Thursday proved deadly for Palestinians, in a year that has seen more Palestinian deaths in the West Bank than any year since UN record-keeping began.
Israeli soldiers shoot to kill – at least 4 Palestinian victims Thursday
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Israeli military, settlers are breaking records in violence toward Palestinians
In 2022, Israeli soldiers and settlers are responsible for the highest monthly average of Palestinians killed since the UN started counting fatalities in 2005; October also saw Israeli soldiers/settlers carry out almost 1,200 attacks against Palestinians.
Israel and the threat of the Palestinian womb
Israeli leaders – including openly racist Ayelet Shaked – have been discussing strategies to slow Palestinian population growth. The Palestinian birth rate, higher than that of Israeli Jews, is a “threat” to the Jewishness of the state.
Israeli forces assassinate two Palestinians in occupied Nablus
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.
Three eyewitness accounts of Israeli settler violence
Three recent stories from +972 Magazine contain firsthand accounts by Palestinians of their harrowing experiences at the hands of Israeli settlers – attacked while driving, harvesting olives, and protecting their own land. Israeli military complicity is a recurring theme.
Breaking: Israeli forces invade Nablus, Kill 5, Injure 21 – kill 1 in Nabi Saleh
On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed 5 Palestinians and injured twenty-one, including four who suffered life-threatening wounds, during an invasion of the center of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank… Soldiers also killed a 19-yr-old near Ramallah
Israeli forces assassinate Palestinian resistance leader
Palestinian resistance leader Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33, was killed while walking in the occupied West Bank. He was a married father of a 2-year old son and a 5-month-old daughter…
Bloodstains & Destruction: Israeli soldiers’ beating of Shadi Khoury
Everyone was asleep. Israeli police pounded on the door, entered violently, beat a child who refused to undress in front of them. They took him, blindfolded and barefoot, to be interrogated for days or longer… For Palestinians, this is par for the course – even for prominent Christian families and students at the Quakers Friends School.
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian construction worker on way to work
Israeli soldiers shot Rabi Arafa Rabi, 32, in the head. Rabi’s father says Rabi was just a construction worker trying to earn a living and was engaged to be married this coming Friday. Rabi is the 19th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces this month, half of them teens/children
Over 100 Israeli Settler Attacks Documented in Past 10 Days
An Israeli security official stated: “Older [Israeli] adults, women with children are also arriving and simply starting to go wild,” attacking Palestinians with impunity.