CBRN event in Palestine on Thu 8th May 2025

Israeli forces executed a Palestinian young man and wounded many others on Thursday, after storming the Old City of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the young man, Rami Sami Walid Al-Kakhn, 30, was killed by occupation forces and his body was confiscated during a military invasion into the Old City of Nablus.

The Health Ministry added that nine other Palestinians sustained gunshot wounds, including two who were critically injured arrived at the Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews provided first aid to at least 35 Palestinian citizens who suffered the toxics effects of tear gas inhalation during the incursion.

Media sources said that an undercover Israeli unit infiltrated the Jasmine neighborhood in the Old City of Nablus on Thursday afternoon, followed by military reinforcements.

Sources added that occupation forces abducted the young men, Mohammad Mashal and the wounded Al-Kakhn, later announcing that Al-Kakhn had succumbed to his wounds. In related news, Israeli forces killed 20-year-old Abdul-Fattah Ahed Ahmad Al-Hreibat on Wednesday, after he allegedly attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack at the southern entrance to Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed 136 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 24 children and 5 women, according to the Shireen Observatory.

Occupation forces have killed 56 Palestinians in Jenin, 23 in Nablus, 20 in Tubas, 14 in Tulkarem, 6 in Hebron, 5 in Bethlehem, 4 in Ramallah, 3 in Qalqilia, 3 in Jerusalem, and 2 in Salfit.

In the Gaza Strip, the overall death toll since October 7, 2023 has increased to 52,760, including women and children, while at least 119,264 Palestinians have sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of Israel’s military onslaught