Two young Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank amid increased raids

Two young Palestinian men have been killed by Israeli forces in two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials report.

The Tuesday attacks killed 25-year-old Omar Abu al-Haija and 23-year-old Ayman Fadi Qasim Naji. Their bodies were recovered on Wednesday.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, reported that Haija died following an Israeli drone strike on an area in the center of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The sources added that Israeli troops prevented ambulance crews from reaching the injured young man and transporting him.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) crew members were able to recover the body of Haija from the roof of a building, and transferred it to a nearby hospital.

This came hours after Naji succumbed to critical gunshot wounds sustained during a violent Israeli military raid on the suburb of Artah, south of Tulkarm. 

The PRCS said Israeli forces handed over the body of the young Palestinian on Wednesday morning, and they transferred it to Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm.

Eyewitnesses and local sources reported that Israeli special forces stormed the Artah suburb, besieging a residential building at its entrance.

Reinforcements, including military vehicles, quickly followed, with soldiers firing indiscriminately during the assault.

Naji, who was injured in the gunfire, was left without medical aid and detained by occupation forces until he died from his wounds.

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The sources revealed that the soldiers used loudspeakers to demand that the occupants of the targeted house surrender. During the raid, Mahmoud Amin Abu Hamdeh, a resident of Nour Shams camp, was detained by Israeli forces in the Artah suburb.

Earlier, two Palestinians, including a journalist, were injured by Israeli army fire in two different incidents in the occupied West Bank, according to medics and local media.

WAFA said journalist Nagham al-Zayt sustained shrapnel wounds to her right hand while covering an Israeli military incursion in eastern Tulkarm city.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a 20-year-old man was also injured in his face by Israeli fire in Tulkarm and was transferred to a hospital for medical attention.

Tensions have been running high across the West Bank due to Israel’s war on Gaza, during which over 47,300 people were killed and 111,500 others injured since October 7, 2023. A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement took effect in Gaza on January 19, suspending Israel’s genocidal war on the coastal territory.

Over the same period, at least 880 Palestinians were killed and more than 6,700 injured by Israeli forces in West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in Gaza. Dozens of injuries, detentions and forced evictions of families have taken place during the period as well.

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