On Thursday night, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and injured another near the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
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Updated on April 4, 2025 at 4:22 pm
The Shireen Observatory identified the slain citizen as the child, Youssef Bakr Youssef Zaoul, 17, and reported that the occupation army confiscated his body.
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First published on April 4, 2025 at 3:43 am
Rami Hamamra, the head of Husan Village Council, stated that the soldiers invaded the village and closed the Um Hindi area while firing numerous live rounds.
Hamamra added that the soldiers then sealed off the entire area before dispatching additional military vehicles and an ambulance.
Abdul-Halim Ja’afra, the head of the Bethlehem branch of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), reported that the PRCS received a call regarding injuries in the area.
However, he added that the soldiers prevented PRCS medics from reaching the scene, leaving them unable to provide treatment. Later on, an Israeli ambulance was seen in the area, but no information was provided.
“The PRCS could not obtain details, especially regarding the extent of injuries, despite reports indicating that one of the Palestinians was fatally injured,” Ja’afra stated.
Hamamra further noted that the soldiers closed all entrances to the village, preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving.
The Israeli army claimed that its soldiers opened fire on Palestinians who allegedly threw stones at military jeeps on a settler road, known as Route 375, near Husan.
It stated that one Palestinian was “eliminated and another was hit”, while reporting no injuries among its soldiers.
So far, the name and additional information regarding the slain Palestinian and the injured remain unknown.
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers shot a young Palestinian man before abducting him near the Al-Jalama military roadblock, north of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child, Omar Amer Zyoud, 15, after the army invaded the town of Silat al-Harithiya, northwest of Jenin, on Wednesday afternoon.
In related news, Israeli forces killed the Palestinian young man, Hamza Muhammad Sa’id Khammash, 33, after shooting him at close range during a military invasion into the Old City of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked a residential building in Nablus city, while more troops were deployed across the city and the surrounding areas.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed 116 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 19 children and 4 women.
Occupation forces have killed 50 Palestinians in Jenin, 20 in Tubas, 15 in Nablus, 14 in Tulkarem, 5 in Hebron, 3 in Qalqilia, 4 in Bethlehem, 3 in Jerusalem, 1 in Ramallah, and 1 in Salfit.
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued bombing and shelling various parts of the destroyed, besieged, and starved coastal enclave, including the bombing of schools sheltering displaced families, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women.
They added that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip had risen to at least 50,523, including at least 15,617 children and 9,802 women, with 114,776 injuries, largely children and women, recorded since October 7, 2023.
