Man killed, 2 teenagers among 3 injured by Israeli gunfire during West Bank raids
Two teenagers are among three young Palestinians who have been injured by Israeli gunfire during a military raid on Beit Furik town, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that a 17-year-old was shot and wounded while two others – an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old – were hit by bullet fragments during the military raid on the town.
Earlier, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Atuf plain, located to the south of Tubas city. Security sources told Wafa that the victim, identified as Rabi Muhammad Daraghmeh, was wounded and left to die by Israeli soldiers who prevented ambulance crews from reaching him to provide medical treatment.
Israeli military arrests were also reported southwest of Jenin where a 65-year-old man, identified as Muhammad Hussein Muhammad Ghawadra, was stopped at a military checkpoint and detained, Wafa reports.
Israeli forces beat a Palestinian man and his wife at a military checkpoint in Hebron’s Old City. After the attack, the man was detained and his wife released, the news agency reports.
Deaths, destruction and Palestinian defiance after Israeli military attacks in West Bank
At least 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank on Monday and Tuesday, marking some of the deadliest violence in the occupied territory for months.
Three men and a 14-year-old child were killed by Israeli forces in the Tubas governorate on Monday. On Tuesday, five people were killed in Israeli air raids in Jenin, two were fatally shot in Kafr Qud in the northern West Bank, and a young man was killed in Bethlehem.
Palestinians inspect the destruction following an Israeli raid in Jenin city on Tuesday
Israeli forces storm Qalqilya city in occupied West Bank
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that the Israeli military stormed the Palestinian city in force in a dawn raid backed up by armoured vehicles.
In some of the worst violence in months, at least 12 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military raids and air attacks across the occupied territory on Monday and Tuesday.
