JENIN: A wide-scale Israeli military offensive yesterday in the town of Qabatiya, located south of Jenin, that lasted nearly 10 hours resulted in the murder of seven Palestinians and left 11 others injured from live ammunition.

The death toll rose to seven after Palestinian Red Crescent teams recovered the body of a Palestinian young man, Shadi Sami Zakarneh, from a house that had been surrounded and bombed by Israeli forces.

Earlier in the day, two young men were killed, and another young man and a child were injured in the attack, which included drone strikes targeting a vehicle near the town’s café complex.

Medical teams at the town’s emergency center reported another fatality from wounds sustained during the Israeli offensive. Three young men were also confirmed killed after being shot on the rooftop of the besieged house, while 10 others were injured elsewhere in the town, including two who were run over by a military jeep.

Videos circulating on social media show the Israeli forces mistreating the bo
dies of three victims, discarding them from the roof of the besieged home before a military bulldozer took their bodies away.

The Qabatiya municipality identified the seven victims as Mohammad Khalid Abu Rob, Omar Hamza Abu Rob, Ahmad Maher Zakarneh, Mustafa Faisal Zakarneh, Fadi Joudat Hanaysheh, Mohammad Omar Kmeil, and Shadi Sami Zakarneh.

It condemned the killings as a massacre and called it a new crime committed by the occupation amid the international community’s troubling silence.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA