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Fri 29 Dec 2023 6:08 pm - Jerusalem Time

West Bank: Israeli forces kill a young Palestinian in Jerusalem, and injure others

The young man, Mahmoud Othman Warni (18 years old), was killed by occupation bullets during confrontations in the town of Al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, while other Palestinians were seriously injured, and others were arrested by the occupation forces during their raids on towns in the occupied West Bank, today, Friday.


In the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem, a young man was injured by live bullets during confrontations that broke out with the occupation forces.


In detail, the confrontations centered in Khirbet al-Deir, during which the occupation forces fired live bullets and tear gas bombs, resulting in the injury of a young man (20 years old) with a bullet in the abdomen, which was described as serious, and he was subsequently transferred to the hospital.


In the village of Al-Taybeh, west of Jenin, a young man was injured by live bullets fired at him by the occupation army near the apartheid wall erected on citizens’ lands.


According to medical sources at Ibn Sina Hospital, the young man was shot in the main artery in the thigh area, and his injury was described as critical.


In Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, a child was killed by live bullets and dozens suffocated during the occupation forces’ suppression of a march in the town.


The occupation forces stormed the town after the start of the weekly march, and fired live bullets, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas at the participants, which led to a 16-year-old boy being shot in the abdomen. He was transferred to Qalqilya Hospital to receive treatment.


Dozens of citizens suffocated as a result of inhaling toxic tear gas, and were treated on the field.


In Al-Faraa camp, south of Tubas, three people were injured by live bullets, and 5 others were arrested during the Israeli occupation army’s storming.


Medical sources reported that the occupation forces wounded the young man, Anas Nasr Sawalma, with live bullets in the hand, before attacking the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, which was transporting him to the hospital, and arresting him.


Two other young men were also injured, one of whom was shot in the chest and the other in the feet, and they were transferred to the Turkish Tubas Governmental Hospital to receive treatment.


The director of the Prisoners' Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, reported that during the storming of the camp, the occupation forces arrested five people, including boys.


Israeli special forces stormed Al-Faraa camp in the morning, then sent in additional reinforcements from the Hamra military checkpoint, and violent confrontations broke out as a result of the occupation, which besieged a house inside the camp, targeted it with a missile, and demanded that those inside it surrender themselves.


4,840 detainees in the West Bank since October 7

In a related context, the number of detainees from the West Bank in Israeli prisons since October 7 has risen to 4,840 Palestinians, following the arrest of 20 people today, Friday.


This came according to a joint statement issued by the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.


The two institutions said in the statement that the Israeli authorities “arrested 20 citizens at dawn on Friday, which brings the number of detainees in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, to about 4,840 Palestinians since last October 7.”


According to the statement, the new arrests were distributed in the governorates of Tulkarm, Tubas, Ramallah, Hebron, Jericho, and the city of Jerusalem.


The statement indicated that the Israeli army launched an arrest campaign that targeted dozens of young men in the town of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah. They were investigated in the field and the majority of them were later released.


This tally does not include arrests carried out by Israeli forces inside the Gaza Strip, according to the same source.


The campaign of arrests and raids was accompanied by "extensive harassment, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to field investigations, widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens' homes, and direct shooting to kill," according to the statement.


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