On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces fatally shot a young Palestinian man near the town of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the soldiers killed Yousef Walid Abdullah Ibrahim, 20, after shooting him near the Dotan Israeli military roadblock.
Following the shooting, Israeli forces sealed off the area and obstructed Palestinian medics from reaching the victim.
The Israeli army claimed that Ibrahim was carrying a Carlo-type rifle and had exchanged fire with soldiers near the illegal settlement of Ma’oz Tzvi, adjacent to Mevo Dotan illegal colony, both built on confiscated Palestinian land southwest of Jenin.
His killing raises the number of Palestinians slain since Israel launched its military offensive in Jenin 174 days ago to 42, alongside dozens of injuries and abductions.
On Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers conducted numerous attacks against Palestinians, their homes, and their lands across several areas of the occupied West Bank.
The colonizers killed Two Palestinians, including a Palestinian-American, Saifuddin Kamil Abdul-Karim Musallet, 23, and Mohammad Rezeq Hussein Shalabi, and injured many others, in addition to causing property damage in Sinjil town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
On Thursday evening, two Palestinian young men were killed, after an alleged stabbing attack which killed an illegal Israeli colonizer near the Gush Etzion colonial bloc, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed it, that the two young men, Mahmoud Yousef Mohammad Abed, 23, and Malek Ismail Abdul Jabbar Salem, 23, were killed south of Bethlehem, adding that the army confiscated their bodies.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and colonizers have killed 178 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 31 children and 6 women, and four killed by the illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
61 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 5 in Jerusalem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 1,013 Palestinians, including 204 children, 22 women, 17 elderly, and 1 journalist, in the occupied West Bank.
Among the slain Palestinians are 27 who were killed by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, 410 who were killed during Israeli invasions of Palestinian communities, and 290 who were extra-judicially executed. Israel still refuses to transfer the bodies of 245 slain Palestinians to their families for burial.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 58,386 Palestinians, including more than 17,131 children, 10,190 women, 4,147 elders, and 257 journalists. The number of wounded has reached 139,077, mostly children and women. Additionally, over 9,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be trapped under rubble across various areas of the devastated Gaza Strip.
