TULKARM, Saturday, December 14, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli army shooting of Palestinians apparently trying to enter Israel for work or to reach their land behind Israel’s separation barrier in the north of the West Bank continued today, the third incident in one week, and resulted in the injury of two men, according to Palestinian medical sources.

Israeli soldiers manning a gate set up by the military in the apartheid barrier in the village of Nazlat Issa, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, shot Ahmad Hussam Kittaneh, 25, in the leg, and Dirar Rasem Kittaneh, 21, in the shoulder. Their injuries were moderate, said the medical sources.

With these two injuries, the number of Palestinians shot and injured in one week at similar army-managed gates in the north of the West Bank has reached eight in three different incidents.

Reports said that the soldiers were given orders to shoot at any Palestinian attempting to breach the gates in the barrier set up since 2004 on Palestinian-owned land in the occupied West Bank.

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