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6 Palestinians Killed, Scores Injured and Abducted, Homes and Property Demolished by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

April 2, 2023 

Editor's Note:

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا"  (المائدةُ ، 5: 32).

"Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for corruption in the land, it is as if he had killed humankind entirely" (The Holy Quran, Al-Ma-ida, 5: 32).

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

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The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

The following news stories are from: https://imemc.org/


Killing of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill Two Palestinians, Abduct Two, In Nablus

 APR 3, 2023

On Monday dawn, dozens of Israeli occupation regime military vehicles invaded Nablus city, leading to protests, before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, seriously wounding two Palestinians, who died from their wounds, and injured dozens.  The soldier also abducted two young men and injured dozens.

Update: The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed the death of the two seriously wounded young men in Rafidia Governmental Hospital and Nablus Specialty Hospital.

The two were rushed to the two medical centers before doctors and surgeons tried to save their lives, but they succumbed to their serious gunshot wounds, the Health Ministry added.

The two Palestinians were later identified as Mohammad Omar Junaidi (Abu Bakr) and Mu'hammed Nasir 'Hallaq.

The Health Ministry said the two Palestinians’ deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the beginning of this year to 94, including 17 children, one woman, and a young man from Houra in the Negev.

The invasion was fast and appears to have been aimed at killing the two young men and withdrawing within a relatively short time.

Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Nablus office Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said the soldiers shot and seriously injured two young men, including one who was shot in the head, before the medic rushed them to Rafidia governmental hospital, and Nablus Specialty Hospital.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also surrounded Nablus Specialty Hospital and fired many gas bombs at it, and tried to prevent ambulances from entering or leaving it.

Furthermore, the soldiers surrounded a home in Nablus and exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters near the besieged property.

Also, the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in several areas of Nablus city, especially the Al-Makhfiyya area and the Old City, and abducted two young men, Ezzeddin Touqan and Nidal Tabanja.

During the invasion, an Israeli military dog mauled a Palestinian man, causing various wounds, while at least 55 Palestinians suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation.

Palestinian medics also had to evacuate five families from their homes after the soldiers targeted the properties with gas bombs, while one Red Crescent ambulance sustained damage after a gas bomb struck it.

The Israeli army said its soldiers arrested two Palestinians believed to have provided assistance to the Palestinian who shot and injured three Israeli soldiers in Huwwara, south of Nablus, last month, and claimed the soldiers also confiscated a car and two pistols.

Palestinian Killed Near Beit Ummar After 3 Israelis Hit by Car

 APR 2, 2023

A young man was killed on Saturday evening by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Public Authority for Civil Affairs stated that it had informed the Ministry of Health of the death of the young man, Mohammad Raed Nayef Baradiya, 23, by Israeli occupation bullets near the town of Beit Ummar.

Israeli police claimed that a vehicular collision in the West Bank was an alleged ‘ramming attack’ by a Palestinian driver. Three Israelis were injured in the incident, which took place near the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar.

Soon after the vehicle collision, Israeli military troops fired numerous live rounds at the driver, without stopping to question him.

Local sources reported that the occupation soldiers left the 23-year old driver bleeding on the ground, and prevented Palestinian ambulances from approaching the place, until he died.

The sources indicated that the killed Palestinian, Baradiya, who worked in the medical services of the Palestinian security forces, was from Surif, northwest of Hebron.

The Israeli occupation regime claimed that three of its soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, in an alleged “vehicle ramming attack” operation carried out by a Palestinian near the junction of the settlement bloc, “Gush Etzion”, which is located on stolen Palestinian land south of Bethlehem.

With the killing of the young man, the death toll since the beginning of this year has risen to 92, including 17 children and a woman, and a young man from the village of Hura in the Negev within the borders of what is now Israel.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill A Young Man Near Al-Aqsa

 APR 1, 2023

On Saturday dawn, a young Palestinian man from 'Houra Bedouin village in the Negev died from serious wounds suffered Friday evening after Israeli occupation soldiers shot him with live fire at the Bab Al-Silsila (Chain Gate) leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, after alleging he attempted to snatch a weapon from a soldier, an allegation that witnesses denied.

The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers shot the young man when he reportedly tried to snatch a weapon from an officer and that he also “was able to fire the weapon a few times before he was killed.”

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot Mohammad Al-Asibi, 26, while trying to stop the soldiers who were beating up a young woman and dragging her out of the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Chain Gate in preparation for abducting her.

They added that the slain man never tried to assault the soldiers or snatch their weapons and was only focused on trying to stop them from attacking and abducting the young woman.

