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Saeb Mahmoud Ezreiqi

January 26, 2023February 13, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 26, 2023: Saeb Mahmoud Ezreiqi, 24, was killed in Jenin city by Israeli forces during a massive invasion of the city and refugee camp.

Saeb was one of nine Palestinians, including siblings and one woman, killed during a massive offensive on Jenin city and the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

Dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles carried out the invasion before the soldiers stormed several buildings and occupied their rooftops to use as sniper posts and monitoring towers while dozens of undercover soldiers infiltrated the Jenin refugee cam.

During the invasion, the army severed electricity and communications networks while dozens of soldiers surrounded and isolated entire areas.

Hundreds of Palestinians protested the massive invasions and ongoing onslaught on Jenin and its refugee camp before the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades,

Various armed resistance groups, including the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Brigades of Fateh, said their fighters exchanged fire with the invading Israeli soldiers while several Palestinians hurled explosive charges at the army.

Palestinian fighters of the Al-Quds Brigades said they managed to identify a refrigeration that was altered to carry undercover forces and fired a barrage of live rounds and explosive charges at it.

The army also used Energa anti-tank bombs against a Palestinian home in the Jenin refugee camp.

The soldiers exchanged fire with armed resistance fighters in the property, killing several Palestinians and severely mutilating their bodies.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed nine Palestinians, including a woman and two siblings, adding that the soldiers also injured at least twenty, including four who suffered life-threatening wounds.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers shot the woman, Majeda Obeid, 61, before ramming her with their jeeps and driving over her body.

The Israeli armored military vehicles also deliberately smashed and destroyed many parked cars and demolished structures, shops, and other facilities.

The Health Ministry added that medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) were informed of more injuries but could not reach certain areas of Jenin and its refugee camp due to expensive Israeli military deployment and ongoing offensive.

Dozens of soldiers also surrounded the Jenin governmental hospital and fired many high-velocity gas bombs at it, some striking the children’s ward and the women’s ward, causing dozens of injuries, including many children.

The army also stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, buildings, and offices, causing serious damage to walls, furniture, and equipment, including computers and office supplies.

Palestinian Health Minister Dr. Mai Al-Kaila, called for an urgent meeting with the International Red Cross and World Health Organization, urging them to intervene and end the escalating Israeli crimes.

Dr. Al-Kaila also called on the International Community and all legal and human rights groups to end their silence and act on obliging Israel to respect and implement International Law and all related United Nations and Security Council resolutions.

The slain Palestinians have been identified as:

Saeb Mahmoud Ezreiqi, 24, Jenin city.
Ezzeddin Yassin Salahat, 26, Jenin refugee camp.
Abdullah Marwan Al-Ghoul, 18, Jenin refugee camp.
Wasim Amjad Aref Al-Ja’as, 22, Jenin refugee camp.
Majeda Obeid, 61, Jenin refugee camp.
Mo’tasem Mahmoud Abu Al-Hasan, 40, Al-Yamoun town.
Mohammad Mahmoud Sobeh, 30, Burqin town.
Mohammad Sami Ghneim, 28, Burqin town.
Nour Sami Ghneim, 25, from Burqin.

In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian child, Nayef Oweidat, 13, died from serious wounds he suffered last year during the Israeli onslaught on the coastal region.

Saeb was from Jenin city, in the northern West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin

January 26, 2023January 27, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 26, 2023: Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.

Medical sources said the soldiers shot Yousef with a live round in the abdomen.

Palestinian medics rushed Yousef to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, but he succumbed to his serious wounds despite all efforts to save his life.

Yousef was among many injured Palestinians the soldiers shot during a procession condemning the Israeli onslaught on Jenin, leading to the death of nine Palestinians, including one woman and two siblings, in Jenin city and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.

The soldiers attacked the Palestinians with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

The soldiers also shot three Palestinians with live fire and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

On the same day, a Palestinian child, Nayef Oweidat, 13, died from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip in August of the year 2022.

Yousef was from the Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Mohammad Ali

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 25, 2023: Mohammad Ali, 17, was killed by Israeli Border Police officers in the Dahiat Al-Salam area, between Anata and Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

The Health Ministry said the youth was shot after the army invaded the refugee camp to demolish the home of a slain Palestinian, Odai Kamal Tamimi, 22, who the soldiers killed last year.

The Health Ministry added that Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the Israeli soldiers initially did not allow them to approach the seriously wounded child.

Israeli media said Mohammad aimed a toy gun at the soldiers and border police officers and added that they shot and killed him “because they didn’t know it was fake.”

The Israeli “Border Police” claimed there was no way to know the gun was fake because it “looked real,” but could not negate the facts, captured on police video, clearly showing the child being shot while running away after already dropping the “gun,” which also voids the allegation of the perceived ” imminent threat.”

Israeli daily, Jerusalem Post, said the police later discovered that the gun was a dummy, adding that although the officers did not know the gun was just a toy, it remains “unclear whether firing the fatal shot was justified, given that at the moment he was hit, Mohammad was not carrying the [Fake] “weapon” and was running away.

The child was not facing the soldiers anymore, was not throwing or trying to throw anything at them, and was only trying to leave the area when they opened fire.

The Jerusalem Post stated that a response from the police failed to address the issue of the slain child being shot after dropping the toy gun and fleeing, but only alleged: “Mohammad showed clear signs of presenting a threat.”

The Israeli army refused to comment on the fatal shooting and only stated that even though the soldiers were there, the “incident is managed by the border police, not the military because it took place in East Jerusalem, not other parts of the West Bank.

