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Omar Mohammad Elyan, 20. Published by IMEMC News

Omar Mohammad Aliya. Published by Haaret
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by IMEMC News
April 14, 2022

Israeli soldiers killed Wednesday night, a young Palestinian man and injured at least eleven in addition to abducting three after many army vehicles invaded Silwad town, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, leading to protests.

Update: The Palestinian Health Ministry said Amir Hussein Hammad, 18, suffered life-threatening wounds after the soldiers shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head, causing a skull fracture.

The invasion into Silwad started in the evening, leading to protests for several hours.

The soldiers fired dozens of live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that the soldiers killed Omar Mohammad Elyan, 20, and added that the army shot him with a live round in the chest.

The Health Ministry said the soldiers also shot and seriously injured one Palestinian and moderately wounded another.

The army also injured five other Palestinians who were rushed to a local clinic by the medics before the soldiers surrounded it.

At least five Palestinians suffered various injuries, mainly due to tear gas inhalation and the fragments from concussion grenades.

Local sources said the Israeli army also surrounded the home of Khaled Ta’ouj, and fired a shell at it, causing damage. The home was vacant when the soldiers shelled it.

The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said a young man was injured when the soldiers rammed him with their armored military jeep.

The soldiers withdrew from the town shortly before invading it again and abducted three young men, Abdul-Fattah Hammad, Khaled Eyad Hamed, and Ahmad Abdullah Hamed.

On Wednesday evening, the soldiers killed a child, Qussai Fuad Hamamra, 14, in Husan village, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The child was killed not far from where the Israeli soldiers killed Ghada Ibrahim Ali Sabateen, 48, on April 10, 2022.

On Wednesday morning, the soldiers killed a Palestinian lawyer, Mohammad Hasan Assaf, 34, after firing many live rounds at his car in the Industrial Area in Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

First Published on: Apr 14, 2022, at 02:37
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Six Palestinians Killed by Israeli Army in 24 Hours

Two Palestinians were killed by live fire in clashes with Israeli soldiers near the city of Jenin in the West Bank on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while another Palestinian died of his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces during clashes in Beita on Wednesday.

The deaths raised to six the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since Wednesday, raising fears of greater escalation following a string of deadly attacks in Israel and increased military operations in the West Bank.

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Eleven Palestinian have been killed by Israeli fire this past week.

Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank have been on the rise during the month of Ramadan. They follow a series of Israeli military raids which the army launched after a recent wave of Palestinian terror attacks took the lives of 12 Israelis and two Ukrainian nationals during the last three weeks.

On Wednesday, Qusai Fuad Hamamra, a 14-year-old resident of Husan, was reportedly shot after hurling a Molotov cocktail at Israeli troops at an army position in the center of town. Hundreds of Palestinians protested and threw stones at army vehicles on Wednesday evening.

That same day, Omar Muhammad Aliyan, 20, was killed by a shot in the chest by security forces during clashes in Silwad, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah.

Also Wednesday, a 34-year-old Palestinian activists and lawyer was killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and at least 16 others were wounded.

Security forces also arrested four Palestinians north of Ramallah suspected of planning to carry out an attack in Israel on Passover, which starts this week.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement that the situation had become "very dangerous and sensitive.

"Israel's aggression and provocation, which are expressed in killing Palestinians, as we saw today in Nablus and in Husan, is a dangerous escalation, and the Israeli government bears responsibility for it," Rudeineh stated. "Things are deteriorating rapidly and this demands immediate international intervention in order to stop Israeli aggression and worse escalation."

The deputy chief of Hamas' political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, subsequently issued a statement calling on Palestinians to escalate confrontations with Israel. "We call on members of the Palestinian people to block Israel's aggression throughout the West Bank, and on Palestinians in Ramallah and Al-Bireh to support their brothers in Silwad and all regions of the conflict and be a united front against the enemy," the statement read.

On Sunday, Israeli military forces shot dead a Palestinian woman in her 40s after she approached them in a "suspicious manner."

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