Palestinian youth succumbs to wounds sustained by Israeli gunfire in Jenin
Jenin (QNN)- A Palestinian youth succumbed on Sunday morning to critical injuries sustained a few days ago by Israeli gunfire during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that 24-year-old Palestinian Hamad Abu Jelda succumbed, at dawn today, to wounds sustained by Israeli gunfire during an Israeli raid in Jenin city last Tuesday.
Abu Jelda, a former detainee in Israeli prisons, is married, and was expecting his first baby before his shooting death.
Earlier that day, columns of Israeli military vehicles, along with a bulldozer, had raided the city of Jenin.
The Israeli forces also closed off all entrances, while breaking into several neighbourhoods.
They surrounded a building comprising 29 apartments and forced its residents out before starting to demolish and explode an apartment belonging to the Palestinian family of Raad Hazem who was shot and killed by Israeli forces for allegdly killing three Israeli settlers in a shooting operation in occupied Tel Aviv on April 7. Raad’s father and brother are both wanted by Israeli occupation.
During last Tuesday’s furious raid, the Israeli forces injured 16 people, including Jelda, and killed a 29-year-old Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Musa Saba'na, according to the Health Ministry.
In January alone, Israeli forces and settlers carried out 28 raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented the call to prayer 57 times at the Ibrahimi Mosque, an official report said.
Israel is holding the bodies of around 777 identified Palestinians, including 88 detainees who died in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture and medical negligence, according to a Palestinian organization advocating for their release.
Only five of the 450 Palestinian patients in critical condition will be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip on Monday, after Israel reopened the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt for limited traffic following two years of genocide and nearly 20 months of closure.