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8 Jul 2023
Palestine In Pictures: June 2023
Palestinian mourners carry the body of 2-year-old Muhammad Tamimi, who was shot by Jewish Green Shirts in the Jews' West Bank Mega Concentration Camp on 1 June and died of his wounds four days later, 6 June.
The Electronic Intifada: Jewish Blue Shirts, Green Shirts and colonialists murdered more than 20 Christian and Muslim Palestinians during
June, all in the Jews' West Bank Mega Concentration Camp. That figure includes Palestinians
who died from injuries sustained previously.
The youngest of them was Muhammad Tamimi, 2.
The toddler was shot in the head by Jewish Green Shirts, for the crime of not being Jewish, while he was sitting
in his family’s car in front of their home in the central West Bank mega concentration camp 1 June and died in a hospital four days later.
After initially denying responsibility, the Israel military then made up a story
that the Green Shirt who murdered the toddler “mistakenly believed” that the
toddler and his father, who was seriously injured, “had fired at him,”
the Tel Aviv daily Haaretzreported.
“The soldier had received permission from his commander before shooting,” the paper added.
On 9 June, an Israeli soldier shot and killed
29-year-old Mahdi Biadsa at a checkpoint near the central West Bank
city of Ramallah. The Israeli military claimed that “its forces were
inspecting a vehicle suspected as stolen when the driver allegedly tried
to grab a soldier’s weapon and was shot and killed by another soldier,”
the UN monitoring group OCHA said.
Israel initially withheld his body as part of its practice, approved
by its high court, of confiscating the bodies of Palestinians slain in
what it says were attacks so they may be used as bargaining chips in
future negotiations. Biadsa’s remains were transferred to his family on 21 June.
Deadly raids
On 13 June, Faris Hashash, 19, was shot and killed
during a raid in Balata refugee camp near the northern West Bank city
of Nablus. Hashash, who was mentally disabled, was hiding behind a wall
and observing the Israeli incursion when he was shot with three live
bullets.
Another young Palestinian man, 20-year-old Khalil Yahya al-Anis, was
shot and killed during a punitive home demolition raid in Nablus on 15
June.
On 19 June, Israeli forces shot 15-year-old Ahmad Saqer in the
stomach with live ammunition from inside a military vehicle during an incursion into Jenin refugee camp.
The teen was holding stones and standing among a group of young
Palestinians, some of whom allegedly lobbed homemade explosives towards
the raiding troops, Defense for Children International-Palestine said.
His father told Al Jazeera that “when the Israeli army raided, he ran towards them. He wanted to die after his friend Omar was killed.”
The slain child’s father may have been referring to Omar Awadin, a 14-year-old who was killed while riding his bike
outside his parents’ shop during a raid by undercover forces in Jenin
in March. Three other Palestinians were killed during the same raid.
In addition to Ahmad Saqer, four other Palestinians were killed
during the same 19 June raid in Jenin: Qassam Abu Sariya, 29, Qais
Jabareen, 21, and Ahmad Daraghmeh, who were reportedly affiliated with
Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, and Khaled Azzam Asaaseh, 21.
Video shows Darahmeh being shot while apparently throwing stones.
Another man, 48-year-old Amjad Arif al-Jais, died from his injuries
the following day after he was shot by an Israeli sniper while trying to
pick his children up from school during the 19 June raid. His son Wasim, 16, was shot and run over by troops during a raid in Jenin refugee camp on 26 January, killing him.
Sadil Naghnaghieh, 14, died
on 21 June from injuries sustained during the raid in Jenin three days
earlier, bringing to six the number of Palestinians killed during the 19
June incursion.
The girl was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper who fired out of a
military vehicle while she was standing outside her home recording the
Israeli military incursion on her phone.
During the 19 June raid, Israel used a US-sourced Apache attack
helicopter in the West Bank for the first time in two decades to facilitate the evacuation of troops who were ambushed by a powerful improvised explosive device that disabled a 10-ton armored vehicle.
Also on 19 June, 20-year-old Zakarya al-Zaoul was shot in the head
and killed during confrontations in Husan village near the West Bank
city of Bethlehem.
The following day, 20 June, Naser Sinan, 55, died from injuries
sustained after he was shot in the head by soldiers during a raid in
Jenin on 22 May. Palestinian outlets reported that Sinan was a father of
six children.
Settlement shooting attack
Also on 20 June, four Israelis, one of them 17 years old, were shot and killed by two Palestinian gunmen at a restaurant and gas station near Eli settlement in the central West Bank.
Both of the Palestinians alleged to have carried out the attack were
killed in what may amount to extrajudicial executions. They were
identified as Muhanad Shehadeh, 26, and Khaled Sabah, 24, both from the
West Bank village of Urif near Nablus.
Israel’s ultranationalist national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir exploited the Eli attack by calling on settlers in the West Bank to pick up arms.
Over the following days, settlers attacked Palestinians in more than a dozen West Bank communities.
In the revenge attacks that followed, settlers vandalized a mosque and tore up copies of the Quran and set fire to a school in Urif, the Eli gunmen’s hometown. They also cut off electricity to the entire village and set up new outposts on Palestinian land.
Omar Jabara (who also went by the surname Abu Qateen), 27, was shot and killed
during a rampage by hundreds of settlers, some of them armed, in Tumus
Aya near Ramallah on 21 June. The fatal bullet was likely fired by an
Israeli police officer.
During the attack on Turmus Aya, settlers fired live bullets towards
residents, attempted to burn families in their homes and set fire to
agricultural land. Palestinians in the town, many of whom hold US
citizenship, said that the army facilitated the violent mob.
West Bank airstrike
Also on 21 June, Israel killed three Palestinians
in an airstrike near al-Jalameh military checkpoint in the northern
West Bank – the first such deadly aerial assault in the territory in
nearly two decades.
Israel targeted the three after they allegedly opened fire at
military vehicles. The slain Palestinians were identified as Muhammad
Bashar Oweis, 27, Suhayb al-Ghoul, 28 and Ashraf al-Saadi, 15.
On 24 June, Ishaq al-Ajlouni, 16, was shot and killed after allegedly opening fire
at Qalandiya military checkpoint where Israel controls Palestinian
movement between the West Bank cities of Jerusalem and Ramallah. A
security guard was reportedly lightly wounded.
That same day, Tariq Musa Khalil Idris, 39, died from his injuries after being shot in the stomach during confrontations with Israeli forces in Askar refugee camp near Nablus.
At least 190 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli police, troops
and settlers since the beginning of the year, or died from injuries
sustained previously, according to The Electronic Intifada’s tracking.
Among them were 33 boys and girls.
The number of Palestinian fatalities in 2023 has already eclipsed that of the previous year.
Thirty people in Israel and Israelis in the West Bank, including five
children, were killed by Palestinians in the context of the occupation,
or died from injuries sustained previously, during the same period.
Also during June, five Palestinians were shot and killed in a crime-related shooting in Nazareth amid a major spike in the murder rate among Palestinians in Israel.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians – 17-year-old Muhammad Hashah and
18-year-old Alaa Hafnawi – were killed and a third person was critically
injured in an accidental blast while handling explosives in Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus.
And in early June, three Israeli soldiers were killed by an Egyptian border guard who crossed into Israel.
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