Israeli forces killed, on Friday, a Palestinian child in Tulkarem, in the northwestern part of the West Bank, and shot three Palestinians, including two children, near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

On Friday evening, Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian child in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the city of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded the Tulkarem refugee camp and killed the child, Qais Fathi Nasrallah, 16, after shooting him in the head with live ammunition when he was present on the street leading to the Shweika suburb, north of Tulkarem.

Earlier the death of the young man, Salim Faisal Abdel Latif Ghannam, 30, and the injury of others in the Nur Shams refugee camp, was announced by official Palestinian sources.

In related news, on Friday afternoon Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians, including two children in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), its ambulance crews transported three citizens who were shot with live ammunition.

It added that a child, 16, was shot in the thigh, a 15-year-old was shot in the foot, and a young man, 21, sustained a gunshot wound in his hand.

Soldiers invaded the town in the afternoon which sparked protests among local Palestinian youths, while the army opened fire with live rounds, concussion grenades, and tear gas canisters.

Meanwhile, after storming Qusra town, south of Nablus, from its southern entrance, soldiers fired live rounds and tear gas, causing many Palestinians to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.

Furthermore, in the southern West Bank, the army assaulted and injured three Palestinian civilians at the “Container” military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem.

Media sources said that three citizens sustained fractures and bruises after Israeli soldiers assaulted them at the military roadblock.

They added that three Palestinians were traveling through the roadblock, when soldiers stopped their vehicle and assaulted them.

One young man sustained a broken hand, another sustained a broken leg, while a third suffered various bruises and wounds from the assault; all of whom were transported to hospital.


Video of Nur Shams camp/WAFA