Mohammad Farid Hasan

Their life

Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan was a 21-year-old Palestinian man from the town of Qusra, located south of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. On July 3, 2021, he was killed by Israeli forces during a violent incursion by Israeli settlers and soldiers into the southern area of his hometown. According to local sources, Mohammad was standing on the rooftop of his home when he was shot in the chest with a live round fired by an Israeli soldier. He died from his wounds shortly afterward. His death occurred amid widespread protests against illegal Israeli settlement activity in the area. During the same incident, at least 25 other Palestinians were injured, and many more suffered from tear gas inhalation. Mohammad’s killing was part of a broader escalation of violence in the region, particularly around Beita and Sbeih Mountain, where residents had been protesting the construction of a new illegal settler outpost. His life and death underscore the heavy toll of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian civilians, especially in rural areas resisting land confiscation and settler expansion.

Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan was a 21-year-old Palestinian resident of the town of Qusra, located south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. On July 3, 2021, he was tragically killed by an Israeli soldier during a military and settler incursion into the southern area of his hometown.

According to local reports and officials, the incident began when a group of illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by soldiers, entered the area, prompting protests from Palestinian residents. Mohammad was reportedly standing on the rooftop of his home when he was shot in the chest with a live round. He succumbed to his injuries shortly thereafter.

The attack also left 25 other Palestinians injured, including 13 shot with rubber-coated steel bullets and 12 affected by tear gas inhalation, as confirmed by Ahmad Jibril, head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Nablus.

Mohammad's death was part of a broader pattern of violence in the region, particularly around Sbeih Mountain in the town of Beita, where tensions had escalated after illegal settlers established an outpost in early May 2021. Protests in the area had been ongoing, including nightly demonstrations against the settlement expansion. Just weeks prior, on June 11, 2021, Israeli soldiers had also killed 15-year-old Mohammad Sa’id Hamayel and injured over 110 Palestinians during a similar protest.

Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan’s death reflects the continued volatility and human cost of the occupation and settlement policies in the West Bank, particularly in areas like Qusra and Beita, where resistance to land seizures remains strong.

How they died

Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan died after being shot in the chest with a live round by Israeli soldiers during a military and settler incursion in Qusra on July 3, 2021.

Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan, a 21-year-old Palestinian from Qusra, was fatally shot by Israeli forces on July 3, 2021. The shooting occurred during a violent incursion into the southern part of the town, where Israeli settlers and soldiers entered the area, provoking widespread protests among local residents.

According to eyewitnesses and local officials, Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and concussion grenades at civilians and their homes. Mohammad was on the rooftop of his house at the time, reportedly unarmed and not actively participating in the clashes, when he was struck in the chest by a live round fired by Israeli forces. The injury was critical, and he succumbed to his wounds shortly afterward.

His death is considered part of a broader pattern of violence connected to settler expansion and military aggression in the northern West Bank, where confrontations between occupying forces and Palestinian residents have become frequent and deadly.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Mohammad Farid Hasan, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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