On September 20th, 2024, the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City was **repeatedly** **attacked** by an Israeli **Quadcopter**, **killing Abu Shaher Al-Suwaisi**, and **wounding a number of other people**, as homes, a school, a gas station, and public gatherings were targeted. Reports of Quadcopter attacks throughout the entire day: --- - **"Hajj Munther Hilmi Al-Suwaisi "Abu Shaher"** was **killed** as a result of a bombing that targeted the vicinity of Al-Hurriya School in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City." [PHOTO](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1837200202412814835) - **Civil Defense:** "A **martyr** as a result of Israeli shelling in the vicinity of Al-Hurriya School in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City." - **Civil Defense:** "**Injuries** as a result of Israeli shelling of citizens in Kashko Street in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City." - "Citizen **Abu Shaher Al-Suwaisi was martyred** as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted him in the vicinity of Al-Hurriya School in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City." [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1837172270462046325) - "Urgent: **Quadcopters renew dropping explosive bombs** along Salah al-Din Street near Bahlol Gas Station in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City." [Source](https://x.com/paldf/status/1837152969466216623) - "Urgent: **A number of citizens were injured** as a result of **quadcopter aircraft dropping explosive bombs** along Salah al-Din Street near Bahlol Gas Station in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City." [Source](https://x.com/paldf/status/1837139172286431240) - **Palestine Red Crescent:** "Our teams have transferred **two injuries** due to an attack by the Israeli occupation **targeting a house** in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City." [VIDEO](https://x.com/PalestineRCS/status/1837064528191709399) [Geolocation of this event](https://x.com/NemoAnno/status/1837074152462655737) - "**Two injuries** as a result of **shooting from a Quadcopter drone** at **citizens’ homes** in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City." [Source](https://x.com/Alhadath_news1/status/1837099962309451960) - "**A drone opens fire on citizens and their homes** in the vicinity of Al-Hurriya School in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza." [Source](https://x.com/AJABreaking/status/1837097591969898638) - "**Injuries** after the occupation **targeted citizens in Kashko Street** in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City" [Source](https://x.com/Alarabytv_BRK/status/1837016440664158710)

An afternoon Israeli air strike on a civilian minibus near the Abbas junction, west of Gaza City killed 3 people, at least one was mangled, and including one little boy. A witness stated that a wedding was set to take place and the family had rented the minibus to **fetch the bride**. The impact around the area suggests the bombing was likely done by drone. **Casualties:** - 3 killed - 9 injuries **Names of the martyrs:** - Muhannad Hamed Haboush - Mohammed Amer Haboush (child) [PHOTO](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1837128463699849518): wreckage of the minibus Other geolocation: [https://x.com/ChrisOsieck/status/1837537634521878713](url), geolocated near Al-Abbas Mosque in north Rimal neighborhood, 31.5234509, 34.4398615

Early morning, an Israeli airstrike on a residential home in Tal Al-Nuwairi area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, killed eight people from the al-Faraam family and injured four others. The victims were transported to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp. [Source](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/149413) **Names of the martyrs:** - Mahmoud Atta Robin Al-Faraam, 46 y/o - Islam Ali Saleh Al-Faraam (Al-Adham), 28 y/o (Mahmoud's wife) - Omar Mahmoud Atta Al-Faraam, 14 y/o - Dima Mahmoud Atta Al-Faraam, 7 y/o - Muhammad Atta Robin Al-Faraam, 50 y/o - Maher Muhammad Atta Al-Faraam, 14 y/o - Saleh Atta Rubin Al-Faraam, 33 y/o - Dalia Abdel-Ati Al-Faraam [Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1837044348568969720)

Israel bombed late night a house belonging to the Abu al-Hatl and Ziyara families near the municipality park in the center of Gaza City. 6 people were killed from **three generations** of Sourcethe family: Yousef Abu Al-Hatl, his wife, daughter and three grandchildren. [Source](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1837031544780689732) **Names of the martyrs:** - Youssef Abu Al-Hatl (grandfather) - Shaimaa Abu Al-Hatl (grandmother) - Iman Abu Al-Hatl (daughter) - Hani Ziyara (grandchild) - Eileen Ziyara (grandchild) - Shaimaa Ziyara (grandchild) [PHOTO](https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1837078120668504261): portraits of the martyres family:

