Israeli forces shot, on Friday, four Palestinians, three with live rounds, and another with a rubber-coated steel round, during confrontations in various regions of the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestine TV, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man with a rubber-coated steel round during confrontations that took place near the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank on Friday evening.
It also reported that local Palestinians confronted Israeli soldiers near the northern military roadblock in Qalqilia, where Palestinian youths set fire to a gate of the Apartheid Wall.
Palestinian villagers gathered in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, on Friday afternoon, for the weekly anti-settlement procession.
On Friday night, Israeli military vehicles stormed the “Rafidia” area in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, sparking protests among local Palestinians who hurled rocks at the invading army.
Soldiers fired live rounds and shot a 20-year-old man in the foot, according to Ahmad Jibril, the director of the Ambulance and Emergency Center at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Nablus.
In the predawn hours of Friday, Israeli soldiers opened fire with live ammunition towards Palestinian young men who protested the military presence in the central West Bank city of Salfit.
Media sources said that soldiers shot two young men with live ammunition and transported to hospital; their conditions were not known at the time of writing this report.
In related news, Israeli forces shot and killed the Palestinian child, Tawfiq Hafeth Tawfiq Ejak, 17, near al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya town, northeast of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
