong to.
The imposed gag order will remain in effect until June 3rd and could possibly be extended for a longer period.
Israeli media outlets said the slain young man did not carry any weapon, and that he was shot just because “he failed to stop when was ordered to.”
The police claimed that they noticed he carried a “suspicious object”, and that they though it was a gun, and added that he was ordered to stop, but he started running and a chase ensued.
Israeli daily Haaretz said the Palestinian was unarmed, and that the officer who shot him said “he suspected al-Hallaq was a terrorist because he was wearing gloves.”
Haaretz quoted a statement by the Israeli police claiming that “two officers noticed the Palestinian carrying a suspicious object that they thought was a gun and ordered him to stop. After the man refused and started fleeing the scene, the officers started chasing him on foot and opened fire, ultimately killing him while he was trying to hide behind a dumpster.”
It added that the police then closed on the Old City, and that the Police Internal Investigations Department will be investigating the incident.
Haaretz also said that the two officers who were involved in chasing him and then the fatal shots, were questioned by the police, before one of them was released “under restrictive conditions”, and the second officer was placed under “house arrest.”
The Israeli media agency also quoted source which was described to be “familiar with the investigation”, the junior officer, who was a recruit armed with M16 automatic rifle, is being suspected of “continuing to shoot despite being ordered by his commander to stop.”
Haaretz added that the officer “continued to shoot because he saw al-Hallaq was still moving”, and that a court in Jerusalem issued a gag order preventing the release of the names of the officers involved in the fatal incident.
The police also raided Hallaq’s home in Wad el-Joz and questioned his family. Khairi Hallaq, the father of the deceased, told reporters “They found nothing”, and noting that police had cursed his daughter when she became upset at them.
Rana Hallaq, the mother of the deceased, told Israeli Channel 12 that her son “was killed in cold blood”. On social media, many drew comparisons between the shooting and the ongoing police violence in the U.S.
According to Israeli Channel 12 news, members of Israel’s paramilitary border police fired at Halak’s legs and chased him into a dead-end alley.
The Israeli channel reported that a senior officer ordered a halt in fire as they entered the alley, but that a second officer did not listen and fired six or seven bullets from an M-16 rifle. They claimed that both officers were taken into custody and then released.
Eyad was from Wad al-Joz in East Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
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 Balata refugee camp east of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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.
May 11, 2021: Abdul-Rahman Yousef Ali Sobeh, 19, was killed by an Israeli shell targeting the apartment where he lived with his mother in the Shati’ refugee camp. He was disabled with cerebral palsy since birth. His mother was also killed in the bombing.
In addition, the Al-Jazeera news agency has reported that the Israeli army fired, on Tuesday afternoon, several missiles and shells targeting many areas in the eastern, and northeastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
May 30, 2020: Eyad al-Hallaq, 32, an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police in Jerusalem. The police then left him lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds for over an hour until he bled to death.
