Forces Raid Currency Exchange Shops

Zionist Troops Kill Palestinian Sleeping at Home in West Bank

Date: 28 May 2025 - 22:08

News ID: ۱۴۰۰۶۸

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops shot dead a 20-year-old Palestinian man while he slept in his home in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
Jassem al-Sadda was killed in the village of Jit, east of Qalqilya, according to medical workers who confirmed his death.
His family said soldiers opened fire on him without warning and prevented ambulance crews from reaching him.
A wave of grief and shock swept through the village as hundreds gathered at the family home to witness the aftermath of the raid, including the bloodstains that covered the floor of Sadda’s room.
His mother, Haifa al-Sadda, told Middle East Eye that at around 1am, dozens of soldiers stormed the house without knocking. They immediately broke down the door and entered.
“They rushed straight to Jassem’s room, where he was asleep, and shot him four times without any warning,” she said. “He was left bleeding, and no one was allowed to approach him.”
Haifa added that the soldiers “jumped over the wall surrounding the house, stormed in, and killed Jassem. They then prevented us from seeing or reaching him before vandalising the adjacent room.”
After confirming his death, the soldiers carried Jassem’s body and handed it over to a Palestinian ambulance crew. His room remained stained with his blood.
A day earlier, Zionist occupation forces raided several currency exchange shops in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, Qalqilya, and Tubas, Ramallah, Al-Khalil, and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Witnesses indicated that Zionist troops carried out searches and vandalism inside these shops.
Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claimed the Israeli army raids targeted funds intended to finance attacks against Israelis.
According to the newspaper, during the raids; the army confiscated “terror- funds”, arrested shop owners, and closed them by military order.
The Palestinian Monetary Authority did not immediately comment on the Israeli campaign.
For its part, the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, condemned the Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank and its targeting of Palestinian economic companies, considering it “an open war against the foundations of Palestinian steadfastness and perseverance on their land”.
The statement considered the Israeli attack on money exchange shops and the confiscation of their contents an extension of the piracy policies pursued by the Israeli occupation government, as part of its “grand colonial plan based on annexation and displacement”.
It called on the Palestinian Authority to shoulder its responsibilities and take effective measures to confront the occupation’s aggression against the Palestinian economy.
It also called for urgent international human rights and humanitarian action to form a political and legal front to pressure the Israeli occupation to halt its crimes and hold it accountable for its piracy of our people’s funds and its ongoing violations of our land and resources.