[News] Israel kills four Palestinians in West Bank
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Israel kills four Palestinians in West Bank
Maureen Clare Murphy
<https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy> - 6
February 2020
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Palestinian police carry the body of their colleague Tariq Badwan,
killed by Israeli soldiers, during his funeral in the West Bank city of
Jenin on 6 February.
APA images
Israeli occupation forces killed four Palestinians in the West Bank,
including Jerusalem’s Old City, over Wednesday and Thursday.
A fifth Palestinian, Khalil al-Adham, died on Thursday from his injuries
after being shot by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip on
Saturday, the health ministry in the territory reported
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gazan-shot-by-idf-on-saturday-succumbs-to-wounds-hamas-run-health-ministry/>.
Several Israeli soldiers were injured in three attacks on Thursday.
Israeli forces say they are pursuing a gunman who opened fire on a group
of soldiers
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-3rd-attack-of-the-day-at-least-one-hurt-in-west-bank-shooting/>
outside a settlement near Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian
Authority, earlier in the day. One soldier was hospitalized for light
injuries to his head.
Before dawn on Thursday, a motorist drove into a group of soldiers
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/12-wounded-1-seriously-in-suspected-car-ramming-attack-in-jerusalem/>
in West Jerusalem, injuring 12 of them, one seriously. Israel arrested
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-forces-nab-suspect-in-car-ramming-attack-that-injured-12-soldiers/>
the alleged attacker, a 25-year-old resident of occupied East Jerusalem,
late Thursday.
The soldiers, belonging to the Golani Brigade, “were visiting Jerusalem
ahead of an early morning swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall,”
Israeli media reported.
Soldiers in the Golani Brigade
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/golani-brigade> have incited the
murder of Palestinians on social media
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/reprimanded-israeli-soldier-still-posting-violent-racist-material-instagram>
and are suspected of perpetrating war crimes in Gaza
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/how-war-criminal-can-veto-aid-gaza>.
Later on Thursday, a Palestinian citizen of Israel was shot dead after
opening fire at Israeli Border Police officers outside the al-Aqsa
mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Israeli media named
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-attacks-in-12-hours-a-look-at-thursdays-violence-in-jerusalem-west-bank/>
the slain Palestinian assailant as Shadi Banna, 45, from Haifa.
Security camera footage released by Israel shows Banna approaching a
group of officers belonging to the paramilitary police force and opening
fire with a pistol:
من مسافة صفر..لحظة تنفيذ عملية إطلاق نار صوب جنود الاحتلال في باب
الأسباط بالقدس المحتلة pic.twitter.com/pBJeEuk8fq
<https://t.co/pBJeEuk8fq>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@QudsNN) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/QudsNN/status/1225425140533596160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
The video appears to show the moment Banna is shot. He is still running
from the scene when the clip of the incident ends.
Israeli police stated
<https://twitter.com/MickyRosenfeld/status/1225375057217716224> that one
officer was injured lightly.
Deadly home demolition raid
Two Palestinians, including a police officer, were killed during an
Israeli home demolition raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
early Thursday.
Occupation forces raided the city to destroy for the second time a home
belonging to the family of Ahmad Qanbaa, a Palestinian imprisoned by
Israel over his alleged role in a shooting attack
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-leaders-celebrate-extrajudicial-execution>
that killed a settler two years ago.
“The military first demolished the building in 2018, but it had since
been rebuilt,” Israeli media reported
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-shot-dead-in-clashes-with-idf-in-jenin-during-home-demolition/>.
Eight people, including two children, lived in the building that was
razed on Thursday, according to <https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14152>
the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
Since late 2015
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israels-high-court-champions-revenge-against-palestinian-families>,
Israel has accelerated the demolitions
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-cant-crush-solidarity/17261>
of the family residences of Palestinians alleged to have attacked Israelis.
Such collective punishment measures are a violation of the Fourth Geneva
Convention, which Israel has ratified.
They also highlight Israel’s institutionalized racism, since such
punishments are never meted out against the families of Israeli Jews who
attack Palestinians.
Palestinians gathered at the scene of the demolition and confronted
occupation forces. The military used live fire, rubber-coated bullets
and tear gas against protesters.
Yazan Munthir Khalid Abu Tabikh, 19, was shot in the chest and killed
immediately, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights stated.