- During an IDF raid on the town of Qabatiya, in Jenin, on September 19, Israeli soldiers besieged the house of the Zakarneh (Zakarna) family (the Lubani building), and attacked it with Energa anti-tank rifle grenades before summarily executing five Palestinians, after at least four of them were cornered on the roof. - The soldiers proceeded to kick the bodies off the roof of the Lubani building one by one to the street below. Once the bodies were on the ground, soldiers brought an excavator and mutilated the bodies. Once desecrated by the excavators' arm, the IDF soldiers placed the desecrated bodies in an earth-moving loader. The IDF then drove around town and paraded the desecrated bodies across the streets of Qabatiya. - The besieged house was burned by Israeli soldiers and their demolition engine destroyed partially the house. As soon as the Israeli soldiers withdrew, hundreds of young men in the town headed towards the house that had been under siege for 12 hours. They began extinguishing the fires and searching for the body of a martyr, which they found burned beyond recognition. Palestinian Red Crescent identified him as Shadi Sami Zakarneh. - According to a Sky News OSINT journalist Olive Enokido-Lineham, footage confirms IDF soldiers killed and threw **four bodies** off the roof. [Source](https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-finds-israeli-soldiers-pushed-at-least-four-bodies-off-building-in-west-bank-13218409) - During this military attack, the Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, injured around 15 others, destroyed and damaged Palestinian public and private properties, levelled over 300 meters of paved streets, as well as the Martyrs roundabout at the northern entrance of the town, and besieged students and teachers in a school and a number of employees in their places of employment - Under international law, soldiers must ensure that bodies, including those of enemy combatants, are treated properly. * ### **Casualties** 7 people were killed. 8 injured, 2 in critical condition. **Names of the martyrs:** 1) Shadi Zakarneh, 36 (killed inside de first floor of the Lubani building) 2) Ahmad Abed Al-Hameed Lubani, 27 (killed on the rooftop of the Lubani building) 3) Fadi Jawdat Hanaysha, 28 (killed on the rooftop of the Lubani building) 4) Muhammad Khaled Abu al-Rub, 24 (killed on the rooftop of the Lubani building) 5) Omar Abu al-Rub, 25 (killed on the rooftop of the Lubani building) 6) Muhammad Omar Kamil Abu Khamira 7) Mustafa Faisal Zakarneh, 23 (killed when an Israeli drone missile struck his vehicle in the street near the Lubani building) 2 other members of the Zakarna/Zakarneh family were arrested : Mohammed Zakarna/Zakarneh and Qasim. [Source](https://x.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1839069400197935518) * ## **First statements** - In a post on X, the **Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs** described the act as a *“crime” that exposes the Israeli army’s “brutality”.* - **Mustafa Barghouti,** the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, told Al Jazeera that the footage had shown *“absolutely savage and inhuman behaviour”."Not only [had] they shot these people and let them bleed to death, they beat them with their boots, they humiliated their bodies, they mutilated their bodies, and then they threw them from the rooftop to the ground."* *“I don't know if they checked they were still alive or not when they did that, but this is such a savage behaviour and you cannot say that this is part of the war because there is no war in the West Bank. There is war from one side, military actions from one side, on a civilian population. The West Bank does not have an army, does not have even a resistance force like Hamas that is fighting Israelis, no. They have some gunmen here and there. They don't represent an army. What you see here is a grave violation of international law and Human rights first of all by this kind of use of military force against civilian population. Second by this terrible behaviour in such a town like Qabatiya today where they besieged no less than 18 children in a kindergarten. Up till this moment, they are besieged with their teachers. They cannot go home since the morning. They are besieging workers of the municipality and they are besieging journalists who don't know what to do because if they try to get out of the places they are in, they will be shot. It’s absolute savage behaviour by this Israeli army that feels absolutely unaccountable to anything; unaccountable to law; unaccountable to human rights; and unaccountable to international law. They just do whatever they want not only in Qabatiya as they did today but everywhere in the West Bank every day we hear of new crimes that they are committing.”* - Gaza chief of communications at the **Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor**, an **NGO that advocated for human rights, Muhammad Shehada,** wrote: "*But... but Hamas threw people off rooftops' has been one of Israel's main talking points to justify slaughtering Gazans for decades. Here, the [Israeli army], in broad daylight, throwing a Palestinian off a rooftop after they shot him today."* - **US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby** said if the footage is corroborated *“it clearly would depict abhorrent and egregious behaviour by professional soldiers (...) We reached out immediately to our Israeli counterparts about it, and we pressed them for more details. They have assured us that they’re going to investigate this and that there will be proper accountability if it’s warranted (...) We’re going to be very eager to see what the [Israeli army] investigation finds and, as always, we expect that investigation be done thoroughly and transparently.”