JENIN, January 25, 2025 (WAFA) – A Palestinian toddler Saturday night succumbed to an injury sustained earlier from Israeli army gunfire in Muthalath Ash-Shuhada village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The Ministry confirmed that 2-year-and-a-half-old Layla Mohammad Ayman al-Khatib died of the injury she had sustained earlier in the course of an Israeli army raid in the village.

Al-Khatib had sustained an injury in the head from live ammunition shot by Israeli occupation forces, as reported by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

She was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.

PRCS added that a woman sustained an injury to the hand from live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers. She also was injured in the head by bullet shrapnel.

Earlier this evening, special Israeli occupying forces barged their way into the village and besieged a house.

The forces deployed snipers around the house and ordered the occupants to come out via loudspeakers, triggering confrontations.

Israel has been launching a massive raid on the Jenin city and refugee camp for the fourth consecutive day, killing 14 Palestinians and forcing 1,800 Palestinian residents to leave the refugee camp.

This comes as the occupation forces have tightened military measures across the occupied West Bank hours after the release of 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire went into effect, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates one from the other using military gates, barriers, and concrete blocks.

The Israeli military measures are in parallel with ongoing attacks by Israeli colonists across the West Bank to terrorize Palestinians and displace them from their lands to seize them and build illegal Jewish colonies that separate Palestinian communities.

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