Worker

Ra’fat Ali Ayasa

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November 9, 2022: Ra’fat Ali Ayasa, 29, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while he attempted to cross the Annexation Wall heading to his work, west of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the Israeli soldiers fatally shot Ra’fat Ali Ayasa, 29, from Sanur town, southwest of Jenin.

Mahmoud Saadi, the head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jenin, said the soldiers shot Ra’fat with several live rounds.

The Palestinian, a construction worker, was trying to enter occupied Jerusalem to work through a breach in a section of the illegal Annexation Wall when the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds at him and several other workers who managed to escape unharmed.

After shooting the Palestinian man, the soldiers took him to the Salem military base and later allowed his transfer to PRCS medics before he was rushed to the Ar-Razi Hospital in Jenin, where he was officially pronounced dead.

His uncle said that Ra’fat was a married father of one girl, had no political affiliation, and was only trying to work to provide for his family.

Thousands of Palestinians marched in Jenin, Jenin refugee camp, Sanur, and several other areas in Jenin, condemning the cold-blooded murder of the Palestinian worker and the seriously escalating Israeli violations.

Processions were also held in front of Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin before the Palestinians marched in the city and the Jenin refugee camp, denouncing Ra’fat’s execution-style killing while all he wanted was to work to provide for his family.

Ra’fat was from Sanur town, southwest of Jenin. Source: IMEMC

Rabi Arafa Rabi

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Rabi RabiOctober 22, 2022: Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, a Palestinian worker from Qalqilia, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers near a military roadblock of a section of the illegal Annexation Wall southeast of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the soldiers shot the workers near a military roadblock, known as 109, close to Nabi Elias village, when the army fired many live rounds at Palestinian workers trying to cross.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers shot the worker, Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, with a live round in the head. Palestinian medics rushed him to Darwish Nazzal governmental hospital in Qalqilia, then to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where he succumbed to his serious wounds.

The slain man’s father, from Qalqilia, said the soldiers executed his son in cold blood, adding that Rabi was just a construction worker trying to earn a living and was engaged to be married this coming Friday.

Palestine TV said Israeli colonizers closed several streets in the area and attacked dozens of Palestinian and their cars, before the soldiers invaded it and started firing live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.

It is worth mentioning that the army frequently attacks, chases, injures, and abducts Palestinian workers near the gates of the illegal Annexation Wall near Qalqilia, Jenin, and other parts of the West Bank.

Palestinian workers from these areas had for decades been able to work in Israel, but since 2003, Israeli forces have constructed a massive Wall and prevented the workforce from reaching their jobs.

Rabi was from Qalqilia, in the northern West Bank. Source: IMEMC

Nabil Ahmad Taiseer Ghanem

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June 19, 2022: Nabil Ahmad Taiseer Ghanem, 53, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the worker near the illegal Annexation Wall, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the soldiers fatally shot Nabil and took his corpse to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba after refusing to allow Palestinian medics to reach him.

The Health Ministry added that the soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinian workers while trying to cross the Jaljulia gate of the illegal Annexation Wall, killing Ghanem before taking his corpse away.

The Israeli army claimed the soldiers fired live rounds at Ahmad when he reportedly “attempted to damage a section of the Wall” but failed to provide any details of the allegation.

Eyewitnesses refuted the military’s allegations and said dozens of Palestinian workers were trying to cross the gate of the Annexation Wall when the soldiers fired at them to force them to leave, although they carried permits to cross.

The soldiers also attacked Palestinian workers near the Taybeh military roadblock, southwest of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, and fired gas bombs at them, causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

On the same day, the soldiers attacked workers and detained thirteen Barta’a towns southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank.

Ahmad was from Sorra village, southwest of Nablus. Source: IMEMC

Raed Yousef Jadallah

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August, 31, 2021: Raed Yousef Jadallah, 39, was killed by Israeli soldiers who fired live rounds at him, when they attacked him along with several other Palestinian workers in a crossing area of the Annexation Wall, near the western entrance of Beit Ur al-Tahta village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses the Palestinian suffered serious wounds, on Tuesday at night, and bled to death after the soldiers refused to allow any Palestinian to approach him.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian Civil Coordination Office was informed by the Israeli side that the young man has died from his wounds.

The slain man, who was identified as Raed Yousef Jadallah, 39, is in Beit Ur at-Tahta and also bears a Jerusalem ID card, the Maan News Agency said.

The Palestinian was returning home from work in occupied Jerusalem when the soldiers delivered the fatal shots.

The slain Palestinian man did not attack, or attempt to attack the soldiers, when they started firing at the Palestinian workers to force them away.

Hours after he was fatally shot, and his corpse was detained by the army, Palestinian medics managed retrieve his body, and moved it to Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah.

Such attacks targeting Palestinian workers near the various gates and crossing points of the Annexation Wall in the occupied West Bank, are frequent and have led to dozens of casulaties, including fatalities.

Raed was from Beit Ur al-Tahta, west of Ramallah. Source: IMEMC