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Young Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces in Jenin

23-year-old Dalia Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year

A young Palestinian woman was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon after she succumbed to wounds sustained by Israeli military gunfire early Friday morning before dawn.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 23-year-old Dalia Samoudi died of a gunshot wound to her chest that punctured her aorta, liver, and pancreas, leaving her in critical condition. 

After undergoing several surgeries, doctors were unable to save her, and she passed away. 

Local media reported that Samoudi was injured during a violent Israeli search and arrest raid in the city of Jenin in the early hours of Friday morning. 

According to reports from Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli forces raided the al-Jaberiyyat neighborhood of Jenin where they “interrogated and threatened to re-arrest a former prisoner after breaking into his house.”

In response to the army’s raid, local youth clashed with the soldiers and reportedly attempted to block the army’s passage further into the city, causing the soldiers to open fire on protesters. 

Palestinian media said Israeli forces fired tear gas, sound bomb, and live ammunition during the raid. 

Several reports from Arabic media said that Samoudi was not a part of the clashes, but was caught in the cross-fire and was hit with a bullet while in her home, allegedly while she was attempting to close her window due to the tear gas.  

Wafa cited Mahmoud al-Saadi, Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), as saying that Israeli forces opened fire on an ambulance as it tried to reach Samoudi’s house to evacuate her, leaving two bullet holes in the ambulance. 

The Israeli military issued a statement on Friday, denying responsibility for Samoudi’s death, saying that Israeli soldiers did not use live fire, and that it was Palestinian civilians who were using live ammunition. 

“Palestinians fired live fire, hurled rocks and explosive devices towards the troops. The troops responded with riot dispersal means,” Reuters quoted an army spokesman as saying. 

Palestinians however denied using guns, saying that protesters were throwing rocks at the soldiers. 

Samoudi is the 24th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories this year. In many cases, the Palestinian victims were unarmed when they were killed. 

Israel has long been criticized for it’s “shoot-to-kill” policy, in which Israeli soldiers and police officers engage in lethal force against Palestinians in situations where it is not necessary, and their lives aren’t immediately at risk. 

Of the policy, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said: “The fact that Israeli security forces have time and again killed Palestinians who posed no danger reveals a chilling disparity between the official prohibition on such conduct and reality, including the current atmosphere in Israel, in which shooting to kill is acceptable at any time and under any circumstance, even when the danger has passed.”

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Do you believe it?
“Palestinians fired live fire, hurled rocks and explosive devices towards the troops. The troops responded with riot dispersal means,” Reuters quoted an army spokesman as saying.
Palestinians use “live fire” and “explosive devices” and the Israeli army uses only “riot dispersal means”? What a cheap lie!

“Palestinian Woman Dies After Being Shot During an Israeli Army  Raid”

“Palestinian Health Ministry says 23-year-old was shot by Israeli forces in her house in the West Bank city of Jenin, but the Israeli army denies using live fire.”

Jack Khoury, Haaretz. Aug. 7, 2020.
“A 23-year-old Palestinian woman died after being shot early Friday by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. 
“The woman, Dalia Samudi, was hit with live bullets that penetrated her chest, the ministry said, & was rushed to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. 
“Samudi was shot while attempting to close the window in order to prevent teargas from entering her home, according to her friend. Samudi is a mother & her youngest child is newborn. 
“The Israeli army said its forces entered the city overnight to arrest suspects. During the operation, the army said, soldiers used sponge-tipped bullets & tear gas to disperse Palestinian residents who gathered in the area.
“The army denies it used live ammunition, claiming the woman may have been hit by bullets fired by Palestinians.
“In a statement issued later, the army reiterated their version of events & said that ‘during a routine IDF night operation in the city of Jenin, a violent riot broke out in the presence of hundreds of Palestinians who fired, threw stones & hurled explosives at soldiers. The soldiers responded by dispersing demonstrations.’
“According to reports in Palestinian media, the woman was shot at home, as the Israeli army raided her Jabariyat neighborhood.

“Director of the local Red Crescent branch, Mahmoud al-Sa’adi, told the Wafa news agency that Israeli soldiers fired at the ambulance which arrived at the scene to evacuate her.”
 

Gideon Levy, in Jan 19, 2017 (Haaretz), “Kill Them, They’re Fair Game”: ““To most Israelis, all Arabs are the same and they’re not human beings equal to us.They’re not like us. They don’t love their children or their lives the way we do. They were born to kill. There’s no problem killing them. They’re all enemies, suspicious objects, terrorists, murderers – their lives and deaths are cheap. So kill them, because nothing bad will happen to you. Kill them, because it’s the only way to treat them”.

She will be buried, and so will the truth of the matter, under a cascade of Israeli lies. May she rest in peace.

Israeli soldiers did not use live fire … it was Palestinian civilians who were using live ammunition.

Being the “most moral army in the world”© is a tough gig –
heavily armed IDFs swarming through Jenin, faced with armed Palestinians firing live ammunition, they were limited in their response by the humanity/caring inculcated in all Israelis since their infancy.
You can also be damn sure it was not the moral IDF soldiers who fired on the ambulance trying to rescue Samoudi – it was those trigger-happy Palestinians civilians.
I’m looking forward to seeing the videos of the Palestinians doing all the shooting.