The soldiers were also clubbing and assaulting dozens of Palestinians trying to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards to pray on the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Arab Member of Knesset Ayman Odeh and former Member of Knesset Talab Al-Sane’, denounced the Israeli crime and the attempts to justify the young man’s murder who graduated from med school and completed his medical practice exam just two weeks earlier.

Odeh added that Mohammad went to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque and could not tolerate the sight of Israeli soldiers and police officers assaulting the young woman and tried to stop them before they shot him and said that the Palestinian did not carry any weapons and did not attempt to attack soldiers or snatch their weapons.

“Everybody needs to understand that the Israeli occupation is the ongoing and biggest crime,” Odeh said, “The suffering, the crimes will continue as long as this illegal occupation is ongoing.”

MK Sane’ also denounced the Israeli crime and said the young man was shot point blank, adding that the Israeli allegations are mere lies and fabrications to justify another crime against the Palestinian people.

“The army and the police have surveillance cameras all over the place, in every corner, alley and street, let’s see them release those videos…” he stated.

He added that the crime was also encouraged by racist and fundamentalist right-wing coalition members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governorate, especially the fanatic Itamar Ben-Gvir.

A general strike and mourning were declared in Houra and Rahat and many Arab villages and towns in the Negev.

Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In February In Nablus

 MAR 28, 2023

On Tuesday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young man whom Israeli occupation soldiers shot and seriously injured in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, in February.

The Health Ministry said the young man 'Aamir Mu'hammed Lolah, 23, from Zawata village, west of Nablus, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered on February 22, 2023.

The soldiers shot the young man with several live rounds, inflicting life-threatening wounds, when many army vehicles invaded Nablus, killed eleven Palestinians, and injured more than 102, including six in critical condition, during the Wednesday invasion of Nablus.

One of the slain Palestinians, Abdul-Hadi Al-Ashqar, 61, was sent to the Najah National University where his son, Elias, who works as a nurse at the Emergency Unit, was shocked to see his father there, and despite all efforts, the father died in his arms.

Israeli Occupation Regime Police Kill A Palestinian In Kafr Yasif

 MAR 26, 2023

On Sunday dawn, Israeli occupation regime police officers killed a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Kafr Yasif, in the Galilee in the northern part of the country.

Media sources said an off-duty police officer fired several rounds at a car carrying several passengers, seriously wounding Omar Ghalib Sawa’id, 22, who succumbed to his wounds.

Eyewitnesses said the officer aimed high at the car in a manner that seemed to be intended to inflict upper-body wounds.

A video shows the car speeding to reach a hospital, and in the process, the seriously wounded young man falling out of the car before the passengers ran toward him. At that moment, an ambulance arrived and took him to a hospital.

The Israeli police only commented on the shooting by claiming it is investigating the circumstances that led to the incident.

The Arabs48 news website said the shooting and subsequent death of the young man come on the back of serious violence and shooting incidents related to crimes and gun violence, especially amidst the failure of the Israeli police to investigate these crimes in several Arab communities in the country.

Injuring of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Illegal Israeli Settlers Injure Four Palestinians Near Hebron

 APR 3, 2023

On Sunday, illegal paramilitary Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinians in Surif town, northwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, wounding four.

Media sources said the colonizers came from the illegal Beit Ayin colonialist outpost, built on stolen Palestinian lands in Surif.

They added that the colonizers hurled stones at the Palestinians and attacked them with batons, wounding three, including one who was hospitalized due to his wounds.

Also, the colonizers assaulted and injured a shepherd in the same area, forcing him out of grazing lands near the illegal colony.

Late Saturday night, illegal Israeli colonizers destroyed four agricultural rooms and a small chicken farm, cut saplings, and contaminated a well in Shoufa village, east of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Occupation Army Injures Many Palestinians Near Nablus

 MAR 31, 2023

On Friday, Israeli occupation soldiers injured many Palestinians during the weekly procession in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said dozens of Palestinians marched to their lands before the soldiers attacked them with rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

They added that the soldiers caused at least ten Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation before receiving the needed treatment.

Last week, the soldiers attacked the weekly processions in Beita and Beit Dajan, causing at least ten Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

The Palestinians have been holding ongoing processions on their lands in Sbeih Mountain in Beita and in Beit Dajan after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost atop the Mountain.

The soldiers injured thousands of Palestinians during these protests and killed several others, including children.

