Israel kills two Palestinians, including 16 year-old, in West Bank

According to officials, two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces, including a teen boy, in separate raids in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin governorate, according to officials, with security camera footage showing soldiers firing at a “point-blank” range.

Late on Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Ahmad Zayoud, 22, was killed in Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, while Rayyan Abdel Qader, 16, was shot dead by Israeli forces after storming the town of Qabatiya.

Witnesses claimed Israeli troops fired directly at Abdel Qader, preventing emergency personnel from reaching him, leaving him to bleed until he passed away, according to a report from the Wafa news agency on Sunday. According to the Palestinian agency, Israeli forces reportedly held his body.

Zayoud was reportedly shot in the chest, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. According to the ministry, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was hurt in his hand during the incident.

About a week prior to the town’s killing, Israeli forces killed a 16-year-old.

Abdel Qader was reportedly shot “point-blank” by Israeli forces while he was walking toward what residents of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, a reporter from Bethlehem.

“We don’t frequently have video surveillance to show how many of these killings occurred under what Palestinians refer to as extrajudicial killings,” she said. Israeli forces kill Palestinians point blank or use excuses when they claim they’ve been abusing what they claim are doing in an effort to oppose Israeli forces, she said.

They also refused to let anyone approach the body for 40 minutes, a practice that Israeli forces have seen frequently in the occupied West Bank where they kind of wait for the victim to pass away, Ibrahim said.

Abdel Qader’s family, according to Al Jazeera, claimed they had no idea what had happened.

Watching videos like those that demonstrate how little regard the Israeli army has for Palestinian lives is “part of the pain that the families have to go through,” Ibrahim said.

Since 2023, there have been more than 200 fatalities.

On the other hand, the Israeli military claimed that the victims had hurled an explosive and a block at their forces, a claim that has frequently proven to be false. It claimed Zayoud threw an explosive while Abdel Qader was shot after hurling a block of fire at its soldiers, who responded with fire.

According to the statement, no Israeli troops were hurt in the incidents.

Since October 7, 2023, the Hamas-led attack that resulted in a brutal Israeli attack on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, has resulted in 1, 101 deaths, including 229 children. During that time, Israeli authorities nearly 21 000 Palestinians were detained. More than a third of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons were unarmed as of December 1; approximately 9,300 were there.

As a result of the country’s widespread support for the far-right, Palestinian prisoners have frequently been tortured, sexually abused, and even killed while they are in custody. In addition, Israeli settlers have launched violent attacks in the occupied West Bank. 86 Palestinian prisoners who were taken into Israeli custody have been identified and identified by Israel. In violation of international law, the Israeli government approved the construction of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been on a warrant for arrest after numerous human rights organizations labeled the Israeli occupation of Gaza as a genocide.

In violation of the ceasefire, which was signed in October, the violence has erupted in tandem with Israeli deadly attacks in Gaza, which has prompted concerns that they may undermine diplomatic efforts to advance to the second phase of the US-brokered agreement. Since the US President Donald Trump’s proposed ceasefire on October 10 came into effect, Israel has killed at least 400 Palestinians.

In Gaza City, two people were killed.

In addition, a doctor at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital reported that two Palestinians were killed on Sunday in the east of the city’s Shujayea neighborhood by Israeli fire.

According to the source, the killings occurred close to the so-called “yellow line,” which defines Israeli military control of territory.

According to an Al Jazeera team on the ground, Israeli artillery shelling and helicopter gunfire were also firing at areas close to Israeli positions east of Khan Younis in the south of the Strip.

The latest killings in Gaza occurred one day after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed that Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire “creating major risks for transitioning to the second phase.”

As he reviewed the initial stages of the October agreement, Fidan made the comments while meeting with Egyptian, US, and Qatari diplomats in Miami.

Meanwhile, the ministry of interior and national security in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood reported that on Saturday night, a three-story house collapsed, killing four people.

Since the ceasefire’s implementation in October, 18 people have been killed in these circumstances as of this writing.

Source: Aljazeera