Israeli forces shot, on Saturday, eight Palestinians, including three children in various regions of the occupied West Bank, and abducted two of the wounded young men.
On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas canisters at the families of the second group of Palestinian detainees set for release as a part of the truce between the occupation and the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas).
Media sources said that soldiers shot four Palestinians with live rounds, including a child, in front of the Israeli Ofer prison in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
It is important to note that soldiers injured thirty-one Palestinians, including two children, on Friday in front of the Ofer prison while families of the first group of detainees were waiting.
In the southern part of the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, on Saturday evening, sparking protests.
According to Muhammad Awad, a local activist, reported that the army fired live rounds at Palestinians in the Al-Dhahr area near the illegal “Karmei Zur” colony built on stolen Palestinian lands, and shot a 16-year-old child with two live rounds in his feet.
Another Palestinian child was injured, on Saturday, when local citizens confronted illegal colonizers in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at the Palestinians who were protecting their land, injuring an 11-year-old child in the abdomen with shrapnel (bullet fragments) from live ammunition.
Meanwhile, in the “Ras Al-Joura” area, north of Hebron, occupation soldiers shot and abducted two Palestinians, on Saturday evening.
Soldiers stationed at a military roadblock opened fire with live rounds at a Palestinian-owned vehicle traveling on bypass road #35 injuring two young men in the vehicle.
It was added that soldiers abducted the injured young men after blocking ambulance crews from approaching.
Neither the identities or the conditions of the two wounded men were known at the time of writing this report.
