On Saturday, February 21, Israeli forces carried out multiple attacks on the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

In the afternoon, following an assault by settlers on the neighborhood, soldiers fired at a vehicle, breaking its windows, and injured a 14-year-old boy with live ammunition while he tried to confront the attackers.

Later that evening, during a military incursion into Beit Furik, 17-year-old Mohamad Wahbi Abdul Aziz Hanani was critically injured after being shot in the head and later died. Another boy, 16 years old, was shot in the foot. According to Amjad Ahmad, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s ambulance and emergency center in Nablus, both victims were transported to Rafidia Governmental Hospital.

Reports indicate that Israeli forces reinvaded Beit Furik after midnight with multiple military vehicles, firing tear gas, concussion grenades, and flares, while earlier in the day soldiers had opened fire on a citizen’s vehicle and assaulted its driver.

Statement of Directorate of Education in Nablus:

We mourn the student martyr Muhammad Wahbi Abdul Aziz Hanani, a twelfth-grade student at the boys’ secondary school in Beit Furik, who fell today.