2 june 2020
Rami al-Ghalban, 43
A Palestinian citizen who was shot by Israeli occupation forces during the Great March of Return protests in Gaza in August 2018 succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday.
The Higher National Committee of the Great March of Return mourned Rami al-Ghalban, 43, who died Tuesday from wounds his sustained while taking part in the Great March of Return on 3 August 2018.
The Great March of Return started as weekly protests along Gaza’s border with the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948 and ended in December 2019.
The protests were aimed at pressuring Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza and calling for allowing the 1948 Palestinian refugees to return to their lands.
The border protests, despite being peaceful, were met with excessive force by the Israeli army which killed hundreds and injured thousands of unarmed Palestinians.
A Palestinian citizen who was shot by Israeli occupation forces during the Great March of Return protests in Gaza in August 2018 succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday.
The Higher National Committee of the Great March of Return mourned Rami al-Ghalban, 43, who died Tuesday from wounds his sustained while taking part in the Great March of Return on 3 August 2018.
The Great March of Return started as weekly protests along Gaza’s border with the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948 and ended in December 2019.
The protests were aimed at pressuring Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza and calling for allowing the 1948 Palestinian refugees to return to their lands.
The border protests, despite being peaceful, were met with excessive force by the Israeli army which killed hundreds and injured thousands of unarmed Palestinians.
30 may 2020
Iyad Khairi Hallak, 32
A Palestinian man who was shot and killed this morning by Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City was unarmed and said to be of special needs, according to identical Palestinian and Israeli reports.
They said Israeli police opened fire at a Palestinian after they suspected he had a gun and killed him. video
Later Israeli reports confirmed that the man was unarmed but claimed that he was shot after he refused orders to stop. They said police has opened an investigation into the incident.
Palestinians identified the man as Iyad Khairi Hallak, 32, from Wad el-Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and that he was attending an institution for people with special needs in the same area where he was shot and killed.
They said he was shot by several bullets and that he was left on the ground bleeding for a while until he died.
Police closed all gates leading into Jerusalem's old city following the incident and banned entry or exit from it.
They also raided the Hallak home in Wad el-Joz, said the Palestinians.
A Palestinian man who was shot and killed this morning by Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City was unarmed and said to be of special needs, according to identical Palestinian and Israeli reports.
They said Israeli police opened fire at a Palestinian after they suspected he had a gun and killed him. video
Later Israeli reports confirmed that the man was unarmed but claimed that he was shot after he refused orders to stop. They said police has opened an investigation into the incident.
Palestinians identified the man as Iyad Khairi Hallak, 32, from Wad el-Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and that he was attending an institution for people with special needs in the same area where he was shot and killed.
They said he was shot by several bullets and that he was left on the ground bleeding for a while until he died.
Police closed all gates leading into Jerusalem's old city following the incident and banned entry or exit from it.
They also raided the Hallak home in Wad el-Joz, said the Palestinians.
29 may 2020
Fadi Adnan Sarhan Samara, 37
Israeli soldiers killed, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father of five children, including an infant, allegedly after he tried to ram them with his car near Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
His family denied the military allegations and said the man lost control of his car after Israeli colonialist settlers opened fire at it.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers fired live rounds at the Palestinian car after the driver reportedly tried to ram them, and that the soldiers “neutralized the threat,” a term Israel and various Israeli media outlets frequently use when the soldiers fatally shoot a Palestinian.
The slain man has been identified as Fadi Adnan Sarhan Samara, 37, a father of five children, including an infant (two months of age) from Abu Qash village, north of Ramallah.
He works in Israel and came back home to Nabi Saleh to celebrate the Muslim feast of al-Fitr with his family.
His brothers stated that he left his home in the evening heading to the az-Zawiya village, west of Salfit in central West Bank, to drive his wife and children back home, as they were visiting her family there.
