On Thursday, illegal Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian young man, critically injured another, and burned Palestinian-owned homes and vehicles in the village of Jit, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry the critically injured young man, Rashid Mahmoud Abdel Qader Seddah, 23, was pronounced dead at the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus after an illegal colonizer shot him in the chest with live ammunition.
Media sources said that a group of armed Israeli colonizers invaded the village and opened fire with live rounds towards Palestinian citizens, shooting two citizens, killing Seddah and critically injuring another.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) their ambulance crews also dealt with a citizen who sustained gunshot wounds to the head and leg; he was transported to hospital.
PRCS added that one young man sustained a wound to his head as a result of settlers hurling rocks, in addition to an elderly woman who sustained inhalation injuries from tear gas; they were treated at the scene.
According to Morad Eshteiwi, the director of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Qalqilia, Israeli forces invaded the village and provided protection for the attacking colonizers.
Eshteiwi added that the colonizers set fire to four Palestinian-owned homes and six vehicles, while the soldiers opened fire with live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades.
Arab 48 quoted an Israeli security source who reported that 100 settlers stormed the village of Jit and burned four homes and six vehicles belonging to local citizens.
Media sources said that after closing the entrances to the village, they prevented civil defense crews from reaching the fires, allowing the fires to burn.
Arab 48 also reported that the settlers hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at Palestinian citizens, and added that several Palestinian citizens suffered the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
In related news, a group of illegal colonizers set fire to a large area of agricultural land in the village of Ramin, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that the fires burned dozens of olive and fig trees belonging to Palestinian citizens in the area.
Sources added that the colonizers attacked civil defense crews who attempted to approach the area to extinguish the fires, striking them with sticks and hurling rocks at them.
