Ramallah (UNA/WAFA) – The Ministry of Health stated that 16 citizens have been killed by settler gunfire in the West Bank since the beginning of this year, the youngest being a 13-year-old child and the oldest a 60-year-old..
On Wednesday, the young man, Awda Atef Awawda (25 years old), was martyred, as a result of his injury from live bullets fired by settlers during their attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah.
On Tuesday, 14-year-old Aws Hamdi al-Naasan and 32-year-old Jihad Marzouq Abu Naim, both from the town of al-Mughayyir northeast of Ramallah, were killed by settler gunfire, and 16-year-old Muhammad Majdi al-Ja’bari was killed after being run over by a settler in Hebron..
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the occupation forces and settlers carried out a total of 1819 attacks during the past month of March, with 1322 attacks carried out by the occupation forces, while the settlers carried out 497 attacks.
The commission indicated that the attacks were mainly concentrated in Hebron Governorate with 321 attacks, followed by Nablus Governorate with 315 attacks, then Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 292 attacks, and Jerusalem Governorate with 203 attacks, in a clear indication of the intensity of the systematic targeting of these areas.
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