Palestinians mourn the 32nd Palestinian killed by Israel in Jenin since start of 2022

Palestinians mourn the 32nd Palestinian killed by Israel in Jenin since start of 2022
"Mohammad was a motorbike food deliverer who took care of his parents", Amr Manasra, a local journalist in Jenin who knew Sabaaneh told . "He was a simple person from a simple family", he added.
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West Bank
06 September, 2022
Mohammad Sabaaneh, 27 worked as motorbike food deliverer to help his parents. [Getty]

Hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin mourned, the second victim killed by Israeli forcesin less than 24 hours andthe 32nd since the beginning of the year.

On Monday, in a military raid on the town of Qabatiya, west of Jenin city.

Sabaaneh was killed during an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the early hours of Tuesday. The raid also wounded 20 Palestinians, one of whom isin a critical state, and .

"Mohammad was a motorbike food deliverer to help his parents", Amr Manasra, a local journalist in Jenin who knew Sabaaneh, told . "He was a simple person from a simple family", he added.

"Mohammad wasn't taking part in the confrontations but was when he received an Israeli bullet that went through his chest and out of his back",detailed Manasra. "When he reached the hospital, hehad already died."

"The atmosphere in Jenin is very tense.People express anger everywhere, especially that Sabaaneh is the second killed in the region since yesterday",Manasra added.

On Tuesday noon, hundreds of took part in Sabaaneh's funeral, marching with his body from the Khalil Suleiman public hospital in Jenin city,through the camp's alleys to themosque, and then to the cemetery.

Although could not reach Sabaaneh's family, his father told Palestinian journalists in front of the Jenin hospital that "Mohammad had the aspiration of one day marrying and forming a family, and starting his own business."

Monday's raid was the . Local Fatah secretary in the camp, Atta Abu Rmeileh, told that "Israeli forces raided the camp from three sides, with more than 100 armoured vehicles, shortly after midnight."

"They headed to the house of , forced the residents of the entire building out and took it over.Then [they] placed snipers on rooftops who opened fire at anyone who approached the house as they were wiring it for detonation," Abu Rmeileh said.

"Meanwhile, more Israeli forces pushed deeper into the camp but were confronted by fierce resistance from gunmen and eventually withdrew,"he added.

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The destroyed house was home to 29-year-old Raad Khazem and his family. Khazem was killed in April by Israeli police in Yafa, .

Khazem's father became wanted bythe Israeli forces after giving a speech to a small crowd gathered in front of his house shortly after his son's killing.

Later in April, Khazem's brother survived anambush by Israeli forces while travelling in a car with his mother. . Eventually, Khazem's brother was arrested by Israeli forcesin late May.

Khazem's house is since the beginning of 2022on punitive grounds.

Israeli forces have killed more than 140 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year.