Zionist regime forces shot and killed 15-year-old Palestinian boy, the martyr Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shwaiki in Silwan, occupied Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Palestine, on the night of Tuesday, 3 December 2024. Omar was shot down by occupation forces, then arrested and accused of throwing stones at colonial settler invaders.
They denied him medical care until his martyrdom. Following Omar’s martyrdom, the occupation forces continued to detain his body, alongside hundreds of bodies of Palestinian martyrs held in the freezers, morgues and numbers cemeteries of the occupation. Occupation forces invaded his family home, ransacking it and abducting his father.
After abducting his father and taking him to interrogation at the notorious Moskobiyeh detention center, the occupation forces informed him of his son’s martyrdom in their captivity. He is the 81st martyr from occupied Jerusalem since 7 October 2023.
