On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man with special needs, 65 years of age, in Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources have confirmed that the soldiers killed Majdi Zakariya Yousef Awwad, 65, after shooting him with a live round in the head.
He was heading to a mosque near his home to perform dawn prayers when the soldiers shot him.
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded Tulkarem from several directions and surrounded the areas surrounding the Tulkarem refugee camp, leading to protests.
The soldiers fired dozens of live rounds randomly, many striking homes and buildings, wounding Majdi, who was rushed to “Thabet Thabet” governmental hospital in Tulkarem, but he succumbed to his serious wounds.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in the city and the refugee camp and abducted a former political prisoner, Kassab Zaqqout, from his home in the Eastern neighborhood of Tulkarem.
On Tuesday evening, the soldiers killed Abdullah Mohammad Hasan Miqbil, 16, after shooting him with live fire in the chest in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
On Monday, the soldiers killed a Palestinian young man, Adam Abu Al-Hawa, 18, after he allegedly stabbed and injured a Border Guard in occupied Jerusalem.
In addition, Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian young man with special needs Fu’ad Ismail Abu Sobha, 23, in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The army also killed four Palestinian young men and injured nine others in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Wisam Bakr, the head of the Jenin governmental hospital, said two young men, We’am Eyad Hannoun, 27, and Mousa Khaled Jabarin, 23, from the Jenin refugee camp, were killed by Israeli soldiers fired.
He added that two young men, Amir Abdullah Sharbaji, 25, and Nawras Ibrahim Ba’jawi, 28, were also killed by Israeli army fire, and at least nine Palestinians were injured by live fire from the invading Israeli occupation forces.
Another young man, Ahmad Nofal, 23, succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted on him by illegal Israeli colonizers last week.
In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, Tuesday, that Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least 8485, including 3457 children and 2136 women, and injured more than 21.000, mainly children and women, since the Israeli offensive on Gaza was on October 7, 2023. %73 of the casualties are children, women, and the elderly.
It added that the Israeli army continued to bomb the vicinities of various hospitals in Gaza City and the northern part of the coastal region, causing serious damage, and said that all 13 hospitals in the two areas had received Israeli orders to evacuate.
It also said Israeli missiles and shells had killed 130 Palestinians who work in the medical field, including physicians and medics, injured more than 110, and damaged 50 ambulances, including 28 destroyed ambulances, and added that 15 out of 35 hospitals and 51 out of 72 medical centers in Gaza have been shut down due to the lack of fuel and after being targeted by Israel, and said the army is demanding 24 hospitals in northern Gaza to evacuate.
The Israeli army is demanding the evacuation of 24 hospitals (2000 beds) and their facilities in northern Gaza, to evacuate.
Israeli missiles have also killed 427 school students, 12 teachers, and educational sector workers and caused damage to 9 educational facilities.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said it had to reduce the number of ambulances due to severe fuel shortages and added that its workers and volunteers are facing numerous obstacles in reaching bombarded areas and even in reaching warehouses where some remaining medical supplies can be found.
In addition, the Health Ministry said incubators for premature infants and dialysis for more than 1,000 kidney patients could stop at any moment, adding that six hospitals were forced to stop all surgeries due to the lack of fuel and shortages of blood in blood banks.
Also, more than 825 families (5824 Palestinians) had been obliterated, and hundreds of Palestinians remained under the rubble of bombed homes and buildings.
Israeli missiles have also killed 427 school students, 12 teachers, and educational sector workers and caused damage to 9 educational facilities.
Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least 8306, including 3457 children and 2136 women, and injured more than 21.000, mainly children and women, since the Israeli offensive on Gaza was launched 24 days ago (October 7, 2023).
Israeli missiles and shells have destroyed 34,000 residential units and partially damaged 150,000, in addition to damaging 15 medical facilities and 51 urgent care clinics.
The missiles also damaged 221 schools, including 38 that have been destroyed, in addition to causing damage to seven churches and eleven mosques, where families sought shelter from the Israeli missiles and shells.