6 citizens were injured by live bullets, 3 by shrapnel, in addition to dozens from suffocation, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the city of Bethlehem and besieging a citizen’s home in the slaughterhouse area.

Medical sources in the Red Crescent, Bethlehem branch, reported that 6 citizens were injured by live bullets in the lower extremities, and 3 others by shrapnel. They were taken to a hospital in Bethlehem, where their injuries were described as stable.

According to local sources, a large force of Israeli occupation army, accompanied by a special undercover unit, “Musta’ariboun,” stormed the areas of Hindaza, Al-Saf Street, and the Halal Market, and surrounded the house of former prisoner Hamdi Imad Al-Kamel in the slaughterhouse area, amidst shooting bullets and poison gas bombs.