January 2023

Saed Mousa Al-Qatanani

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January 04, 2023: Saed Mousa Al-Qatanani, 37, died from serious wounds he suffered two days earlier in an accidental shooting in the Gaza Strip.

Saed died from serious wounds he suffered two days earlier in an accidental shooting. Two of his brothers were assassinated by the army in 2012 and 2009.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, Saed was one of its senior fighters from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

The Brigades added that Saed died on Wednesday evening and added that the fighter was one of its senior members who participated in countering Israeli soldiers invading Gaza in previous Israeli offensives.

The Brigades added that its fighters will never abandon the path of resistance until liberation and independence.

“Our fighters will remain committed to the struggle for liberation,” the Al-Quds Brigades said, “Our weapons will always have just one target, the illegal Israel occupation.”

Saed is the brother of Fadi Mousa Qatanani, who was assassinated by the Israeli army on November 21, 2012, after an Israeli war jet fired a missile at his home, and Ali Mousa Qatanani, who was assassinated by the Israeli army on April 1, 2009.

Adam Essam Ayyad

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January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

A large Israeli military force invaded the refugee camp before the soldiers stormed, violently searched homes, leading to protests, and fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers killed Adam after shooting him with a live round in the chest.

The sources said Palestinian medics provided the seriously injured child with the needed first aid and rushed him to a hospital in Bethlehem, but he succumbed to his wounds.

The soldiers also shot another child with a live round in the arm before the medics rushed him to a hospital.

During the searches of homes in the refugee camp, the soldiers abducted a young man Anan Ahmad Sarabta.

The child is the third Palestinian to be killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank in the first three days of this new year, 2023.

On Monday dawn, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and killed  Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, and Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 25, and injured at least eight others, one seriously.

Last year, in 2022, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Adam, the only child of his parents, was from the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed

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January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians.

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said the soldiers also killed Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17, from Kafr Dan, after shooting him with live fire in the chest and the right thigh.

Atiya added that the soldiers also killed Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, after shooting him with several live rounds in the chest.

The soldiers also shot eight Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Furthermore, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli army vehicles in several parts of the town.

The soldiers surrounded the homes of Ahmad Ayman ‘Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani ‘Aabed, 22, whom the soldiers killed on September 14, 2022, and ransacked the properties before wiring and detonating them, and abducted Abdul-Rahman’s brother, Maher.

Palestine TV said the apartment of Ahmad’s parents was 140 square meters and provided shelter to six family members, while the two apartments of Abdul-Rahman’s parents were 250 square meters and provided shelter to seven family members.

Palestine TV added that Abdul-Rahman’s father and his grandfather own the apartments that were demolished after an Israeli court denied the family’s appeal and claimed that Abdul-Rahman lived in both homes.

The two Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed during an exchange of gunfire near the village of Jalama, north of Jenin.

The soldier killed during the invasion on September 14 was identified as the deputy commander of the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion, Maj. Bar Pelach, 30.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched from Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital carrying the corpses of Fuad and Mohammad, chanting for unity, ongoing resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation, and denouncing the escalating Israeli crimes.

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights condemned the Israeli army’s ongoing escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) and commission of more murders against Palestinians.

PCHR also denounced the ongoing house demolitions as part of Israel’s collective punishment policy under cover of the Israeli judiciary, in blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits reprisals against protected persons and their property.

Fuad was from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Site: IMEMC

Mohammad Samer Houshiyya

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January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians.

Samer Atiya, the head of the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin city, said the soldiers killed Mohammad after shooting him with several live rounds in the chest.

Atiya added that the soldiers also killed Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 25, from Kafr Dan, after shooting him with live fire in the chest and the thigh.

The soldiers also shot eight Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Furthermore, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli army vehicles in several parts of the town.

The soldiers surrounded the homes of Ahmad Ayman ‘Aabed, 23, and Abdul-Rahman Hani ‘Aabed, 22, whom the soldiers killed on September 14, 2022, and ransacked the properties before wiring and detonating them, and abducted Abdul-Rahman’s brother, Maher.

Palestine TV said the apartment of Ahmad’s parents was 140 square meters and provided shelter to six family members, while the two apartments of Abdul-Rahman’s parents were 250 square meters and provided shelter to seven family members.

Palestine TV added that Abdul-Rahman’s father and his grandfather own the apartments that were demolished after an Israeli court denied the family’s appeal and claimed that Abdul-Rahman lived in both homes.

The two Palestinian and one Israeli soldier were killed during an exchange of gunfire near the village of Jalama, north of Jenin.

The soldier killed during the invasion on September 14 was identified as the deputy commander of the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion, Maj. Bar Pelach, 30.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched from Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital carrying the corpses of Fuad and Mohammad, chanting for unity, ongoing resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation, and denouncing the escalating Israeli crimes.

Mohammad was from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Site: IMEMC

Shalom Sofer

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November 8, 2022: Shalom Sofer, 63, died from serious wounds he suffered on October 25, reportedly after a Palestinian stabbed him in the Al-Funduq village east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Shalom was pronounced dead  after a sharp deterioration in his condition.

Shalom was a colonialist settler from the Kedumim illegal colony east of Qalqilia in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Channel 7 quoted Shalom’s son, Lidor Sofer, stating that his father was recovering but suffered a serious health setback.

The son added that his father was discharged from the hospital last week and seemed to be recovering, but “suddenly, one of his wounds opened.”

The Israeli army said the soldiers arrested a Palestinian, believed to be the one who stabbed Shalom, hours after the attack took place.

Earlier the same day Shalom was stabbed, Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians and injured twenty-one, including four who suffered life-threatening wounds, during an invasion of the center of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The slain Palestinians have been identified as Zahi Ahmad Baghdadi, 27, Hamdi Sbeih Ramzi Qayyim, 30, Ali Khaled Omar Antar, 26, Hamdi Mohammad Sabri Sharaf, 35, and Wadea’ Sbeih Hweih, 31.

At dawn same day, Israeli soldiers killed Qussai Mahmoud Tamimi, 19, in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Shalom was from Kedumim illegal colony, east of Qalqilia in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC