JENIN,(Palestine Foundation Information Center)Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed nine Palestinians on Friday morning and Thursday evening in raids across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The IOF attacks took place shortly after Thursday midnight in Occupied Jerusalem, Jenin, and al-Khalil.
In Occupied Jerusalem, a Palestinian youth died of his injury Friday morning after he was shot by several bullets, with one in the chest, by Israeli police who broke into Qalandiya refugee camp north of the city leading to the erupt of clashes with Palestinians.
Local sources reported that two other young men were shot during the clashes. One of them has been critically shot in the abdomen.
In al-Khalil, two Palestinian youths have been killed at the hands of IOF who stormed al-Fuwar refugee camp in southern al-Khalil, amid intense shooting that led to confrontation with Palestinian youths. Many cases of suffocation and injures of live bullets have also been reported.
In Jenin, three people were killed and four others wounded as Israeli drone strikes that hit the city’s densely populated refugee camp. Military bulldozers razed roads and statues erected on key roundabouts. This brings the number of martyrs in Jenin city and its camp to five and the injuries to 10 in less than seven hours.
Violent clashes erupted between IOF soldiers and Palestinian youths in Jenin after IOF special forces stormed the city and its refugee camp amid ground raids and hovering of warplanes.
IOF solders reportedly fired shots at Ibn Sina Hospital and its vicinity. The IOF special forces surrounded a house in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood and fired at it, injuring a man in the hand. A young man was also injured after being run over by IOF vehicle. He was taken to the hospital.
The IOF also opened fire at a minaret of a mosque in Jenin because it had broadcasted Abu Ubaida’s speech.
In Nablus, another Palestinian man succumbed to IOF gunshot wounds he suffered earlier this week during clashes that broke out on Wednesday with IOF soldiers in Tel town, west of the city.
Local sources reported that the IOF blew up at dawn Friday a house on the second floor of the 4-storey “Al-Mubayed” building in al-Masakin al-Shabiya neighborhood in Nablus. The house belongs to Khaled Kharousha, who is the son of al-Qassam Brigades member, martyr Abdel Fattah Kharousha. Khaled was arrested in the IOF’s raid on Askar refugee camp last March.
The IOF also stormed the eastern region of Nablus, resulting in clashes with Palestinians and leading to the injury of a man with live bullets in the foot and another man with a shrapnel in the chest. Meanwhile, the Imam of Askar Mosque, Ghassan Badran, was arrested.
