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Rayan Ibrahim Al-Sayed, 17, and Mahmoud Mamoun Abu Al-Rab, 23. Published by IMEMC News

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by IMEMC News
Oct 15, 2024

On Monday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child and a former prisoner, and injured four young men during a military assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp.

According to Fawaz Hammad, the director of the Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, said that the child, Rayan Ibrahim Al-Sayed, 17, succumbed to serious injuries inflicted on him when soldiers shot him with live ammunition.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced the death of the young man, Mahmoud Mamoun Abu Al-Rab, 23, as a result of live gunshot wounds in the “Al-Sibat” neighborhood in Jenin city.

It is important to mention that Abu al-Rab was a former prisoner who was released 5 months ago after spending 4 years in occupation prisons.

The medical sources added that Israeli forces shot and injured at least four other young men with live rounds in several areas of the city and its camp during the attack.

Media sources said that on Monday morning, an undercover Israeli unit (Musta’ribeen) infiltrated the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp, and besieged a home, followed by military reinforcements, including a military bulldozer, storming Jenin city from its northern entrance, heading towards the refugee camp.

Military vehicles were stationed in the Cinema Roundabout area in the city center, on Nazareth Street, and at the entrances to the refugee camp, while sharpshooters were positioned on the rooftops of tall buildings.

Soldiers opened direct fire with live rounds towards at a group of journalists present near the Cinema Roundabout to document the aggression, amid the sounds of explosions, and the overhead flight of reconnaissance drones.

Armed Palestinian resistance fighters engaged in fierce hostilities with the attacking army who fired many live rounds at those who resisted the incursion, injuring several young men.

Sources added that occupation forces abducted a Palestinian paramedic while he was performing his duties inside the camp, while some ambulance crews evacuated a group of schoolchildren at an UNRWA school, after being trapped for more than 7 hours.
In the evening, Israeli forces withdrew from the “Al-Aloub” and “Al-Hawashin” neighborhoods in the Jenin camp, the city center, and the outskirts of the “Al-Sibat” neighborhood after an 8-hour-long incursion.

During the incursion the army razed part of a citizen’s home in the “Al-Aloub” neighborhood in the camp in addition to destroying infrastructure at the entrance to the Jenin refugee camp.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 754 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 165 children, and injured 6,250.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 198 in Jenin, 172 in Tulkarem, 79 in Nablus, 75 in Hebron, 59 in Ramallah, 59 in Tubas, 45 in Jerusalem, 29 in Qalqilia, 19 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 42,289 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 98,684 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remained buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
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Israeli forces fatally shoot 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the chest and neck

published by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P)

Ramallah, October 15, 2024—Israeli forces shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian child during a military incursion into Jenin yesterday morning.

Rayan Ibrahim Hasan Al-Sayed, 14, was shot twice by an Israeli soldier positioned inside a heavily armored Israeli military vehicle from a distance of about 20 meters (66 feet) away around 11:40 a.m. on October 14 near the entrance to the Old City of Jenin, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Rayan was allegedly throwing stones toward heavily armored Israeli military vehicles driving through the main street when one of the vehicles stopped and a soldier inside shot him. Several young Palestinians transported Rayan in a private car to Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin. He was immediately taken into surgery to attempt to control the bleeding in his lungs, but doctors pronounced him dead around 1:45 p.m.

“Palestinian children like Rayan grow up in a hypermilitarized environment where Israeli forces regularly carry out incursions to arrest, injure, and kill Palestinians, including children,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. “World leaders have continually refused to hold Israeli forces accountable for killing Palestinian children with abandon, paving the way for Israeli soldiers to continue their killing spree with no consequence.”

Rayan sustained two gunshot wounds, one on the left side of his chest and one in the neck, according to documentation collected by DCIP.

Israeli special forces entered Jenin refugee camp in civilian vehicles with Palestinian license plates around 10 a.m. on Monday and surrounded a house with wanted individuals inside. Armed Palestinians confronted the Israeli special forces, and Israeli military reinforcements, accompanied by military bulldozers, arrived shortly after.

Palestinian schoolchildren were unable to reach their homes during the incursion. Students from Al-Zahra Secondary School for Girls and Burhan Al-Din Al-Abushi School for Girls, both located on the street leading to Jenin Governmental Hospital and Jenin refugee camp, were transported to Al-Noor School for the Blind, located in the Suweitat neighborhood in the eastern part of Jenin. Students from Al-Karama Primary School were transferred to a Palestinian Authority camp located in Hursh Al-Saada.

The incursion lasted until 6:30 p.m. Israeli forces destroyed civilian infrastructure, including roads, and created a power outage in Jenin refugee camp and several nearby neighborhoods. Israeli forces injured at least four Palestinians and killed two, including Rayan.

Israeli forces and settlers have killed 85 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in 2024, including two United States citizens, according to documentation collected by DCIP.

166 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7, according to documentation collected by DCIP, when the Israeli military began a full-scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip.

In 2023, Israeli forces and settlers killed at least 121 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Israeli forces and settlers shot and killed 103 Palestinian children with live ammunition, 13 Palestinian children were killed in drone strikes, four Palestinian children were killed by missiles fired from a U.S.-sourced Apache attack helicopter, and one child was killed in an Israeli warplane airstrike.

Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. However, investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.