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
Trigger-happy Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Territories opened heavy machine gun fire at a car that frightened them, killing passenger Fulla Rasmi Masalmeh, 16, with bullets to the head
Israeli soldiers killed Mosab Nafal as his family harvested olives. An Israeli spokesperson claims he was shot while throwing stones – his family disagrees.
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.
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.
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.
An Israeli security official stated: “Older [Israeli] adults, women with children are also arriving and simply starting to go wild,” attacking Palestinians with impunity.
Israeli settlers kidnapped & assaulted a 14-year-old girl for hours, then left her on the side of the road. When family members went to the Israeli police for help, they refused and attacked Nourhan’s uncle.
Samia Khoury writes that in the early hours of the morning Israeli forces stormed her family home and began beating her grandson, a student at the Quakers Friends School, until he was bleeding all over the room, then dragged him away barefoot and blindfolded….
‘”Place the Material in the Wells..” Documents from Israeli archives reveal the Israeli army’s 1948 biological warfare… Some oral testimonies have previously reported this – now two Israeli historians have found the ‘smoking gun’..plus recent reports of Israelis poisoning Palestinian wells…