On Tuesday night, Israeli soldiers killed two young Palestinian men in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Media sources said dozens of Palestinians protested the escalating Israeli offensive on Gaza and the violations in the West Bank before the soldiers attacked them with live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs.
They added that the soldiers killed two young men, identified as Abdul-Rahman Faraj, 18, and Ali Khalil Obeisan Al-Abbassi, 25. Ali was a former political prisoner who spent 2.5 years in Israeli detention centers and interrogation facilities.
After the army shot the two Palestinians, the soldiers closed the area and prevented the local medics from reaching them.
On Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured two young Palestinian men in Bethlehem and Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Also on Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers killed Ahmad Mohammad Mustafa Saba’na, 25, and Mahmoud Mohammad Mahmoud Saba’na, 21, near the Al-Jalama military roadblock north of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
In related news, a young man, Ali Mohammad Elian, 24, was killed by a fragment of a missile fired by the Israeli “Iron Dom” missile interception system in front of his home in Baqa ash-Sharqiya town northwest of Tulkarem, in the northwestern West Bank; six Palestinians were injured, including two who suffered serious wounds.
On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli soldier killed Ahmad Ashraf Khalaf Awad, 20, during the funeral procession of another Palestinian the soldiers killed in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.
The Palestinian was killed after the army attacked the funeral procession of Montaser Abdul-Hamid Za’aqeeq, 31, whom Israeli soldiers shot in the head during the funeral procession of Mahmoud Bassem Ekhmayyes, 18 years old, who died from wounds after being shot by the soldiers.
