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Execution of a Palestinian youth by the occupation forces in Salfit in the West Bank

April 28, 2023

Today, a Palestinian youth was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces, near the village of Haris, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank. And the Palestinian Ministry of Health stated, in a statement, that the young man, Ahmed Yaqoub Taha (39 years old), was killed by the occupation bullets near Salfit. Several clips filmed by the phones of citizens who were present at the place showed one of the occupation police officers pointing at the young man, Taha, to get out of his vehicle at gunpoint, and when he did so, an Israeli soldier fired bullets at him, in an apparent execution, and he continued to shoot heavily at him after he was injured and fell. down. In a related context, a number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation, as a result of the occupation forces’ suppression of a demonstration by the people of the village of Ein Al-Bayda in the northern Jordan Valley, condemning the settler attacks in the area. Local sources indicated that the occupation forces suppressed the demonstration, in which the residents participated, at the entrance to the village on the highway called "Street 90"Condemning the repeated attacks carried out by settlers in the area for some time. Local sources reported that a number of civilians suffocated due to tear gas canisters fired by the occupation soldiers.

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The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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