* [https://aje.io/px2nij?update=3191783](url) * ## **Al Haq investigation:** see [source](https://www.alhaq.org/monitoring-documentation/24799.html) At approximately 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, 19 September 2024, an Israeli special forces unit infiltrated the Jabal Zakarneh area, north of the main road running through Qabatiya, using several civilian vehicles with Palestinian license plates, and moved toward the Lubani family building. Upon arrival, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) encircled the building, raided several nearby homes and buildings, detained all individuals inside, and confiscated their mobile phones. A tight military cordon was then imposed around the area, with the only opening to the south, where the Martyr Izzat Abu Al-Rub Secondary School for boys is located. As a result, approximately 450 students and staff were trapped inside the school for more than five hours. The Lubani family building is a two-storey structure, with two housing units on each floor, housing a total of around 19 residents. At the time of the attack, five Palestinians were inside the first floor: Ahmad Abed Al-Hameed Lubani (27), Fadi Jawdat Hanaysha (28), Mohammed Khaled Abu Al-Rub (24), his cousin Omar Hamza Abu Al-Rub (25), and Shadi Sami Zakarneh (36). The IOF opened fire on the building with live ammunition and various projectiles, and then shouted orders demanding that the five men surrender. When they refused to turn themselves in, an exchange of fire was heard. Four of the men — Ahmad Lubani, Fadi Hanaysha, and cousins Omar and Mohammed Abu Al-Rub — climbed a wooden ladder to the rooftop, while Shadi Zakarneh remained on the first floor. As soon as the four men reached the roof, they were fully exposed to Israeli forces, who immediately opened heavy fire. They were subjected to sustained gunfire, additional projectiles, and an airstrike by an Israeli drone, which left a missile crater on the western side of the rooftop. During the attack on the roof, Ahmad Lubani was shot, causing him to fall off the rooftop onto corrugated metal roofing sheets (“Zinco boards”). The other three men remained lying on the rooftop. According to the account, although they were in a state of complete incapacitation, the IOF continued firing at the three injured men, while also preventing ambulances and paramedics from accessing the area, thereby denying them any medical treatment or chance of survival. Meanwhile, inside the building, Shadi Sami Zakarneh remained positioned in a room on the first floor. The IOF continued firing repeatedly at the building. Almost three hours after the siege began, Israeli forces reportedly identified Shadi’s exact location. This was followed by the sound of gunfire, an explosion, and rising smoke, after which fire broke out in the apartment where he was located. Several hours later, civil defence teams were able to extinguish the fire and discovered a burnt body believed to be Shadi’s. As Israeli military bulldozers approached the eastern side of the building, soldiers managed to reach the rooftop, where they reportedly fired live ammunition at the bodies of the Palestinian men, who had already been lying dead for hours. One bulldozer began a partial demolition of the eastern first-floor apartment. It then attempted to reach the bodies of the four killed Palestinians on the rooftop using its long arm, assisted by soldiers on the roof. The soldiers then threw the bodies off the roof from an estimated height of 12 to 14 meters, reportedly using their feet to push the bodies over the edge. This scene was captured on video by several nearby residents. Afterwards, the bulldozer used its shovel to move the bodies, which, according to the report, remain withheld by the Israeli authorities to this day. During the same attack, Mustafa Faisal Zakarneh (23) was driving near the Lubani building. He reportedly exited his vehicle and fired toward the positions of several Israeli military jeeps, then re-entered the vehicle and drove away. As he reached a side street, an Israeli drone launched at least one missile at the vehicle, killing him immediately. The car caught fire, but bystanders were able to recover his body and transport it to a medical centre, where he was pronounced dead. * ### **IDF investigation and absence of prosecution** The Israeli military has acknowledged that its soldiers threw the bodies of Palestinian resistance fighters from the roof of a building in Qabatiya, in the Jenin Governorate of the occupied West Bank. Following the incident, the military conducted an internal investigation, which concluded that there was “no moral defect” in the soldiers’ actions. At the same time, the investigation described the act of throwing the bodies from the roof as a “bad incident”, and admitted that a different solution should have been considered. A spokesperson for the Israeli military referred to the event as a “serious incident” and stated that it would be thoroughly investigated. According to the Israeli news outlet i24news, the military had received orders from the Shin Bet to take the bodies of the Palestinians with them. The investigation further claimed that there was no access road for a crane that could have been used to transfer the bodies from the rooftop. It added that the company commander informed the unit commander that retrieving the bodies was impossible because of the terrain, the inability to use stretchers, and the fact that combat was still ongoing in the area. The report also notes that investigations conducted by the Israeli military into violations committed by its soldiers in this incident have consistently failed to result in convictions or punishment for those involved. * ### September 19 events : **Raid and Deaths:** Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, killing at least three Palestinians. The forces besieged a house, bombarding it with missiles, and later demolished it with bulldozers. The bodies of the three Palestinians were taken to the roof of the house before its demolition. **Military Clashes:** Armed clashes erupted between Israeli forces and the besieged men as military reinforcements and bulldozers were brought into the town. **Obstruction of medical care:** Israeli forces blocked Red Crescent teams from reaching the besieged house, and detonated a bomb nearby. One injured man was evacuated by ambulance. **Journalists Targeted:** Soldiers aimed their rifles at journalists and shot tear gas canisters at Al Jazeera team (Nida Ibrahim) covering the raid. see [event](https://genocide.live/event/163) **Schools Besieged:** Israeli forces surrounded two schools (near another besieged building) trapping nearly 450 students inside, while eight other schools were evacuated. Many students suffered from tear gas inhalation. see [event](https://genocide.live/event/166) **Child injured in a bank** The Red Crescent has rescued a child who was hit and injured by an Israeli live bullet in the waist area **Extrajudicail execution** : Mustafa Zakarna was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his vehicle. **Infrastructure Damage:** Israeli bulldozers destroyed roads and a police station during the raid.

