On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a Palestinian just hours after Israeli soldiers shot him and his brother, killing his sibling and seriously wounding him, near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
The Health Ministry said Salahuddin Suleiman Shawamra, 28, died from his serious wounds, just hours after the soldiers killed his brother, Najmuddin, 25, when they shot him in the heart. The soldiers also shot their brother, Noureddin, 30, causing mild wounds.
The slain siblings and their wounded brother are from Doura town, south of Hebron; they were shot near Beit Marsam, southwest of Hebron, while siblings were harvesting ِAkkoub (Thistle) Gundelia.
According to undark.org, “In 2005, when Israel put akoub on its protected species list and imposed the ban on its collection, the plant’s wild population was being devastated by commercial harvesting. But authorities say the ban has helped to replenish the plant’s numbers, and in August announced that the policy would be amended this year to allow small-scale collection for personal consumption. Even so, Samir, who is one of hundreds working in clandestine networks to fuel the akoub black market, says he’ll continue to illegally gather the plant in large quantities.”
A 2022 film, Foragers by Palestinian filmmaker Jumana Manna, “depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants.”
After shooting the three siblings, the soldiers handed them to medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) who moved them to Doura governmental hospital.
The two siblings’ deaths bring the number of slain Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and colonialist settlers’ fire in the occupied West Bank since October 7 to 417.
Among the slain Palestinians are 108 children, 14 Palestinians who were killed by illegal paramilitary colonizers’ fire, and 83 who were extras-judicially executed, the Health Ministry said.
In addition, 4.600 Palestinians were injured in the West Bank, among them at least 660 children, the Health Ministry said.
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed at least 30.365, including more than 4.225 children, and 4,917 women, in addition to 70.325 injured, including 6168 children.
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Soldiers Kill A Palestinian, Injure His Two Brothers, Near Hebron
Feb 29, 2024 at 20:03
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man and injured his two brothers, one seriously, at the main entrance of Beit Awwa town, southwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media sources said the soldiers opened fire at the three siblings, killing Najmuddin Suleiman Shawamra, 28, and wounding his brothers, 25 and 30.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics moved the three to a hospital in Hebron, and added that one of the wounded siblings is in a critical condition.
Dr. Mohammad Rib’ey, the director of Doura Hospital, said the soldiers shot Najmuddin with a live round in the heart, killing them instantly, and added that his brother was shot with several live rounds to the chest, the abdomen, and the limbs before he was admitted to surgery and remains in a serious condition; the third sibling suffered minor wounds.
He added that the three siblings were harvesting Gundelia plant near Beit Marsam, southwest of Hebron when the soldiers opened fire at them.
The Mayor of Beit Awwa, Yousef Sweity, said the Israeli soldiers brought the slain Palestinian and his wounded brothers to the main entrance of the town, before handing them to medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
The siblings are from Deir Al-Asal village, southwest of Doura town, southwest of Hebron city.
In related news, a 59-year-old Palestinian man died, on Thursday, five months after he sustained injuries as a result of an Israeli military attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, on Thursday, that the citizen, Ibrahim Mohammad Ali Mahameed, 59, died as a result of being shot by Israeli forces in the Nur Shams camp, on October 19, 2023.
Furthermore, a Palestinian detainee suffering from cancer died, on Thursday, in Israeli prison, and is the eleventh detainee to die since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against Gaza, on October 7, 2023.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced, on Thursday, the death of the detainee, Assef Refa’ey, 22, who suffered from cancer.
On Wednesday night, Israeli soldiers killed Bashar Nihad Hanani, 35, and shot another young man near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
