Palestine-West Bank, September 26, 2021

Five Palestinians were killed at dawn today, Sunday, by the Israeli occupation forces, during a special campaign of the occupation to carry out massive arrests in the West Bank and Jerusalem governorates. The Palestinian Civil Liaison informed the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health of the killing of three civilians in the town of Bedouin, in the district of Jerusalem governorate, while in the Jenin area, two young men's dead bodies were reported.

According to Palestinian sources, it is confirmed that among those targeted and assassinated by the occupation in Jerusalem governorate were: Ahmad Zahran, the pursuer by the occupation, as well as Mahmoud Humaidan and Zakaria Badwan. On the other side, Hebrew media reported that special forces of the army killed at least 4 Palestinians last night and at dawn today, in an exchange of fire at several points in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as part of a large-scale arrest operation against Palestinians and political activists carried out by the "Al-Yamam" forces and the "Unity" unit.

Arab media announced that two soldiers from the occupation's special forces were injured during the clashes in Jerusalem and Jenin. To justify the assassination carried out by the occupation army in the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that "the security forces carried out an operation against members of the Hamas movement who planned to carry out attacks and armed operations in the near term. The soldiers and officers in the field behaved as expected of them, and we fully support them," said Bennett, who is on his way to New York to attend the United Nations' General Assembly Session.

Initial details in the early hours of Sunday, the occupation forces surrounded the Ain Ajab area in the town of Beit Anan, Jerusalem District, and the occupation soldiers opened fire ahead. A huge explosion was heard in the vicinity of Ain Ajab, while the occupation forces raided the town of Beit Anan, at a time when military reinforcements of the occupation army reached the northwest of Jerusalem. According to eyewitnesses, the explosions that were heard were those of a small hut located in agricultural lands east of Beit Anan town. Over the course of more than 10 hours, drones flew over the sky of the northwest of the village in Jerusalem, during a special operation of the occupation forces in the vicinity of Ein Ajab.

In the early morning hours, the areas extending from Ya'bad and Salem and passing through Kfardan and Yamoun witnessed intense activity and movement of the occupation soldiers. The occupation forces closed the main entrance to Burqin, deployed reinforcements and snipers, and closed the area with patrols, while gunmen fired at the occupation several times from the town's axes, where explosions were heard. And the occupation soldiers surrounded a house with large forces of special units, where the sound of explosions was heard in the area, and the soldiers stormed the Al-Assi bakery. The occupation forces combed the shear of the Yamoun Mountains, which extends to Burqin.

Clashes erupted in the town of Bedouin after announcing the death of two young men and the injury of a third in a hut near Ain Ajab, east of the town of Beit Anan. In Jenin Governorate, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health announced the death of Osama Sobh, 22, who was shot with live bullets by Israeli special forces. He arrived at Ibn Sina Hospital in a critical condition from Burqin. Sobh was martyred after the occupation stormed the town in an attempt to arrest the former prisoner, Muhammad Al-Zareini, after raiding his house, located between the villages of Al-Yamoun, Kafr Dan, and Burqin.

The Governor of Jenin confirmed this morning the presence of a second body killed by the occupation, who then was known as Akram Rajoub. The governor told the media that the Palestinian association was informed of the death of a second young man whose identity was not known because he did not possess any official papers.

The Prisoner Club reported that the young man, Islam Ayman Abed, was wounded by a live bullet in the leg, while the young man, Ahmed Adnan Abed, was arrested by the occupation forces. As for the martyr Ahmad Zahran, the occupation claims that he is "the military commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank" and that he accompanied the martyr Mazen Fuqaha for a long time.

The martyr Ahmed Zahran has been a prisoner, liberated, and hunted for several months. He also is the brother of the Qassam Brigade leader, Zahran Zahran, one of the heroes of the 1994 kidnapping of the soldier “Nahshon Weissman” carried out by a group of the Hamas' Brigades.