A prominent Palestinian leader in Jenin and the brother of political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, who briefly escaped the Gilboa prison in 2021, succumbed to wounds on Sunday after he was shot by Israeli forces over the weekend.
Daoud Zubeidi, 43, was shot by Israeli forces during a raid in the Jenin Refugee Camp on Friday that left at least 13 Palestinians wounded.
The raid began in the early morning hours, with Israeli forces heavily deploying in and around the camp. Soldiers targeted a home in the camp with a short-range missile, prompting a four hour gun battle. Two Palestinians were arrested during the raid.
Following the raid, Zubeidi was evacuated along with the injured to the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, where at least four others were reported to be in critical condition at the time by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Due to a deterioration in health, Zubeidi was transferred to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
According to Middle East Eye, after Zubeidi’s family agreed to transfer him to the Israeli hospital, the Israeli army announced that he was under arrest. Following his death, his body has been withheld by the military.
Zubeidi is the brother of Palestinian political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, a renowned leader in the Jenin refugee camp, and one of the six prisoners who escaped from Israel’s maximum security Gilboa prison in September last year.
Last month Israeli forces killed Shas Kamamji during a raid in the town of Kafr Dan in the Jenin district. Kamamji is the brother of Ayham Kamamji, another one of the prisoners who escaped from Gilboa.
Zubeidi was a father of three, and former prisoner who served 12 years in Israeli prison. Both his mother and one of his brothers were killed during Israel’s offensive on the Jenin refugee camp in 2002.
A general strike was called across the occupied West Bank in response to Zubeidi’s killing.
Israeli far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir responded to the death of Zubeidi, saying “I am happy that Daoud Zubeidi has died.” Ben-Gvir, along with a number of far-right activists had gathered outside the hospital in Haifa over the weekend holding Israeli flags in protest of Zubeidi being treated at the hospital.
Zubeidi is the 54th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces and settlers since the start of the year, according to Mondoweiss documentation. More than half were killed during April and May alone.
Since the start of the year, Israel has killed at least seven residents of the Jenin refugee camp.
The entity referred to as “Israel” – ever faster and deeper into the pit of racism and fascism.
They are furious. They have lost the PR battle, and the world has seen who they really are.
Brutal, sadistic, vindictive, and cruel. The final nail on the coffin was the sight of their uniformed thugs attacking pall bearers at the funeral of the poor journalist THEY killed so easily, and then lied about it.
What kind of people are these? They are without a shred of decency or humanity.
Vicious war criminals who with the blessing of the US keeps committing crimes, and they don’t give a damn if the world is watching.
They are giving the world good reasons to hate them, and they have no one but themselves to blame.
Uh, what political act of “renowned leadership” turned Zakaria Zubeidi into a political prisoner?