Israeli forces have killed two more Palestinian young men and injured several others in violent raids across the occupied West Bank.
One of the young men, identified as 18-year-old Youssef Jalal Mahmoud Taqatqa, was seriously injured after the regime’s forces attacked the town of Beit Fajjar, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Monday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Taqatqa died after being shot by Israeli forces in the head during the incident, which also wounded two others.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces attacked the town of Beit Anan, northwest of the occupied city of al-Quds, wounding two Palestinians after targeting them with live fire. One of the victims, identified as 19-year-old Musab Mujahid Kamel al-Matari, died of his injuries after being transferred to hospital in Ramallah.
Several other Palestinians were also wounded in the attack.
The new fatalities came after earlier on Monday, Israeli troops killed four Palestinian men in the city of Tulkarm in northwestern part of the West Bank.
Citing local sources, the Palestinian Information Center said the fatalities were caused after the regime’s forces opened fire on a passing car in the city.
“The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the arrival of three martyrs in addition to a case of critical injury, who later succumbed to his serious wounds, at Tulkarm Hospital in the evening,” the report added.
The victims were identified as Ezzeddin Awwad, a member of al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Jihad Mehraj Shehada, a member of the Rapid Response Battalion of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is a coalition of West Bank-based Palestinian armed groups, Qassem Rajab, and Momen Bal’awi.
The regime has escalated its violent raids against Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, when it launched a war of aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to Wafa news agency, the new fatalities increase the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of the regime’s war on Gaza to 160.
