CBRN event in Palestine on Mon 21st April 2025

On Saturday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian communities in Hebron, Jericho, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, causing several injuries. In Hebron, located in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian family with batons, leaving three members injured. Abdul-Fattah Ahmad Tarwa, 55, suffered a concussion and bruises across his body, while his wife, 50, sustained a fractured arm and bruises. Their son also endured head and upper body injuries. All three were rushed to a Palestinian hospital in Hebron for treatment. In Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers renewed their assaults on a Palestinian Bedouin community near Al-Awja Falls, north of the city. Hasan Mleihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, reported that colonizers attacked the community twice on Saturday, verbally abusing residents, photographing their homes, and calling for their displacement. The colonizers also destroyed water pipelines supplying the community with water from the Al-Awja spring, further exacerbating the daily violations faced by the residents. Mleihat described these actions as part of a broader campaign to force Indigenous Palestinians out of the Northern Plains. In Ramallah, central West Bank, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Kobar town, northwest of the city, firing live rounds at homes before storming them and assaulting families. Local sources reported that Bassam Amriya and his sons, Adnan, and Mohammad, suffered various injuries during the attack. The assailing colonizers also abducted both sons, later releasing Adnan while Mohammad’s whereabouts remain unknown. Also, dozens of colonizers invaded the at-Tal area near Sinjil town, north of Ramallah, and raised Israeli flags. The colonizers have been frequently invading the area in their ongoing efforts to force the Palestinians out and establish a new illegal colonialist outpost on the stolen lands. On Friday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Sinjil town, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and seriously injured a young man as Palestinians were fending off an attack by a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers who also burned an entire Palestinian farm. Last Monday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the citizen, Wael Basem Mohammad Ghafri, 48, died after exposure to toxic tear gas fired by the occupation army who were protecting illegal Israeli colonizers during their invasion of Sinjil. These incidents highlight the escalating violence and systematic targeting of Palestinian communities by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, further deepening the humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories. In related news, Israel soldiers forces halted road construction between the towns of Biddya and Mas-ha, west of Salfit, in the central West Bank, Saturday. Eyewitnesses stated that the soldiers stormed the site, stopped the project, and issued verbal orders demanding workers cease operations. The targeted road serves thousands of residents from villages and towns in the western part of Salfit Governorate. On Saturday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed the death of a Palestinian man who succumbed to serious wounds he suffered when an Israeli soldier shot him two months ago near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part. The sources said Israeli soldiers shot and critically injured the Palestinian, Ahmad Ibrahim Nassasra, 21, two months earlier when the army invaded Beit Furik, east of Nablus. Earlier Friday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded a Palestinian olive orchard in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, and uprooted olive saplings. Furthermore, Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian teen in the village of Salem, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that occupation forces critically injured a child after shooting him in the chest with live ammunition during a military incursion into Salem village, on Friday afternoon. Sources added that the child, Abdul Khaliq Musab Jabour, 16, was rushed to hospital for his critical injuries where doctors attempted live-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation which was unsuccessful; later pronouncing him dead. On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child, Mahmoud Mithqal Ali Abu Al-Haija (12 years old) in the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin. Last Sunday evening, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office released a statement announcing that another Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody, the second in less than one week. The statement added that the wounded detainee, Nasser Khalil Mohammad Al-Radaydeh, 49, died on Sunday, after being transferred to the Hadassah Hospital from Ofer Prison. Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 963 Palestinians, including 194 children, 21 women, 15 elderly individuals, one journalist, and two medics since October 7, 2023. All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.