Around 11pm, Israel bombed the house of the Abu Rabie family in Al-Hatabiya Street in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Civilians and rescue crews were seen working together searching for vicitims with nothing but their bare hands and a sledgehammer. One young man was found killed under the rubble, his neck torn open, while there are reports of other people wounded. [PHOTO](https://x.com/qudsn/status/1836860606772637807) "Press coverage: The occupation air force launches a raid in the vicinity of Al-Hatabiya Street in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza" **Name of the martyr:** - Muhammad Osama Abu Rabie (Abu Yahya)

*Before midnight Civil Defense: 7 martyrs, including two women & a number of injuries were recovered as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing the Al-Sheikh family home in the vicinity of Al-Ashi carpentry shop in Al-Daraj neighborhood, central Gaza City. [PHOTO](https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1836859511816040931) "Breaking | At least 5 Palestinians have been reported killed and several others injured following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building near Al-Tawba Mosque in Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza." **Names of the martyrs:** - Engineer Muhammad Abdelmalik Al-Sheikh - Hajja Mahasin Al-Sheikh "Shamlakh" - Dr. Abdul Aziz Mohammed Al-Sheikh - Issa Mohammed Issa Al-Sheikh - Hajja Raufa Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh - Nasma Mohammed Issa Al-Sheikh - Shireen Al-Sheikh "Daher" [Source](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1837037461450445280)

- **The home of the Al-Sayyid family was bombed** in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment belonging to the Al-Hour family in the Ilya Tower, near the Al-Ahly Club, in Nuseirat, Gaza. [PHOTOS & VIDEO](https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1836866489464541456) - **One person was killed (Abu Osama Al-Sayyid), and five Palestinians, including three children - one with disabilities - were injured.** - Civil Defense recovered the casualies and took them to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp. Other injuries were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah due to the seriousness of their condition. - [PHOTOS](https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1836842918901911593) *"Breaking: Casualties have been reported following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building west of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp."*

Two Palestinians were killed, including a child, and 3 injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling in the vicinity of Salah al-Din Kindergarten in Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836784616889360876) **Names of the martyrs:** - Anas Yassin - Rital Musa Qandeel (child)

On September 19, 2024 **Location:** Qabatiya, a town in the northern West Bank near Jenin, approximately 7 km south of Jenin. **Crisis**: Nearly 1,000 students were trapped in two schools, while 200 staff and citizens were besieged in the Education Directorate during a raid by Israeli forces, Wafa reported.. In a brief voice message, a teacher reached by Al Jazeera described “a very dangerous situation around us”. **Situation:** The area had been turned into a warzone by Israeli forces, who used live ammunition, gas bombs, and rockets. Tear gas canisters were fired near the schools, further endangering the students and staff. **Trapped Civilians:** For over 5 hours, students, teachers, and citizens were trapped, facing severe danger and exhaustion. The Israeli Army banned the buses that were going to evacuate the students of Qabatiya School from reaching the area. **Negotiations:** The school administration engaged in negotiations with Israeli forces to secure the evacuation of students and teachers. **Evacuation:** After hours of siege and harassment at the Martyr Izzat Abu Al-Rub School, the students were eventually evacuated safely on buses with the help of the Palestinian Red Crescent, but the town remained under siege into the night. **Raid Aftermath:** The Israeli raid in Qabatiya left the area in turmoil, as violence and unrest gripped the town. ### Testimony of Qabatiya Education Director Ahmad Jarara - In a phone call with WAFA he said that "nearly 1,000 students are besieged in the two schools, while eight schools have been evacuated". - He added that the occupation is besieging 200 employees who were inside the Education Directorate at the moment the special forces entered and surrounded the surroundings of the Education building. - He added, "The situation is very dangerous, and we are trying to ensure the safety of the students through continuous communication to secure their exit, stressing that the occupation forces have turned the surroundings of Izzat Abu al-Rab and Qabatiya Elementary Schools into a war zone." ## Sources https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/israeli-soldiers-filmed-pushing-bodies-off-rooftop-in-deadly-west-bank-raid