Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man, on Saturday, after abducting him in the village of Wadi al-Far’a, southwest of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Kamal Bani Odah, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, told WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces shot Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Awaisa, 30, with several live rounds, before abducting him.
He added that the slain young man was a former political prisoner who was released in September 2024, after spending two years in occupation prisons.
Media sources said that a large army force stormed Wadi al-Far’a village, on Saturday morning, and surrounded the home of the Awaisa family, before invading the home, shooting the former prisoner with several live rounds, and abducting him.
The Israeli authorities withheld the slain man’s body, and did not provide details about the extent of his wounds.
It is important to mention that the Israeli army has escalated its violations against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, with an increase in the frequency of shooting and abducting injured citizens.
The Arab 48 News quoted the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Palestinian armed resistance group who said that its fighters engaged in armed clashes with the occupying army in Tubas.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 742 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 163 children, and injured 6,200.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 196 in Jenin, 170 in Tulkarem, 75 in Nablus, 74 in Hebron, 59 in Ramallah, 58 in Tubas, 45 in Jerusalem, 29 in Qalqilia, 19 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 41,825 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 96,910 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remained buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
