A Palestinian worker was shot and injured on Wednesday evening after Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire near the illegal Annexation Wall in the town of ar‑Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated a worker who was struck with live ammunition close to the illegal Wall of annexation and colonial expansion, before transferring him to hospital.
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers chased several Palestinian workers near the Wall and fired live rounds directly at them, injuring one.
Witnesses said soldiers stationed in the area routinely pursue laborers attempting to reach their workplaces, subjecting them to live fire, beatings, and detentions.
The shooting in ar‑Ram is part of a consistent and well‑documented pattern in which Israeli occupation forces target Palestinian workers along gaps and informal crossing points created by the Annexation Wall surrounding Jerusalem and the northern West Bank.
In recent months, workers have repeatedly been shot with live ammunition, beaten, stripped, and detained during military chases, attacked by military dogs released by soldiers, and exposed to tear gas and stun grenades in densely populated areas.
Human rights organizations, including Al‑Haq, B’Tselem, and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), have documented that these assaults form part of a systematic policy aimed at restricting Palestinian movement and punishing workers attempting to reach their livelihoods in Jerusalem and inside the Green Line.
The ar‑Ram area—along with Qalandia, Kufr Aqab, and the northern Jerusalem periphery—has become a high‑risk zone where Israeli soldiers regularly conduct armed chases and open fire at workers.
The Annexation Wall has severed communities from Jerusalem, forcing thousands of laborers to rely on dangerous informal routes where they are exposed to lethal force.
Wednesday’s shooting adds to the rising number of injuries recorded this year among Palestinian laborers attempting to reach their workplaces under increasingly violent and restrictive conditions imposed by the occupation.
