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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel kills 4 teens in rampage across West Bank</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara Nassar</a></span> -
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">9 October 2022</span></span> </p>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-10/221008_-_qalqiliya.jpg?itok=gBeQlaZl×tamp=1665321537" alt="The body of a boy is carried on a stretcher" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="393" height="234"></span><p>Mourners
carry the body of 14-year-old Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud during his
funeral in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 8 October.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small><p>A Palestinian
resistance operation in occupied East Jerusalem killed an Israeli
soldier and injured several others on Saturday evening.</p>
<p>The person who carried out the shooting at a military checkpoint near
Shuafat refugee camp escaped without being captured by occupation
forces.</p>
<p>This came after intense army raids in the West Bank during which
Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in 24 hours, all teenagers,
three of them children.</p>
<p>A video shared by local media shows a white car pulling up at the
checkpoint and a man calmly exiting from the passenger seat. He walks
towards a group of soldiers and security guards and shoots at them at
point blank range.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية: "أطلق
النار على الجنود من نقطة صفر"... مصادر عبرية: "فيديو نشره الاحتلال
لعملية إطلاق النار التي أدت لمقتل مجندة وإصابة آخرين على حاجز مخيم شعفاط
الليلة الماضية".<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#فلسطين</a> <a href="https://t.co/PqSJZ2hwLF">pic.twitter.com/PqSJZ2hwLF</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1579036239788924928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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He runs away as the car drives off. Another video shows the immediate aftermath of the shooting:
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">من مكان عـمـــلــية إطلاق النار تجاه حاجز مخيم شعفاط بالقدس.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#فلسطين</a> <a href="https://t.co/x1HkgU1Yut">pic.twitter.com/x1HkgU1Yut</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578815684066304002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The driver of the car and two other passengers are in custody, according to Israeli authorities, who <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-10-08/ty-article/soldier-security-guard-wounded-in-east-jeruaslem-drive-by-shooting/00000183-b8de-d222-a1b7-fafe6a100000">claim</a> to know the identity of the gunman.
<p>The dead soldier was identified as Noa Lazar. Israeli media reported
that a “civilian” security guard who worked at the checkpoint was
seriously wounded and that two officers from the paramilitary Border
Police sustained less serious injuries.</p>
<p>The Israeli army <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1579001258077294592">sealed off</a> and raided Shuafat refugee camp after the operation.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">فيديو| لحظة اقتحام أعداد كبيرة من قوات الاحتلال منزلاً في مخيم شعفاط بالقدس. <a href="https://t.co/NSx18teMDM">pic.twitter.com/NSx18teMDM</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578850383618662400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Troops fired tear gas in the camp and raided homes.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">فيديو| مواجهات عنيفة في مخيم شعفاط شمال القدس المحتلة. <a href="https://t.co/X8xWSqpuMj">pic.twitter.com/X8xWSqpuMj</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578866643500904449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This video shows soldiers pointing their weapons as they invade a Palestinian home in the camp:
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">🛑 مصادر محلية: قوات الاحتلال تقتحم منزلاً في مخيم شعفاط بالقدس <a href="https://t.co/HEfvoE8bfR">pic.twitter.com/HEfvoE8bfR</a></p>— الرسالة للإعلام (@Alresalahpress) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alresalahpress/status/1579004337602572288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Refugee camp attack</h2>
<p>Israel appears unable to comprehend that its unending violence
against the Palestinian civilian population is precisely what generates
resistance, and escalating its attacks and collective punishment has
never brought “security” but only more resistance.</p>
<p>The attack at Shuafat followed a bloody series of Israeli raids that
left Palestinians reeling, as more families buried children cut down by
Israeli gunfire.</p>
<p>On Saturday morning, the Israeli military invaded Jenin refugee camp
in the northern West Bank to detain Palestinians. This video shows a
large Israeli military convoy entering Jenin on Saturday morning:
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">مراسلنا : آليات عسكرية إسرائيلية اقتحمت جنين وتحاصر أحد المنازل <a href="https://t.co/xelvA0Ojsa">pic.twitter.com/xelvA0Ojsa</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578632413961412608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/seriously-escalating-killings-due-to-crimes-of-excessive-use-of-force4-palestinians-killed-including-2-children-and-10-others-wounded-including-child-in-critical-condition-by-israeli-occupation-f/">According</a>
to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Israeli forces “laid siege”
to the house of Samir Saleh Abu Zeina and began to open fire on it – an
indication that they were implementing the so-called <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/pressure-cooker-procedure">pressure cooker procedure</a>,
a form of extrajudicial execution where a wanted person must either
surrender or have the house they are in destroyed on top of them.
