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Palestinian Female Medical Doctor and Teenager Killed, Hundreds Injured, Scores Abducted by Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Forces

June 20, 2021 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

Palestinian teenager Ahmad Zahi Daoud Bani Shamsa,17, died of wounds inflicted by Israeli occupation soldiers in Beita, June 17, 2021	Palestinian female medical doctor, Mai Afaneh, 29, was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in Hizma, on June 16, 2021

Israeli Occupation Army Injures 353 Palestinians Near Nablus – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 19, 2021

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers injured, on Friday evening, 353 Palestinians, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds, at Beita junction, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The PRCS said the soldiers attacked protesters with live fire, gas bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets, and concussion grenades.

It added that the Israeli occupation soldiers also fired at its medics and ambulances during the protests, hindering the efforts to provide first aid to wounded Palestinians, and wounded several volunteer medics.

The PRCS stated that 283 Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, 54 were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, 23 suffered burns from gas bombs and concussion grenades, in addition to 15 who were injured after falling while the soldiers were chasing them.

The Palestinians were protesting the ongoing Israeli violations, including the illegal confiscation of their lands for the benefit of illegal colonies and outposts.

The nonviolent procession was called for after illegal Israeli colonists installed 20 mobile homes or atop Abu Sbeih Mountain to establish their outpost on private Palestinian lands.

The weekly procession came a day after Ahmad Zahi Bani-Shamsa, 16, was laid to rest after succumbing to the critical injury he sustained in the head after being hit by live ammunition shot by Israeli soldiers as he protested against the construction of the new colony on his town’s land.

In related news, the soldiers attacked another procession in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, wounding two Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets and causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

In addition, Israeli colonists attacked many Palestinian cars on the Jenin-Nablus roads, causing damage.

Israeli Occupation Forces Abduct Several Palestinians Across the West Bank – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 19, 2021

Israeli occupation forces detained, from Thursday evening to Friday dawn, a total of seven Palestinians, including six from Salem village and one from Tubas city, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.

Soldiers invaded the northern West Bank village of Salem, east of Nablus, rifled through the homes of many Palestinians, and detaining six civilians.

Meanwhile, on Thursday evening, special forces entered Tubas city in the northern occupied West Bank, southeast of Nablus and detained one Palestinian, the Director Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed.

Early morning Thursday, the army detained nine Palestinian civilians, and injured four others in separate incidents, WAFA reports.

Three Palestinian teenagers were detained by the army from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah city, in the central West Bank, soldiers opened fire towards civilians protesting the incursion.

A group of undercover agents, on Thursday, abducted two teens from their homes in Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood, in Silwan town, occupied East Jerusalem.

Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) published a video of the assault and abduction of one of the Palestinian teenagers, identified as Mohammad Ali Al-Ghoul.

The army invaded two towns in the southern Hebron district, detaining two Palestinians, including a former prisoner.

In the northern West Bank, soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp and Jenin city, and opened fire at youths who protested.

Four injuries were recorded, all of whom were evacuated to hospital for treatment.

One Palestinian was detained by the army from Kafr Dan town, northwest of Jenin city.

Israeli Occupation Forces Suppress Palestinian Protest at Al-Aqsa Mosque – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 19, 2021

After Friday prayers, Muslim Palestinians, gathered at the Al-Aqsa mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, to express their rejection of the openly racist behavior of Israelis who participated in Tuesday’s inflammatory ‘Flag March’.

Israeli occupation forces suppressed the demonstrations and injured nine civilians, including a journalist and a child, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

Thousands of worshipers were violently dispersed from Bab Al Amoud or Damascus Gate, when the army fired rubber-coated steel rounds, teargas and stun grenades at the crowd, Quds News Network reported.

Two Palestinian protestors were detained by Israeli forces, neither their identity or location were known at the time of this report.

Hundreds of Israelis marched in the occupied city of East Jerusalem, on Tuesday, at the annual ‘Flag March’ and calling for “Death to arabs” and “May your village burn”.

The Israelis shouted insults against the muslim prophet Muhammad and threatened Palestinians that “a second Nakba is coming soon”.

Renewed Israeli Airstrikes against the Gaza Strip – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 18, 2021

The Israeli occupation army bombarded, on Thursday night, several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Press reported.

Quds Press correspondent stated,

Israeli warplanes bombed a site of the Palestinian resistance in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.”

Israeli occupation apartheid regime fighter jets targeted sites in the northern region of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, in addition to an alleged resistance site in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

No injuries were reported at the time of this report.

Israeli warplanes fired missiles into the southern besieged Gaza Strip, early on Wednesday morning, breaking the ceasefire which brought the most recent eruption of violence to an end.

Between May 10 and May 21, Israel bombarded the tiny coastal enclave, killing 230 Palestinians, until an Egypt brokered ceasefire was imposed on May 21, 2021.

Palestinian Teen Killed by Israeli Occupation Soldiers near Nablus – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 17, 2021

Israeli occupation forces shot and critically wounded a 16-year old Palestinian boy on Wednesday in Beita village, and he died of his wounds on Thursday morning (June 17, 2021).

The child, identified as Ahmad Zahi Daoud Bani Shamsa, age 16, died at dawn Thursday, as a result of being shot in the head by the Israeli military on Wednesday.

He was taken to Rafidia Governmental Hospital, where he underwent an operation, but the doctors were unable to save his life.

The Head of the emergency department at the Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus, Ahmad Jibril, told Palestinian reporters that the youth was taken to hospital with serious live gunshot wounds to the head.

