The General Authority for Civil Affairs announced Thursday evening that it had informed the Ministry of Health of the death of Palestinian citizen Firas Ahmad Raja Sobeh, 47, who succumbed to critical injuries after being shot by Israeli forces earlier that morning in Wadi al-Far’a, south of Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. His body remains withheld by the Israeli military.
Media sources reported that Israeli forces, after a covert incursion by special forced, invaded the Jabal al-Thour area in Wadi al-Far’a before dawn.
Sobeh’s home was surrounded, and he was shot and detained from inside the residence. Sobeh was a married father of seven, four sons and three daughters.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs issued a joint statement denouncing Sobeh’s killing, describing it as an execution and part of the decades-long record of Israeli crimes, which they said have escalated alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the widespread assault on Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, including detainees in Israeli prisons.
The organizations extended their condolences to Sobeh’s brother, Samir, who has been under administrative detention, without charges or trial, since February of this year.
They held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for Sobeh’s killing and renewed calls on international human rights institutions to take concrete and effective steps to prosecute Israeli leaders for war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
The statement also urged the imposition of international sanctions to end Israel’s longstanding immunity and restore the role of international justice mechanisms in holding perpetrators accountable, calling for action to break the paralysis that has gripped global rights institutions since the start of the war of extermination.
Since the beginning of this year, Israel has killed 180 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; 62 in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 27 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 4 in Qalqilia, 5 in Jerusalem, 3 in Salfit and 1 in Jericho.
Israel has now killed 891 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023; 268 were killed in Jenin, 105 in Nablus, 190 in Tulkarem, 90 in Tubas, 74 in Hebron, 52 in Ramallah, 32 in Qalqilia, 42 in Jerusalem, 23 in Bethlehem, 7 in Salfit and 8 in Jericho and Northern Plains.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel has killed over 6,457 Palestinians, including 1,855 women, 1,887 children, and 338 elderly, while injuring at least 25,726, predominantly women, children, and seniors, since the beginning of 2025.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 58,667 Palestinians, including at least 17,335 children, 10,213 women, 4,167 elderly civilians, and 260 journalists. Over 139,974 have been injured, largely women, children, and the elderly.
