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Invading Israeli troops injure 80 Palestinians, shoot ambulance

Alison Weir March 4, 2022 Beita, IDF, nablus, Sbeih Mountain

Israeli soldiers injured over 80 Palestinians, including 2 medics, and damaged an ambulance during the weekly processions on Sbeih Mountain in Beita town & in Beit Dajan, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Villagers have been holding ongoing processions on their lands since May of last year after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost atop the mountain. During these protests, Israeli soldiers have injured thousands of Palestinians and killed several others, including children.

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Israeli soldier kills Jamil Abu ‘Ayyash in “excessive use of force”

[email protected] December 13, 2021 Beita, excessive use of force, Jamil Abu ‘Ayyash, peaceful protest, police brutality

The latest victim of Israeli violence was Jamil Abu “Ayyash, age 32, killed with a bullet to the back of the head while participating in a peaceful protest and posing no threat.

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Israel’s ongoing “Water War” against Palestinians

[email protected] August 19, 2021 Beita, ein al-hilweh, ethnic cleansing, mekorot, Shadi Omar Salim, water shortage

Israel controls water resources from the river to the sea, illegally pilfering water from Palestinian aquifers and selling it back at exorbitant prices to Palestinians. Israel’s “water war” is just a facet of its ongoing settler-colonial project to make life unbearable for Palestinians, and ultimately replace them with Israeli Jews.

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‘They Choose One Person to Kill, and Then the Protest Is Over’

[email protected] August 14, 2021 Beita, Evyatar, imad duikat, peaceful protest, police brutality, settler outpost

Imad Duikat was the sixth Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, and the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May.

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Israeli troops shoot Palestinian dead in occupied West Bank

[email protected] August 6, 2021 Beita, IDF, Imad Ali Mohammad Dweikat, killed by Israeli forces, nablus, shot dead

Imad Dweikat had been shot with ‘a live bullet to the chest’ in Beita, south of Nablus, the health ministry says. He’s the 8th Palestinian killed by the IDF in a little over a month

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Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy

[email protected] June 11, 2021 Beita, human rights, international criminal court, Mohammad Said Mohammad Hamayel, nablus, occupied Palestine terroritories, West Bank

Since 2013, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 168 Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with live ammunition and crowd-control weapons, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Said Mohammad Hamayel, 16, with live ammunition during a protest in the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank.

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