Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians in Jericho Monday who were “suspected of firing at a restaurant” in an illegal Israeli settlement – an incident in which no one had been injured. The raid comes after a weeklong Israeli siege of the city, and brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in 2023 to 43, including 8 minors.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that January 2023 has been the bloodiest since 2015 in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed 35 Palestinians, including 8 children and an elderly woman. A lone Palestinian carried out an attack against Israelis on Friday, killing 7. The incident took place in a settlement that was built on illegally appropriated Palestinian land. The shooter was killed, and his family was evicted from their home in preparation for its demolition – a violation of international law.
Israel’s efforts to control and destroy the lives of Palestinians is visible in the thousands of big and small incidents that happen every day. Below are summaries of just a handful of shocking (but unsurprising) stories from the past few days that you may not have heard about.
After the Israeli military killed nine Palestinians in Jenin on Thursday, they attacked a group of Palestinians protesting the killings, and killed yet another Palestinian, Yousef Mheisin, age 22. The death toll for Palestinians in 2023 is now 30.
The Palestinian death toll in 2023 has risen to 28 after the latest Israeli attack on the city of Jenin. After shooting Palestinians, Israeli soldiers (as usual) blocked ambulances from tending to the injured, as well as firing tear gas at the pediatric ward of a nearby hospital.
Mohammad Ali, age 16, was fatally shot as he ran away from Israeli soldiers; Aref Lahlouh, age 20, was fatally shot after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier – the soldier was uninjured, but Lahlouh was shot and denied medical attention. These are the 18th and 19th Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israel in the first 25 days of 2023.
An Israeli sniper shot a teacher in the head as he was helping a father who had been shot by invading soldiers. The soldiers then blocked medics from coming to their aid. Their deaths make 17 Palestinians killed in 19 days
Kenneth Roth: “I was told that my fellowship at the Kennedy School was vetoed over my and Human Rights Watch’s criticism of Israel. How can an institution that purports to address foreign policy – that even hosts a human rights policy center – avoid criticism of Israel?”
2022 was a deadly year for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. If Americans Knew brought you crucial information – and will continue in 2023.
Twitter’s secret blacklists are being revealed in the new Twitter Files releases. Will the project also investigate Twitter’s suppression of Palestinian content? Twitter’s former chief censor Yoel Roth has tweeted against criticism of Israel. And one of the journalists investigating Twitter’s censorship, Bari Weiss, has been called a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions,” – and says she “happily plead[s] guilty as charged.” Weiss has a history of working to cancel people and suppress negative facts about Israel…