After Ala Wafeth Nadan, 28, was killed Wednesday by an Israeli security guard at Qalandia checkpoint while allegedly holding a knife, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said the incident appeared to resemble past instances in which Israel used excessive force. “What is clear is that such an incident should not have ended with a fatality.”
Israel demolished two Palestinian buildings on Thursday that were under construction in the West Bank, east of occupied Jerusalem, on the pretext that they were too close to the separation wall. The buildings had a value of $1 million.
After Israel killed two Palestinian teens, one 14, the other 17, at the Friday protests in Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov of the UN said, “Israel must calibrate its use of force, use lethal force only as a last resort, and only in response to imminent threat of death or serious injury.”
Security forces of the Interior Ministry in Gaza have arrested ten persons who are believed to be members of the cell that carried out the two bombings on Tuesday evening that killed three security officers, a Hamas spokesperson say.
Israeli warplanes strike a base belonging to the Palestinian group the PFLP-General Command inside of Lebanon near the border with Syria early Monday morning, according to Lebanese state media. The attack comes days after an Israeli drone crashed near Beirut.
Ala Khader al-Hreimi, 26. a former Palestinian political prisoner who was previously shot by Israeli soldiers, was killed Friday after he reportedly deliberately rammed two Israeli colonists with his car near Etzion, an illegal settlement.
An attempt by Palestinian militants in Gaza to enter Israel was thwarted early Saturday, the Israel military said. Haaretz reported that all four armed men were shot dead after one crossed the border and fired at troops as well as tossing a grenade, according to an army statement.
Wafa News: Ahmad Dawabshe celebrated his ninth birthday while undergoing his fourth year in laser treatment to recover from the effects of burns to his body. Ahmad was the only survivor of a July 31, 2015 arson attack by Israeli settlers on his family’s West Bank home that killed his father, Saad, 32, his mother, Riham, 27, and his infant 18-month-old brother, Ali.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has confirmed that a youth died Friday night from serious wounds after Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March processions. He was identified as Ahmad Mohammad al-Qarra, 22.
A Palestinian man, 31, died in solitary confinement in Nitzan Israeli Prison. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said the detainee, Nasser Majed Taqatqa, 31, was taken prisoner by Israeli soldiers on June 19 2019, and has been under interrogation since then.