The Mountain, owned by the Palestinians, has significant strategic importance, especially since if the colonizers occupied it, the colony would lead to the annexation of 20 Dunams of Palestinian lands and would also lead to the isolation of a large area of Palestinian lands.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Wound 3, Abduct 10 Palestinians

 MAR 31, 2023

The Israeli occupation soldiers invaded several parts of the West Bank on Thursday, wounding three and abducting ten Palestinian civilians.

Three young men were injured by live bullets during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, who stormed the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, raided the house of the released prisoner Youssef Nazzal, abducted his brother Mu'tasem, and detained his brother Mahmoud for several hours. In a related context, the occupation forces stormed the towns of Zababdeh and Jaba’, and the villages of Muthalath al-Shuhada and Msliyeh, south of Jenin.

In Hebron, a number of Palestinians suffered from gas inhalation when Israeli forces fired gas canisters toward civilians, and a young man was abducted during the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on the town of Beit Ummar, north of the governorate.

These injuries do not include the five who were wounded east of Gaza during an Israeli military assault on a Land Day demonstration.

In Jericho and the Jordan Valley, a young man, Amjad Ka'abneh, was injured while driving his agricultural tractor on the Al-Maarajat road, when Israeli paramilitary settlers attacked him and threw stones at him, which smashed the windows of his tractor.

In addition, the Israeli occupation forces demolished a house in the village of Al-Nuwa'ima, north of Jericho.

The official in charge of the settlement resistance file in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, Muhammad Abu Grouf, told Wafa that the occupation forces, accompanied by their military bulldozers, stormed the lands of the “Turaifat” Arabs in Al-Nuwa'imeh, and demolished the house of the citizen, Atta Dawood Zayed Tarifat.

He added that the area of ​​the house is 150 square meters, and it houses about 5 people, and the occupation had notified him of the demolition about a month ago, under the pretext of not having a permit.

10 citizens from the northern governorates were arrested

The Israeli occupation forces abducted 10 citizens from the northern governorates. In the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, the occupation forces abducted the released prisoner, Nour Sarsour, after raiding and searching his family’s house in the town of Beitunia, to the west.

In Jerusalem Governorate, the occupation forces abducted the two young men, Ahmed Abdullah Al-Saqa and Youssef Mazen She'hadeh, from Qalandia camp in the north, after raiding and searching their homes.

In a related context, the Israeli occupation regime forces deported the citizen, Haroun Abu Snayneh, from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of six months.

In Tulkarm Governorate, the occupation forces abducted the released prisoner, Ahmed Amjad Odeh (24 years old), after raiding his house in the southern neighborhood of the city.

They also abducted the young man, Muhammad Raed Al-Karmi (21 years old), after checking with their intelligence services at Al-Taybeh military checkpoint, located on citizens’ lands, southwest of Tulkarm .

And in Salfit Governorate, the Israeli occupation forces abducted the young man, Hamada Abdel-Wahhab Mahmoud Abdullah, from the town of Dair Ballut, west, after they raided and searched his house and tampered with its contents.

In Nablus, the occupation forces abducted Ismail Ibrahim Najjar, from the village of Yatma, in the south, after they raided and searched his house.

They also abducted Mohammed Khalid Salman Al-Safadi from the village of Orif, south of Nablus, after raiding his house.

And in the Hebron Governorate, the occupation forces abducted the released prisoner, Muhammad Ahmed Abu Maria (27 years), from the northern town of Beit Ummar, after searching his house and tampering with its contents.

And in Jenin Governorate, the occupation forces abducted Mu'tasim Nazzal from the town of Qabatiya in the south, after raiding the home of his brother, the released prisoner Yoosuf Nazzal.

Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Israeli Occupation Army Abducts Six Palestinians Near Nablus And Jenin

 APR 3, 2023

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted Six Palestinians, including a teenage boy, near Nablus and Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the soldiers abducted Hamza Sayyid, 21, Ahmad Qatqat, 20, Liqa’ Odah, 19, and Adam Baghdadi, 17, from Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, after stopping them at a sudden military roadblock near Sorra village, southwest of Nablus.

Also, the soldiers abducted a young man, Ahmad 'Husam Abu Far'ha, a street vendor from Al-Jalama village, northeast of Jenin, working near the Al-Jalama roadblock, before the army closed the roadblock and forced the Palestinians to leave.

The soldiers also abducted a former political prisoner, Ibrahim 'Ammar Abbas, 24, from Mothallath Ash-Shuhada village, south of Jenin, after summoning him for interrogation at the Salem military base, west of the city.

Also Monday, dozens of Israeli soldiers accompanied groups of colonizers into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and abducted four Palestinians.

On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted at least eleven Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem.

