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SvennoJ on 11 February 2025
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Israel’s fatal shooting of pregnant Palestinian woman puts focus on West Bank

Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank signals a worrying trend toward more lethal, warlike tactics by Israel in the occupied territory.

Israeli military vehicles surrounded the camp last week as part of a larger crackdown on Palestinian fighters across the northern West Bank that has escalated since the ceasefire began between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Israeli army issued a short statement after the killing of Sondos Shalabi, 23, who was eight-months pregnant, saying it referred it to the military police for criminal investigation.

Her father-in-law, Mohammed Shula keeps thinking about how soldiers saw Shalabi’s body bleeding on the ground and did nothing to help as they handcuffed his son and marched him into their vehicle.

“Why did they shoot them? They were doing nothing wrong. They could have stopped them, asked a question, but no, they just shot,” he said in an interview.

Also on Sunday, just a few streets away, another young Palestinian woman, 21, was killed by the Israeli army.


Israeli settlers pave road cutting through Palestinian land in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have paved a dirt road on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Yasouf in the Salfit governorate of the occupied West Bank.

The road connects the area with the towns of Beita and Huwara in the Nablus governorate, according to the Wafa news agency, which said the move swallows up dozens of dunams of Palestinian land, including those planted with olive trees.

Meanwhile, in the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli soldiers seized an agricultural tractor belonging to a Palestinian citizen who was working on his farm.

In Tarqumiyah west of Hebron, Israeli forces arrested a young man after raiding the local municipality headquarters. Another young man was arrested from the town of Jaba south of Jenin.



Translation: The occupation demolishes a house in Deir Bzei near Ramallah.

Israeli army ‘systematically bulldozing infrastructure’ in Jenin: Monitor

The Al-Haq human rights organisation has said that major Israeli operations are ongoing in Tulkarem, Jenin and Far’a, among other places, on the 22nd day of large-scale Israeli military attacks across the occupied West Bank.

In Jenin, it said the Israeli military “has extended destruction significantly beyond the refugee camp, particularly since early this morning as it has been systematically bulldozing infrastructure and destroying public and private property in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin City”.

At least four children have been among 33 Palestinians killed so far in Israeli attacks across the occupied West Bank over the past three weeks, and more than 40,000 people have been forcibly displaced.


Israeli soldiers blow up Palestinian home in Jenin

Israeli forces have blown up another Palestinian home in the besieged Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Local Palestinian media reported that the two-storey house belonged to the family of a Palestinian fighter who was killed in July by Israeli forces.

The Israeli army has detonated or set fire to dozens of homes in the northern West Bank in the three weeks since the Gaza ceasefire took effect.