Six Palestinians killed in three days |
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Photo: People gather amid debris after Israeli forces demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli soldier, in the village of Hares, in the West Bank, on May 3, 2023. (Credit: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)
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Over three days, six Palestinians were killed by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, including veteran Palestinian prisoner and hunger-striker Khader Adnan. |
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Key developments (May 1 – May 4)
- A Palestinian youth was critically injured on Monday, May 1st, when
Israeli forces raided the Palestinian town of Beit Jala, outside the
local hospital. According to local media, confrontations erupted near
the Beit Jala Governmental hospital, with Israeli forces firing live
ammunition, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades at Palestinians. A
20-year-old young man was critically injured when he was struck with an
expanding bullet in the back. The Ministry of Health said the bullet
“pierced his lower back and thoracic cavity, completely rupturing his
right lung.” According to the ministry, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas
canisters into the hospital yards, forcing parts of the hospital to shut
down and causing tear gas suffocation among staff and patients.
According to Mondoweiss documentation, at least five attacks on Palestinian medical facilities occurred this year.
- Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan
died on Tuesday, May 2, on the 86th-day of his hunger strike,
protesting his arbitrary arrest and detention by Israel. Following
Adnan’s death, which Palestinian resistance groups
are regarding as an “assassination” and “deliberate execution,”
Palestinians observed a general strike in the occupied West Bank. In
Gaza, the death of the prominent activist, who was affiliated with the
Islamic Jihad movement, prompted rocket fire from Gaza into Israel from
the “joint operations room” of various political factions in Gaza. The
rocket fire from Gaza was met with a swift response from Israel’s
military, which bombed several locations across Gaza. On the morning of
May 3rd, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that Israeli shelling had
killed a Palestinian man, 58-year-old Hashel Mubarak, in the northern
Gaza Strip. According to a social media post from Mubarak’s family, “A
huge stone brick fell on Hashel’s body while he was sleeping peacefully
in his home in Beit Lahiya. The stone was flung from its place due to
the heavy bombardment of the area.”
- A Palestinian man in his 20s was reportedly critically injured by
Israeli army fire, following a traffic dispute at a flying army
checkpoint outside the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday
May 3rd. According to Palestinian journalist Jalal Abu Akhter and Al
Quds news and Al-Qastal news, the young man was Anas Abu Hussein, 29,
from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukaber. “Yesterday, Anas
was working when his path was obstructed by Israeli occupation soldiers
near Bethlehem. Following a verbal argument, the soldiers shot him six
times. He remains hospitalized in critical condition,” Abu Akhter wrote on Twitter, along with video footage purporting to show the incident.
- On Wednesday, May 3rd, Israeli forces demolished the homes of two
Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israelis in 2022.
In the village of Hares, near the city of Salfit, Israeli forces
demolished the family home of Mohammed Souf, 18, who carried out a
stabbing and car-ramming in the industrial zone of the illegal Ariel
settlement that killed three Israelis in November 2022. Separately, in
the Qalqilya-area village of Hajja, Israeli forces demolished the family
home of Palestinian prisoner Younes Hilan, who was accused of stabbing
and killing an Israeli settler in October 2022.
- Three Palestinian men were killed on Thursday, May 4th, during an
Israeli military operation in Nablus city. The men were killed when
Israeli forces raided the Al-Yasminah quarter of the Old City, home to
the local Lion’s Den armed resistance group. The three men killed were
identified as Moath Masri, Ibrahim Jabr and Hasan Qatanani and were
identified by the Hamas movement as members of the group’s military
wing. An Israeli military spokesperson said the men were responsible for
the killing of three British-Israeli settlers in the Jordan Valley last
month. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, two of the men
suffered extensive bullet wounds to their faces that made it difficult
to identify them. According to Wafa News Agency,
Israeli forces targeted one specific house in the Al-Yasminah quarter,
using heavy gunfire and an “anti-tank rifle grenade” to target the men
inside. Israeli forces also reportedly prevented medical crews from
approaching the area. An additional two Palestinians were injured during
the raid and were taken to hospital by Palestinian medics.
- Also on Thursday, May 4th, just a few kilometers south of Nablus,
Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in the town of Huwwara. Eman
Ziyad Odeh, 26. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said she was killed
with a bullet to the chest. The Israeli army claimed Odeh stabbed and
injured an Israeli man. Huwwara has been the site of increased tensions
and Israeli settler violence over the past few months, with mobs of
settlers launching a number of pogroms on the town, backed by calls from Israeli ministers to “wipe out” Huwwara.
Following the killing of Odeh, confrontations erupted in the town
between local youth and Israeli forces. At least four Palestinians were
injured after being struck with rubber-coated bullets.
- At least nine Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire on
Thursday, May 4th, during an Israeli army raid on the Ramallah-area
towns of Beit Rima and Nabi Saleh. Dozens of others reportedly suffered
from tear gas inhalation. Wafa News Agency added, “Israeli forces
deliberately set a vehicle owned by a Palestinian resident on fire after
targeting it with several gas bombs.”
Important Figures:
- 108 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
- 20 of the Palestinians killed this year were women and children.
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