Yamen a-Za’anin, 19, killed trying to help someone wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site

Yamen a-Za’anin, 19, killed trying to help someone wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site

Luai a-Za’anin, a 49-year-old father of four, told a researcher from the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem how one of his sons was killed when we went to a food distribution site. Luai was staying away from the sites because so many people were killed there, and he had forbidden anyone in his family to go. But on June 17, Yamen, 19, said he was going to the market to buy clothes for his sister’s engagement party planned for the next day. 

When Yamen didn’t return after two hours, Luai tried to contact him and learned he had been shot by Israeli forces at the distribution site when he tried to help another food-seeker who was wounded. Luai found him in the hospital morgue. 

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