Zionist forces shoot, critically injure Palestinian student in West Bank

Israeli military forces have shot and critically injured a Palestinian student after skirmishes broke out between a group of young protesters and Israeli soldiers in the central part of the occupied West Bank.

Local Palestinian sources, requesting not to be named, said clashes broke out on Thursday afternoon following the funeral procession of 42-year-old Palestinian teacher Fatima Suleiman, whom a settler had run over and killed in the Khirbat al-Dayr district of the town of Tuqu’, located 12 kilometers southeast of Bethlehem, earlier in the day.

Israeli forces fired live rounds, rubber-coated bullets as well as teargas bombs to disperse the protesting Palestinian students.

Israeli forces detained one of the students, and opened fire at him from a point blank range as he attempted to flee, critically injuring him in the thigh, the sources noted.

Israeli forces then prevented Tuqu’ residents from helping the student, and did not allow Palestinian paramedics to reach him to provide first aid.

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