The Israeli army claimed that the man tried to ram soldiers with his car near a natural spring in the Ramallah governorate. He was shot in the leg and was left to bleed for about an hour, without any first aid. video
Palestinian media outlets and residents in the area said the man lost control of his car when illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, who repeatedly invade the area, opened fire at his car, before the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds at it, claiming that he was attempting to ram them.
One of his brothers, and one of his cousins, were both detained by the army, and after being released, they stated that an army officer told them, after confirming his identity, that they cannot take his corpse for burial.
They stated that the military was taunting them by stating that the family can have his corpse back “maybe in an hour or two, a month or two, a year or two….”
His family, and the residents of his village, strongly denounced his murder, and stated that the Israeli soldiers are always “trigger happy” when it comes to shooting Palestinians, and that the army tries to justify these crimes by making false allegations.
They called for a serious investigation into the fatal shooting and called on international organizations to act and hold Israel accountable at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its escalating crimes and ongoing violations against the Palestinian people, their homes and property.
Protests erupted after the fatal shooting of the Palestinian man, and the soldiers fired live rounds and rubber-coated steel rounds.
A Palestinian man with Downs Syndrome was struck with a live round in his leg. video
Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Troops after Alleged Car-ramming Attack
Israeli troops reportedly opened fire, on Friday evening, towards a Palestinian man, near the Al-Nabi Saleh (Prophet Saleh) village, northwest of Ramallah city, in the central occupied West Bank.
An Israeli army spokesperson was quoted as saying “a short while ago, we received a notification that someone driving a vehicle, has attempted to crush a number of our soldiers operating in Ramallah”.
The army spokesperson stated that the soldiers responded to the incident by opening fire, adding that there were no causalities among the soldiers.
Israel’s TV channel 12 claimed that a Palestinian young man, near the illegal Halamish Settlement, attempted to run over soldiers with his vehicle.
Local sources said that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the young man’s vehicle, killing the driver instantly, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The young man’s identity was not yet released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health at the time of this report.
In the ensuing confrontations, Palestinian civilians, protesting the shooting, were met with live and rubber-coated steel rounds fired by the soldiers.
A Palestinian man with Downs Syndrome was struck with a live round in his foot. He was rushed to hospital for medical intervention, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.
Israeli soldiers killed, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father of five children, including an infant, allegedly after he tried to ram them with his car near Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
His family denied the military allegations and said the man lost control of his car after Israeli colonialist settlers opened fire at it.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers fired live rounds at the Palestinian car after the driver reportedly tried to ram them, and that the soldiers “neutralized the threat,” a term Israel and various Israeli media outlets frequently use when the soldiers fatally shoot a Palestinian.
The slain man has been identified as Fadi Adnan Sarhan Samara, 37, a father of five children, including an infant (two months of age) from Abu Qash village, north of Ramallah.
He works in Israel and came back home to Nabi Saleh to celebrate the Muslim feast of al-Fitr with his family.
His brothers stated that he left his home in the evening heading to the az-Zawiya village, west of Salfit in central West Bank, to drive his wife and children back home, as they were visiting her family there.
The Israeli army claimed that the man tried to ram soldiers with his car near a natural spring in the Ramallah governorate. He was shot in the leg and was left to bleed for about an hour, without any first aid. video
Palestinian media outlets and residents in the area said the man lost control of his car when illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, who repeatedly invade the area, opened fire at his car, before the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds at it, claiming that he was attempting to ram them.
One of his brothers, and one of his cousins, were both detained by the army, and after being released, they stated that an army officer told them, after confirming his identity, that they cannot take his corpse for burial.
They stated that the military was taunting them by stating that the family can have his corpse back “maybe in an hour or two, a month or two, a year or two….”
His family, and the residents of his village, strongly denounced his murder, and stated that the Israeli soldiers are always “trigger happy” when it comes to shooting Palestinians, and that the army tries to justify these crimes by making false allegations.
They called for a serious investigation into the fatal shooting and called on international organizations to act and hold Israel accountable at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its escalating crimes and ongoing violations against the Palestinian people, their homes and property.
