Israeli forces shot two Palestinians, including a child, on Tuesday, after invading the town of Beit Furik town, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The army also abducted six Palestinian young men, including from the Nablus and Tubas governorates.

Media sources said that occupation forces stormed Beit Furik town, southeast of Nablus, on Tuesday afternoon, sparking protests from local Palestinian youths.


The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance crews rushed two citizens, including a child, to the hospital after they sustained live gunshot wounds.

The PRCS added that they transported a 13-year-old child who sustained a live round in the pelvis, and a young man, 24, who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition.


Meanwhile, the army abducted four Palestinians from their homes, and assaulted one of the abductees in the Nablus governorate, at dawn Tuesday.

Media sources said that occupation forces stormed the villages of Beita, Beit Dajan, Beit Furik, and Rujeeb in the Nablus governorate, invaded and ransacked many citizens’ homes, and abducted four citizens, including a former prisoner.

Sources said that a large army force invaded the Balata al-Balad area, east of the city, surrounded a citizen’s home, before abducting the former prisoner, Mohammad Salama al-Bari from his home.

In Beita town, south of Nablus, Israeli soldiers abducted the young men, Makid Jareh Adili and Basil Fathi Daoud, in addition to abducting the young man, Omar Atef Duweikat from Rujeeb, after assaulting him.

Furthermore, occupation forces abducted Ibrahim Abu Saada, a resident of the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, when he tried pass through the Hamra military roadblock in the Jordan Valley on Tuesday afternoon.

Moreover, Israeli soldiers abducted a young man and destroyed a monument in the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank

Kamal Bani Odeh, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, told the WAFA News Agency that soldiers stormed and searched the home of the young man, Kamel Samih Kamel Ghanem, before abducting him.

Media sources said the army destroyed the monument dedicated to the slain young man, Khaled Al-Shawish, during the military incursion.

Sources added that before dawn, several military vehicles, including a bulldozer invaded the city of Tubas from its eastern entrance, sparking protests from local Palestinian youths; no injuries were reported.