During a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian teen.
Dirar al-Kafrini, a 17-year-old, was killed late on Monday when shooting broke out in the camp between the Israeli army and Palestinian fighters, as per Al Jazeera reports.
Al-Kafrini was brought to the public hospital in Jenin just before 11 p.m. (20:00 GMT), according to the Palestinian health ministry, but he was already dead.
According to the ministry, a second Palestinian was hospitalised with moderate injuries after being wounded in the leg with live ammunition.
Shortly after the murder, the al-Kafrini funeral procession passed through the Jenin camp.
Bassam al-Saadi, one of the senior leaders in the West Bank’s Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), was taken into custody by Israeli forces during the raid.
They also arrested his son-in-law, Ashraf al-Jada, while he was visiting al-Saadi’s home in the camp.
Videos and images shared on social media showed traces of blood on the floor of al-Saadi’s home following the arrest. Al-Saadi and his wife were attacked by the army during the arrest, according to their family and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the PIJ, announced in a statement on Monday night that “a state of alertness and readiness” had been reached among its fighters and combat units. The statement was made in “response to its duty towards the treacherous aggression that the great leader, the sheikh Bassam al-Saadi and his family were exposed to in Jenin,” according to the statement.
In a statement, the Israeli army said that on Monday night, “two suspects were transferred to the general security services for questioning.”
Additionally, it said that when its men met live fire inside the camp, they fired back.
Al-Saadi is a former prisoner who was locked up for many years before being released. After a five-year search by the Israeli army, he was last apprehended in 2018 and released in 2020. During Israel’s extensive 2002 raid of the Jenin refugee camp, two of his sons were killed.
The Palestinian Authority’s Commission for Prisoners Affairs condemned al-Saadi’s “barbaric arrest”.
The occupation “does not cease targeting Jenin camp and its residents,” the commission’s head Qadri Abu Bakr stated, adding that they “hold the occupation’s government entirely responsible for the life of the captive al-Saadi and for the execution of the martyr Dirar al-Kafrini.”
In the city’s refugee camp, where the armed wings of the PIJ and the ruling Fatah party are active, Israel has been working for months to quash the growing armed resistance.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran journalist for Al Jazeera, was shot and killed by Israeli forces on May 11 as she covered a raid in Jenin. She was 51 years old.Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli army has killed at least 60 Palestinians, roughly a third of whom were from Jenin.
Nearly every night, the Israeli army conducts raids into Palestinian cities and villages in the West Bank, frequently resulting in the killing or wounding of Palestinians.
Israeli forces arrested 43 Palestinians from the West Bank on Sunday night.
(With Inputs from Al-Jazeera)
The Chenab Times News Desk