<p>Israeli forces, supplemented by Apache combat helicopters and drones
armed with missiles, succeeded in detaining the homeowner’s son Saleh,
whom Israel accuses of “terrorist” activity.</p>
<p>During the siege, Palestinians gathered to resist the invasion with stones, according to PCHR.
Israel <a href="https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1578663028832497664">claims</a> its forces were also confronted with Molotov cocktails and live fire.</p>
<p>Israeli fire <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mohps/posts/pfbid0tsSRX8dqY5bWHqEApdaPqFHznRKeSZoayz7oy4mRVCeNLnndroKbe7Ge3nLar5iel">killed</a> two people and injured 11 others, three seriously, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry.</p>
<p>Those killed were Ahmad Muhammad Hussein Daraghmah, 19, and Mahmoud Moayad Mahmoud Sous, 17.</p>
<p>Sous, a resident of the camp, “allegedly threw a homemade explosive
device toward an Israeli military vehicle deployed about 20 meters (65
feet) away during confrontations with Israeli forces, and then sustained
two gunshot wounds to the neck and right thigh,” <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_shoot_kill_17_year_old_palestinian_boy_in_jenin">according</a> to Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP).</p>
<p>Both bullets struck him from behind, according to a medical report cited by DCIP.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Israeli forces shot
dead 17-year-old Mahmoud Moayad Mahmoud Sous with two bullets to the
back of his thigh and neck around 10 am today in Jenin. Israeli forces
entered Jenin refugee camp to conduct raids and Mahmoud was killed after
allegedly throwing a homemade explosive device. <a href="https://t.co/o0TlS9uePY">pic.twitter.com/o0TlS9uePY</a></p>— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) <a href="https://twitter.com/DCIPalestine/status/1578721092608282626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Daraghmah, who was from the nearby town of Tubas, was shot in the head.
<h2>Soldiers fire at a group of children</h2>
<p>On Friday, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a group of
children and youth near Israel’s separation wall near the northern West
Bank town of Qalqilya.</p>
<p>The young Palestinians were “in one of the groves, where they usually
go from time to time, and which is around 100 meters away” from an
Israeli army position, according to PCHR.</p>
<p>An Israeli bullet hit 14-year-old Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud in the head, causing fatal injuries.</p>
<p>Photos shared by local news agencies showed the child’s young friends mourning at his funeral.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية: تشييع جثمان الطفل عادل إبراهيم داود، الذي ارتقى برصاص الاحتلال في قلقيلية أمس. <a href="https://t.co/s0IP0kOA3H">pic.twitter.com/s0IP0kOA3H</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578677433909542913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another video, Daoud’s mother touchingly recalls her son’s last day
and speaks of her distress when she heard he had been shot.
<p>“I pray that God will accept him among the martyrs, the prophets and
those who are pure,” she said as others sought to comfort her.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">مؤثر| "بدي أنام النومة الهنيّة".. والدة عادل داود تتحدث عن آخر أيامه وكيف تلقت خبر ارتقائه برصاص الاحتلال في قلقيلية. <a href="https://t.co/368McarZhT">pic.twitter.com/368McarZhT</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578715795126996992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Also on Friday, Israeli settlers escorted by soldiers invaded the
occupied West Bank village of al-Mazra al-Gharbiyeh, north of Ramallah,
and repeatedly attacked Palestinians, <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_shoot_kill_two_palestinian_boys_in_the_west_bank">according</a> to a field investigation by DCIP.
<p>Palestinian youth gathered to resist the soldiers and settlers by throwing stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails, <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/seriously-escalating-killings-due-to-crimes-of-excessive-use-of-force4-palestinians-killed-including-2-children-and-10-others-wounded-including-child-in-critical-condition-by-israeli-occupation-f/">according</a> to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.</p>
<p>Israeli forces fired live and rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and teargas canisters at Palestinians.</p>
<p>Mahdi Muhammad Ladadwa, 17, was shot in the pelvis, <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_shoot_kill_two_palestinian_boys_in_the_west_bank">according</a> to DCIP.</p>
<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-10/221008_-_mahdi-adel.png?itok=7rU7P_q7×tamp=1665321636" alt="Collage of two portraits of two boys" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="393" height="221"></span><p>Adel Ibrahim Adel Daoud, 14, and Mahdi Muhammad Abdulmuti Ladadwa, 17.</p><small>
<span>Defense for Children International-Palestine</span></small><p>“An
Israeli soldier opened fire from a distance of less than 20 meters at
Ladadwa, who posed no threat or danger to the soldiers’ lives,” PCHR
reported, citing an eyewitness.</p>
<p>Ladadwa, who was shot in the “left waist” according to PCHR, was
taken to hospital in critical condition, but died later that evening.</p>
<p>Video and photos circulated by local media showed a large turnout for Ladadwa’s funeral procession.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية: تشييع جثمان الشاب مهدي لدادوة في المزرعة الغربية شمال غرب رام الله، بعد ارتقائه برصاص الاحتلال أمس. <a href="https://t.co/JJ5qkQzBjx">pic.twitter.com/JJ5qkQzBjx</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578688365993533444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">"الحضن الأخير".. والدة الشاب مهدي لدادوة تودعه خلال تشييع جثمانه في قرية المزرعة الغربية شمال غرب رام الله. <a href="https://t.co/gmwBdm6bDJ">pic.twitter.com/gmwBdm6bDJ</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578682253194190848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Israeli authorities not only persistently fail to investigate Israeli
settler violence against Palestinians, including children, but they
actively support settler attacks,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability
program director at DCIP.
