Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 6, 2016.
Palestinian youth dies of wounds sustained last week, meanwhile Israeli tanks bulldoze farm lands in Gaza. These stories, and more, coming up stay tuned.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Monday, that a young Palestinian man died of serious wounds he suffered, on Friday at dawn June 3rd, after Israeli soldiers shot him during an invasion of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The ministry said the young man, Jamal Mohammad Dweikat, 20, was shot with a live round in the head, and remained in a very serious condition. Dweikat, and another wounded Palestinian, were moved to a hospital in Nablus, before he was transferred to an Israeli hospital, where he died of his wounds.
Also on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society PPS, has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians in Ramallah, and one in Qalqilia.
On Monday at dawn, the soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched many homes and kidnapped four Palestinians.
Furthermore, the army kidnapped a teenager and a child, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and in occupied East Jerusalem.
Elsewhere, Israeli occupation bulldozers reportedly penetrated into the Gaza Strip, east of the border fence, today.
Eyewitness stated that five Israeli bulldozers, of the D9 style, penetrated some 50 meters into Palestinian lands. Israeli bulldozers repeatedly sweep the lands which is considered a violation of the Cairo agreements of 2014 which came as a result of the summer long Israeli offensive on the region.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Monday, June 6, 2016, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
