Tag: February
Bilal Shehada Bawatna
February 12, 2021 March 29, 2021 contact@ifamericansknew.org
February 12, 2021: Bilal Shehada Bawatna, 52, was killed, and two other Palestinians were injured, after they were rammed by an illegal Israeli colonist's car, while participating in a nature walk activity in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank.
Mo'taz Bisharat, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's colonialist activities in Tubas, said one man was killed and two were injured, all from the Ramallah governorate in central West Bank, when they were struck by the speeding colonist's car near Ein al-Baida and Bardala Junctions in the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley.
Bisharat added that the Palestinians came to the area to participate in a nature walk and exploration in the Northern Plains.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) rushed to the scene and moved the corpse of Bilal Shehada Bawatna, 52, to a Palestinian hospital, while Israeli medics moved the wounded residents to the al-Afula hospital.
Bawatna is from the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city, north of Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli colonist was driving at an exceedingly high speed when he rammed the Palestinians, killing Bawatna and wounding the two others.
The funeral procession of Bilal Shehada was held, on Friday evening, starting from Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, heading towards Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, before the Palestinians took his body to the al-Ein Mosque in the city, and conducted the burial ceremony in the Shuhada Graveyard in the city.
Bawatna is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israelis this year.
On February 10, a Palestinian man, identified as Azzam Jamil Amer, from Kafr Qalil village near Ramallah, was killed after being rammed by an Israeli colonists' car near Salfit, in central West Bank.
On January 31, the soldiers shot and killed Mohammad Hussein Amro, 35, from Halhoul, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,
On January 26, the soldiers shot and killed Atallah Mohammad Rayyan, 17, near Salfit in central West Bank.
On January 11, the Israeli police killed Bashar Zubeidat, 18, during a protest against police violence near Haifa.
Bilal was from Ramallah, in the central West Bank. Source: IMEMC
Mohammad Ali Hasan an-Na'em
February 23, 2020 February 24, 2020 contact@ifamericansknew.org
February 23, 2020: Mohammad Ali Hasan an-Na'em, 27, was shot and killed by Israeli forces, who then repeatedly crushed his body using an armored bulldozer as a weapon, then used the blade of the bulldozer to lift the corpse of Mohammad from where it lay on the ground, then swing the corpse back and forth in the air.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, has reported that the slain Palestinian was one of its members.
The Brigades stated that the Palestinian has been identified as Mohammad Ali Hasan an-Na'em, 27, from Khan Younis.
The slain Palestinian was unarmed and wasn't even in military attire when the soldiers attacked him, along with many residents, with their bulldozer, and live rounds.
In addition to killing Mohammad, the Israeli forces injured four, on Palestinian lands, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army claimed that its soldiers observed two Palestinians approaching the perimeter fence, before placing an explosive device.
It alleged that the soldiers then rushed to the scene and fired li ve ammunition at the two Palestinians, causing the explosive device to explode.
Israeli officials frequently make outrageous claims about Palestinians they kill, which are often proven later to be false.
Media sources in Gaza said several Palestinians tried to reach the two Palestinians to provide them with the needed medical care and move them to a hospital, but a military bulldozer sped towards them and drove over the corpse of the slain Palestinian, before scooping it using the bulldozer's plow.
The second Palestinian was injured with a live round in his leg and was rushed to a hospital in Khan Younis after the Palestinians managed to evacuate him before the soldiers could reach him.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that two other Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli army fire while attempting to help evacuate the wounded.
Israeli sources initially quoted the army claiming its soldiers killed two Palestinians in the incident.
Despite the military claims, a video from the scene shows the corpse of the young man on Palestinian land in an area quite a distance away from the fence.
The bulldozer was speeding towards the Palestinians to prevent them from retrieving the corpse of the slain young man.
Mohammad was from Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC
Maher Ibrahim Zaatra
February 22, 2020: Maher Ibrahim Zaatra, 33, was shot and killed by the Israeli police in Bab al-Asbat area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli police opened a barrage of gunfire toward the Palestinian man at Lions' Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, reportedly after attempting a stabbing attack.
Witnesses told the Palestinian News Agency Wafa that the man, who was not immediately identified, was shot several times and was left to bleed on the ground before Israeli paramedics arrived at the scene.
The man was identified as Maher Ibrahim Zaatra, 33. He was a father of three children, and his wife is pregnant, from Jabal al-Mokabber village, south of occupied East Jerusalem. Video clips show the young man lying motionless on the ground, with a large police force at the scene.
In an act of retribution and collective punishment, the soldiers invaded the home of the slain Palestinian, ransacked the property, before abducting his mother, and two brothers.
First Published on: Feb 23, 2020 at 00:34
Israeli forces have, in the past, made false claims about Palestinians who they said were attacking Israeli soldiers when they were shot, but were found upon closer evidence to have been the victims of trigger-happy soldiers who were not under threat at all.
Maher was from Jabal al-Mokabber village, south of occupied East Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
Ahmad Mohammad Abu Hilo
February 21, 2018 Mark
February 21, 2018: Ahmad Mohammad Abed-Rabbo Abu Hilo, 19, died from serious wounds he suffered five days earlier when Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinian protesters east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Mohammad was shot by Israeli soldiers last Friday, and remained in critical condition until he succumbed to his injuries, on Wednesday morning.
After his injury, Palestinian medics moved him to the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, and later transferred him to the Shifa Hospital, due to the seriousness of his condition.
On the same day, the soldiers shot twenty-three Palestinians, including some who were shot with live rounds, after the army, stationed across the border fence, attacked protesters, who marched in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
On February 17, the Israeli army fired missiles and artillery shells in al-Shokah Palestinian village, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and killed two Palestinian teens, identified as Salem Mohammad Sabbah, 17, and his friend, Abdullah Ayman Salim Irmeilat, 15.
Mohammad was from the al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza. Source: IMEMC
Wedad Deeb
February 27, 2014 October 22, 2016 contact@ifamericansknew.org
February 27, 2014: Wedad Deeb, 71, died while waiting at the Israeli side of the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel as she was on her way to a West Bank hospital to get medical treatment. Widad was from Gaza. Source: Al-Ray