Army Executes Two Palestinians in Qalqilia

Israeli forces killed, on Friday, two Palestinian young men in the city of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Palestinian Health Ministry that soldiers killed Mahmoud Hassan Abdel Rahman Zaid, 28, and Ihab Abdel Karim Musa Abu Hamed, 29, after shooting them with live rounds.

Media sources said that on Friday afternoon, a special undercover Israeli unit infiltrated the city of Qalqilia, followed by military reinforcements.

Israeli special forces opened fire with live ammunition towards a vehicle, shooting two young men and causing the vehicle to collide into a commercial shop in the city center.

Palestine TV published videos of the shooting, the collision, and special forces dragging the body of one of the slain young men out of the vehicle.

After obstructing ambulance crews from reaching the critically injured young men, soldiers confiscated their bodies, denying them medical treatment.

It was added that at least two bystanders sustained mild injuries as a result of the military incursion.

Media sources added that occupation forces later withdrew from the city and confiscated the vehicle.

On Thursday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child in city of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said that occupation forces shot the child, Naeem Abdullah Naeem Samha, 15, in the chest with live ammunition, causing serious wounds, before he succumbed to his wounds.

Israeli forces have now killed 552 Palestinian civilians, including 136 children, and injured at least 5,200 others, in various regions of the occupied West Bank, since the beginning of the military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Israeli forces have killed at least 37,431 Palestinians, mostly woman and children, and injured at least 85,653, since the beginning of the brutal military onslaught against the devastated Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, while thousands remain buried under the rubble.

(Source / 24.06.2024)