Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash during a raid Tuesday morning in the Balata refugee camp. Hashash was watching the raid from the roof of his house when he was shot in the head.
Protests have continued in the Palestinian village of Beita against the establishment of a settler outpost on the village’s land. Israeli forces have continued to violently suppress protests, killing two more Palestinians over the past month. “For more than 100 days we have been resisting against the occupation and the settlers,” Abed al-Fattah Hamayel, a local activist in Beita, told Mondoweiss. “And everyday the situation is becoming even more volatile. The soldiers are just waiting for any excuse, or just the right moment to kill anyone.”
Birzeit student Layan Nasir is currently being imprisoned at Israel’s Damon Military Prison with seven other female students. Rev. Fadi Diab says the story of her baptism as an infant to her detention as a university student reveals the arbitrariness of the Israeli occupation.
Israel has stopped arguing for years the actual content of human rights reports or allegations directed at its conduct. Instead, Israel’s strategy is to simply attack human rights organizations themselves.
Many of the wounds of the Israeli occupation are bloodless and invisible. But like pieces of shrapnel lodged in the chest, they will eventually find their way to pierce the heart.
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinian young men, including at least two teenagers, during military raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank early Monday morning. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, Israeli forces have conducted more than 2,500 arrest raids in the West Bank since the beginning of the year.
Israeli leaders are forced to balance calls for “lethal” military bravura, essential for garnering Zionist Jewish support internally, with maintaining its image abroad.
New video footage released by B’Tselem of the moment that Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian family’s car, killing their 11-year-old son, contradicts the army’s accounts of the events.
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father’s car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed’s funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad. “They killed my boy, and then they wouldn’t even let me bury him,” Moayyad al-Alami tells Mondoweiss. “That is my most basic right as a father, and they took that from me too.”
Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International – Palestine’s headquarters in the central occupied West Bank, confiscating computers and client files. The organization says it is part of an ongoing campaign to silence and eliminate Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations.