On Friday, Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinian young men, injured dozens of residents, including many with live fire, and abducted several residents, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked lands and property and caused damage across the occupied West Bank.
In QALQILIA, in the northwestern West Bank, the soldiers killed a young man and injured several Palestinians during protests that occurred after the army invaded the city.
Medical sources at Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital in Qalqilia said the soldiers shot Qassam Osama Abdul-Hafeth, 26, from Qalqilia, with live rounds in the chest.
They added the medics rushed the seriously wounded young man to the hospital, but he succumbed to his serious wounds.
His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and colonialist settlers in the occupied West Bank since October 7th to 110, in addition to more than 1900 wounded Palestinians.
The army also shot five Palestinians with live fire and injured many others due to the effects of tear gas inhalation during protests near the military roadblock at the northern entrance of Qalqilia.
In NABLUS, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers shot a young man with live rounds in the chest and the back and another Palestinian in the thigh, in addition to two who were shot in their legs and two who suffered shrapnel wounds.
Local sources said the soldiers invaded the city from several directions, stormed a home in Ibn Roshd Street, and ransacked the property before abducting Omar Mansour after the army assaulted his father and his brother and also abducted a former political prisoner, Kayed Abu Ar-Rees, from his home in the Al-Quds Street area.
Many army jeeps also invaded the Ein Beit Al-Ma’ refugee camp in the western part of Nablus city, searched and ransacked homes before abducting Ahmad Shqeirat and Ibrahim Shqeirat, and also abducted Mohammad Tha’er Hasan from his home in Qusra village, south of Nablus.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Beit Furik town, east of Nablus, and shot a young man, 23, with a live round in the leg before local medics rushed him to a medical center.
Media sources said several army jeeps invaded Beit Furik, leading to protests before the soldiers damaged and burnt two Palestinian cars and fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs at the Palestinians.
Also, the soldiers invaded Osarin village, south of Nablus, leading to protests, and shot four Palestinians with live fire; one, 25 years of age, was shot in the thigh, another young man, 24, was shot in the shoulder, in addition to one, 17, who suffered bullet shrapnel wounds to the head and the neck, and the fourth was shot in the abdomen.
In Sorra, west of Nablus, the soldiers shot a young man in the leg during protests that erupted after the army and a group of paramilitary colonizers invaded the village.
Following a demonstration condemning the occupation’s vicious military assault against the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shot a 14-year-old child in the thigh with a live round at the Huwwara military roadblock, south of Nablus.
In RAMALLAH, in the central West Bank, the soldiers shot one Palestinian with a bullet in the back in Deir Abu Mashal village, northwest of the city, and detained him. The young man suffered moderate wounds; the bullet exited through his back.
The soldiers shot the young man near the iron gate the army frequently uses to close the village and detained him for some time before eventually allowing Palestinian medics to move him to a hospital in Ramallah.
Furthermore, the soldiers shot a 14-year-old child with a live round in the leg and caused many Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, cuts, and bruises at the northern entrance of Al-Biereh city near Ramallah.
In the city of Al-Biereh, occupation forces opened fire at a Palestinian-owned vehicle, causing damage, in the “Sahtah Marhaba” neighborhood of the city.
The soldiers also installed an iron gate at the entrance of Birzeit town, north of Ramallah, and prevented the Palestinians from crossing.
In BETHLEHEM, Israeli soldiers shot four Palestinians with live fire in their lower extremities, inflicting moderate wounds, and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation at the northern entrance of the city.
Also in Bethlehem, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian cars in Tuqu’ town, southeast of the city, causing damage.
Israeli police brutally assaulted Palestinian citizen, Amjad Yaqoub Ghazal, 30, and confiscated his legally-owned vehicle, in Kisan village, southeast of Bethlehem.
In HEBRON, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers assaulted a young man, causing fractures and bruises, before abducting him at a military roadblock at the entrance of Beit Awwa town, southwest of the city.
The soldiers shot three Palestinians, seriously injuring a 15-year-old child, shooting him in the mouth and neck with live ammunition, while two young men sustained moderate wounds from live rounds.
Soldiers caused scores of Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation during protests at the northern entrance of Hebron city.
Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian young man after they fired live rounds at his vehicle in the Wadi Al-Ghumari area, south of Hebron.
In related news, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian homes and lands in Yatta town, south of the city, and released their livestock to graze in Palestinian farmlands in a number of areas in the town, including Khallet Al-Mayya, Um Safa, Wad Al-Jawaya, and the Al-Marahin Al-Beed area.
The colonizers also cut more than 200 olive and almond trees and grape seedlings, destroyed irrigation pipes, stole a water pump and electricity cables, destroyed a water tank, and cut the main water line in the Ein Al-Baida area in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
In addition, the colonizers also surveyed Palestinian lands and water springs in preparation for their illegal annexation.
Also, the paramilitary colonizers attacked many Palestinians in Susiya village, leading to a scuffle and wounding several residents, in addition to opening fire at a Palestinian car before damaging it in Masafer Yatta.
On Friday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, Abdullah Bassam Abu Al-Haija, 28, from Al-Yamoun town near Nablus, Ayser Mohammad Al-Amer, 25, from the Jenin refugee camp, and Jawad Abdul-Salam Turki, 22, and injured at least twelve, after many military vehicles invaded Jenin.
The locals found Turki’s corpse with several bullets wounds close to Martyr Shirin Abu Akleh Street, close to the school after the army withdrew from the area.
On Thursday evening, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed the death of Mohammad Ahmad Sadeq Qabaha, 25, whom Israeli soldiers shot last Friday, October 20, in Toura village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Israel now has killed 318 Palestinians, including many children, in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year, 2023; among them 110 since October 7th.
First published Oct 27, 2023 at 21:39
