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Three people shot as Israeli military storms al-Issawiya

The Israeli military has stormed the town of al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, firing live bullets, tear gas and sound bombs as clashes erupted, the Wafa news agency reports.

Three Palestinian men were wounded during confrontations. They have been transferred to the al-Maqasid Islamic Charitable Hospital in Jerusalem and their condition is not currently known.

The Israeli military has also arrested a 16-year-old during the storming of Husan village, west of Bethlehem, according to Wafa.



Palestinian family evicted by Israeli settlers, soldiers in occupied West Bank

Palestinian Alice Kisiya, centre, is stopped from entering her family’s land by an Israeli soldier, after the Palestinian family was forcefully evicted by Israeli settlers – backed by troops – who declared the land a closed military area, in the occupied West Bank town of Beit Jala.

Israeli human rights activists join Palestinian Alice Kisiya as they attempt to push open a gate erected by Israeli settlers who confiscated the Kisiya family’s land with the help of Israeli soldiers

Mother and child killed during raid on Bureij refugee camp