Israeli forces shot three Palestinians including two children, on Sunday, during a military incursion into the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported three citizens to the hospital after they sustained injuries in the Balata camp.
PRCS added that two Palestinian teens (16 and 17) were shot with live ammunition who was shot in the leg, and the other was shot in the thigh. A 75-year-old man suffered injuries after he was shot in the neck with a rubber-coated steel round.
Media sources reported that undercover Israeli agents infiltrated the Balata refugee camp on Sunday morning, followed by military reinforcements.
Several army vehicles stormed Jerusalem Street, while soldiers fired live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades, resulting in a number of citizens suffering inhalation injuries; the army obstructed the work of ambulances attempting to reach a patient inside the camp.
Occupation forces stormed citizens’ homes and shops, besieged a home and forced their residents out, while deploying sharpshooters on a number of rooftops.
Soldiers detained several young men inside a commercial shop and abducted the young man Mohammad Aziz Al-Khatib from the Balata camp.
In related news, Israeli troops detained and abused two Palestinian children on Sunday evening, after invading the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Media sources reported that occupation forces detained and assaulted two Palestinian children, on Sunday evening, fired live rounds and tear gas canisters, while breaking into citizens’ homes, and forcing commercial shops to close.
