On Wednesday and Thursday Israeli troops invading Palestinian towns killed three teens, a 25-year-old, and a father trying to defend his son, bringing Palestinian deaths in the first 12 days of 2023 to 9.
During a brutal invasion of a Palestinian refugee camp, Israeli soldiers shot Amer Abu Zeitoun in the head, killing him. Israel has killed four Palestinians in the first five days of 2023. Three of them were minors.
2022 was a deadly year for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. If Americans Knew brought you crucial information – and will continue in 2023.
Following a deadly 2022, the new year has already seen Israeli forces kill three Palestinians – a 15-year-old from Bethlehem, a 17-year-old, and a young man of 22. Two other Palestinians in their twenties were also killed in the last days of December.
Israeli soldiers killed yet another Palestinian man, Mojahed Hamed, alleging that he had shot at an Israeli military post from his car. No Israelis were injured.
As an unarmed Palestinian young man, Ammar Mifleh, resisted arrest by a well-armed Israeli soldier, the soldier took out a pistol and shot him four times at point-blank range, killing him.
Invading Israeli soldiers killed five people in the occupied Palestinian West Bank yesterday, including two brothers. This brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in November to 17, including 5 children.
(In addition to these assaults, Israeli forces yesterday abducted and injured numerous people, uprooted 90 Palestinian trees, and demolished two homes.)
Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, soldiers then shot protesters, including Ahmad Amjad Shehada, 16, with a bullet to the heart. Israeli forces have killed about 200 Palestinians this year, including 57 children… A few hours later an Israeli teen was also killed, bringing the total of Israelis killed in 2022 to 26
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and shot five Palestinians, killing one of them: Abdul-Jalil Sa’adi, 18. The soldiers fired live rounds at an ambulance and prevented journalists from driving to the invaded area
In what Palestinian officials called a “field execution,” Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians at a checkpoint Friday morning. The circumstances are unclear. In the last 5 months, Over 100 Palestinian men, women, & children and 3 Israeli soldiers have been killed.