Also, dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded Nablus city, leading to protests, before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, seriously wounding two Palestinians, who died from their wounds, and injuring dozens.  The soldier also abducted two young men and injured dozens.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Al-Aqsa

 APR 3, 2023

On Monday, dozens of Israeli occupation soldiers accompanied groups of colonizers into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and abducted four Palestinians.

Media sources said dozens of soldiers accompanied several groups of colonizers, approximately 103, and deployed more officers around the holy site to prevent the Palestinians from entering it.

They added that the soldiers started forcing the Palestinians in the holy compound out of it and abducted four of them.

The Israeli occupation army and the police remain extensively deployed around the holy site, preventing the Palestinians from entering it, searching and interrogating while investigating their ID cards.

On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers invaded the Al-Qibli Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in occupied Jerusalem to facilitate invasions by groups of illegal colonizers into the holy site.

Media sources said the soldiers assaulted and forced dozens of worshipers out of the mosque and threatened to abduct and even shoot those who refuse to leave.

On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted at least eleven Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem.

Also, dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded Nablus city, leading to protests, before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, seriously wounding two Palestinians, who died from their wounds, and injuring dozens.  The soldier also abducted two young men and injured dozens.

Israeli Occupation  Regime Troops Abduct 9 Palestinians in the West Bank

 APR 3, 2023

On Sunday, Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, abducting 8 Palestinians.

The Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men: Muhammad Abu 'Adi and Shadi Abu 'Adi, after storming their homes and searching them in the town of Kafr Nima, west of Ramallah.

In the Hebron governorate, the Israeli occupation forces abducted Ya'qoob Ibrahim Al-Taweel and his son Wa-il, after they raided and searched their home in Wadi al-Qadi in the southern part of the city.

And in the Bethlehem governorate, the Israeli occupation forces abducted the two young men, Hamza Abdullah Sa'adi (32 years old), and Saif Al-Din Othman (20 years old), after they raided and searched the homes of their families in the village of 'Husan, west of the governorate.

And in the Jerusalem governorate, the Israeli occupation forces abducted the young man, Ramzi Al-Abbasi, from the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, after they stopped him while he was driving his vehicle, and took him to the “Al-Maskoubiya” interrogation center.

In Jenin Governorate, the Israeli occupation forces abducted the released prisoner, Salih Mustafa Abed, from the town of Kafr Dan, west of the governorate, at the Karama crossing, while he was returning from performing Umrah prayers.

In the context, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Qabatiya and the village of Muthalath Al-Shuhada, south of Jenin, and launched search campaigns, harassing local residents, which led to clashes, without any injuries reported, while the Israeli occupation forces also stormed the village of Bir al-Basha.

Demolition of Palestinian Homes and Property by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Israeli Occupation Army Demolishes Al-Arakib Village For The 215 Time

 APR 3, 2023

On Monday morning, Israeli occupation soldiers and border police officers invaded the Al-'Araqeeb Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fourth time this year, and the 215th time since July 27, 2010,

The soldiers surrounded the village and stormed it before forcing the families out of their dwellings and demolishing their residential tents, sheds, and barns.

The demolition is the fourth this year alone, including when it was destroyed on March 15;  the village was destroyed 15 times in 2022 and 14 times in 2021.

The villagers keep reinstalling their tents, using wood, nylon, tin, and other materials to shelter themselves from the summer heat and the winter cold and remain determined to stay on their lands despite Israeli plans to displace them.

Al-'Araqeeb is a Palestinian village located to the north of the city of Beersheba in the Negev desert (southern Palestine). It was established for the first time during Ottoman rule.

It is one of the 51 Arab villages in the Negev that the Israeli occupation regime does not recognize, although they predate Israel.

The occupation authorities have worked since 1951 to expel its residents to control their lands through extensive house demolitions and the vast lands equivalent to two-thirds of historic Palestine.

Israeli bulldozers demolished the village on July 27, 2010; Israeli troops demolished all its homes and displaced hundreds of its residents under the pretext of building without a permit.

The residents of the village built it again, to be demolished, again and again.

The steadfastness of Al-Araqeeb became a symbol of the battle of wills waged by the Palestinians of the occupied interior, especially in the Negev, to survive and preserve land and identity from the policies of Judaization.

About 240,000 Palestinians live in the Negev desert, half of whom live in villages and Bedouin camps, some of which have been in place for hundreds of years.

The Israeli occupation authorities do not recognize their ownership of the lands of these villages and communities, refuse to provide them with basic services such as water and electricity and try by all means and methods to push the Palestinian Arabs to despair and frustration to uproot and displace them.

Article 17 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights sates: ” 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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