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Israeli forces shoot Palestinian man in Nablus

The Israeli military has shot a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said the man was shot in the foot during an Israeli military raid on the city, in which a second man was also arrested.

Israeli forces have also stormed the nearby Balata refugee camp.


‘Nonstop’ raids by Israeli military cause ‘desperation’ in occupied West Bank

The Israeli military’s violent raid on Ramallah yesterday, which left a vegetable market in flames, is “emblematic of the destruction” people experience regularly across the occupied West Bank, said Nour Odeh, a Ramallah-based political activist.

Israeli military raids, along with severe economic restrictions, are a part of a deliberate strategy by Israeli authorities to drive economic desperation and undermine the Palestinian Authority (PA), Odeh said.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank must now also “see their countrymen and women slaughtered en masse in Gaza”, she said.

“They are prisoners to their own geography and subjected to these kind of nonstop onslaughts” Odeh told Al Jazeera.

“It’s now worse than ever before,” she said.


Palestinian emergency responders check fire damage in the central vegetable market after an Israeli raid in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank caused the blaze on May 30