Israeli soldiers kill father of three-week-old

baby

Mourners carry the body of 22-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim Skafi, who was shot dead after he allegedly
rammed his car into an Israeli troops on Wednesday injuring two of them, during his funeral in the West
Bank city of Hebron on 5 November.
Wisam HashlamounAPA images

Ali Abunimah-6 November 2015

Israeli forces shot dead Fadi Hasan al-Froukh on Sunday, claiming that
the 27-year-old had tried to stab one its soldiers guarding the entrance to Sair village,
near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Al-Froukh was one of eight Palestinians, including two children, killed by Israeli
occupation forces between Thursday, 29 October and Wednesday, 4 November, the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported on Thursday.

Two more Palestinians were killed on Thursday.

Firas Muhammad Miqdad, an 18-year-old fisherman, was shot dead by Egyptian forces
off the coast of Gaza, and 25-year-old Malik al-Sharif was killed by Israeli forces after
an alleged stabbing attack on soldiers in Gush Etzion settlement near Bethlehem.

Palestinians inspect damage at the Minbar al-Hurriya radio station in Hebron on 3 November after Israeli
soldiers stormed it and destroyed and confiscated equipment.
Wisam HashlamounAPA images

On Wednesday, Israeli forces deployed near the entrance of Halhoul village north of
Hebron shot dead 22-year-old Ibrahim Skafi after he ran into Israeli troops in the car
he was driving, injuring two of them.
At least 70 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since 1 October, approximately
half of them shot dead after alleged attacks which killed 9 Israelis.
But videos of many of the incidents show that Palestinians were killed when they posed
no harm. Human rights groups have slammed Israeli forces for executing Palestinians
as part of a shoot-to-kill policy.

Israeli forces injured 129 Palestinian civilians, including 25 children, in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip, many with live ammunition, between 29 October and 4 November.
The army also carried out nearly 100 raids into Palestinian communities in the West
Bank, including 14 in Jerusalem, during that same period. More than 100 Palestinians
were arrested, including 35 children, and Israeli forces raided and shut down the
Minbar al-Hurriya radio station in Hebron.

Palestinians recover belongings from their home in occupied East Jerusalems Jabal al-Mukabir
neighborhood on 2 November. Israeli forces destroyed it under the pretext that it lacked a building permit.
Mahfouz Abu TurkAPA images

A house and three apartments belonging to several Palestinian families were destroyed
on Monday as part of what PCHR termed Israels efforts to create Jewish majority in
occupied East Jerusalem.
An Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian on the road between Qalqilya and Nablus in the
northern West Bank on Sunday. PCHR reported that Alaa Hasan Ibrahim al-Khatib,
25, from Jayyous village, sustained arm fractures and a cut on his head.
Amnesty International last week called on Israel to protect Palestinians from frequent
settler attacks, but Israeli colonists continue to enjoy blanket impunity and protection

from the army.

Killing in Sair
There was no evidence that Fadi al-Froukh attempted to stab anyone before he was
shot dead near Sair village on Sunday, PCHR said.
Fadi al-Froukh did not pose a grave threat, PCHR adds, and the Israeli soldiers could
have arrested him as he was physically disabled.
Maan News Agencys reporter Daa Yayha reported from Sair that al-Froukh, the eldest
of four sons and the father of a 20-day-old baby girl, was hit with approximately 10
bullets.

An eyewitness told Maan that

al-Froukh had jumped down from an elevated olive grove behind a relatives home and
onto the field where he was shot.
Object 1

The eyewitness said that while al-Froukh would have known there were soldiers
stationed in vehicles in the area, he was surprised by the ones near the field. The
eyewitness said the soldiers opened fire on him directly.
He added that al-Froukh was left on the ground for almost an hour without treatment,
until one of the Israeli soldiers examined him and found him dead. He was later taken
away by the Israelis.
This video shows Israeli soldiers examining al-Froukhs body. The soldiers can be
heard shouting son of a whore:

One soldier speaking in

Hebrew says al-Froukh came suddenly but there is no description of an attempted
attack. A voice also says I thought it was a soldier.
Object 2

Al-Froukh is the third person from Sair village to be killed in recent weeks. On 26
October, Israeli forces killed 17-year-old Iyad Jaradat and 22-year-old Raed Jaradat.
Shortly before he was killed, al-Froukh had taken part in the funeral of Raed Jaradat
and there had been confrontations between occupation forces and youths in the area.
Teenager executed
PCHR investigated the 2 November killing of 16-year-old Ahmad Abu al-Rab and the
wounding of another teenager, Mahmoud Kamil, 17, near al-Jalameh military
checkpoint in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Both boys are from Qabatiya village near Jenin.
That morning, PCHR says, the teens were at a gas station about 50 meters from the
checkpoint, where Israeli soldiers apparently viewed them as suspicious.
The soldiers got out of their jeeps, stopped the boys and pointed their weapons at
them.
The Israeli soldiers ordered the two children to take off their clothes, PCHR states.
When Abu al-Rab pulled out a knife, the Israeli soldiers opened fire at him and killed

him immediately and then fired at the lower part of Kamils body.
Kamil was wounded and arrested. PCHR called the shootings a crime of excessive
force.

Palestinians take part in a protest demanding Israel return the bodies of Palestinians killed after allegedly
attacking Israelis, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on 4 November. Israel has withheld dozens of bodies, a
move Palestinians see as collective punishment.
Wisam HashlamounAPA images

The killing of Abu al-Rab fits the pattern of summary executions incited by Israeli
leaders and condemned by human rights organizations.
On 24 October, video captured the extrajudicial execution of 16-year-old Ahmad Kamil
at the al-Jalameh checkpoint, and a week later Israeli forces killed 17-year-old
Mahmoud Nazzal there.
PCHR says that Nazzal was seen running toward the checkpoint but that he was not
holding any sharp tool with him.

The Israeli guards stationed at the watchtower shouted at him to stop, but he started
saying Allah Akbar, PCHR said. One of the guards fired around eight live bullets at
him, so he fell to the ground.
The Israelis then pulled his body for around 100 meters to the crossing gate and left
him on the ground.
They prevented Palestinian medics from treating him, but after two hours handed his
body to the Palestinian Authority.
Erosion
The Israeli human rights group BTselem this week condemned the sharp rise in the
use of live ammunition by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian civilians.
The group says that since the start of October, five Palestinians were killed by shots
fired by Israeli forces during demonstrations in the West Bank, excluding East
Jerusalem, and hundreds have been injured.

A Palestinian protester throws stones towards Israeli occupation forces near the West Bank town of
Tulkarem on 3 November.
Nedal EshtayahAPA images

According to BTselem, the alarmingly high injury statistics suggest that live ammunition is

being used even in circumstances where no one is in mortal danger.

Israel recently authorized the widespread use of 22-caliber sniper rifles against
demonstrators. These American-made guns have been used to kill a number of Palestinians.
BTselem now says there has been a gradual erosion of the restrictions imposed on the use of
22-caliber ammunition by occupation forces during demonstrations.
At many flashpoints for demonstrations, snipers now regularly fire 0.22 bullets at
Palestinians, even in circumstances that are not life-threatening and are a far cry from those
in which the law permits the use of live fire, according to the group.
Dena Shunra provided Hebrew translation.
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