Israel reopened Kadim as killings hit areas near Jenin and Hebron
Kadim's reopening and reports of two deaths near Jenin and Hebron placed a settlement move and two separate killings side by side in the West Bank file on the same day.
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Thirty families moved into Kadim as the old ban effectively ended
According to the BBC, 30 families from Tel Aviv moved into Kadim near Jenin on Thursday. The step followed the Israeli government's decision to overturn a twenty-year ban on settlement in the northern West Bank. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the justice minister, the speaker of the Knesset and regional settlers' council head Yossi Dagan attended the opening ceremony. One of the last West Bank settlements evacuated in 2005 was therefore brought back into use in practice.[1]
New deaths were added to the files near Jenin and Hebron
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry figures carried by Al Jazeera, 17-year-old Karim Sanad Shalaldeh died from a chest wound after armed settlers opened fire near Hebron. The same source said 58-year-old Fathi Khazem was shot dead by Israeli troops in Jenin. The two separate deaths on the same day widened the settlement and security file not only through political decisions but through direct loss of life on the ground.[2]
The Jenin line held both a settlement move and a death on the same day
The BBC report says Kadim reopened near Jenin, while the Al Jazeera report says 58-year-old Fathi Khazem was killed in Jenin and 17-year-old Karim Sanad Shalaldeh was killed near Hebron. These two reports place a settlement move and two separate deaths around Jenin and Hebron inside the same West Bank file. The shared point is that all of them sit within the same regional frame.[1], [2]
