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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza, wound others across territories
April 18, 2026
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza, wound others across territories Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man in southern Gaza, as attacks and raids continue across the occupied Palestinian territories. Medical sources told Wafa that Youssef Hassan was shot by Israeli military vehicles northwest of Rafah and later taken to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, where he was pronounced dead.
Earlier, Israeli fire wounded a child in the Mawasi area of Rafah. In a separate case, 25-year-old Ahmed Hani Obeid died from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike on northern Gaza nearly a year ago. In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers assaulted a Palestinian man near the Qalandia checkpoint. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its teams transported him to a hospital in Ramallah. In the southern West Bank, Israeli forces shot and wounded a worker near the Dhahiriya (Meitar) checkpoint, close to the separation wall south of Hebron. Elsewhere, four Palestinians suffered injuries after Israeli forces sprayed them with pepper spray in Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
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