2 Civilians Killed and 3 Others Wounded, including Woman and Child, by Israeli Occupation Forces Fire in Balata Refugee Camp in Eastern Nablus
PCHR | Date: 13 May 2023
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(...) According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 08:30 on Saturday, 13 May 2023, Israeli Special Forces sneaked via a white Mercedes Carvel bus with a Palestinian registration plate into al-Yasameen neighborhood in central Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, where they cordoned off Hatem Jehad Abu Reziq’s 2-storey house. Few moments later, IOF sent large reinforcements to the camp accompanied with a drone in the sky to back up the special forces and some soldiers topped the roofs of high buildings in the camp and tightened the cordon on Abu Reziq’s house. Meanwhile, IOF immediately launched several rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and heavily fired live bullets at the cordoned house, destroying the 2nd floor. During the operation, clashes and an exchange of fire erupted between IOF and members of Palestinian armed groups near the cordoned house. At around 09:15, while Saed Jehad Shaker Mashah (32) , a clothes merchant, was on his way to his workplace trying to move from an alley to another on al-Madares Street to reach al-Quds Street, an Israeli sniper fired a live bullet at his head that penetrated his right eye and blew off his head, killing him on al-Madares Street at the camp’s southern outskirts. Promptly after targeting Mashah, Waseem ‘Adnan Yousef al-A’raj (18) approached to pull him, but an Israeli sniper fired a live bullet at his head and killed him falling on Mashah. Also, 3 other Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were wounded by IOF fire during the incursion, and IOF denied Palestinian ambulances’ access into the camp to evacuate those killed and injured. After committing their crime, IOF completely withdrew from the camp and those killed and injured were evacuated to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus. Later, Israeli media stated that IOF failed to arrest wanted Palestinians. (...)
