The number of Palestinian martyrs has risen to four during the past 24 hours, in escalation and separate clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in separate areas of the West Bank.
A Palestinian youth was martyred after the occupation forces opened fire on civilians in the Bab Al-Asbat area in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of shooting at police officers and wounding one of them slightly.
Two Palestinians were killed today, Thursday, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, one of them is a policeman in the Palestinian Authority.
The boy, Muhammad Al-Haddad, was killed yesterday evening in Hebron, after the occupation soldiers opened fire on a group of citizens in the city.
In the city of Jerusalem, the occupation police shot a Palestinian in the Old City, and her spokeswoman said that the Palestinian attacked and shot the police stationed near the Assad Gate, adding that "the police officers shot the attacker and was neutralized."
In Jenin, the young man, Yazan Munther Abu Tabikh, 19, was killed this morning, as a result of being shot by Israeli occupation soldiers who broke into the camp at dawn to demolish the house of the Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Qanba 'family.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health also declared a second Palestinian martyr in Jenin, named Tariq Ahmad Badwan, a Palestinian police force, as a result of critical injuries by live ammunition in the abdomen.
| From the confrontations in Beit Jala, Bethlehem Governorate (Reuters) |
Bethlehem confrontations
The death toll from the Palestinians increased during clashes with the Israeli army today, Thursday, to about 80, including rubber bullets and suffocation cases, in the town of Beit Jala in the Bethlehem Governorate, south of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society - in a press statement - said that its crews dealt with four people with rubber bullets during the confrontations, one of whom was hit in the head, in addition to dozens of cases of suffocation after inhaling tear gas, most of them children.
Clashes erupted in the town of Beit Jala between dozens of youths and an Israeli army force, stormed the town and used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the youths.
Run over
The Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that 14 Israeli occupation soldiers were injured in a run-over operation on Thursday in the city of Jerusalem, which took place in two phases.
The official Israeli "Kan" channel reported that a vehicle driver ran over one of the soldiers in occupied Jerusalem, then went to other soldiers, then withdrew from the place, while the occupation forces launched an intensive search for the bomber.
And the emergency services stated that a twenty-year-old person was in a serious condition after being injured in the accident that occurred on David Reims Street at 01:45 am local time.
"Police and paramedics units have arrived at the scene and are trying to find the car, and an investigation into a terrorist attack has been opened," said Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
In a later development, the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that an Israeli soldier was seriously wounded by gunfire at a military force near the village of Deir Ibzi'a in the West Bank city of Ramallah.