In yet another crime added to the long list of violations against Palestinian civilians, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed Palestinian citizen Jassem Al-Saddah at dawn on Wednesday during a raid on his home in the town of Jit, east of Qalqilya in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews received Al-Saddah’s body from Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the town, without any details provided regarding the circumstances of the killing.
According to local sources, Israeli forces opened live fire on Al-Saddah during the raid, then arrested him. His death was later confirmed.
This killing is part of a growing pattern of extrajudicial executions and indiscriminate violence by Israeli forces across the West Bank, coinciding with the all-out war on the Gaza Strip.
Night raids, lethal force without charges or trials, and home invasions have become routine conduct for occupation forces—flagrant violations of legal and humanitarian norms.
Since the beginning of the large-scale aggression against the Palestinian people in October 2023, the death toll in the West Bank has risen to at least 972 Palestinians, with around 7,000 injured and more than 17,000 detained—in an unprecedented campaign aimed at crushing all forms of civil or popular resistance.
The West Bank—nominally under limited self-rule under the Oslo Accords—has effectively become a permanent theater of lawlessness, arbitrary detention, and the terrorization of civilians, with near-total absence of international accountability.
This policy in the West Bank is not separate from the broader campaign of aggression against the Palestinian people, which in Gaza has taken the shape of an outright genocide. Over 177,000 people have been killed or wounded in the Strip, the majority of them children and women, with more than 11,000 missing, widespread famine, mass displacement, and total collapse of health and infrastructure systems.
In the absence of any serious international accountability or deterrence, these crimes continue unabated—against an unarmed population whose dignity and basic rights are being violated before the eyes of the world.
International complicity—whether through silence or direct political and military support—only serves to entrench this genocidal reality, exposing the double standards that now undermine even the most fundamental human values. What is urgently needed is not just condemnation, but decisive action to halt the ongoing bloodshed and ensure justice and accountability.
