An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a besieged home in Qabatia town, southern Jenin

No.

8711

Date

5 November, 2024

Found by

Eye on Palestine

Location

📍 West Bank - Jenin - Qabatiya

Original Social Media Post

"An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a besieged home in Qabatia town, southern Jenin."
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Archivist Notes: Raid on Qabatiya, besieged houses, civilians killed and journalist injured

Raid on Qabatiya

On november 5, around 3 p.m., Israeli soldiers surrounded a house in the town of Qabaitya, shelled it with rockets and fired intensevily on it.

A young man was shot by Israeli occupation forces while he was on the roof of his house documenting Israeli raids.

About an hour later, two IDF jeeps were seend riving against traffic in the town and seemingly intentionally rammed a civilian car. Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at a vehicle carrying the two young men after deliberately ramming it with a military vehicle to force it to stop, executed the driver at point blank, and killing both of them instantly.

They then surrounded the car while inspecting it and preventing any ambulances or medical crews from reaching the scene.

Al-Araby TV cameraman Rabi Al-Munir was documenting the events on the ground and was shot by Israeli soldiers moments before 7 pm.

In his report, Al-Munir had included footage of the collision and witness accounts stating that after the crash, soldiers exited their vehicle and opened fire on the civilian car. It was also shown that Israeli soldiers surrounded the area and prevented Palestinian medical teams and ambulances from reaching the scene.

After the Isreli troops withdrawed he Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews transported two Palestinians who were shot and killed by the occupation forces’ fire to the medical complex in the town.

Three Palestinians were killed in the raid.

Names of the murdered:

  1. Mahdi Abu Shuqairah
  2. Omar Mustafa
  3. Naser Abu Khamira

The occupation has continued its aggression on the town of Qabatiya for more than seven hours, and is sending more military reinforcements to the entrances of the town, while violent confrontations are taking place at the Martyrs' Roundabout at the main entrance to the town.

Israeli army used arrested Palestinian as human shield :

(Qabatiya)

Local sources reported thatthey abducted two young men, Amr Mu'ayyad and Abdullah Hotari, from Qalqilya at the Ein Siniya checkpoint, north of Ramallah.

Injured

A 4 y/o child, Omar Abu Zaid, was in his home when Israeli forces stormed in with a police dog. The dog attacked and bit him while he was in his sleep. A photo shows a child who was attacked by a dog.

Sources 1

Drone Attack on the village of Muthalath al-Shuhada

Earlier on the same day, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone shelling targeting a site in the village of Muthalath al-Shuhada, south of Jenin. An Israeli drone bombed a site in the village of Muthalath al-Shuhada during the ongoing aggression on the town of Qabatiya and the surrounding area, which led to the killing of two citizens.

At the end of the day, Citizens in the village of Muthalath al-Shuhada, south of Jenin, bid farewell to the bodies of the two martyrs, Muhammad and Shawqi Asous, who were killed by an Israeli drone strike on the balcony of their home in the village.

Martyrs names

  • Muhammad Asou
  • Shawqi Asou

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