4 new fires erupted in Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip as a result of incendiary balloons being launched from the Strip, while the occupation army hit a boy in the head in confrontations with Palestinian youths in the northern West Bank.
The official Israeli channel said that the series of fires, which have continued since Tuesday, have caused severe damage to large areas of agricultural land and destroyed their crops.
On Tuesday, about 30 fires broke out in the settlements bordering the Gaza Strip, after incendiary balloons were launched from the Strip against the backdrop of settlers organizing a provocative flags march in occupied East Jerusalem.
In the Niram settlement, the fires since yesterday destroyed 14 dunums (one thousand square meters) of lemon trees and a few dunums of tangerine trees, as well as dozens of dunams of wheat and hundreds of dunams of pastures, according to the same source.
The channel quoted a farmer from Niram as saying that the firefighters did not deal with one of the burning orchards in the settlement since yesterday, for fear of being targeted from the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday evening, thousands of settlers danced with flags in the Bab al-Amoud area, one of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, with some of them chanting racist phrases against the Arabs and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
In response, Palestinian youths organized demonstrations near the Gaza border strip, and launched incendiary balloons towards Israeli territory.
At dawn today, Wednesday, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on two sites of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, without causing any casualties.
In the city of Hebron, a force of the Israeli occupation army, near one of the military checkpoints leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque, arrested a Palestinian girl under the pretext that she was in possession of a knife.
And the occupation army said, in a brief statement, that one of its forces operating near one of the entrances at the Temple Mount suspected the girl and stopped, searched and then arrested her.
boy injured
In the northern West Bank, Al-Jazeera Net correspondent, Atef Daghlas, stated that the 15-year-old boy, Ahmed Zahi Bani Shamsa, from the town of Beita, south of Nablus, was shot in the head by the Israeli occupation soldiers during clashes that erupted near Jabal Sabih in the town this afternoon, Wednesday. .
Medical sources inside Rafidia Hospital, where the boy was transferred, described his injury as “critical, but he is still alive.” The bullet hit the head directly, and Al Jazeera Net learned that the doctors inside the hospital rushed to provide treatment for him and try to save his life.
Eyewitnesses told Al Jazeera Net that the occupation soldiers fired live bullets directly at the young men who are demonstrating against the establishment of a new Israeli settlement on Mount Sabih on the lands of citizens south of the town of Beita, and they added that a bullet penetrated the head of the young man, Bani Shamsa, and then he was transferred to the town clinic to provide him with first aid. Then to Rafidia Hospital to complete the treatment.
They stated that as soon as he arrived at the hospital, he was given first aid, and then he was transferred to the operating room to complete his treatment.
For more than a month, confrontations have taken place almost daily between the people of Beita town and the occupation soldiers and settlers. Within a month, 3 young men from the town were martyred during the peaceful popular demonstrations, and hundreds were wounded, some of them seriously, which led to their disability.