Palestinians woke up on Tuesday morning to the news that Israel had killed three more Palestinians, including one minor, in three separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and southern Israel.
All three killings occurred during Israeli raids on Palestinian towns and neighborhoods, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of 2022 to 20.
In the West Bank, the Israeli military killed 17-year-old Nader Haitham Rayyan in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, and Alaa Shahaam, 22, in the Qalandiya refugee camp in Ramallah.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nine Palestinians were wounded during the raids on Balata and Qalandiya camps.
The ministry said that Rayyan was shot three times, in the head, abdomen and hand. Three other Palestinians from Balata were also injured during the raid, including at least one who was shot in the chest and was reported to be in critical condition.
Middle East Eye quoted an eyewitness as saying that Rayyan “was on his way to a stall selling tea and coffee which belongs to his family when Israeli forces opened fire at him and his friend while they were riding on a motorbike.”
Wafa News Agency reported that one person was detained during the raid on Balata.
Rayyan is the second Palestinian from the Balata refugee camp to be killed since the start of the year. On January 26th, 21-year-old Bakeer Hashash was killed by Israeli forces during a night raid on the camp.
In the Qalandiya refugee camp, Israeli forces shot 22-year-old Alaa Shahaam in the head during a raid Tuesday morning, instantly killing him. Six others from the camp were also injured with live ammunition, according to the Ministry of Health.
In another raid on a Palestinian-majority town of Rahat in the Naqab region in southern Israel, an Israeli special forces unit shot and killed 27-year-old Sanad Salem al-Harbed, a father of three, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli police claimed that al-Harbed fired gunshots at its forces during a raid on the town, and that the unit “neutralized the gunman who posed a threat.”
Israeli night raids on Palestinian towns are commonplace, and often a nightly occurrence, especially in the occupied West Bank. The raids, which provoke resistance from Palestinians, are often violent and feature the serious injury and killing of Palestinians.
Since the start of 2022, at least six Palestinians were shot and killed during Israeli night raids.
It is unfortunate, this has been going on for decades, and how the US has responded to Israel’s war crimes, the frequent killing of young kids, and we are always ready to give more weapons and ammunitions to the aggressor, to keep the crimes going, compared to how they are scrambling now to help Ukraine against Putin.
I guess when a so called “ally” is waging an unnecessary war, and innocent civilians are killed, all because of its occupation, and land theft, it is okay. Similar situations, but a totally different response from the good ole USA.
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“Israeli night raids on Palestinian towns are commonplace, & often a nightly occurrence, especially in the occupied West Bank. Since the start of 2022, at least six Palestinians were shot & killed during Israeli night raids.” No surprise given the nature & history of Zionism!
To wit:
“Israel is not exercising ‘the right to defend itself’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided & abetted by the U.S.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/03/national-lawyers-guild-urges-biden-align-us-israel-palestine-policy-international
“National Lawyers Guild Urges Biden to Align US Israel-Palestine Policy With International Law” Common Dreams, May 3/21, by Brett Wilkins. “The United States cannot turn its back on the atrocities, including war crimes, enabled by U.S. policies, particularly its decades long policy of shielding Israel from accountability.”
Some of Israel’s violations of international law:
http://itisapartheid.org/Documents_pdf_etc/IsraelViolationsInternationalLaw.pdf
It’s Time to End the ‘Special Relationship’ With Israel (foreignpolicy.com)
“It’s Time to End the ‘Special Relationship’ With Israel”“The benefits of U.S. support no longer outweigh the costs.”By Stephen M. Walt, the Robert & Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University, May 27/21.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-education-minister-to-speak-at-confab-honoring-rabbi-who-praised-hebron-massacre-1.7619653
EXCERPT:
“Education Minister to Speak at Confab Honoring Rabbi Who Praised Hebron Massacre” Haaretz, August 9/19 by Shira Kadari-Ovadia.
“Rafi Peretz & Bezalel Smotrich will be guests of honor as Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, seen by many as a spiritual figure for violent settler extremists, receives prize.”
“Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz & Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich are set to give speeches at a conference which will also honor a rabbi who praised the 1994 Hebron massacre & was previously charged with inciting racism.” (cont’d)
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“The ministers, who are both running in the United Right political alliance in the September election, will speak at a Thursday event during which a prize will be awarded to Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh.
“The U.S.-born rabbi is known for publishing a pamphlet praising the actions of religious extremist Baruch Goldstein, who in 1994 carried out the massacre in the Tomb of the Patriachs, in which he killed 29 Muslims at prayer. Ginsburgh is also among the rabbis who endorsed the book ‘The King’s Torah,’ which discusses circumstances in which Jews may kill non-Jews according to Jewish law.”
I am so utterly sick and tired of this country.