May 26, 2023: Ala’ Khalil Qaisiyya, 26, was killed by an Israeli guard in an illegal colony near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli reports said a security team member shot the Palestinian, who has reportedly infiltrated a colony and was“heading to a synagogue in Teneh Omarim colony, where holiday prayers were taking place,” and added that “the guard shot him at the entrance of the building.”
According to Ynet News, the Palestinian was shot in “an attempted stabbing attack,” adding that the security guard shot him allegedly when he was “wielding his knife.” No Israelis were injured in the reported incident.
The report only indicated that the Palestinian was “neutralized,” a term various Israeli medical outlets use without providing further details, especially whether the person was killed or just ‘idled.’
Immediately after the incident, the Israeli army instructed the colonizers to remain indoors until further notice and prevented vehicles from entering or leaving the colony.
The Palestinian is the cousin of Sa’ad Mahmoud Qaisiyya, 25, who a paramilitary colonizer killed, on March 1, 2017, in the same colony.
There are 22 illegal Israeli colonies, fifteen outposts, and four’ industrial colonies’ on stolen Palestinian lands in Hebron, where about 21.000 colonizers reside.
The army also has 20 permanent military roadblocks in Hebron, resulting in constant closure and the isolation of many neighborhoods and communities.
Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
Ala’ was from the Ath-Thaeriyya town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC
April 01, 2023: Mohammad Raed Nayef Baradiya, 23, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
February 24, 2023: Mohammad Ismael Jawabra, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers shot Jawabra while trying to help his neighbors in the refugee camp after the soldiers invaded it, leading to protests, and fired a barrage of live rounds at several homes.
February 14, 2023: Haroun Rasmi Yousef Abu Arram, 27, died of wounds he suffered two years earlier after an Israeli soldier shot him in the neck.
February 10, 2023: Ahmad Abu Ali, 48, died in Israeli prison due to medical neglect by the Israeli prison authorities.
February 09, 2023: Sharif Hasan Rabba’, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the entrance of the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
January 30, 2023: Nassim Nayef Salman Abu Fouda, 26, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Hebron city, n the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, was killed by Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
According to Israeli Channel 14, the army is investigating whether the Palestinian was the same person who, two days ago, opened fire at an Israeli bus near the illegal Gush Etzion colony.
November 29, 2022: Mofeed Mahmoud Ekhlayyil, 44, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, who also wounded 21 other Palestinians, during an invasion of Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
October 29, 2022: Mohammad Kamel Al-Jabari, 35, was killed in a shooting attack that also resulted in the death of an Israeli colonizer near the Kiryat Arba illegal colony in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank.