Invading Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians on Thursday morning

Invading Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians on Thursday morning

Samer Khaled and Yazan Affana are just the latest in a particularly deadly spate of shootings by the Israeli military.

In the last three months Israeli forces have killed approximately 70 Palestinians –13 of them minors, including two five-year-olds. No Israelis were killed.

reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 1, 2022

On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man after the army invaded the Al-Biereh city in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said many army jeeps invaded the city, leading to protests before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Medical sources said the soldiers killed a young man, Yazan Naim Affana, 24, after shooting him with live fire while the army withdrew from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Biereh city.

They added that Affana, from the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem and south of Ramallah, was shot with live rounds in his heart.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and buildings and abducted a young man.


reposted from IMEMC – the International Middle East Media Center, September 1, 2022

Early Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers fatally shot a young Palestinian man in front of the main entrance of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian sources said the young man, Samer Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, from the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus, was shot with a live round in the neck while sitting in his car.

The sources added that undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the area and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters.

The soldiers also invaded the Balata refugee camp, searched homes, and abducted a former political prisoner, Jasser Abu Hamada.

The Israeli army fired a barrage of live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, resulting in serious damage to a store causing it to catch fire and burn.

IMEMC, the International Middle East Media Center, is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine. It was founded by the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People in 2003. In 2021, IMEMC became a project of the American nonprofit organization If Americans Knew.

For a complete list of Palestinians and Israelis killed since 2000, please visit Israel-Palestine Timeline


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