Posted in: 03/06/2022 – 11:49Last updated: 03/06/2022 – 12:26
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli army bullets during the past two days in separate operations in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said that “three suspects threw a Molotov cocktail at a subordinate force”, while a woman had “approached a soldier while carrying a knife.” On the other hand, Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh condemned the “serious Israeli escalation in field executions once morest the Palestinian people on the orders of Prime Minister (Naftali) Bennett,” warning once morest dragging the region into more violence.
run out Israeli army The past days, several operations in the occupied West Bank resulted in the killing of four Palestinians in less than forty-eight hours, as the Israeli army continues its almost daily operations following a series of attacks in Israel.
Three Palestinians were killed between Wednesday evening and Thursday during Israeli army operations in West Bank.
For its part, the Israeli army said that “three suspects threw a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli army force operating near the security barrier adjacent to the village of Medea.” “The soldiers responded with fire, and one of them was determined to be wounded,” the army added on its Twitter account.
Earlier, on Wednesday morning, Ghufran Harun Hamid and Rasneh were killed by Israeli soldiers’ bullets. The Israeli army said she approached a soldier while carrying a knife near the Al Arroub Palestinian refugee camp in the Hebron area in the southern West Bank.
ruined #Forgive_Rasna She was not a powerless civilian, as the inciting Palestinian and Arab media are trying to portray her, but rather she was a saboteur who tried to carry out a stabbing attack once morest Israeli soldiers. Today was not the first time that the so-called Ghufran and Rasna tried to carry out a sabotage operation pic.twitter.com/1LTyLbxPQR
— Avichay Adraee (@AvichayAdraee) June 1, 2022
The Israeli army has intensified its operations in the West Bank in recent weeks, following a series of attacks in Israel, some of which were carried out by Palestinians from the West Bank, which the Jewish state occupied in 1967.
On Thursday evening, the boy, Odeh Muhammad Odeh, from the village of Medea, west of Ramallah, was killed. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed, “The death of a 17-year-old boy who arrived at the Palestine Medical Complex was shot in the chest by the occupation soldiers.” “Doctors tried to save his life, but he recovered from his very critical injury,” she added.
Palestinian security sources stated that the incident occurred following “young men threw stones at the occupation soldiers near the separation wall.” But the head of the city’s village council, Ragheb Sadaka, confirmed that the boy “was injured while there were no confrontations… He was standing regarding 800 meters away.”
Sadaka told AFP that the Israeli army “shoots anyone who tries to get close.”
And on Thursday morning, Ayman Mahmoud Muhaisen, 29, was shot dead by the Israeli army “during its aggression on the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank,” the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement. The people of Deheisheh Muhaisen camp were chanted by raising the Palestinian flags and the banners of the organizations, amid patriotic chants, and Palestinian gunmen participated in the funeral.
An Israeli army statement said that “the soldiers who were operating in the camp to arrest a Palestinian suspected of being involved in hostile activities were met with stones and explosive devices, and they returned fire and live ammunition.”
Several operations
As part of its operations, the Israeli army demolished the house of Diaa Hamarsha, the perpetrator of a shooting attack in Bnei Brak in Israel, which resulted in five deaths on March 27. His father was arrested.
Last night, the security forces demolished the house of the terrorist Diaa Hamarsha in the village of Yabad, Jenin district, following he committed a terrorist shooting attack in the city of Bani Brak on March 29, 2022, which led to the killing of five civilians. The demolition was carried out following the petition submitted by the terrorist’s family to the High Court of Justice was rejected pic.twitter.com/NDgOtH3Lph
— Avichay Adraee (@AvichayAdraee) June 2, 2022
During this operation, the army said, “violent clashes and riots erupted” and soldiers were targeted with petrol bombs and bullets.
During this operation in the town of Yabad, near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, a 24-year-old Palestinian, Bilal Awad Kabha, was killed and six others were wounded, two of them in critical condition, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
“The Israeli army blew up the three-storey house,” Deputy Governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al-Rub, told AFP. The army confirmed, “The soldiers of the border guards participated with the army in its activities, which included several locations in the West Bank, including the towns of Hawara, Al-Khader, Dura and Qalqilya.”
The official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, condemned “the dangerous Israeli escalation in field executions crimes once morest the Palestinian people on the orders of his prime minister (Naftali) Bennett.” “We are at a crossroads,” he added, warning that “the continuation of the escalation will drag the region into more tension and violence,” blaming the Israeli government for its repercussions.
He called on the US administration to “assume its responsibilities towards stopping this Israeli madness.” He asked, “Where is the opportunity that the US administration is asking for and the climate that must be provided before US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region, which Israel is trying to obstruct through its escalation once morest our people and their sanctities?”
A wave of violence began in late March, killing 19 people, most of them civilians, in attacks once morest Israelis carried out by Palestinians, including Israeli Arabs, inside Israel and in the occupied West Bank, during which three of the attackers were killed.
As a result, in response to the attacks, the Israeli forces intensified their military operations in the West Bank, where 39 Palestinians, including activists and civilians, were killed, including journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin refugee camp, the stronghold of Palestinian armed factions.
An Israeli special forces officer was killed during an operation in the West Bank.
Since the beginning of 2022, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has recorded the deaths of 63 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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