Israeli forces killed, on Friday afternoon, a Palestinian child, injured two young men, and abducted two, during a military incursion into the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Ministry of Health announced that the Palestinian child, Moath Ashraf Faleh Bani Shamsa, 17, succumbed to a live gunshot wound to the chest, after which resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
A large military force stormed the town before dawn on Friday and remained until the time of writing this report, sparking protests among local Palestinian youths.
Soldiers fired live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades, assaulted citizens, and abducted two unidentified youths.
In addition to the slain child, soldiers shot one young man with live ammunition, injured another after assaulting him, and caused dozens to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that they transported a young man whom soldiers assaulted, and two injuries from live rounds, including Shamsa, on whom they performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, with no success.
All inhalation injuries were treated at the scene by local medics.
Before dawn many Israeli military vehicles stormed the town, while soldiers spread through several neighborhoods, and broke into several citizens’ homes.
In related news, soldiers killed, on Thursday, a Palestinian young man and injured another at the Deir Sharaf military roadblock northwest of the city of Nablus.
The slain young man, identified as Mansour Jalal Mahmoud Jaber, 27, a citizen of the village of Jalqamus, southeast of Jenin in the northern West Bank, was killed after soldiers opened fire at his vehicle and denied him medical attention, causing him to bleed to death at the scene.
It is important to mention that Israeli soldiers confiscated the body of the slain Jaber, inflicting even more suffering against his family.
