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Palestinian man killed in Far’a refugee camp

The Wafa news agency is reporting that the 46-year-old died after being shot in the heart by an Israeli sniper in the camp, which is located south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.

The raid on Far’a comes amid an ongoing Israeli operation in Tubas, which has been under siege for more than 24 hours.

Earlier on Wednesday, at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack on Tubas. Israeli forces have also raided homes in the city, declared a curfew and laid siege to the Turkish Government Hospital.


People assess the site of Israeli strikes in which Palestinians were killed in Tubas on September 11


Israeli forces shot Aysenur Ezgi Eygi after protests subsided: Report

The Washington Post is reporting that its investigation into the death of the US-Turkish activist challenges the Israeli military’s claim that she had been shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot” in the occupied West Bank.

The Post said it analysed 50 videos and photographs and interviewed 13 witnesses to reconstruct events leading up to Ezgi Eygi’s death, on what was her first day protesting against Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the town of Beita.

The Post’s investigation found “Eygi was shot more than a half-hour after the height of confrontations in Beita, and some 20 minutes after protesters had moved down the main road – more than 200 yards away from Israeli forces”.

It said the Israeli military declined to answer questions about why its forces fired toward the demonstrators so long after they had retreated, and from a distance where they posed no apparent threat.

 

UN says Israeli raids destroyed water supply for 35,000 Palestinians in Jenin

Israeli forces destroyed roads, water and sewage systems during recent extensive raids on Kafr Dan, in the Jenin Refugee Camp, and eastern Jenin, the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, has said.

In its latest update, OCHA reported:

  • 45 homes were left “completely uninhabitable” by Israeli forces, displacing 297 people, including 102 children.
  • Israeli bulldozers and heavy machinery tore up approximately 25 kilometres of roads, around 70 percent of all the city’s roads.
  • The destruction of the roads also damaged underlying water and sewage pipes, leaving approximately 35,000 residents without a water supply since August 28.
  • The damage has also led to “sewage overflows” in the camp and surrounding neighbourhoods.


A child walks through rubble after an Israeli-raid on Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday