Israeli forces horrifically mutilated the body of a teenage Palestinian boy after killing him in the West Bank town of Tubas, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said in a statement on Friday.
A graphic video shared widely on social media showed an Israeli bulldozer cutting up and moving the body of 17-year-old Majed Fida Abu Zina, a resident of the Al-Fara’a refugee camp in Tubas.
Israeli forces entered the camp at 12:45 am of Thursday morning, and residents gathered to throw stones at them.
Israeli soldiers opened fire on the residents and stopped the boy, ordering him to take off his shirt, according to the PCHR.
After he complied, they also told him to take off his trousers but he couldn’t. They opened fire on him and hit his neck and chest.
He collapsed and the soldiers left him to bleed to death for an hour and a half, stopping medics from aiding him or even removing his body.
At 2:30 am, an Israeli bulldozer moved and cut up his body, exposing his internal organs and then throwing him on the Al-Far’a hill on the road between Nablus and Tubas.
His mutilated body was later retrieved by Palestinians at around 6:45 am and taken to the Turkish hospital in Tubas.
On the same day, five people who the Israeli military claimed were a group of fighters were killed in a drone strike in Tubas.
Israeli forces have been carrying out a major assault on Palestinian towns and cities in the northern West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarm which has so far killed 39 Palestinians.
Most of the casualties have been in Jenin, which was placed under a 10 day siege as Israeli forces surrounded hospitals and destroyed roads and buildings. Israeli forces withdrew from Jenin on Friday.
A total of 652 Palestinians have been killed in attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank since the beginning of the Gaza war last October, with around 10,000 detained in the same time period.