Israeli forces killed an elderly Palestinian man, on Wednesday, in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that occupation forces brutally assaulted the elderly man, Atef Abdel Malek Deria, 68, causing severe injuries, while he was on his land in Aqraba town, south of Nablus.
According to Salah Jaber, the Mayor of Aqraba, Israeli soldiers savagely beat the elderly man while he was present on his own land located next to a settler only road.
He added that the critically injured Deria was rushed to the hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead as a result of his injuries.
In related news, Israeli police killed a Palestinian child, late Tuesday night, after shooting and abducting him in Silwan town, south of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
On Wednesday at dawn, the child, Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shuwaiki, 17, succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained from the Israeli police in Silwan town.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 805 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 169 children, and injured 6,450.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 222 in Jenin, 182 in Tulkarem, 87 in Nablus, 76 in Hebron, 64 in Tubas, 59 in Ramallah, 49 in occupied Jerusalem, 30 in Qalqilia, 20 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 44,532 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 105,538 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remain buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