The child was officially pronounced dead after he was taken to Hadassah Israeli medical center in occupied Jerusalem. His family tried to take his body for burial, but their request was denied.

Furthermore, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers also shot a young man with a live round in the shoulder and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

On the same day, the soldiers killed Aref Abdul-Nasser Lahlouh, 20, after an alleged ‘stabbing attack’ near the illegal Kedumim colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands near Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Mohammad was from the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Tareq Odah Ma’ali

January 21, 2023March 24, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 21, 2023: Tareq Yousef Ma’ali, 42, was shot and killed by an Israeli paramilitary colonizer in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that Tareq Odah Yousef Ma’ali, 42, was a married father of three children, Walid, 12, Laith, 8 and Ahmad, 6 from Kafr Ni’ma village.

Israeli sources claimed the Palestinian exited his car and attempted to stab a colonizer before he shot and killed him. But there was no independent verification of that claim – and it is a frequent excuse used by Israeli settlers and soldiers when they assassinate Palestinians. The Israelis provided no evidence to back their claim.

The incident occurred in the illegal Sde Ephraim illegal colonialist outpost near the Neria colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands.

Ar-Reesan Mountain, situated on lands belonging to al-Janiya, Ras Karkar, and Kafr Ni’ma, witnesses frequent protests due to illegal Israeli annexation and colonialist activities.

The colonialist outpost, Sde Ephraim, is considered “unauthorized” by Israel because it was established without approval from the Israeli government.

All of 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 in addition to 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”.

Tareq was a married father of three children from Kafr Ni’ma village. Source: IMEMC

Jawad Farid Bawaqna

January 19, 2023January 20, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 19, 2023: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a pre-dawn invasion of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

According to eyewitnesses, Jawad had awoken by the sound of the Israeli army invasion on his street, and opened his door to find a man bleeding to death in front of his home. He bent down to try to help him and to render first aid. But the soldiers shot and killed Jawad with a gunshot to the head.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers killed a physical education teacher and a married father of six children, Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58, after shooting him in the head, and former political prisoner, Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, both from Jenin refugee camp.

Ata Abu Romeila, the secretary of the Fateh movement in Jenin, said the soldiers fatally shot Bawaqna while trying to render first aid to Jabarin, who was shot in front of his home in the As-Saha area in the center of Jenin refugee camp by an army sharpshooter, who shot him in the head.

He added that Israeli soldiers also stopped Palestinian ambulances and prevented the medics from entering the refugee camp, forcing the residents to transport Jawad and Adham to the Ibn Sina Hospital in private cars, but they succumbed to their wounds.

The soldiers also attacked Palestinian protesters with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers injured several Palestinians, including three who were shot with live fire to the abdomen, thigh, and shoulder, suffering moderate-but-stable wounds.

The Palestinian shot in the abdomen was rushed to surgery after a soldier shot him with an expanding bullet, causing multi-organ damage.

Two Israeli soldiers were reportedly injured by an explosive charge hurled at their military vehicle.

After killing the two Palestinians, the soldiers fired many live rounds at the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin.

Dr.Mai Al-Kaila, the Palestinian Health Minister, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on the governmental hospital, especially since many bullets struck inside the children’s ward.

Dr. Al-Kaila said the attack is not the first to target medical centers, medical workers, and facilities, and called on international legal and human rights groups to intervene and help end these serious violations.

Her statements came after Israeli soldiers fired many live rounds that went through the windows of a children’s ward, the nurses changing room in the same ward, and the pediatricians’ conference room.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, including two siblings, Hasan Ahmad Zaghal and Sharaf Ahmad Abu Sharif, in addition to Aws and his brother Hani Khaled Abu Zeina.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched in front of Ibn Sina hospital carrying the corpses of Jabarin and Bawaqna, chanting for ongoing resistance, steadfastness until liberation and independence, and calling for international protection for the Palestinian people.

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian security officer, Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Last year, Israeli soldiers killed 224 Palestinians, including 59 from the Jenin governorate.

Israeli soldiers killed seventeen Palestinians, including four children, in the first nineteen days of this month/year:

January 19, 223: Jawad Farid Hussein Bawaqna, 58.
January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26.
January 17, 2023: Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40
January 16, 2023: Amro Khaled Al-Khmour, 14.
January 15, 2023: Ahmad Hasan Kahala, 45.
January 14, 2023: Yazan Samer Ja’bari, 19.
January 14, 2023: Amjad Adnan Khaliliyya, 23.
January 14, 2023: Ezzeddin Bassem Hamamra, 24.
January 12, 2023: Habib Mohammad Kamil, 25.
January 12, 2023: Abdul-Hadi Fakhri Nazzal, 18.
January 12, 2023: Samir Awni Aslan, 41.
January 11, 2023: Ahmad Amer Abu Jneid, 21.
January 11, 2023: Sanad Mohammad Samamra, 19.
January 05, 2023: Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16.
January 03, 2023: Adam Essam Ayyad, 15.
January 02, 2023: Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17.
January 02, 2023: Mohammad Samer Houshiyya, 22.

Jawad was from Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Adham Mohammad Jabarin

January 19, 2023January 20, 2023 contact@ifamericansknew.org

January 19, 2023: Adham Mohammad Bassem Jabarin, 26, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a pre-dawn invasion of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

While Adham was bleeding on the street, an older man came out of his home to try to help him and to render first aid. But the soldiers shot and killed the older man as well.

The man was trying to help Adham, who was shot by an Israeli army sharpshooter and was heavily bleeding, before Jawad’s daughter helped drag Adham to safety a few meters away, but then an army sniper shot her father.