Dozens of Palestinians suffered from suffocation on Wednesday while others were shot by Israeli occupation gunfire during an Israeli military raid into the eastern area of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a Palestinian youth with a serious injury in the abdomen and another injured in the thigh were transferred to the Rafidia Governmental hospital.
The Red Crescent in Nablus also reported dozens of suffocation cases, whereas a number of Palestinian suffocated after inhaling toxic gas fired at them by the soldiers.
Additionally, a man and his wife were transferred to the Rafidia Hospital after the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at their vehicle, according to Palestinian news agency (WAFA).
The occupation forces, backed by dozens of military vehicles, including two bulldozers, stormed the eastern region of the city through the Beit Furik checkpoint, while forces also stormed the city from the Al-Tur area as the vehicles stormed the western region through the Sarra checkpoint.
The occupation forces deployed in Amman Street and the streets surrounding Joseph’s tomb as snipers climbed the rooftops of a number of high buildings.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces arrested today two brothers in Al-Asakra village, east of Bethlehem after raiding and searching their father’s house.
The West Bank witnesses daily raids and incursions into villages and towns by the Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by arrests and the firing of live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinian youths. (QNA)
Source: Qatar News Agency