Zionist troops shoot, injure 19 Palestinians in West Bank
Nearly two dozen Palestinians have sustained gunshot wounds when Israeli regime forces opened fire at a group of demonstrators participating in a protest rally against the protracted and extremely violent attacks being carried out by the illegal Zionist settlers across the West Bank.
According to reports, dozens of protesters converged in an open field near al-Mughayyir village, located 27 km northeast of Ramallah, following Friday prayers to express their resentment over repeated attacks by illegal settlers.
Regime forces then shot live and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse the protesters.
At least 15 Palestinians were struck by live bullets, while another four were injured by rubber rounds.
On January 26, a Palestinian man was shot dead and dozens others were wounded during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers and illegal Zionist settlers in al-Mughayyir.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the 38-year-old, identified as Hamdi Na’san, was shot in the back and succumbed to his wounds shortly after at a hospital in the central West Bank city of Ramallah. He is survived by his wife and four children.
At least 30 others were also wounded during confrontations, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Amin Abu Alya, head of the Mughayyir village council, said settlers opened fire before the Israeli military moved in.
Separately, dozens of Palestinians were injured during clashes between thousands of Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers stationed on the border between the eastern Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories.
The spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a statement on Friday that 32 civilians were struck with live bullets during “The Great March of Return” protests east of Gaza City.
Qidra went on to say that a Palestinian paramedic suffered injuries when a tear gas canister struck him in the face east of the border town of Rafah.
Medical sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a boy and a teenage girl were critically injured while participating in a protest rally in Khuza'a town in the southern Gaza Strip.
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