A Palestinian young man died on Saturday evening, three days after suffering critical injuries caused by illegal settlers in the Yatta desert, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
Media sources reported that the young man Tamer Ismail Qaisiya, 19, succumbed to the multiple gunshot wounds he sustained on Wednesday, after illegal colonizers opened fire at his vehicle near the Apartheid Wall in Yatta town.
Israeli settlers chased a vehicle and fired several live rounds at it, critically wounding Qaisiya, a resident of the town of Ath-Thahiriya, before stealing the targeted vehicle from the scene.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces and settlers have killed 1118 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 232 children and 24 women.
In the Jenin governorate, 310 Palestinians have been killed, while 213 were killed in Tulkarem, 142 in Nablus, 108 in Hebron, 98 in Tubas, 82 in Ramallah, 62 in Jerusalem, 44 in Qalqilia, 36 in Bethlehem, 15 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and 8 in Salfit, according to the Shireen Observatory.
In related news, occupation forces shot and wounded two Palestinians on Saturday, including one critically, in the southern West Bank governorates of Hebron and Bethlehem.
Media sources reported that the army invaded the town of Doura, southwest of Hebron on Saturday evening, shooting and critically wounding a young man, and causing inhalation injuries to others.
Soldiers shot the young man in the abdomen with live ammunition; he was transported to the hospital where his injuries were classified as very critical.
At the same time, occupation forces fired tear gas canisters in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque in the center of Doura, resulting in several citizens, including women and children to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
Israeli forces also stormed the town of Al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem, on Saturday evening, and shot a 16-year-old child in the back with live ammunition while he was in the “Nashash” area at the southern entrance to the town.
The child was subsequently transported to the hospital for treatment; his condition was not known at the time of this report.
