Israeli forces kill yet another young Palestinian in raid on occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have killed at least one person during a raid in the northern West Bank, amid simmering tensions in the occupied territory due to the ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the 37-year-old victim, identified as Abdul Qader Hussein Khaddour, lost his life on Saturday as Israeli forces opened fire at him in Faqqu'a village east of Jenin.

The young man was struck in the thigh by live bullets, and was immediately transferred to a hospital. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

The official Wafa news agency reported that the Palestinian man sustained gunshot wounds near the separation wall built on the village lands. The controversial wall separates Palestinian-owned lands from illegal Israeli settlements.

Since Israel unleashed the ongoing war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023, Israeli forced have increasingly raided villages and cities in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 822 Palestinians.

Around 6,500 Palestinians have been wounded as well, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

At least 45,227 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip during the regime’s genocidal war.

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Meanwhile, Israeli forces have detained at least 25 Palestinians from various areas across the West Bank.

The Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said in a statement that the detentions concentrated in the village of Burqa, while the rest took place in the governorates of Jenin, Bethlehem, Tulkarm, and al-Quds.

The raids were accompanied by assaults, threats against detainees and their families, and widespread destruction of property, including damage to homes.

Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

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