AL-BIREH, Sunday, October 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Seven Palestinians were shot and injured, including two minors, during confrontations that broke out this evening across multiple areas in the occupied West Bank, said local and security sources.
Security sources told WAFA that a Palestinian was shot and injured with live ammunition in the thigh during confrontations that broke out at al-Bireh's northern entrance.
The main northern entrance to Ramallah, known as the DCO checkpoint, is still closed from both directions by the military forces.
Earlier today, Israeli military forces attacked dozens of Palestinian youths, who rallied in protest of the Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, with live fire and tear gas canisters at al-Bireh entrance.
A seventeen-year-old teenager was also shot and injured with live fire in the thigh as Israeli forces attacked a rally protesting colonists’ erection of a checkpoint to the east of the town of Taqoum southeast of Bethlehem.
Another minor, aged 13, was shot and injured by live fire, also in the thigh area, during confrontations that erupted near Huwara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.
Both minors were taken to hospital for treatment.
A Palestinian youth was also shot and injured in the foot by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces during confrontations that broke out at the northern entrance to Qalqilia city.
In the meantime, three Palestinians were shot and injured in their lower extremities this evening during confrontations that broke out in the al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the north of the West Bank, said security sources.
Sources said that confrontations broke out in the said camp, during which Israeli soldiers and snipers attacked residents with live fire, shooting and injuring three youths. A fourth youth was injured after being beaten up by the soldiers.
Confrontations also erupted at the camp’s entrance, Several Palestinians were treated from suffocation as a result of inhaling tear gas fired at them by the Israeli army.
Forces also raided the funeral procession of slain Palestinian Ahmad Awawdeh, 19, who was killed by live Israeli gunfire yesterday during confrontations near the town of Deir Sharaf, to the west of Nablus. Forces attacked mourners and removed a Palestinian flag hung there before leaving the area.
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