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Ayman Fadi Qasem Naji.
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by IMEMC News
Jan 29, 2025

On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem, and injured three others, including a child during their military incursion into Tulkarem city and the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, on Tuesday night, after shooting and detaining him in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem.

Media sources said that occupation forces shot the young man, Ayman Fadi Qasem Naji, 23, with live ammunition, and proceeded to abduct him, before he succumbed to his injuries in Israeli custody.

Sources added that an undercover Israeli unit infiltrated the Irtah suburb and surrounded a residential building, followed by military reinforcements, while soldiers heavy opened fire and demanded the young man surrender himself.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that its ambulance crews received the body of slain young man from occupation forces, before transporting the body to the Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.

Solders also abducted the citizen, Mahmoud Amin Abu Hamdeh while he was in the Irtah suburb; he is a resident of the Nur Shams refugee camp.

For the second consecutive day, Israeli forces continued to carry out a military incursion in the city of Tulkarem and the Tulkarem refugee camp, with sharpshooters positioned in many areas, opening random fire.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening, occupation forces shot and critically injured a Palestinian child in the western neighborhood of the city of Tulkarem.

The PRCS said that its ambulance crews transported a critically injured child to the hospital after he sustained a live gunshot wound to the chest.

Furthermore, the army shot a young man with live rounds, on Tuesday afternoon, in the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarem city, and obstructed ambulance crews who were transporting him to hospital.

The PRCS reported that its ambulance crews transported a young man to the hospital after occupation forces shot him in the face with live ammunition; his condition was not known at the time of writing this report.

Moreover, Israeli soldiers shot a female journalist who was covering the events in the eastern neighborhood in the city of Tulkarem.

Suhaib Abu Diak, a colleague of the injured journalist, told the WAFA News Agency that occupation forces opened direct fire at a group of journalists at the Shahid intersection in the eastern part of the city.

He added that the female journalist, Nagham al-Zayit, sustained injuries in her hand by bullet fragments, she was treated at the scene by PRCS medics.
On Tuesday night, occupation forces detonated a citizen’s home in the Balawneh neighborhood of the Tulkarem refugee camp, igniting fires.

Media sources said that the army destroyed the Balawneh family home in the center of the Tulkarem refugee camp, causing a fire to erupt.

Occupation forces continued their sabotage operations against citizens’ homes and commercial shops, while invading and occupying homes, and forcibly evacuating citizens from their homes.

Military bulldozers continued to destroy the vital infrastructure in the Tulkarem refugee camp, while infantry units remained positioned throughout the city and the camp, and drone aircraft hovered over the city and the camp.

On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli forces stormed many homes in the Tulkarem refugee camp, and forcibly evacuated dozens of citizens at gunpoint, and warned them no tot return.
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10-year-old Palestinian boy fatally shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces in Tulkarem

by Defense for Children- Palestine
Feb 7, 2025

Ramallah, February 7, 2025—Saddam Hussein Iyad Mohammad Rajab succumbed to his wounds today around 8 p.m. at Al-Istishari Hospital in Ramallah, 10 days after an Israeli soldier shot him in the abdomen.

Saddam is the 12th Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2025, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Seven children were killed by Israeli drone strikes and five children were shot and killed with live ammunition.

Original Reporting below

Ramallah, January 31, 2025—A 10-year-old Palestinian child is in critical condition after an Israeli soldier shot him in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

Saddam Hussein Iyad Mohammad Rajab, 10, was shot in the abdomen by an Israeli soldier around 6:10 p.m. on January 28 during an Israeli military incursion into Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Israeli forces attacked Saddam’s father as he attempted to carry him to receive medical aid, and after paramedics placed him in an ambulance, soldiers detained his father for about an hour. After three hours of surgery at Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, doctors referred Saddam to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, and during the transfer Israeli forces detained the ambulance transporting Saddam. While Israeli soldiers held up the ambulance, one soldier told Saddam’s father, “I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die.” Saddam remains in the intensive care unit at Rafidia Hospital.

“Israeli forces have utter contempt for Palestinian children’s lives as they deliberately target children with live ammunition with no accountability,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. “This deliberate obstruction of medical aid reflects the Israeli military’s routine disregard for the protections afforded to medical personnel and infrastructure under international law, often intentionally targeting these entities and rendering essential health resources for Palestinian children ineffective.”

Saddam sustained a gunshot wound to his waist that exited from his chest, according to information collected by DCIP. The bullet tore through his intestines and injured the pancreas and other vital organs in the abdomen.

The attack was captured on camera and has gone viral on social media.

Saddam and his family had been trapped at home for two days as the Israeli military carried out an incursion into the city of Tulkarem. Saddam’s father said he was going to go downstairs for a minute and took a mobile phone with him.

“After about a minute, I heard the sound of only one bullet with my son Saddam’s scream,” Saddam’s father, Iyad, told DCIP. “He called out in a loud voice that still echoes in my ears, as he said “Dad!” and his voice disappeared.”

“I carried him in my arms, wanting to take him to the nearest vehicle or hospital or something to save his life,” Iyad continued. “When I carried him in my arms, I found that more than 20 Israeli soldiers surrounded me within moments, as some of them assaulted me with severe beatings, punches, and blows using their hands, feet, and rifle butts. I was carrying my son in my arms, and I was telling them to hit me and do whatever you want, but let me take my son for treatment.”

Saddam’s medical care was obstructed by Israeli forces several times, including immediately after the shooting and during the transfer from Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.

Under international law, children are entitled to special protections, which necessitate that they receive the care and aid that they need during times of armed conflict. Palestinian children like Saddam are systematically denied that right, as Israeli forces simultaneously continue to indiscriminately and fatally target children throughout occupied Palestinian territory. These ongoing assaults on children’s lives are perpetuated by Israel’s entrenched culture of impunity, which continues to claim the lives of Palestinian children nearly every day.

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