Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, Monday, September, 12, 2016.
In the West Bank six Palestinian civilians injured, three critically, by Israeli attacks, meanwhile army bulldozers damage farmlands in Gaza. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Four Palestinians were injured on critically during clashes that took place on Monday evening at the village of Qusra near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Local sources said that clashes erupted when local youth protested an invasion by an Israeli military force targeting the village. Troops fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas at protesting youth who hurled stones at soldiers.
Medical sources said that four civilians were hit, among them was one youth who was injured in the head by a rubber-coated steel bullet while another sustained a live gunshot wound. No further details were available at the time of this report.
Earlier on Monday, two young men suffered serious wounds after being crushed by an Israeli military vehicle in the al-Fahs area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Zeidan Abu Daoud, who witnessed the attack, said the military vehicles deliberately rammed his nephews Ahmad Ziad Abu Daoud, 17, and Eyad Naim Abu Daoud, 19, causing life-threatening injuries, and before the vehicles rushed away from the area.
He added that an Israeli army jeep arrived at the scene shortly after the incident, and called for an Israeli ambulance. Israeli medics provided first aid to the wounded Palestinians, before two Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances reached the area and moved the two to the al-Ahli hospital, in Hebron.
On Monday at dawn, Israeli troops kidnapped nine Palestinian civilians during predawn invasions a home searches targeting West Bank communities.
Elsewhere, Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, bulldozed some of them and installed sand hills, in addition to firing live rounds.
The soldiers advanced more than 150 meters into the Palestinian lands amidst sporadic gunfire, and started bulldozing some of them close to the border fence, and installed sand hills.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Monday, September, 12, 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.
