A Palestinian teenage girl was shot and killed on Sunday evening during a military invasion of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank by Israeli forces.
Jana Majdi Zakarneh, 16, was shot with a single bullet to the head, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The teen was reportedly killed while on the roof of her family’s home in Jenin in the eastern part of the city. Following an autopsy, the young girl was buried in Jenin on Monday afternoon.
According to Wafa News Agency, at least three other Palestinians were injured with live ammunition during the raid, while three Palestinians were arrested during the raid.
Zakarneh is the 15th minor to be killed in Jenin since the start of the year, and the 17th Palestinian woman or girl to be killed in 2022.
Last month, Israeli forces also shot and killed 15-year-old Fulla Masalmeh in Ramallah. Since the beginning of December, 11 Palestinians were killed bringing the number of Palestinians killed this year alone to 224, 166 of whom were killed in the West Bank.
Israel’s lethal arrest raids
The raid began at approximately 10 p.m. on Sunday evening, when undercover Israeli border police from the Duvdevan Unit — created in 1986 to target the West Bank through infiltration by undercover Israeli agents posing as Palestinians — raided the eastern part of the city of Jenin.
Footage from CCTV cameras in Jenin show that Israeli forces entered in a white van, which resembled a civilian vehicle, before the van’s back door opened and soldiers came spilling out of it and immediately began opening fire in the area.
Local journalists in Jenin reported intense armed confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, which attempted to thwart the invasion by responding with live ammunition.
Israeli forces arrested Thaer Hathnawi, 40, and his brother, Mohammad Hathnawi, 33, who were both wanted under the pretext of engaging in armed resistance activities. A third Palestinian, 30-year-old Hasan Mir’i, was also arrested during the raid, which resulted in the killing of the teenage Zakarneh.
Israeli snipers were positioned between residential areas, a practice common for Israeli forces raiding Palestinian cities and towns or when accompanying and escorting settler invasions to areas in the West Bank.
Within an hour of the raid, Israeli forces injured three others with live ammunition in the lower parts of their bodies, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Jenin refugee camp, known as the “Wasps’ Nest” by the Israeli intelligence community, had closed off all entrances to the camp within the first half hour of the raid, according to local journalists on the scene.
Israeli media reported that both of the Hathnawi brothers were transferred to interrogation by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency, known for their coercive interrogation and torture techniques, which are routinely used on Palestinians detainees.
By Monday morning, December 12, a total of nine Palestinians were arrested across the West Bank, most of whom were from the Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year has hit record numbers — the highest since the UN began documenting such killings in 2005. Many of the killings this year occurred during search-and-arrest raids, a near nightly occurrence in the West Bank, or in cases of extrajudicial assassinations by Israeli undercover units and military forces.
But we didn’t mean it!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/middleeast/palestinian-girl-killed-idf-raid-intl/index.html
“Israeli military admits shooting 16-year-old Palestinian girl, calls it ‘unintentional’”
This will all end only when the occupation ends. From the Carnegie Foundation:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/12/09/pacification-without-political-horizon-why-israel-s-strategy-to-control-palestinians-is-failing-pub-88589
Pacification Without a Political Horizon: Why Israel’s Strategy to Control the Palestinians Is Failing…The Israeli system of control is facing strong Palestinian pushback, but the ways Israel seeks to escape this situation would only make things worse for the country. To find a viable way forward, the Israelis must consider the only option that will satisfy Palestinians in the long term, namely ending the occupation…While Palestinians are offered permits and other economic gestures, they also continue to be humiliated on a daily basis and face the unrelenting violence of Israel’s military and security presence, including night raids, land theft, dispossession, demolitions and forced displacement, economic marginalization, rising settler violence, invasive surveillance, mass arrests, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, extrajudicial killings, and, in the past fifteen years, five military operations against Gaza. The oppression with which Palestinians have to contend, alongside Israel’s complete denial of their political aspirations, has only fueled Palestinian anger and resentment.
“The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.”
Chris Hedges: Israel & the Rise of a New Fascism
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/12/chris-hedges-israel-the-rise-of-a-new-fascism/
It is cruel and inhumane to keep killing young people like this. It is now almost a daily occurrence.
These killers seem careless whether or not innocent Palestinians are killed in their “raids”. They are extremely careful when they deal with their terrorist settlers, no “accidental” deaths over there, but they show a callous indifference when it comes to Palestinian lives. They lie so frequently, and justify these killings by stating they were looking for “militants”, and at this point looking at their record who can believe them? They lied when Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated, blaming the other side, until all human rights groups disproved those lies. Lying must be in their DNA, take a look at their leaders.
