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SvennoJ on 17 March 2024
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Funeral held for 13-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli forces

A funeral has been held for Rami al-Halhuli, the 13-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot dead by Israeli forces while playing with fireworks in the Shu’fat refugee camp near occupied East Jerusalem. Footage authenticated by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit shows fireworks being set off as a procession carries his body through the streets of the town of Anata in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces had confiscated Rami’s body and were pressuring his family to accept certain conditions, such as where he could be buried, before agreeing to return it.



Translation: After a detention that lasted for days… the farewell and funeral of the boy Rami Halhouli, who was martyred by Israeli occupation bullets in the Shuafat camp in occupied Jerusalem.


Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians in the West Bank on Sunday

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, including a woman from Gaza, a child and former prisoners.

The woman from Gaza has cancer and was arrested as she was heading to Jerusalem to complete her treatment, the agency said, citing a joint statement from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees.

Israeli forces “continue to carry out widespread harassment and attacks, severe beatings and threats against detainees and their families as well as ransacking and damaging civilian homes”, the statement said.


More arrests in West Bank as Israeli forces continue raids

The Israeli military has arrested about 20 Palestinians near the town of Al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday evening, according to the Wafa news agency. The Palestinians, whose identities are not yet known, were detained as they were trying to enter Al-Issawiya from the neighbouring town of Al-Za’im, the agency reported.

Israeli forces also continued raids elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. They include:

  • The Jenin refugee camp, where an Israeli military vehicle was targeted with an explosive device
  • The villages and towns of Arraba, Fahma, Kafr Ra’i, Al-Fandakumiya and Tura near Jenin
  • The town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya
  • The villages of Abu Anjim and Harmala, east of Bethlehem

Wafa also reported confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the villages of Jalboun and Faquoa, northeast of Jenin, and said another Palestinian man was arrested at the Annab military checkpoint, east of Tulkarem.