Photos of Abu Tabikh on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca were circulated by
Palestinian media outlets after his death:
صور الشهـيد يزن أبو طبيخ من مدينة جنين أثناء تأديته العمرة في وقت
سابق.#الشعب_يسقط_الصفقة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%82%D8%B7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/VEpdCQJFkQ <https://t.co/VEpdCQJFkQ>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@QudsNN) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/QudsNN/status/1225435547579101185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Video shows the shooting of the second Palestinian fatally wounded
during the raid:
لحظة إصابة الشرطي"طارق بدوان" فجر اليوم برصاص الاحتلال، داخل مقر
الشرطة الخاصة في #جنين
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>. at qudsn
<https://twitter.com/qudsn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> #فلسطين
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
#الضفة
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
pic.twitter.com/JCYrrdVBd0 <https://t.co/JCYrrdVBd0>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@QudsNN) February 6, 2020
<https://twitter.com/QudsNN/status/1225349400194666496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
The footage shows Tariq Ahmad Luay Badwan, 24, standing in a doorway to
a police station, posing no conceivable threat, when he collapses. Shot
in the stomach with live fire, he died in hospital later in the day.
Teenager killed in Hebron
The fourth Palestinian killed in the West Bank this week, 16-year-old
Muhammad Suleiman al-Haddad, was shot multiple times in the chest
<https://twitter.com/DCIPalestine/status/1225116846967414787> during a
protest in the city of Hebron on Wednesday.
We have confirmed Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old
Mohammad Suleiman Al-Haddad earlier today in the occupied West Bank
city of Hebron. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds, including to
his chest. pic.twitter.com/K5DhhyUxKY <https://t.co/K5DhhyUxKY>
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) February 5, 2020
<https://twitter.com/DCIPalestine/status/1225116846967414787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Israel claimed
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-teen-shot-dead-as-he-threw-firebomb-at-troops-army/>
that al-Haddad had thrown a molotov cocktail at soldiers.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that al-Haddad was shot
by an Israeli army sniper stationed on a roof near a checkpoint at
Hebron’s Shuhada Street.
“The shooting was reported during a protest organized by dozens of young
men, who threw stones at [Israeli occupation forces] and burned tires,”
the human rights group stated.
The teenager was the first Palestinian killed since the release of US
President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan last Tuesday.
Israeli forces have suppressed more than 60 protests against the Trump
plan in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
“As a result, dozens of civilians were shot and injured with live and
rubber bullets in addition to many others [injured] due to tear gas
inhalation,” the group stated.
Airstrikes and collective punishment in Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel targeted
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/israel-attacks-gaza-continued-tensions-trump-plan-200206061733708.html>
what it called Hamas positions in Gaza early Thursday after Palestinians
in the territory reportedly launched mortar shells and balloons carrying
flammable materials toward Israel.
No injuries were reported following Israel’s airstrikes or as a result
of the mortar fire and balloons from Gaza.
Israel further reduced the permitted fishing zone off of Gaza’s coast on
Wednesday “in light of continued rocket fire and incendiary balloons,”
COGAT, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation, stated
<https://twitter.com/cogatonline/status/1225060248093937666>.
The Gaza Strip fishing zone was reduced today from 15 to 10 nautical
miles, beginning at 4:00PM until further notice. The decision was
made in light of continued rocket fire & incendiary balloons
launched from Gaza into Israel, constituting a violation of Israeli
sovereignty. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/3R5m7RDPmh <https://t.co/3R5m7RDPmh>
— COGAT (@cogatonline) February 5, 2020
<https://twitter.com/cogatonline/status/1225060248093937666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Israel announced changes in access to Gaza’s coastal waters 20 times
last year
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-shot-gaza-fishers-347-times-2019>.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has treated the Gaza
fishing industry as “a lever for pressure”
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-is-using-gaza-s-fishing-zone-as-a-tool-for-collective-punishment-1.7314970>
– a phrase used by the Tel Aviv daily /Haaretz/ – on the two million
Palestinians living in the territory, which has been under a severely
tightened blockade since 2007.
Frequently changing restrictions on fishers “cause deliberate harm to
one of Gaza’s most vulnerable and important sectors in response to
actions that no one is claiming are in any way connected to fishermen in
the strip,” the human rights group Gisha stated
<https://gisha.org/updates/10948> Thursday.
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