They are the nazis of the Middle East, and the United States of America keeps enabling them, protecting them, and sends aid and weapons to this terrorist state. The zionists keep treating those they occupy as subhuman and inferior, but it is they who keep showing the world that they are so vicious, inhumane, and worse than some of their neighbors around them. So much for the “only” democracy in the Middle East.
The Western nations keep pretending they are a civilized democracy, when they know better than that. Despite the lame calls for a 2 state solution, and “equal rights” for both sides, the US, UK, and the EU, are enabling the criminals to keep occupying, steal lands, build illegal settlements, and kill Palestinians, to eventually take all what their greedy hearts desire. If the Palestinians have to perish for it, it does not matter at all to them. The hatred is deep as their killings show.
And the zionists keep pretending they don’t know why they are disliked around the world!
What a joke.
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Israel is on the cusp of a wave of army refusal under far right rule (972mag.com)
“Israel is on the cusp of a wave of army refusal under far right rule” The incoming government has prompted a new crop of teens to question their upcoming role in one of Israel society’s central tenets. 972 Magazine by Oren Ziv, Dec.11/2022.
EXCERPT:
“It didn’t take long for the incoming far-right government to announce its racist, anti-democratic plans, particularly for Palestinians & the Israeli Jewish liberal-secular public. What many are calling a ‘nightmare government’ has prompted senior politicians from the opposing camp to call for mass ‘civil disobedience’ in the form of protests & the refusal to cooperate with the religious fundamentalists who are about to run the country. ‘On the grassroots level, it seems refusal to enlist in the Israeli army, or at least to serve in the occupied territories — which has long been a marginal but high-profile form of civil disobedience in Israel — may very soon start to become more widespread.’ The fact that leader of Otzma Yehudit leader & presumed Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, & Religious Zionism head Bezalel Smotrich, who is about to acquire broad powers in the West Bank, will be leading political figures in Israel’s security & military establishment, crosses a red line for many Israeli Jews. Some, it seems, are beginning to second-guess their instinctive resistance to refusing the draft. Organizations that support conscientious objectors are already reporting an increase in the number of Israelis reaching out to them in the wake of last month’s elections, including Israelis on the Zionist left who previously have not considered refusal. Mesarvot (“Refusers”), one of the most prominent NGOs supporting conscientious objectors, has seen the number of Israelis contacting the organization — both teenagers due to be drafted & their parents — double. Yesh Gvul, another Israeli group that advocates for draft refusal, has registered a similar jump.” (cont’d)
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EXCERPT CONTINUED;
“’After the elections, we started to receive more inquiries’ said Yasmin Eran Vardi, a coordinator at Mesarvot. ‘Another change is that it’s usually young people who approach us ahead of their draft [date], but right now lots of parents are getting in touch with us. They tell us that their children are not sure what to do, while the parents themselves are saying, ‘I’m not ready for them to be in the army under this government.’” Many of the parents, & even some of their children, say that it was Ben Gvir’s senior appointment as the reason to refuse enlistment, Eran Vardi said. ‘The parents say that this is crossing a line for them. I do not think that we’re going to see a mass refusal, but [Ben Gvir’s appointment] will swell the numbers — both of young people sitting in jail as well as those who [refuse] in other ways. The question is how the army will deal with it.’ “There is already evidence that the army fears a wave of refusals, as recently demonstrated by the unusually severe punishment handed down to four conscientious objectors. Since September, they have spent four separate stints in jail, and last week they were sentenced to another 45 days. Noa Levy, a lawyer at Mesarvot who represents the four refusers, said last week that the military is using harsher penalties for conscientious objectors as a scare tactic. ‘A source in the security establishment hinted to me that there are concerns about a wave of refusals after the expected entrance of MK Itamar Ben Gvir into the government,’ she said. ‘There are already four refusers in the system, last month there were two more, & next month another two are expected to refuse. We haven’t seen so many people sitting [in prison] simultaneously in a long time.’ “Ishai Menuchin, one of the founders of Yesh Gvul, a movement that has been assisting conscientious objectors since the 1982 Lebanon War, also believes Israel is ‘on the cusp of a wave of refusals,’ noting a rise in inquiries to his organization. ‘Over the last few days we’ve had three inquiries from reservists, & during the Saturday shift [to support conscientious objectors] a mother approached me for advice. This is a clear increase. In previous years we would receive one call every week or two…”