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Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40. Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
Jan 18, 2023

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian security officer at the entrance of the Nabi Younis area in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinian has been identified as Hamdi Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayya, 40, a former political prisoner and a married father of three children from Halhoul.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fateh Movement, said Hamdi, a police officer with the Palestinian Authority, was one of its members.

The Israeli army claimed the soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian in a car, reportedly after several shots of live fire targeted a military roadblock.

According to Israeli Channel 14, the army is investigating whether the Palestinian was the same person who, two days ago, opened fire at a bus near the illegal Gush Etzion colony.

Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers stopped them and did not allow them to approach the severely bleeding man, who was later declared dead at the scene before the army took his body to an unknown destination.

Hours after killing the Palestinian man, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Halhoul town, stormed and ransacked the slain officer’s home, and interrogated his family.

The invasion led to protests before the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
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Israeli Army Kills Palestinian Who Attempted Shooting Attack at West Bank Checkpoint

40-year-old Hamdi Abu Deiaa left a will before he set out to try to carry out the attack at an Israeli checkpoint near Hebron

by Jack Khoury and Hagar Shezaf for Haaretz
Jan 17, 2023

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian dead in the southern West Bank on Tuesday, who the army said opened fire at soldiers operating a checkpoint.

According to witnesses in the town of Halhul near Hebron, Hamdi Abu Deiaa (40) was shot while trying to carry out a shooting attack. Residents of the town tell Haaretz that the man was a recently released security prisoner and worked as part of the Palestinian security forces in Bethlehem.

Palestinians at the scene reported that the Israeli military prevented the arrival of a medical team to treat and evacuate the man.

Deiaa left a will before the attack, in which he writes that he decided to sacrifice his life to protect holy sites and the honor of Islam and Muslims, "the same honor that is trampled with every child killed and every house that is demolished and every man humiliated at a checkpoint."

The Palestinian is the fifteenth to be killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces in the first 17 days of this year. In 2022, the death toll in the West Bank reached its highest level since the end of the Second Intifada, but the figures so far this year have far outstripped this rate.

The military is now investigating whether the Deiaa was behind a shooting which targeted an Israeli bus in the area on Sunday.