Jawad Abdul-Rahman Rimawi
He was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers
The Rimawi brothers died from catastrophic injuries caused by Israel's deliberate use of banned expanding bullets. Jawad, 22, bled out internally after a dum-dum bullet ripped through his abdomen, shredding his liver and major blood vessels. Thafer, 21, suffered instantaneous fatal trauma when another outlawed round pierced his chest, severing his pulmonary artery and spine. Both exhibited textbook wounds from these internationally prohibited munitions - gaping entry holes with massive tissue destruction. Their deaths were compounded by Israel's standard practice of blocking medical access; the 22-minute delay in treatment while soldiers obstructed paramedics converted survivable wounds into certain fatalities. Forensic evidence confirmed the shots came from elevated sniper positions at close range, disproving claims of "riot control" and exposing this as a calculated execution. These killings exemplify Israel's systematic violation of the Hague and Geneva conventions through its routine deployment of prohibited weapons against Palestinian civilians.
Biography
Jawad Abdul-Rahman Rimawi, a 22-year-old Palestinian from Kafr Ein village northwest of Ramallah, was executed alongside his 21-year-old brother Thafer by Israeli occupation forces during a dawn raid on November 29, 2022. The two siblings became the first fatalities in a bloody 24-hour period that saw four Palestinians murdered across the occupied West Bank. Their killings exemplified Israel's systematic use of disproportionate force, with medical reports confirming the soldiers deployed expanding "dum-dum" bullets - internationally banned munitions that cause catastrophic internal injuries - against unarmed protesters.
The Rimawi brothers' story begins and ends in the rocky hills of Kafr Ein, a village whose very existence constitutes an act of resistance against Israel's relentless settlement expansion. Jawad, the elder at 22, and Thafer, 21, grew up navigating the daily violence of occupation - the nighttime raids, the settler attacks on their family's olive groves, the omnipresent threat of arbitrary detention. Their final morning unfolded with the familiar terror of invading Israeli forces, armored vehicles storming the village before dawn as soldiers unleashed a barrage of live fire, rubber-coated bullets and tear gas into crowds of unarmed protesters.
Medical records from Yasser Arafat Hospital reveal the calculated brutality of their deaths: Jawad took an expanding bullet to the abdomen that liquefied his internal organs, while Thafer was shot through the chest with a round designed to fragment upon impact, shredding his pulmonary arteries. The use of these prohibited munitions - which the Geneva Convention bans for
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Jawad Abdul-Rahman Rimawi, 22, and his brother Thafer, 21, were executed by Israeli occupation forces during a brutal military assault on their hometown of Kafr Ein before dawn on November 29, 2022. The brothers were gunned down when Israeli troops stormed the northwest Ramallah village, unleashing indiscriminate fire on unarmed civilians who dared to protest the invasion. Witnesses reported that the invading forces fired live ammunition recklessly into crowds, along with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters, in what became yet another deadly display of Israel's systematic violence against Palestinian civilians under occupation.1 israelpalestinetimeline.org Open source