On Tuesday evening, a Palestinian child succumbed to injuries sustained when Israeli forces opened fire during an incursion into the town of Qabatia, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Ministry of Health confirmed the death of 16-year-old Ibrahim Majed Ali Nasr, who was critically wounded after being shot in the chest with live ammunition.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that another young man was shot in the leg and transferred alongside Nassar to a hospital in Jenin, where doctors pronounced Nassar dead upon arrival.
Media sources said the Israeli soldiers pursued the child through the streets of Qabatia and fired live rounds directly at him, resulting in his fatal injury.
Military vehicles invaded Qabatia from multiple access points, deploying foot patrols near the town’s main roundabout and launching a drone over residential areas. Soldiers also invaded a private home, though no abductions were reported during the operation.
Eyewitnesses said protests erupted during the invasion, and added that the soldiers live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs at unarmed civilians.
Nassar’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed in Jenin governorate since the Israeli assault on Jenin city and its refugee camp began on January 21 to 43, alongside dozens more injured and abducted.
In parallel with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israeli military and illegal paramilitary colonizer violations has intensified across the West Bank, including in Jerusalem.
Last Friday, Medical sources said the soldiers shot a child, Amro Ali Khaled Kabaha, 14, with live fire and prevented Palestinian medics from reaching him to provide urgently needed medical attention, before he succumbed to his wounds.
Last Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced, Thursday, the death of detainee Samir Mohammad Youssef Ar-Refa’ey, 53, from the town of Rummana in Jenin Governorate.
Also Thursday, the General Authority for Civil Affairs announced Thursday evening that it had informed the Ministry of Health of the death of Palestinian citizen Firas Ahmad Raja Sobeh, 47, who succumbed to critical injuries after being shot by Israeli forces earlier that morning in Wadi al-Far’a, south of Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. His body remains withheld by the Israeli military.
On Tuesday afternoon and evening, Israeli forces abducted several Palestinians and shot both a child and a young man during military invasions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank.
Earlier Tuesday, the army abducted many Palestinians across the West Bank, especially in Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus, in addition to Ramallah.
Since the beginning of this year, Israel has killed 181 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; 63 in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 27 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 4 in Qalqilia, 5 in Jerusalem, 3 in Salfit and 1 in Jericho.
Israel has now killed 1.016 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023; 270 were killed in Jenin, 124 in Nablus, 94 in Tubas, 213 in Tulkarem, 89 in Hebron, 70 in Ramallah, 27 in Bethlehem, 37 in Qalqilia, 23 in Jerusalem, 32 in Jerusalem suburbs, 7 in Salfit and 13 in Jericho and Northern Plains.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s attacks have resulted in the killing of at least 59,029 Palestinian citizens, including more than 17,131 children, 10,190 women and 4,147 elders, and injured at least 142,135, largely children and women, in several parts of the devastated, starved and besieged Gaza Strip.
