On Saturday evening, the Israeli army assassinated two Palestinians by firing a missile at their car in the center of Jenin city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that medics recovered the severely mutilated bodies of the two slain Palestinians, identified as Rafat Mahmoud Sobhi Dawasi, 28, and Ahmad Walid Ahmad Abu Arra, 32.
Ahmad was from Aqaba town, northeast of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, while Rafat was from ٍSielet Al-Harithiya town, northeast of Jenin.
Ahmad’s brother described the assassination as another cowardly Israeli attack, adding that Ahmad had been on Israel’s assassination list for approximately two months before October 7, 2023. Rafat has been on Israel’s assassination list for more than one year.
The Israeli army claimed its forces killed two senior fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.”
The assassination of the two young men brings the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank, since October 7, 2023, to 635, including 147 children, and twenty-one killed by paramilitary colonizers, in addition to 5400 wounded Palestinians.
In the Gaza Strip, the number of slain Palestinians is more than 40.074, among them more than 16.365 children, 11.012 women, 885 medical staff, 79 Civil Defense, and 203 UNRWA Staff.
At least 92,537, mostly children, women, and elderly have been injured, while thousands (About 10.000) of victims are still under the rubble and on the bombarded roads, as medics remain unable to reach them, since October 7, 2023.
