Israeli military kills two Palestinians in West Bank

• Two Palestinians slain in Israeli raid on Jenin-area village.
• Two men, 22 and 25, were shot early Monday.
• Israeli army say they destroyed Kufr Dan homes.

Two Palestinian males were slain by the Israeli army during a raid on a village close to Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Fouad Mohammad Abed, 25, and Mohammad Samer Hoshiyeh, 22, were shot dead early on Monday in Kufr Dan, northwest of Jenin.

At least three additional people were hurt during the operation, one of whom was critically hurt, the ministry claimed.

After raiding Kufr Dan to destroy the homes of the two Palestinians slain in a gunfight at an Israeli military checkpoint in Jenin that resulted in the death of an Israeli soldier, Bar Falah, several months ago, there were confrontations and violent skirmishes with Israeli forces late on Sunday night.

On September 14, two men named Ahmad Ayman Abed and Abdulrahman Hani Abed were fatally shot at the Jalameh checkpoint, the primary crossing point between the northern occupied West Bank and Israel.

In a statement, Israeli soldiers claimed that they had been conducting operations in Kufr Dan to destroy the two men’s homes and claimed that they had come under attack from gunfire, rocks, and firebombs.

Fouad Mohammed Abed was identified as a member of the Palestinian organization Hamas, which controls Gaza.

Local media circulated videos of one of the residences being detonated by explosives.

Similar photographs demonstrated how to demolish a second dwelling.

Human rights organizations and Palestinians both view such home demolitions as “collective punishment.”

The massive Israeli military operation, which involved special operations personnel, started on Sunday night and lasted until Monday morning.

Due to an ongoing Israeli military campaign of stepped-up raids and killings for almost a year, the two men who were shot dead on Monday are the first Palestinians to be slain by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank this year.

استشهاد الشابين محمد سامر حوشية وفؤاد محمد عابد برصاص الاحتلال في كفر دان غرب جنين. pic.twitter.com/L4oQW0YyUY

— شجاعية (@shejae3a) January 2, 2023

[TRANSLATION: The two young men, Muhammad Samer Hoshieh and Fouad Muhammad Abed, were killed by the occupation bullets in Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.]

The year 2022 was the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank in 16 years, according to the United Nations (UN).

In 2022, Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and the occupied East Jerusalem killed at least 171 Palestinians, including more than 30 children. There have also been at least 9,000 injuries.

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