A Palestinian young man died, on Friday, eleven days after Israeli soldiers shot and critically injured him in the town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
On Friday afternoon, a Palestinian young man succumbed to critical injuries he sustained during a previous Israeli army incursion into the northern West Bank town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus.
According to medical sources at the An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus, announced that the young man, Laith Nadeem Hanani, 20, succumbed as a result of a critical gunshot wound inflicted on him by the occupation forces on May 6, 2024.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the slain young man died after Israeli soldiers shot him in the thigh with live ammunition, causing critical injuries.
In the afternoon of May 6, Israeli forces invaded the town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus, sparking protests among local Palestinian youths.
Soldiers fired many live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades, shooting three young men with live ammunition, and causing several others to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
On Thursday, Israeli forces killed Karim Raeq Abd al-Raouf Amir, 23, and shot another young man in the town of Bala’a, northeast of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank, in addition to shooting a child in the town of Anabta, to the east.
Before dawn on Thursday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child, Nour Nizar Shehabi, 17, in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, after he allegedly attempted to stab a member of the Border Police.
Israeli forces have killed 505 Palestinian civilians, including 125 children, while 20 Palestinians have been killed by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, in various regions of the occupied West Bank, since October 7, 2023.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that the Israeli military has killed at least 35,303 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, including more than 15,103 children and 9,961 women, and injured more than 79,261, mostly women, children, and the elderly.
