Israeli forces injured two Palestinian children on Tuesday, one in Qalqilia and another in Jenin, in the northwestern and northern parts of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said that occupation soldiers stormed Qalqilia city on Tuesday morning, closed the main street, and opened fire with rubber-coated steel rounds, shooting a child in the leg; he was transported to Darwish Nazzal Government Hospital.


Sources added that the army stormed the Qalqilia Municipality building and commercial shops and abducted Louay Fathi Al-Ashqar, Alaa Ayad Daoud, Muhammad Yasser Amer, and the young woman, Anhar Muhammad Abdul Jawad.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces injured a child and abducted two young men, while raiding exchange shops in Jenin city, on Tuesday afternoon.

Media sources said that soldiers invaded exchange shops in the city, abducted two young men, and opened fire with rubber-coated steel rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported a 12-year-old child to the hospital after soldiers shot him in the chest with a rubber-coated steel round.

Furthermore, the army targeted Palestinian journalists during a military incursion into the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Hani Fanoun, the director of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (Palestine TV) office in Bethlehem, told the WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers targeted journalists who were covering the incursion into the city.


WAFA correspondent reported that occupation forces fired rubber-coated steel rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades at the press crew, causing Fanoun and photographer, Fares Janazra to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.


In related news, Israeli forces killed the young man, Mahmoud Faisal Kharraz, 32, and injured six others, including one seriously in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.


At dawn Tuesday, Israeli forces killed the young man, Mohammad Yahya Mousa Jalayta, 20, after invading the city of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.