Feb. 23, 2021
Palestinian law student Sami Huraini can be found every Friday at Kiryat Arba police station. The 23-year-old activist’s bail conditions stipulate that he must appear here weekly, in the Israeli settlement abutting Hebron, from 8:30 A.M. until 3 P.M.
Usually at this time, Huraini would be attending the weekly after-prayer demonstration in or near his West Bank village of At-Tuwani, protesting the occupation and a spike in home demolitions by Israeli military authorities in this desert-like area in the South Hebron Hills.
“They want to scare me from joining any demonstration, and they want to use me as an example to scare other activists,” Huraini says of the bail conditions, which will run at least until his next court hearing on March 1.
This video shows Israeli occupation forces celebrating after a sniper shoots and injures a Palestinian protesting the theft of land by settlers in the central occupied West Bank on 27 November.
The video, published this month by the human rights group B’Tselem, was filmed by press photographer Hisham Abu Shaqrah as he stood behind an Israeli Border Police jeep near the community of Ein Samia.
It shows the sniper lying on the ground and then firing a 22-caliber bullet at the leg of a protester identified by B’Tselem as Y.B.
“I heard the officers cheering the sniper and congratulating him as if he’d done something great,” Abu Shaqrah told B’Tselem. “They looked happy and were laughing and patting him on the back.”
Protesters march in al-Rakiz in the Masafer Yatta area, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, towards the Avigail settlement outpost on 8 January, one week after 24-year-old Harun Abu Aram was shot in the neck while attempting to stop Israeli soldiers from confiscating a neighbor’s generator. Abu Aram remains hospitalized in critical condition and is paralyzed as a result of his injury.
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Israeli forces, including a private guard, shot and killed three Palestinians at settlement road junctions in the occupied West Bank during January.
In all three instances, Israel claimed that the slain Palestinians had been attempting to attack soldiers when they were killed. No Israelis were injured in any of the alleged knife attacks.
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More than three weeks after he was shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier, Harun Abu Aram is still hanging between life and death.
The 23-year-old Palestinian had attempted, barefoot, to prevent soldiers from confiscating his power generator, the family’s only source of electricity, on 1 January in the area of Masafer Yatta, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
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While Abu Aram’s case has sparked outrage as yet another violent incident under the Israeli occupation, Palestinian residents of the embattled area say the raid that day was part of a longstanding Israeli crackdown on Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in an effort to displace them from the area.
heavily armed soldiers as “a violent riot … where [Israeli] forces were attacked.”
The language used to justify Abu Aram’s shooting at close range echoes that used by Israel regarding the use of live fire against protesters in Gaza.
More than 200 Palestinians were killed during regular mass protests dubbed the Great March of Return beginning in March 2018 until their suspension at the end of 2019.
Thousands more were injured by Israeli sniper fire, many of them permanently.
The snipers got later orders to refrain from killing and instead to target legs in order that the Palestinians refrain from joining the marches. Many children and youths were on purpose targeted.