Yesterday morning Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, using live fire to shoot 17 year old Nader Haithem Rayan in the head, chest and hand and kill him. Nine others were wounded in the gun fire. 
In Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, Israeli forces shot Alaa Shaham in the head, killing him as well. Six other Palestinians were wounded in this case by the live fire. Shaham was only in his 20s.
In Rahat, on the other side of the Green Line in the Naqab, undercover Israeli police forces posing as Palestinians murdered 27 year old Sanad Salem al Harbed and arrested at least one other Palestinian. Harbed was a father of three.
The murder of 3 Palestinian men in a day shows how normalized Israeli colonial violence is under the guise of law and order. Israeli forces continue to legitimize violence through dehumanization—labeling Palestinians “dangerous” “violent” and “terrorists” to justify their deaths.
Colonial violence is unacceptable. It is a targeted attack to disrupt and destroy our communities in order to more effectively steal our resources, take our land, and eliminate us through murder or displacement. It cannot continue.
We should remember that while all of those murdered have been targets of structural Israeli violence before they were murdered, two were also refugees living in crowded refugee camps which Israeli forces raided.
Rather than accept Palestinians as their equals—or even as refugees with a right of return—Israel continues to parade as a humanitarian light, bringing Ukrainian refugees to colonize the Naqab while forcing Palestinians to remain in crowded camps hours away from their homes.
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