Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents on September 5. Meanwhile, both Israel and the PA step up their attacks against Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank.
A Palestinian teenager was shot in the back of the head during an Israeli raid on Jenin. Over the course of 3 days, Israeli forces arrested 120 Palestinians.
Hamza Ashqar, 16, reportedly threw a piece of metal towards the army vehicles almost 100 feet away, when an Israeli soldier fired two fatal shots at him from inside one of the vehicles.
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Samoudi’s death comes amidst heightened escalations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as Israeli forces continue to crack down on Palestinian armed resistance fighters, conducting near nightly, deadly raids into Palestinian towns, cities, and refugee camps.
Rayan Yasser Suleiman, 7, was pronounced dead on Thursday afternoon after he fell unconscious near his home in the town of Tuqu’ in the southern occupied West Bank. Rayan’s family says that his heart stopped and he collapsed after he ran in fear from Israeli soldiers who were raiding his home in search of alleged “stone-throwers.”
Mohammad al-Shaham, 21, was awoken to the commotion of Israeli forces breaking down the door of his family’s home in Kafr Aqab in the middle of the night on August 15th. He was shot and killed on the spot, and his family says Israel is trying to cover up the crime.
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin over the weekend, just days after they used a Palestinian girl as a human shield in the city.
The Israeli army claimed its soldiers shot Mohammad Rezq Salah as he was allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at cars on the highway, but his family says he was 300 meters away from the location when he was shot.