JENIN, Monday, January 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces, on the second day of the new year, killed two Palestinians and wounded three others, one of them critical, and demolished two homes in the town of Kufr Dan, in the north of the West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health and local sources.
The Ministry of Health said the Israeli army killed Mohammad Samer Houshieh, 22, after being shot in the chest, and Fouad Mahmoud Abed, 25, after he was shot in the belly and thigh. Three others were wounded, one on them hit in the chest and reported in critical condition.
A large force raided Kufr Dan town, west of Jenin, to demolish the homes of Ahmad Ayman Abed and Abdul Rahman Hani Abed, who were killed during an attack on 14 September of last year at Jalama military checkpoint that left one Israeli soldier dead,
Clashes broke out with the soldiers who opened live fire at the Palestinians killing two and wounding three others before blowing up three apartments that belong to the immediate families of the two attackers displacing 13 people who became homeless.
Last year, the Israeli forces killed 224 Palestinians in the occupied territories, 52 of them were in the Gaza Strip.
M.K.
