Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child and shot another on Saturday evening, after invading the town of Beit Furik southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that 17-year-old Mohamad Wahbi Abdul Aziz Hanani succumbed to critical injuries he sustained during a military incursion into Beit Furik town.
According to Amjad Ahmad, the director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) ambulance and emergency center in Nablus, its ambulance crews transported two citizens to the Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus.
Ahmad added that a young man was critically injured after soldiers shot him in the head with live ammunition, while another child (16) sustained a live gunshot wound to the leg.
Media sources reported that occupation forces reinvaded the town after midnight with a number of military vehicles, while firing tear gas canisters and concussion grenades, and launching flares into the sky.
Earlier Saturday, the army invaded the town of Beit Furik, shooting a child with live rounds, opening fired towards a citizen’s vehicle, and assaulting its driver.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces have killed 1117 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 232 children and 24 women.
In the Jenin governorate, 310 Palestinians have been killed, while 213 were killed in Tulkarem, 142 in Nablus, 107 in Hebron, 98 in Tubas, 82 in Ramallah, 62 in Jerusalem, 44 in Qalqilia, 36 in Bethlehem, 15 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and 8 in Salfit, according to the Shireen Observatory.
