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Nassim Nayef Salman Abu Fouda, 26. Published by IMEMC News

Palestinians hurl stones during clashes with Israeli troops, in Hebron, in the West Bank on Thursday [Jan 26, 2023]. Credit: MUSSA ISSA QAWASMA/ REUTERS Published by Haaretz
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by IMEMC News
Jan 30, 2023

Updated: On Monday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of a young Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli soldiers in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Health Ministry officially identified the young slain as Nassim Nayef Salman Abu Fouda, 26. From Hebron.

It added that the soldiers fired several live rounds at Nassim’s car near a military roadblock, known as #160, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, seriously wounding the young man in the head.

Palestinian medics rushed Nassim to the Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron before he was admitted to surgery but later succumbed to gunshot wounds to the head.

Media sources said the young man was driving near the military roadblock and started honking his car’s horns before a soldier started approaching him, and added that the young man got scared and tried to drive away but struck the soldier, who immediately stood up, started firing at the car, wounding him and causing his car to crash into another vehicle.

Eyewitnesses said another soldier at the scene also fired many live rounds at the Palestinian car.

Late on Saturday night, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man near the Kedumim illegal Israeli colony built on stolen Palestinian lands east of Qalqilia in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the Palestinian has been identified as Karam Ali Salman, 18, from Qusin town, west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Also Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that a young man succumbed to serious wounded suffered Thursday when the army killed nine Palestinians, including a woman, in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Health Ministry said the young man, Omar Tareq Ali Sa’adi, 24, from the Jenin refugee camp, succumbed to serious wounds at the Jenin governmental hospital. During the Thursday invasion, the soldiers killed nine Palestinians, including one woman, and injured at least twenty, including three who suffered serious wounds.

The slain Palestinians have been identified as:

Saeb Mahmoud Ezreiqi, 24, Jenin city.
Ezzeddin Yassin Salahat, 26, Jenin refugee camp.
Abdullah Marwan Al-Ghoul, 18, Jenin refugee camp.
Wasim Amjad Aref Abu Al-Ja’as, 22, Jenin refugee camp.
Majeda Obeid, 61, Jenin refugee camp.
Mo’tasem Mahmoud Abu Al-Hasan, 40, Al-Yamoun town.
Mohammad Mahmoud Sobeh, 30, Burqin town.
Mohammad Sami Ghneim, 28, Burqin town.
Nour Sami Ghneim, 25, from Burqin.
The soldiers also killed one Palestinian, Yousef Yahia Abdul-Karim Mheisin, 22, in the Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, during a procession condemning the Israeli onslaught on Jenin.

Also Thursday, a Palestinian child, Nayef Oweidat, 13, died from serious wounds he suffered last year during the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

Late Friday night, The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied Jerusalem, confirmed that a Palestinian child, Wadea’ Aziz Abu Ramouz, 16, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers two days ago, has succumbed to his wounds.

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Army Injures Three Palestinians, One Seriously, In Hebron And Ramallah
Jan 30, 2023 at 07:29

On Monday dawn and Sunday night, Israeli soldiers shot three Palestinians, including one who suffered life-threatening wounds, in Hebron and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the soldiers, stationed on the permanent military roadblock, known as 160, south of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, fired many live rounds at a young man while driving his car shortly after midnight.

The sources added that the young man, Nassim Abu Fouda, was shot in the head and was rushed to the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, where he remains in critical condition.

On Sunday, the army invaded Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, leading to protests before the soldiers shot a young man and a child.

Medical sources in Ramallah said the young man, 22, was shot with an expanding bullet in the leg and added that the child, 13, was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the arm.
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26-year-old Killed by Israeli Forces in Hebron

Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked in recent days, with an Israeli military raid on a militant stronghold in the West Bank city of Jenin last week killing nine, most of them militants, and a Palestinian shooting attack in an east Jerusalem Jewish settlement that killed seven Israelis

by The Associated Press, Jack Khoury and Hagar Shezaf for Haaretz
Jan 30, 2023 10:41 am IST

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The killing marks the latest bloodshed in spiraling violence that comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits the region.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the man, Nassim Abu Fouda, 26, was shot in Hebron, often a center of clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinians. The Israeli military said the incident in "under investigation", but claim that Abu Fouda tried to avoid a checkpoint so the soldiers fired in his direction and he crashed his vehicle.

The IDF Spokespersons Office said that :"An IDF force was carrying out a standard patrol in the Hebron area when they identified a vehicle driving in a suspicious manner so they called out to the driver and ordered him to stop." The army claims that Abu Fouda ran over a soldier's leg when they approached his vehicle. "The soldiers fired at the vehicle when it tried to drive off, and hit the driver. The car kept on moving and eventually crashed. The driver received medical treatment by the Palestinian Red Crescent medics, and was later pronounced dead."

Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked in recent days, with an Israeli military raid on a militant stronghold in the West Bank city of Jenin last week killing nine, most of them militants, and a Palestinian shooting attack in an east Jerusalem Jewish settlement that killed seven Israelis.

Unrest has continued in the ensuing days, prompting Israel to approve a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians and ratcheting up tensions just as Blinken begins meetings with leaders later in the day.

Since the attack on the Synagogue in East Jerusalem, there have been dozens of incidents in the West Bank. Many involved settlers leaving their settlements to stone Palestinian cars on the highways. There have also been at least two arson attacks – Palestinian vehicles and homes were torched in the villages of Aqraba and Turmus Ayya.

The violence comes after months of Israeli arrest raids in the West Bank, which were launched after a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the spring of 2022 that killed 19 people. Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem last year, making it the deadliest year in those territories since 2004, according to figures from the Israeli rights group B'Tselem. Another 10 Israelis were killed later last year, raising the 2022 Israeli death toll to 29.

The bloodshed has spiked this month, during the first weeks of Israel's new far-right government, which has promised to take a tough stance against the Palestinians and ramp up settlement construction. Monday's death brings the toll of Palestinians killed this month to 35.

Blinken's visit, which was planned before the flare-up, was expected to be fraught with tension over differences between the Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, which is made up of settlement supporters. He will now need to contend with an additional challenge during his trip, trying to restore calm even as violence persists.

After the Jenin raid, the Palestinians said they would cancel security coordination with Israel and after attacks against Israelis intensified, Israel said it would beef up Jewish settlements in the West Bank, among other steps.

Amos Harel contributed to this Report