It is noteworthy that this boy is the fourth Palestinian who was shot and killed by the Israeli military this year at protests at Jabal Sabih in Beita. The protests are challenging the Israeli development of an illegal Israeli settlement on stolen Palestinian land on Sabih mountain.

In addition to Ahmad, three men were killed in the village by the Israeli military in May: Karim Maher Abdel Hamid Hamayel (28 years), Tariq Sanubar (27 years), and Issa Barham (42 years).

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, one witness of the shooting said that it took place during protests by residents of the town of Beita. They were voicing opposition to the establishment of a settlement outpost on their land in Jabal Sabih.

No Israeli military investigation has been launched, and no officers have been charged in the killing of these four Palestinian civilians in the village of Beita.

Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot and Kill a Palestinian Doctor near Jerusalem – – IMEMC News

IMEMC, JUN 17, 2021

Israeli occupation forces shot a Palestinian woman dead, on Wednesday, while she was in her car at the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain woman as Mai Afaneh, 29, from Abu Dis town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.

WAFA correspondent stated that the Israeli forces opened fire at Afaneh, when she drove her vehicle down an under construction road, at the entrance to Hizma town.

The army claimed that the slain woman “attempted to ram her car into a number of Israeli soldiers before exiting the vehicle with a knife” the Anadolu Agency reported.

Furthermore the military declared that that the woman was “neutralized” while one Israeli soldier was lightly injured, no further details were provided.

This is a developing story.

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PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations

 IMEMC, PCHR, JUNE 17, 2021

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 

(PCHR) Weekly Report of Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for June 10 – 16, 2021

Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians that are mostly conducted after midnight and in the early morning hours. This week, soldiers killed 7 Palestinians, including 2 children and 2 women who were killed near military checkpoints, as IOF continues to adopt its “shoot to kill” policy, particularly near checkpoints and areas with military presence. Since the beginning of this year, PCHR documented the killing of 12 Palestinians, including 3 women and a child, on Israeli military checkpoints and other areas with military presence, mostly for alleged stab-attacks without the presence of a serious threat to soldiers’ lives.

The army continued its raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse, and attacks on civilians; while occupied East Jerusalem witnessed the largest share of IOF attacks with recurrent settler-raids, the organization of the March of the Flags which included wide-scale attacks on Palestinian civilians and the arrest of dozens. Also the occupation state maintained its demolition and razing activities against Palestinians’ properties and settlers launched attacks on Palestinians and their properties. The occupation maintained its collective punishment policy on the Gaza Strip, keeping both Beit Hanoun and Karm Abu Salem crossings shut, with limited operation for conditional exceptional cases.

IOF shooting and violation of right to bodily integrity:

7 Palestinians were killed in Nablus in the a excessive use of lethal force in the West Bank, including 2 women, 2 children, and 2 members of Palestinian security services. In Gaza, a Palestinian man died of wounds sustained in the Israeli military aggression on Gaza between May 10 and May 21. Also, 19 Palestinians were wounded, including 4 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, 3 were wounded in Jenin, and one of them was arrested, another was wounded in Silwad, Ramallah; 3 sustained wounds in army attacks on a peaceful protest in Kufur Qaddoum, Qalqilia, including a child; 6 were wounded in the army’s suppression of peaceful protests in Jabal Sbaih, including 3 children. Another man was wounded in Jerusalem, and another critically wounded before his arrest in Jericho. In the Gaza Strip, 4 Palestinians were wounded in eastern Khan Younis. Dozens suffocated due to tear gas inhalation, fired by the army in its attacks in the West Bank.

IOF incursions and arrests of Palestinian civilians:

The Israeli forces carried out 101 incursions into the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Those incursions included raids of civilian houses and shootings, enticing fear among civilians, and attacking many of them. During this week’s incursions, 127 Palestinians were arrested, including 11 children, 4 women, and 2 wounded persons.

In the Gaza Strip, the army conducted a limited incursion into eastern Rafah; and arrested 3 Palestinians, including 2 children, after crossing the border fence during a protest in eastern Khan Younis.

Demolitions:

PCHR fieldworkers documented 3 violations:

Occupied East Jerusalem: agricultural room and lands razed in al-‘Isawiya.

Ramallah: 3 residential tents, and a sheep barn (with 180 livestock), dismantled and confiscated; IOF also confiscated a water tank and 3 solar panels in Ramun.

Nablus: 3 commercial facilities demolished (tin-plate roof and made of bricks).

Settler-attacks:

PCHR fieldworkers reported and documented 2 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians and their properties:

Bethlehem: 450 vines destroyed in al-Khader with poisonous pesticides.

Nablus: 46 olive trees damaged and destroyed in Burin.

Israeli closure policy and restrictions on freedom of movement:

The Israeli authorities continued to impose collective punishments against the people of the Gaza Strip by closing Karm Abu Salem and Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossings (with partial operation). Authorities closed both crossings at the beginning of its military aggression on Gaza on 10 May 2021, and partially opened them for a few days after a ceasefire was declared on 22 May 2021. This comes in a time where The Gaza Strip still suffers the worst closure in the history of the Israeli occupation of the oPt as it has entered the 14th consecutive year, without any improvement to the movement of persons and goods, humanitarian conditions and bearing catastrophic consequences on all aspects of life.

Meanwhile, Authorities continued to divide the West Bank into separate cantons with key roads blocked by the Israeli occupation since the Second Intifada and with temporary and permanent checkpoints, where civilian movement is restricted, and they are subject to arrest.

PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations – – IMEMC News

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