Malek Misbah Hamdan
Malek was shot in the chest with a live round fired by Israeli soldiers and died from his injuries in a hospital in Nablus.
Malek’s death was caused by a fatal gunshot wound to the chest inflicted by Israeli forces during a military invasion of Salem village on May 14, 2021. Soldiers opened fire on protesters with live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and stun grenades. Malek was struck in the Sahel Salem area and rushed to a nearby hospital in Nablus, but despite urgent medical treatment, he succumbed to his wounds. His killing was part of a series of coordinated Israeli military actions across the West Bank that same day, in which nine Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured.
Biography
Malek Misbah Hamdan, 22, was a young Palestinian man from Salem village, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. On May 14, 2021, amid a wave of deadly military raids across the West Bank, he was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers during an invasion of his village. Despite being rushed to a hospital in Nablus, Malek succumbed to his injuries. His killing came during a day of widespread violence in which nine Palestinians were killed and more than five hundred injured, as Israeli forces carried out operations across multiple villages and towns in the northern and central West Bank. Malek is remembered by his community as one of the young lives lost to the brutality of that day.
Malek Misbah Hamdan was a 22-year-old Palestinian resident of Salem, a village situated east of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Growing up in Salem, Malek witnessed the constant pressures of life under Israeli occupation, including repeated military incursions and the violence of nearby settler activity. On May 14, 2021, Israeli forces invaded Salem and surrounding areas, sparking mass protests. As villagers confronted the soldiers with demonstrations, Israeli troops opened fire with live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. Malek was struck in the chest by live fire in the Sahel Salem area. He was rushed to a hospital in Nablus, but doctors were unable to save his life.
His death occurred on one of the bloodiest days in the West Bank in recent years. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that nine Palestinians were killed across the territory that day, including four in Nablus alone, and at least five hundred were injured. Alongside Malek, several oth
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Malek Misbah Hamdan, 22, was killed by Israeli soldiers near Nablus, in northern West Bank. Medical sources said the soldiers shot the Palestinian with a live round in the chest, in Sahel Salem area, in Salem village, east of Nablus. Medical sources said Malek Hamdan succumbed to his serious wounds in a hospital in Nablus. Dozens of Palestinians were injured after the soldiers invaded the village and fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinains who protested the invasion. Malek was among nine Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire, in several parts of the occupied West Bank that day, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, and added that more than five hundred Palestinians have been injured.1 israelpalestinetimeline.org Open source