Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian teenager Oday Salah in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin on Thursday morning, just 24 hours after two Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in confrontations in Jenin. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that 149 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, 34 of whom were from the Jenin area.
According to Defense for Children International – Palestine, an Israeli sniper deployed on top of a residential building in the refugee camp shot Dirar al-Kafrayni in the back from a distance of approximately 295 feet. He’s the 18th Palestinian child to be killed since the start of 2022.
On Saturday, in the occupied West Bank, Amjad Abu Alia was killed by Israeli fire during a demonstration in his town of al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah. Eyewitnesses claim that Abu Alia was shot by fire that came from the direction of Israeli settlers, who were documented shooting and throwing rocks at Palestinians in the area.
Two men belonging to the Al-Quds Brigades were killed. They were identified as Muhammad Azizi, 25, and Abdul Rahman Sobh, 28. The Palestinian Ministry of health said that Azizi was shot in the chest, and Sobh was shot in the head.
The three slain Palestinians were identified as Baraa Lahlouh, 24, Yusuf Salah, 23, and Laith Abu Srour, 24, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed this year to 66.
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians during raids overnight in Jenin and Bethlehem, just hours after killing a Palestinian journalist in Hebron and attacking her funeral. Their deaths bring the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of the year to 60.
A prominent Palestinian leader in Jenin and the brother of political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, succumbed to wounds on Sunday after he was shot by Israeli forces over the weekend.
Thousands of Palestinians attended a state funeral procession for slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Thursday before her burial on Friday in Jerusalem. Following the state procession in Ramallah, Abu Akleh’s body was transported in a convoy to her hometown of Beit Hanina, although it was temporarily intercepted by Israeli police near the Qalandia military checkpoint. Israeli police have also raided the Abu Akleh family home and questioned family members.
Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian journalist and veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in the head today while she was covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp. Palestinian news networks and social media have been flooded with an outpouring of grief from Palestinian officials, Abu Akleh’s colleagues, and ordinary Palestinians who grew up watching the veteran reporter on their screens.
The Israeli military killed four Palestinians in four separate incidents across the occupied West Bank between Sunday and Monday, including one teenager, and a widow of six children who was unarmed when she was shot.