A Palestinian teenage lady was shot and killed on Sunday night throughout a navy invasion of Jenin within the northern occupied West Financial institution by Israeli forces.
Jana Majdi Zakarneh, 16, was shot with a single bullet to the pinnacle, in keeping with the Palestinian Ministry of Well being. The teenager was reportedly killed whereas on the roof of her household’s dwelling in Jenin within the japanese a part of town. Following an post-mortem, the younger lady was buried in Jenin on Monday afternoon.
In line with Wafa News Company, no less than three different Palestinians had been injured with dwell ammunition in the course of the raid, whereas three Palestinians had been arrested in the course of the raid.
Zakarneh is the fifteenth minor to be killed in Jenin for the reason that begin of the yr, and the seventeenth Palestinian girl or lady to be killed in 2022.
Final month, Israeli forces additionally shot and killed 15-year-old Fulla Masalmeh in Ramallah. Because the starting of December, 11 Palestinians had been killed bringing the variety of Palestinians killed this yr alone to 224, 166 of whom had been killed within the West Financial institution.
Israel’s deadly arrest raids
The raid started at roughly 10 p.m. on Sunday night, when undercover Israeli border police from the Duvdevan Unit — created in 1986 to focus on the West Financial institution by means of infiltration by undercover Israeli brokers posing as Palestinians — raided the japanese a part of town of Jenin.
Footage from CCTV cameras in Jenin present that Israeli forces entered in a white van, which resembled a civilian automobile, earlier than the van’s again door opened and troopers got here spilling out of it and instantly started opening hearth within the space.
Native journalists in Jenin reported intense armed confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed teams, which tried to thwart the invasion by responding with dwell ammunition.
Israeli forces arrested Thaer Hathnawi, 40, and his brother, Mohammad Hathnawi, 33, who had been each needed underneath the pretext of partaking in armed resistance actions. A 3rd Palestinian, 30-year-old Hasan Mir’i, was additionally arrested in the course of the raid, which resulted within the killing of the teenage Zakarneh.
Israeli snipers had been positioned between residential areas, a follow widespread for Israeli forces raiding Palestinian cities and cities or when accompanying and escorting settler invasions to areas within the West Financial institution.
Inside an hour of the raid, Israeli forces injured three others with dwell ammunition within the decrease elements of their our bodies, in keeping with the Palestinian Pink Crescent Society. Jenin refugee camp, often called the “Wasps’ Nest” by the Israeli intelligence neighborhood, had closed off all entrances to the camp inside the first half hour of the raid, in keeping with native journalists on the scene.
Israeli media reported that each of the Hathnawi brothers had been transferred to interrogation by the Shin Wager, Israel’s inside intelligence company, recognized for his or her coercive interrogation and torture strategies, that are routinely used on Palestinians detainees.
By Monday morning, December 12, a complete of 9 Palestinians had been arrested throughout the West Financial institution, most of whom had been from the Qalandia refugee camp close to Ramallah.
The variety of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces within the West Financial institution this yr has hit document numbers — the best for the reason that UN started documenting such killings in 2005. Lots of the killings this yr occurred throughout search-and-arrest raids, a close to nightly prevalence within the West Financial institution, or in circumstances of extrajudicial assassinations by Israeli undercover items and navy forces.
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