Friday, July 5, 2024 – The West Bank

Killed

1. Hamam As’ad Ahmad Hashash, 23-years-old from Jenin.

2. Hareth As’ad Ahmad Hashah, 19-years-old from Jenin.

3. Mohammad Mahmoud Jabrian, 54-years-old from Jenin.

4. Ahmad Basem Amur, 20-years-old from Jenin.

5. Qusai Amjad Hazuz, 23-years-old from Jenin.

6. Fuad Ayad Ashqar Jardat, 25-years-old from Silat al-Harithiya.

7. Yassin Ahmad Mahmoud Al Areidi, 30-years-old from Jenin.

8. Hani Abdallah, 20-years-old from Nur Shams refugee camp - shot a week ago during the Israeli army’s raid of the camp. Died of his wounds this evening.

Raids and arrests

During the night, Israeli forces raided Hebron, Sarra, Yatta, Turmus Aya, Qalqilya, Nablus. During the day, they raided Jenin city and refugee camp, Kafr Qaddum, Beita, Beit Ummar, Umm Safa, Al Mughayyir, A Ram, Tulkarm, Beit Fajjar, Shuweika. At least 14 persons were arrested, among them a 15-years-old minor.

Clashes

Jenin

1. Nablus - night raid of the Old City. Confrontations.

2. Jenin city and refugee camp - morning. Special force surrounds a house in the woods on the town outskirts. Confrontations ensue. Army auxiliary joins.

The force shells the house with Anti-tank missiles. Live shots fired at paramedics and journalists. A soldier was wounded in fire exchange. At the house - as the army reports - was a squad that placed the explosive charge about a week ago during the army’s raid of the camp. This charge killed an Israeli officer and wounded a soldier. Everyone in the house was killed.

Elsewhere in the camp, a drone bombs a group of Palestinians, near the Palestinian security forces HQ. In additional places confrontations ensued with fire exchange. Bulldozers destroy infrastructures. Shots at electricity transformers causes a power cut in the camp and other places in town.

7 persons killed, one of them a member of the Palestinian security forces. Persons wounded by live fire are reported, not their number.

3. Beita, south of Nablus - on Thursday June 27th Israel legitimized colonist outpost Eviatar, situated on Jabal Sabih lands in Beita. Palestinians held their Friday prayers at the place regularly used to protest against this outpost.

The forces invaded the prayer, fired teargas, stun grenades and even live bullets. Suffocations. Confrontations broke out at other places in town. In the meantime, at Jabal Sabih land colonists set fire.

4. Beit Ummar, north of Hebron - raid and confrontations. 4 persons wounded by live fire. Another woman wounded by shrapnel.

5. Umm Safa, north of Ramallah - earlier, colonists attacked (details below), later Israeli forces raided and confrontations ensued. Suffocations.

6. A Ram, north of Jerusalem - raid with teargas fire.

7. Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem - raid and confrontations. One person seriously wounded by live fire.

8. Hebron - night raid, attack and physical violence against brothers one of whom was arrested, the other hurried to hospital. Later at Shuhada Checkpoint - soldiers beat up two Palestinians on their way home to Tel Rumeida.

Attacks against the army

1. Nablus - shots fired at army post on Eival Mountain.

Attacks against colonists

1. Karmei Tzur, north of Hebron - firecrackers at the colony.

Colonist attacks

1. Umm Safa, north of Hebron - colonists attack the outskirts of the village, cut water pipes. Villagers confronted and chased them away. Later, the army raided the village.

2. Beita, south of Nablus - colonists ignite Jabal Sabih land.

3. Al Asfi, Masafer Yatta - colonists attack an elderly man and cause him bruises and lesions.

4. Ein al-Beida, northern Palestinian Jordan Valley - colonists attack vehicles.

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