In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces carried out violent raids Monday that killed two 14-year-old Palestinian boys. Both Islam Abdel Aziz Noah Majarmeh and Muhammad Sari Omar Maskala were killed by Israeli fire in the Jenin refugee camp. The stepped-up raids follow Monday’s shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem that left six Israelis dead and 12 others wounded. In the wake of that attack, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the villages that the two Palestinian attackers came from should “become like Rafah and Beit Hanoun” — a reference to cities in Gaza reduced to rubble by Israel. On Monday, Israeli forces released footage of engineers preparing to destroy the homes of the alleged gunmen, part of a policy of collective punishment often deployed by Israel against the families of Palestinians accused of crimes.
Israeli Forces Kill Two 14-Year-Old Palestinians Amid Stepped-Up Raids Across West Bank
