A Palestinian young man was pronounced dead on Friday, eight months after he sustained a critical gunshot wound in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
According to medical sources at the Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron, Mahmoud Naseem Al-Anati, 26, succumbed to a critical injury he sustained on July 17, 2023.
Israeli forces stormed the Al-Fawwar camp on the morning of July 17, 2023, which sparked protests among local Palestinian youths.
Soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades at those who resisted the incursion.
It was reported that the army shot Al-Anati in the abdomen with several live rounds, causing a critical injury.
He was rushed to hospital and immediately admitted to surgery and had spent the last eight months receiving treatment at the Al-Ahly Hospital.
Israeli forces have killed 434 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have killed 31,490 Palestinians and wounded 73,439 since the beginning of its brutal aggression on October 7, 2023.
