Israel kills teen in Jenin raid as it pushes West Bank annexation plan

As Israel moves to annex the occupied West Bank in less than two days, Israeli forces killed a 19-year-old youth during a raid near Jenin. This is the second fatality in the area in the last two days.

The military claimed that Ahmed Jihad Barahmeh’s forces shot him after he “threw an explosive device” at them on Wednesday in the town of Anzah, and that he had been killed by them.

A Palestine Red Crescent Society employee reportedly shot the victim in the chest, but the victim later passed away from his injuries.

Saeed Murad al-Nasan, 20, was killed by armed settlers in the village of al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah, according to Al Jazeera Arabic on Tuesday.

Since Israel’s invasion of Gaza, Israeli forces have been conducting near-daily raids in the West Bank, with a sharp rise in violence this month as a result of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s request to annex the area.

In the occupied West Bank, more than 1, 000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel started its genocidal war.

Israeli settlers have also been encouraged to engage in impunity-based violence against and burn property and olive groves in Palestinian communities. Palestinians have hardly ever, if ever, access to legal options.

According to the Wafa news agency, two Israeli settlers on Wednesday attacked the mayor of Beita, a Palestinian town close to Nablus in the West Bank. Mahmoud Barham and a municipal official were attacked by the settlers, who left both men strewn in their cars.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 540 Palestinians have been injured in Israeli settlers’ attacks this year in the West Bank.

Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu claimed that the international community should intervene to put an end to Israel’s violence and that the situation was “getting worse.”

She claimed that Israel’s illegal settlement program, which included the fragmentation of Palestinian land, effectively ended the two-state solution.

She said, “It’s not enough to condemn; it’s now time for the world to be active,” and that she should urge other nations to follow up with arms embargoes against Israel in response to the recent wave of recognition of the state of Palestine.

Israel mandated the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge, the only means of communication between Jordan and the West Bank, for the duration of its ongoing raids.

Left-leaning Knesset member Aida Touma-Sliman accused Israel of demanding “petty revenge” from numerous nations that supported a Palestinian state and of blatantly deceiving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Netanyahu threatens further steps in the near future. She said on X, “The nations of the world who finally recognized the danger of the transfer and extermination government must immediately halt Netanyahu’s destructive and devastating policies.