The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced yesterday the death of a Palestinian by Israeli tank fire at the border with the Gaza Strip, injuring four others, while hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza and Ramallah to protest the attack on Palestinian prisoners in Ofer prison.
And detailed .. The spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qadra, in a statement: «killed Mahmoud al-Abed al-Nabahin (24 years), and wounded four others, one of them serious wounds». He confirmed that the martyr was wounded by tank fire east of al-Bureij refugee camp.
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that "riots were thrown at the stones, was shot at his forces at the security fence adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and lightly wounded an Israeli soldier, when a bullet hit his helmet." The statement said the wounded man was an officer and was taken to hospital.
"In response, an IDF tank shelled a Hamas military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip," he said.
The Israeli shelling targeted a monitoring post belonging to the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement in the northern Gaza Strip, which also caused material damage.
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation forces fired yesterday morning at agricultural land on the eastern border of Al-Qarara village, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces also opened fire on fishermen's boats in the Gaza Strip, without causing injuries.
In the meantime, the Israeli occupation army arrested at dawn yesterday seven Palestinians after storming and raiding a number of cities in the West Bank.
Palestinian sources said that the occupation transferred the detainees to the interrogation centers in the prisons at a time when the prisons, the day before yesterday, continued attacks by the Directorate of Prisons on the prisoners resulted in 100 wounded of different injuries.
Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza and Ramallah yesterday to protest the attack on Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of Ofer. In Gaza, demonstrators held pictures of prisoners and banners condemning Israel's practices against them. They then gathered outside the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) demanding that they intervene.
A similar demonstration took place in the city of Ramallah, where spokesmen warned of a popular explosion if the Israeli "escalation" against the prisoners continued.
For his part, Palestinian government spokesman Youssef Mahmoud called on international human rights organizations and bodies and the international community to shoulder their responsibilities towards the suffering of the prisoners.
Al-Mahmoud warned of "the Israeli impotence in accumulating the suffering of the prisoners and the continued harassment of them, which would push the situation to further tension."