Protests erupted after the fatal shooting of the Palestinian man, and the soldiers fired live rounds and rubber-coated steel rounds.
A Palestinian man with Downs Syndrome was struck with a live round in his leg. video
Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Troops after Alleged Car-ramming Attack
Israeli troops reportedly opened fire, on Friday evening, towards a Palestinian man, near the Al-Nabi Saleh (Prophet Saleh) village, northwest of Ramallah city, in the central occupied West Bank.
An Israeli army spokesperson was quoted as saying “a short while ago, we received a notification that someone driving a vehicle, has attempted to crush a number of our soldiers operating in Ramallah”.
The army spokesperson stated that the soldiers responded to the incident by opening fire, adding that there were no causalities among the soldiers.
Israel’s TV channel 12 claimed that a Palestinian young man, near the illegal Halamish Settlement, attempted to run over soldiers with his vehicle.
Local sources said that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the young man’s vehicle, killing the driver instantly, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The young man’s identity was not yet released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health at the time of this report.
In the ensuing confrontations, Palestinian civilians, protesting the shooting, were met with live and rubber-coated steel rounds fired by the soldiers.
A Palestinian man with Downs Syndrome was struck with a live round in his foot. He was rushed to hospital for medical intervention, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.
14 may 2020
Bahaa Al-Din Awawda 21
A Palestinian young man was shot dead on Thursday by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank after an alleged car-ramming incident.
The Palestinian was shot at the scene near the illegal settlement of Negohot, southeast of al-Khalil.
Israeli ambulance crews said that a soldier in his early 20s was rushed to the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba in moderate to serious condition after he was hit by a Palestinian-owned car. video
An Israel army spokesperson claimed the slain young man drove quickly toward soldiers next to a military post, hitting one of them and prompting another soldier to open fire at him.
A Palestinian young man was shot dead on Thursday by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank after an alleged car-ramming incident.
The Palestinian was shot at the scene near the illegal settlement of Negohot, southeast of al-Khalil.
Israeli ambulance crews said that a soldier in his early 20s was rushed to the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba in moderate to serious condition after he was hit by a Palestinian-owned car. video
An Israel army spokesperson claimed the slain young man drove quickly toward soldiers next to a military post, hitting one of them and prompting another soldier to open fire at him.
Mustafa Younis 27
A video documented the hideous shooting of a 27-year-old Palestinian man, Mustafa Younis, from Aara town in the 1948, by the Israeli hospital guards on Wednesday noon.
The video shows three security having a verbal argument with the man, who went to Sheba hospital in Tel Aviv with his mother.
His family told PNN later that he was epileptic and went into the hospital for treatment. video video
The argument turned into a fight. Immediately, the three security men had subjected him to the ground and then fired seven bullets at him from close range, killing him on the spot, in front of his mother’s eyes.
Israeli sources claimed that the Mustafa tried to stab the guards, claiming that one of them was injured.
“My brother was murdered in cold blood,” said Mahmoud Younis, Mustafa’s younger brother. He went Israeli Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv at noon today, which refutes the official Israeli account that claimed that the martyr stabbed one of the guards.
In this regard, the victim’s uncle, Dr. Issam Younis told PNN reporter that Mustafa went to the hospital with his mother, who was driving the car for treatment, where he suffers from epilepsy.
“He used to come to the hospital to continue treatment every six months, and he had already been there several months ago. For four days, he was preparing for a brain procedure, and he used to regularly come to the hospital.
Apparently a fight broke out between him and one of the hospital guards, who asked him to wear a muzzle, and the victim replied that he could not tell him to wear a muzzle while he was not wearing it, and apparently the discussion was intense.”
He added: “In the aftermath, Mustafa had to return to his mother in the car, so three guards pounced on him, opened the jeep on him, pulled him out of the car, dragged him a few meters away and then shot him, and all this was done in front of his mother.
