WEST BANK (Dispatches) –
Zionist troops have killed a young Arab man from the city of Kafr Qassem as unchecked crimes against Palestinians rage on in the deadliest year in the occupied territories since 2005.
Mahmoud Naim Badir, 23, was killed as the Zionist troops claimed he was carrying out an alleged shooting and ramming attack, injuring two occupation forces.
The Zionist troops said the suspect phoned in a false report of a violent incident in Kafr Qassem – northeast of the city of Tel Aviv in the occupied territories - to draw first responders and then opened fire when they arrived.
However, the family of the slain Palestinian man said “the Israeli forces killed our son Naim Badir in cold blood, and the Israeli story on our son carrying out an attack on Israeli forces is a false claim.”
Naim’s family went on to say that “the police, after killing our son, stormed the house and destroyed it completely in front of children, who screamed, cried, and were terrified by the Israeli violent behavior.”
On Thursday, Zionist troops shot dead a Palestinian footballer overnight during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Ahmad Atef Daraghama, 23, was killed by the Zionist troops’ gunfire, as Palestinian crowds went to the streets to confront an army-protected settler incursion to the religious site of Joseph’s Tomb.
Daraghama, from the nearby city of Tubas, was a professional football player who played as an attacking midfielder with Thaqafi Tulkarm football club.
He was killed during street confrontations and armed clashes between Palestinians and the Zionist army.
Daraghama’s friend, Ahmed Rajoub, mourned his death in a Facebook post as a “sad day for Palestinian sport”.
“The dreams and hopes of a Palestinian football star have been stolen by a racist and fascist occupation,” Rajoub said.

‘Under 1% of Army Probes Yield Prosecution’

Zionist troops accused of harming Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip over the last five years have been indicted in less than 1% of the hundreds of complaints against them, an Israeli rights group reported. The watchdog said that the regime’s military systematically fails to conduct a credible prosecution of itself.
Between 2017 and 2021, the occupying regime’s military received 1,260 cases of offenses by Zionist troops against Palestinians, including 409 cases involving the killing of Palestinians, according to military data obtained by the group Yesh Din and released Wednesday after a freedom of information request.
The regime’s military opened 248 criminal investigations into instances of possible misconduct in response to those complaints — just 21.4% of the total, Yesh Din said. Only 11 investigations during that five year period have yielded indictments. In those cases, the Zionist regime’s military prosecutors acted with leniency toward convicted soldiers, the group added, with those sentenced for killing Palestinians serving only short-term military community service.
“This conduct demonstrates the military law enforcement system’s complete disregard for Palestinians’ lives (and) precludes any possibility of deterrence,” Yesh Din said.