31/08/2026
Israel has designated Palestinian children’s paper kites a national security threat while the Israeli army bombs, shells and opens fire on children, women and men, and while it destroys mosques and water desalination facilities, with full impunity and support from the West.
Reporter Ahmed al-Najjar said that at least one Palestinian man was murdered and several others were wounded in an attack on displacement shelters in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis on 26 August, “under the auspices of the [so-called] ceasefire.”
Turning to the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces assassinated a prominent community figure, a 58-year-old father of two resistance fighters, in Jenin on Friday, 21 August.
Mondoweiss’ Shatha Hanaysha reports that Fathi Khazem, also known as Abu Raad, was at home with his 12-year-old son, Adam, “when Israeli soldiers raided his home in the al-Masarwa neighborhood of Jenin. The soldiers had forcibly recruited a young man from the neighborhood to accompany them as a human shield, after which they blew open the front door and stormed inside.”
According to the family, Adam witnessed what they described as the “execution of his father by Israeli forces, and has remained in a state of shock ever since,” Mondoweiss reported.
Speaking to the publication, the 12-year-old recounted how they ordered his father “to raise his hands, remove his clothes and kneel before them. Adam said that his father refused to comply with their orders or submit to their attempts to humiliate him, asking, ‘Who are you that I should kneel before you?’”
(📸Tariq Mohammad / APA images)
Excerpt from "Israel executes father in front of his young son” by Nora Barrows-Friedman. Read the article at electronicintifada.net.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-executes-father-front-his-young-son