They then claimed that he stabbed the deputy head of the Guard Service in the hospital. This calls for a serious investigation to find out the truth, especially since it came from official statements that he did not mention that the victim was killed in cold blood.
A police statement said, “Initial investigations indicated that the young man arrived at the hospital to receive medical treatment, and after the apparent completion of an argument between him and another citizen in the place, he took out his knife and tried to stab him but he did not succeed.
When the security personnel arrived, he stabbed one of them and they fired Bullets towards him,” according to Israeli allegations.
Reports of the fate of hospital guards were mixed about whether they were arrested or not, but it is certain that they were called to a police station to provide a statement about the accident, while citizens confirm that they will obtain a patent, as in previous similar attacks.
A video documented the hideous shooting of a 27-year-old Palestinian man, Mustafa Younis, from Aara town in the 1948, by the Israeli hospital guards on Wednesday noon.
The video shows three security having a verbal argument with the man, who went to Sheba hospital in Tel Aviv with his mother.
His family told PNN later that he was epileptic and went into the hospital for treatment. video video
The argument turned into a fight. Immediately, the three security men had subjected him to the ground and then fired seven bullets at him from close range, killing him on the spot, in front of his mother’s eyes.
Israeli sources claimed that the Mustafa tried to stab the guards, claiming that one of them was injured.
“My brother was murdered in cold blood,” said Mahmoud Younis, Mustafa’s younger brother. He went Israeli Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv at noon today, which refutes the official Israeli account that claimed that the martyr stabbed one of the guards.
In this regard, the victim’s uncle, Dr. Issam Younis told PNN reporter that Mustafa went to the hospital with his mother, who was driving the car for treatment, where he suffers from epilepsy.
“He used to come to the hospital to continue treatment every six months, and he had already been there several months ago. For four days, he was preparing for a brain procedure, and he used to regularly come to the hospital.
Apparently a fight broke out between him and one of the hospital guards, who asked him to wear a muzzle, and the victim replied that he could not tell him to wear a muzzle while he was not wearing it, and apparently the discussion was intense.”
He added: “In the aftermath, Mustafa had to return to his mother in the car, so three guards pounced on him, opened the jeep on him, pulled him out of the car, dragged him a few meters away and then shot him, and all this was done in front of his mother.
They then claimed that he stabbed the deputy head of the Guard Service in the hospital. This calls for a serious investigation to find out the truth, especially since it came from official statements that he did not mention that the victim was killed in cold blood.
A police statement said, “Initial investigations indicated that the young man arrived at the hospital to receive medical treatment, and after the apparent completion of an argument between him and another citizen in the place, he took out his knife and tried to stab him but he did not succeed.
When the security personnel arrived, he stabbed one of them and they fired Bullets towards him,” according to Israeli allegations.
Reports of the fate of hospital guards were mixed about whether they were arrested or not, but it is certain that they were called to a police station to provide a statement about the accident, while citizens confirm that they will obtain a patent, as in previous similar attacks.
13 may 2020
Zeid Fadel Qaisiyya, 15
Israeli soldiers killed, earlier on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian child, and injured for young men, in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded the refugee camp, and attacked local youngsters, who protested the invasion into their alley and neighborhoods.
They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds at the unarmed protesters, and at random, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs.
Medical sources in Hebron said the soldiers killed a child, identified as Zeid Fadel Qaisiyya, 15, after shooting him with a live round in the head. video
They added that the soldiers also shot four other Palestinians with live fire; two of them were shot in the chest and abdomen, and two in their lower extremities. video
Israeli soldiers killed, earlier on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian child, and injured for young men, in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded the refugee camp, and attacked local youngsters, who protested the invasion into their alley and neighborhoods.
They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds at the unarmed protesters, and at random, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs.
Medical sources in Hebron said the soldiers killed a child, identified as Zeid Fadel Qaisiyya, 15, after shooting him with a live round in the head. video
They added that the soldiers also shot four other Palestinians with live fire; two of them were shot in the chest and abdomen, and two in their lower extremities. video