Israeli forces shot and. injured two Palestinian young men after invading the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported a young man to hospital after he was shot in the hand with live ammunition.

The PRCS added that ambulance crews treated another young man at the scene after he was shot with a rubber-coated steel round.

Media sources said that occupation forces stormed the town with several military vehicles, closed the street near the “Sikal” roundabout, and invaded a residential building.

The sources added that soldiers fired live rounds, concussion grenades, and tear gas canisters, wounding the two young men.


Earlier Tuesday, an off-duty Israeli soldier Israeli Soldier Shoots a Palestinian Near Bethlehem after he allegedly carried out a car-ramming attack, near the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Two illegal colonizers were injured in the apparent attack, while the accused young man was shot and abducted by Israeli forces after sustaining moderate to serious gunshot wounds.