RAMALLAH (AFP) – A Palestinian teenager died from his wounds hours after being shot by Zionist troops in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said Saturday.
Mohammad Hamad, 16, was shot and wounded on Friday evening near the village of Silwad, near Ramallah in the northern West Bank, and died hours later, a Silwad councilor told AFP. The Zionist regime’s military did not immediately comment.
The teenager was near a road leading to the neighboring settlement of Ofra when he was wounded by Zionist troops, the councilor said.
His death comes amid a spike in Zionist violence against Palestinians.
Israeli forces fired live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas at Palestinians staging rallies across the West Bank on Friday, including in the northern town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya, and the town of Beita, south of Nablus, as part of their daily protests against illegal Zionist settlements, which began in recent weeks.
In a statement, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said at least 131 Palestinians were injured, including nine by live bullets, while 117 suffered suffocation due to tear gas.
The occupying regime is establishing a settlement outpost, known as Avitar, on around 1,000 square meters of occupied land in the town’s Jabal Sabih neighborhood, triggering the protests.
On Tuesday, a Palestinian man died after he was stabbed by a Zionist settler in the village of Iskaka, in the central occupied West Bank region of Salfit, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Health officials identified the victim as 27-year-old Ali Hassan Harb, who succumbed to a fatal stab wound to the chest, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Local sources said that an altercation erupted after settlers attempted to take over a plot of Palestinian village land by setting up a tent on private property.
Harb and other residents intervened and that was when a Zionist settler stabbed and killed the young man, the health ministry said in the statement.
A Palestinian worker was also shot dead by Zionist army fire south of the city of Qalqilya two days earlier.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that the 53-year-old man, identified as Nabil Ahmad Ghanem, was shot dead in the vicinity of the separation wall, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
According to the ministry, Ghanem was on his way to work when Zionist troops opened gunfire on the Palestinian man, killing him instantly.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says at least 82 Palestinian protesters have sustained injuries as Zionist troops carried out raids in and around the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Palestine’s Ma’an news agency cited Ahmed Jibril, the director of the PRCS’s Emergency and Ambulance Center in Nablus, as saying that the injuries occurred following the Zionist regime’s violence in the city and nearby villages on Friday.
Jibril said the Red Crescent’s staffers dealt with the injury of a paramedic volunteer in the face with a tear gas canister, in addition to 15 cases of suffocation with tear gas in Beit Dajan.