<p>“Systemic impunity combined with military protection from the state
has undoubtedly led to Israeli settlers becoming more brazen in their
attacks.”</p>
<p>In one widely shared video, Israeli soldiers are seen attacking,
shoving and pointing their weapons at people, including medics, who were
attempting to aid a young man lying on a stretcher bleeding from near
his groin.</p>
<p>At least one gunshot can be heard in the brief video.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">جنود الاحتلال يعتدون على فلسطينيين خلال إسعاف مصاب في قرية المزرعة الغربية شمال غرب رام الله. <a href="https://t.co/lF6DJsOfLC">pic.twitter.com/lF6DJsOfLC</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1578413255176986629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1578415196808290306">Some local media</a> identified the youth on the stretcher as Ladadwa, although his face is not clearly visible.
<p>However, another child, 16-year-old Nour Ali Shreiteh, was also shot
and injured with a live bullet in his pelvis during the same incident,
according to PCHR.</p>
<p>Israeli occupation forces “attempted to arrest him after being
injured, but people managed to take him to the hospital,” PCHR reported.
Israeli forces then “arrested one of those who prevented the arrest
attempt.”</p>
<h2>International silence and complicity</h2>
<p>Throughout Friday and most of Saturday, representatives of the
so-called international community remained silent about the escalating
bloodshed as long as it was only Palestinians being killed and injured.</p>
<p>But after Israeli occupation forces came under attack at the Shuafat
checkpoint on Saturday night, Tor Wennesland, the UN envoy for the
Middle East “peace process,” issued a <a href="https://unsco.unmissions.org/statement-un-special-coordinator-middle-east-peace-process-tor-wennesland-situation-occupied-west-3">statement</a> that he was “alarmed by the deteriorating security situation” and calling for “calm.”
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">UN Envoy <a href="https://twitter.com/TWennesland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TWennesland</a>:
The mounting violence in o. West Bank is fueling a climate of fear,
hatred & anger. Crucial 2 reduce tensions immediately to open the
space for crucial initiatives aimed at establishing a viable political
horizon.<br>Full statement👇<br>🔗<a href="https://t.co/f2UllORPg9">https://t.co/f2UllORPg9</a> <a href="https://t.co/5BeR25E5R9">pic.twitter.com/5BeR25E5R9</a></p>— UNSCO (@UNSCO_MEPP) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNSCO_MEPP/status/1578821365745930240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In language crafted to avoid directly blaming the occupying power,
Wennesland observed that “Since the beginning of the year, at least 100
Palestinians have been killed, including children, amid a significant
increase in Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank.”
<p>Wennesland added that “During the same period, 16 Israelis have been
killed inside Israel in a wave of terrorist attacks by Palestinians and
Israeli Arabs.”</p>
<p>Notably, Wennesland characterizes Israel’s systematic killing of
Palestinians in the West Bank as occurring “amid” what he describes as
“military operations” – obscuring how Israel regularly attacks,
collectively punishes and terrorizes civilians in the context of
occupation, settler-colonization and the enforcement of a system of
apartheid.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, he describes killings of Israelis by Palestinians, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/americas-israeli-arab-client-regimes-gather-negev-summit">including</a> of members of paramilitary forces, as “terrorist attacks.”</p>
<p>This aversion to holding Israel accountable also extended to UNICEF.
The United Nations children’s agency noted in a tweet that “two
Palestinian children, 14 and 17, were killed in the West Bank” on
Friday, but omitted to mention that Israeli forces killed them.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Last night, 2 Palestinian children, 14 and 17, were killed in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WestBank?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WestBank</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Children?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Children</a>
are entitled to special protection and all their human rights, incl.
the right to life & to be protected from all forms of violence. All
children must be allowed to grow in a safe environment.</p>— UNICEF Palestine (@UNICEFpalestine) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNICEFpalestine/status/1578648112012218368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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At least 26 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli occupation forces or settlers in the West Bank so far this year.
<p><em>Ali Abunimah contributed reporting.</em></p> <h3>
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