US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for “both sides” to de-escalate tensions in the Palestinian West Bank. Since the start of the year, Israeli forces have killed 72 Palestinians; 12 Israelis have also been killed.
In another military invasion, Israeli soldiers shot Mahmoud Hamdan, age 22 and took him away, announcing later that he was dead.
Israeli soldiers shot Mohammad Jawabra, 22, in the head yesterday, while he was trying to help his neighbors in the refugee camp after the soldiers invaded it. The bullet caused a skull fracture and serious brain damage. Today he succumbed to his wounds.
Haroun Abu Aram, 27, had been shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier trying to confiscate a family’s generator; Haroun had been a quadriplegic ever since. Mahmoud Al-Ayedi, 17, was shot in the head during an Israeli military invasion of his refugee camp…
The Israeli military invaded Nablus yet again, killing Palestinian Amir Bastami, injuring several others, arresting two, and tear gassing dozens. So far in the first 43 days of this year, Israel has killed 46 Palestinians
Israeli settlers killed Mithqal Suleiman Abdul-Halim Rayan, 27, father of a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old son, and a baby girl; and the Israeli military killed Qusai Radwan Waked, 14…
Israeli forces killed teenager Hamza Al-Ashqar as they were leaving after a raid on the Palestinian city of Nablus. He is the 42nd Palestinian to be killed by Israel in 2023.
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.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) calls out the Biden administration’s feeble response to Israel’s killing of a prominent American citizen: he asks the hard questions (why haven’t they been asked before?) that could trigger the withholding of US military aid to Israel.