Israeli Soldiers Kill 55-Year-Old Palestinian and Teenager in West Bank

28 November 2025, Palestinian Territories, Hebron: Israeli forces block Palestinian farmers trying to access to their agricultural fields in the town of Tarqumiyah. (dpa)
28 November 2025, Palestinian Territories, Hebron: Israeli forces block Palestinian farmers trying to access to their agricultural fields in the town of Tarqumiyah. (dpa)
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Israeli Soldiers Kill 55-Year-Old Palestinian and Teenager in West Bank

28 November 2025, Palestinian Territories, Hebron: Israeli forces block Palestinian farmers trying to access to their agricultural fields in the town of Tarqumiyah. (dpa)
28 November 2025, Palestinian Territories, Hebron: Israeli forces block Palestinian farmers trying to access to their agricultural fields in the town of Tarqumiyah. (dpa)

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager who was driving a car towards them as well as a Palestinian bystander in the West Bank on Saturday, according to an Israeli security official.

The military said that an "uninvolved person" was hit in addition to the driver of the car who had "accelerated" towards soldiers at a checkpoint in West Bank city of Hebron.

In an earlier statement, the military said two "terrorists" were killed, before later clarifying that only one person was involved.

An Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a 17-year-old was driving the car and a 55-year-old was the bystander.

Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported that 55-year-old Ziad Naim Abu Dawood, a municipal street cleaner, was killed while working. It said another Palestinian was killed but did not report the circumstances that led the soldiers to open fire.

The Palestinian health ministry identified the second Palestinian as 17-year-old Ahmed Khalil Al-Rajabi.

The military did not report any injuries to the soldiers.

The motive for the 17-year-old's actions was not immediately clear, and no armed group claimed responsibility.

Since January, 51 Palestinian minors, aged under 18, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Violence has surged this year in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians have risen sharply, while the military has tightened movement restrictions and carried out sweeping raids in several cities.

Palestinians have also carried out attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians, some of them deadly.



Iraq Says it is Directly Affected by the War: ‘We are Under Attack from Both Sides’

Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
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Iraq Says it is Directly Affected by the War: ‘We are Under Attack from Both Sides’

Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)

Military escalation across Iraq continues following the outbreak of the Israeli-US war on Iran, as the country is now facing a series of reciprocal attacks by multiple actors on its territory, along with mounting economic damage caused by disruptions to its oil exports.

“Iraq has become one of the countries directly affected by the ongoing conflict,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said, noting that the country was “being subjected to attacks from both sides of the conflict.”

Iraqi military and security bases, as well as positions belonging to factions affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), have been targeted by Israeli and US airstrikes. At the same time, Iran and pro-Iranian factions have targeted American interests and military bases in the Kurdistan Region and other parts of the country.

Hussein made the remarks during a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during which the two discussed rapidly evolving military developments in the region and their political and economic repercussions, according to a statement from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.

Hussein ruled out an immediate ceasefire, saying the widening scope of the confrontation and the intensification of attacks have become daily features of the conflict.

He also warned that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing military operations “have disrupted maritime navigation in the region.”

“Iraq is facing increasing difficulties in exporting its oil,” he underlined, a situation shared by several countries in the region and one that could have serious consequences for global energy markets.

He cautioned that the war will lead to a crisis in the energy market and rising prices, which will negatively affect the economies of the region and the world.

New Attacks

Iran and allied factions targeted Erbil International Airport and the nearby Harir Air Base with dozens of rockets and drones on Wednesday. Groups calling themselves the “Islamic Resistance factions” announced that they had carried out more than 28 attacks against US and local targets inside Iraq.

Meanwhile, Camp Victoria, near Baghdad International Airport, was also targeted by rocket attacks launched by armed factions, though Iraqi security forces said they thwarted the strikes.

Kurdistan

On Wednesday, an Iranian Kurdish fighter was reportedly killed in a missile strike targeting a headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, according to a source within the party cited by AFP.

The autonomous Kurdistan Region hosts camps operated by Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.

A party spokesperson, Khalil Kani Sanani, accused “the Iranian regime” of launching three missiles at a camp housing the families of party members, killing one camp guard and wounding three others. The camp lies east of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.

On Tuesday, a camp housing Iranian Kurdish fighters and their families in Kurdistan was struck by a drone attack that left one person injured, according to Mohammad Nazif Qader, a member of the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI).

Iran classifies these Kurdish parties as “terrorist organizations” and accuses them of serving “Western or Israeli interests.”


Sudan Drone Strike Kills 18 People

File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
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Sudan Drone Strike Kills 18 People

File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)

A drone strike on a Sudanese city under paramilitary control killed 18 people, a medic working in the area told AFP on Thursday, while blaming the army for the attack.

Both sides in Sudan's war have resorted to drone warfare, sparking frequent and strong condemnation from the UN, AFP said.

The strike on Al-Mojlad on Wednesday killed 18 people and wounded 25 others, according to a medic working at the city hospital who added that he blamed the military for the attack.

The paramilitary RSF have been fighting the army for nearly three years, and had accused the military of conducting a drone strike on a market in Al-Mojlad.


Israel Launches ‘Large-scale Wave of Strikes against Iran Infrastructure,’ Hits Lebanon

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Israel Launches ‘Large-scale Wave of Strikes against Iran Infrastructure,’ Hits Lebanon

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes on the Iranian capital Tehran on Thursday.

The army “has just begun a large-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran," a military statement said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it began new strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

An overnight Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on a coastal highway in southern Lebanon, killing three people, Lebanon’s state news agency said.

The highway connects the city of Tyre to Naqoura, a border town near Israel.

On Wednesday, the Israeli military warned residents to move north of the Litani River, which serves as a key buffer line with villages south of it lying closest to the Israeli border.

The number of people killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon in the four days since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah reignited has risen to more than 70, with over 430 people wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.

It is not clear how many of those killed in Lebanon were civilians, but the Health Ministry said Tuesday that they included seven children.