Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man on Sunday, and shot four others, including children, during a military operation in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the young man Naif Firas Ziad Samaro, 25, was killed by occupation forces after sustaining a critical gunshot wound to the head.
The Ministry added that Israeli forces shot four more citizens with live rounds, two of whom were children; one citizen was shot in the chest and another in the pelvis.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported five citizens to the hospital for live gunshot injuries; one young man sustained a very serious head injury.
It added that 40 Palestinians suffered inhalation injuries as a result of tear gas exposure; many were treated at the scene, while 10 people were transported to the hospital for further treatment.
Media sources reported that a large army force stormed Nablus city from the Deir Sharaf military roadblock while infantry units were positioned on Asira Street and Sufian Street amid crowds of citizens in the city’s commercial center.
Soldiers also invaded several commercial shops in the Al-Ein refugee camp in the city, while firing live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades in the presence of dozens of civilians.
On Sunday evening, a large crowd of mourners received the body at the Rafidia Governmental Hospital, before marching through the streets and burying him in the camp’s cemetery.
Sources reported that at the same time Samaro’s death was announced, his wife was in the operating room undergoing surgery to deliver their child at the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.
Since the beginning of 2026, Israeli soldiers and colonizers have killed 56 Palestinian citizens, including 13 children and 6 women in the occupied West Bank.
In the Jenin governorate, 2 Palestinians have been killed in 2026, while 2 were killed in Qalqilia, 5 in Tubas, 11 in Nablus, 2 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Jerusalem, 3 in Bethlehem, and 14 in Hebron, according to the Shireen Observatory.
