Israeli occupation forces murder 4 Palestinians in West Bank as raids continue

April 14, 2022

Israeli occupation forces shot dead 4 young Palestinian men in confrontations that erupted in the illegally occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Bethlehem, one of them a 14-year-old boy.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that two young men identified as Sha's Kammaji and Mustafa Abu Al-Rub from the village of Kafr Dan were martyred by Israeli occupation forces in violent confrontations that took place after the latter had raided the village.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Kafr Dan and launched extensive raids and search campaigns, during which violent confrontations erupted where Israeli invading forces extensively fired live ammunition that resulted in 2 Palestinians martyred and many others injured.

In the same context, colonial Israeli forces have summarily executed a child, and detained his body after he was left bleeding on the ground, during confrontations that erupted in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, according to local sources.

The Ministry of Health confirmed the death of the 14-year-old child, Qusai Fouad Hamamreh, who was shot with 10 steel bullets in confrontations that erupted after the IOF carried out a detention raid on Wednesday in Bethlehem. 

Furthermore, Omar Muhammad Alyan, 20, was shot dead in the chest by the Israeli occupying soldiers during their aggression on Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah.

Earlier on Wednesday, Muhammad Hassan Assaf, a 34-year-old Palestinian lawyer, was also shot dead by colonial Israeli forces in Nablus city.

Since the beginning of the year, 43 Palestinians, including 6 children and 2 women, from the occupied West Bank and 1948-occupied territories, 10 of whom were from Jenin, have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces.