Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – On Wednesday, the Israeli settlers stormed into the towns of Hawara and Burin, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
Ghassan Douglas, who is in charge of the settlement resistance file in the northern West Bank, told Wafa News Agency that the Israeli settlers stormed into the town of Burin and closed the road leading to the town’s secondary school.
Israeli occupation forces shoot dead Palestinian child in Nablus
Meanwhile, a Palestinian child was killed Wednesday overnight, while four others were injured, by Israeli occupation gunfire, during confrontations that broke out with Israeli forces as the latter raided the eastern part of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Ministry said in a statement that Ahmad Amjad Shehada, 16, was killed after Israeli forces shot him with a live bullet in the heart.
The medical sources added that four other Palestinians were injured, one of them critically with a bullet in the abdomen, noting that one was hit with sound bomb in the head, while others suffered from suffocation due to inhaling toxic gas fired at them by the soldiers.
According to Wafa News Agency correspondent, large units of Israeli forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, raided the eastern area of Nablus, in order to provide protection for the Israeli settlers, which sparked confrontations with Palestinians, during which Israeli soldiers fired live bullets, sound, toxic and tear gas bombs towards the protestors and their homes, killing one child, and injured four others.
The Israeli forces also targeted a Red Crescent vehicle with live bullets.
Dozens of Israeli settlers raided the area of Joseph’s Tomb under protection from the Israeli forces.
Raghda Sawas