Israeli forces assassinated a Palestinian man, on Sunday, after besieging his home in the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that occupation forces executed the citizen, Hassan Ali Hassan Rabaya, 37, after opening heavy live fire at him in town of Meithalun.
Sources added that an undercover Israeli unit (Musta’ribeen) infiltrated the town of Meithalun on Sunday morning, and surrounded the family home of the slain Rabaya, demanding that he surrender himself.
Military reinforcements then invaded the town, accompanied by a bulldozer, and opened heavy fire at the home, injuring Rabaya, and proceeded to detain him, while armed Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the attacking army.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that Israeli soldiers denied the wounded man medical treatment after blocking its ambulance crews from reaching him; later his death was announced as a result.
Sources also reported that the army confiscated a privately-owned vehicle during its military incursion into the town of Meithalun.
It is important to mention that the slain Rabaya, an officer in the Preventive Security Service, is the father of 15-year-old child, Ali Hassan Ali Rabay’a, whom Israeli soldiers shot and killed on July 11, 2024.
Israeli soldiers fatally shot the child, Ali Hassan Ali Rabay’a, 15, and injured two other children, after storming the towns of Meithalun and Siris, south of Jenin city.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 838 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 172 children, and injured 6,500.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 225 in Jenin, 196 in Tulkarem, 94 in Nablus, 77 in Hebron, 67 in Tubas, 59 in Ramallah, 50 in occupied Jerusalem, 33 in Qalqilia, 21 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 45,805 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 109,064 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remain buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
