The Palestinian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli army's incursions into Palestinian towns, camps and cities, after the death of a Palestinian boy by the Israeli occupation, who was trying to storm the "Joseph's Tomb" area in the city of Nablus, accompanied by settlers.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government responsible for the consequences of what it described as "the crimes of its forces and settlers."
The Foreign Ministry said that the killing of the 16-year-old boy, Ghaith Yamin, is an extension of the series of field executions carried out by the occupation, adding that "the terrorism of the occupying state escalates daily and deliberately targets children."
And the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday, the death of Ghaith from a critical wound to the head, as a result of the Israeli occupation soldiers firing live bullets in the Joseph's Tomb area, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
The ministry confirmed that the injuries rose to about 80 as a result of the Israeli soldiers firing bullets and tear gas canisters during confrontations with Palestinian youths in the vicinity of Joseph's Tomb.
Intermittent armed clashes took place in more than one axis between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces in the vicinity of Balata refugee camp and Askar, east of Nablus, while the occupation forces secured hundreds of settlers storming Joseph’s Tomb to perform Talmudic prayers in the place they consider sacred while it is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
In Hebron also, the Palestinian Wafa Agency indicated that armed settlers gathered at the bypass street near the Beit Anun area, east of the city, and stopped traffic and tried to attack Palestinian vehicles after cursing them, and demanded the deportation of the Palestinians and retaliation against them.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry also condemned the Judaization of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron through demolition, construction and bulldozing, the latest of which was cutting parts of the historic staircase of the campus and carrying out excavations in its outer courtyards under the pretext of completing the electric elevator project.
The ministry considered this provocative attack on the Temple Mount an attempt to impose full Israeli control over it, in flagrant violation of international law and UNESCO resolutions, and an integral part of the Judaization of the heart of Hebron and its Old City.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that the continuous aggression of the occupation and its settlers will only be met with more steadfastness and insistence on confrontation with all tools.
The resistance factions also said that they are in a permanent meeting to take the necessary measures to respond to the crimes of the occupation, and the factions confirmed that the calls to demolish the blessed Dome of the Rock will explode a volcano of Palestinian, Arab and Islamic anger.
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army arrested 6 Palestinians from different areas in the West Bank.
A statement by the Israeli army spokesman said that he had arrested 6 of whom he described as wanted men.
The arrests were concentrated in the village of Husan in the Bethlehem governorate, the village of Beit Kahil in Hebron and the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli statement added that the confrontations that erupted at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus last night were caused by what it described as riots by hundreds of Palestinian youths.