WEST BANK (Middle East Eye/Al Jazeera) – Palestinian teenager Kamal Alawna on Sunday died from bullet wounds sustained during a raid by Zionist troops on a town near Jenin the previous night, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Alawna, 17, was shot in the stomach and his right hand during confrontations that erupted in Jabaa, south of Jenin city, in the occupied West Bank, after Zionist troops stormed the town on Saturday night.
Jani Abu Jukha, the director of Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital, said Alawna had reached the hospital in critical condition and died of his wounds on Sunday, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The regime’s army has been conducting raid-and-arrest operations on a near-daily basis in the occupied West Bank since March, which often lead to the wounding or killing of Palestinians.
Earlier this week, Zionist troops shot dead a 25-year-old Palestinian man during an overnight raid in Jenin.
Alawna’s death raises the number of Palestinians killed in the Jenin governorate this year to 28, including veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by the troops in May when she was covering an army raid in the area.
The National Assembly of the Families of the Martyrs of Palestine said in a report on Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed by Zionists this year up to 30 June had reached 77, including 15 minors.
The report said 14-year-old Mohammed Salah, from al-Khader town in Bethlehem, was the youngest among the Palestinians killed this year.
The director of the assembly, Mohammed Sbeihat, said the oldest Palestinians killed were Omar Abdel-Majeed Asaad, from Jaljia village in Ramallah, and Suleiman al-Hathaleen, from Umm al-Khair village in Al-Khalil, both 80 years old.
Sbeihat said April was the deadliest month of the year so far, with 23 Palestinians killed by Zionist troops.
Meanwhile, a 68-year-old Palestinian woman died in a prison run by the Zionist regime on Saturday, six months after she was beaten and detained by Zionist troops near a military checkpoint in Al-Khalil, the Palestinian Prisoners Club reported.
The Prisoners Club accused Damon prison authorities of medical neglect as Saadia Farajallah’s health had recently been in decline due to multiple chronic illnesses, including high blood pressure and diabetes.
It said Zionist troops brutally assaulted Farajallah as they detained her in Al-Khalil’s old city on 18 December 2021 for allegedly attempting a stabbing attack, and this had aggravated her already weak health.
The head of the Prisoners and Former Prisoners Committee, Ibrahim Najajra, rejected the Zionist officials’ claims regarding the incident, saying that Farajallah’s condition would have prevented her from exerting any efforts, let alone attempting an attack.
“The cause of death is not immediately clear, but initial information indicates that she suffered a heart attack and died inside the Damon prison,” Najajra told Middle East Eye.
“Saadia’s death is a result of medical neglect, [the Israeli authorities’] failure to provide her with the necessary treatment, and her continued detention in unhealthy conditions.”
The death of Farajallah, who was the oldest Palestinian female detainee, brings the total of Palestinians who have died in the regime’s prisons since 1967 to 230.