BETHLEHEM, September 18, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli troops on Sunday morning opened live fire and injured a Palestinian man outside Efrat settlement, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, according to witnesses.
The witnesses told WAFA that after shooting the man, identified as 20-year-old Bahaa Odeh, the soldiers left him to bleed on the ground helplessly without providing him with first aid.
Israeli media sources claimed that Odeh had stabbed an Israeli army officer and moderately injured him, before other fellow soldiers attacked him with gunfire.
Shortly after the shooting incidents, Israeli army closed the entrance of the nearby village of Wad Rahhal, denying the entry and exit of local Palestinians into and from the village.
At least three Palestinians and a Jordanian national were on Friday shot dead by Israeli forces during separate security incidents across the West Bank district of Hebron and Jerusalem.
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