On Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that a second Palestinian man was killed, at dawn, after Israeli forces besieged and bombed a home in Tamoun town, south of Tubas in the northeastern part of the West Bank.
Media sources said that the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of Health that occupation forces detained the body of Aref Mohammed Aref Bani Awda, 40, who was later identified.
At dawn Tuesday, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance crews transported the body parts of the slain former prisoner, Hani Ali Bani Awda, 52, to the Tubas Governmental Hospital after the army besieged a home and fired “Energa” anti-tank grenades at it.
According to Kamal Bani Odeh, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, the slain Awda was a former prisoner who spent seven years in Israeli prisons.
It is important to mention that Israeli forces removed the body of the unidentified young man in the bucket of a front-end loader and drove through the streets in a clearly inhumane act.
On Tuesday morning, Palestinians in Tamoun town gathered in front of the Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital, for the funeral procession for the slain Awda.
Media sources said that mourners marched toward Tamoun, south of the city, where his loved ones said their final goodbyes, before burying him in the family’s cemetery.
In related news, Israeli forces have been invading the Al-Far’a refugee camp, southwest of Tubas, for more that nine hours, causing destruction to infrastructure and storming citizens’ homes.
According to Asem Mansour, the head of the Popular Committee for Services in Al-Far’a camp, occupation forces remain deployed throughout the camp, invading homes and interrogating their residents.
Mansour added that the military bulldozers continue to damage citizens’ property and destroy infrastructure, including streets, water networks, and sewage networks.
Before dawn on Tuesday, a large army force, accompanied by a D-9 military bulldozer, stormed the Al-Far’a refugee camp, deployed sharpshooters on the rooftops of homes, while reconnaissance drones flew over the area.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 772 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 167 children, and injured 6,300.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 203 in Jenin, 178 in Tulkarem, 81 in Nablus, 76 in Hebron, 59 in Ramallah, 61 in Tubas, 48 in Jerusalem, 30 in Qalqilia, 20 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
