Death toll in Israel’s raid on Jenin rises
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that at least nine people have been killed, as Israel continues a large military operation in the occupied West Bank city. At least 40 injuries of varying degrees have also resulted from the raid, the ministry added in a short update.
Rights group says teenager among those killed in Israeli raids West Bank
Defense for Children International Palestine says that a 14-year-old boy named Ahmad Rashid Rushdi Jazar is among those killed by Israeli forces during raids across the occupied West Bank. The group says he was shot from a long distance, and that those trying to help him were also shot at.
“Israeli forces shot and killed Ahmad Rashid Rushdi Jazar, 14, near the Sebastia kindergarten in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday,” the group said in a social media post.
“Soldiers shot Ahmad from more than 2,000 feet away, then fired toward his friends who tried to help him.”
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Three Palestinians shot by Israeli border police in occupied East Jerusalem: Report
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited an Israeli police report that the border police forces operating in the Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem fired at three Palestinians who threw stones.
The newspaper said one of the victims was a 12-year-old boy who was shot in the chest and taken to hospital while fully conscious.
The Shu’fat refugee camp was built by UNRWA in 1965 to provide housing for Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their homes in areas including Lydd, Ramla and Gaza during the 1948 establishment of Israel, known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The eastern half of Jerusalem, including the camp, was militarily occupied by Israel in 1967 and illegally annexed in a move unrecognised by international law. Some 86 percent of occupied East Jerusalem is under the direct control of the Israeli government and settlers.
UN chief calls for ‘maximum restraint’ amid Israeli West Bank raids
A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that the UN chief is “deeply concerned” about violence in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli raids have killed at least nine people and injured dozens.
Deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that “the secretary-general urges security forces to exercise maximum restraint and use lethal force only when it is strictly unavoidable to protect life.”
UN human rights official says ‘massive restrictions’ on Palestinian freedom of movement
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, says that freedom of movement is “massively restricted” for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank while illegal Israeli settlements continue to expand.
“2023 showed that there was not a single building permit that was issued by Israeli authorities to Palestinians in East Jerusalem, when about 100 used to be issued in the past. That means that Palestinians cannot build any structures in East Jerusalem, a grave violation [of international law]. Together with that, coming back to the rest of the West Bank, we see massive movement restrictions,” Sunghay said in an interview with UN News on Tuesday.
“This has always been a problem in the West Bank, but it escalated after October 7.”
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