On Saturday, February 21, Israeli forces carried out multiple attacks on the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

In the afternoon, following an assault by settlers on the neighborhood, soldiers fired at a vehicle, breaking its windows, and injured a 14-year-old boy with live ammunition while he tried to confront the attackers.

Later that evening, during a military incursion into Beit Furik, 17-year-old Mohamad Wahbi Abdul Aziz Hanani was critically injured after being shot in the head and later died. Another boy, 16 years old, was shot in the foot. According to Amjad Ahmad, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s ambulance and emergency center in Nablus, both victims were transported to Rafidia Governmental Hospital.

Reports indicate that Israeli forces reinvaded Beit Furik after midnight with multiple military vehicles, firing tear gas, concussion grenades, and flares, while earlier in the day soldiers had opened fire on a citizen’s vehicle and assaulted its driver.

Statement of Directorate of Education in Nablus:

We mourn the student martyr Muhammad Wahbi Abdul Aziz Hanani, a twelfth-grade student at the boys’ secondary school in Beit Furik, who fell today.

According to Defence for Children - Palestine:

Mohammad Wahbi Abdulaziz Hanani, 17, had just finished evening prayers in the Zalmout Mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Furik around 8:20 p.m. on February 21 when Israeli forces in heavily armored military vehicles arrived in the area, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Mohammad and other young Palestinians allegedly threw stones toward the military vehicles for about two minutes before Israeli forces opened fire, striking Mohammad in the head from a distance of about 40 meters (131 feet). Soldiers rushed toward Mohammad, who had collapsed on the ground, and searched the area before an Israeli military ambulance arrived and its military paramedics began to administer first aid. A few minutes later, a Palestinian ambulance arrived at the scene, and Israeli soldiers obstructed the paramedics’ access to Mohammad. After several minutes of discussion, the Israeli soldiers allowed the Palestinian paramedics to provide first aid under their supervision. At 8:30 p.m., the Palestinian ambulance transported Mohammad to the Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus. On the way, it encountered a closed military checkpoint, delaying the trip by several minutes. Mohammad’s heart stopped in the ambulance and paramedics conducted cardiopulmonary resuscitation until they reached the hospital at 8:44 p.m. Doctors took Mohammad to the operating room where surgery was performed to clean the wound and stop the bleeding. Afterward, he was transferred to the intensive care unit, where he remained until he was pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m. on February 22.