Injury of a Palestinian boy by settlers' bullets south of Bethlehem and arrests in the West Bank

A Palestinian boy (16 years old) was injured by live fire in the Al-Hawd area, this Saturday morning, during an attack carried out by settlers on Palestinian homes in the village of Keisan southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that its crews treated an injury from live fire in the Al-Hawd area for a 16-year-old boy, during clashes with settlers in the village of Keisan southeast of Bethlehem, noting that the injured was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

On his part, the general supervisor of the Al-Baydar Human Rights Organization, Hassan Malihat, stated that the boy Awad Ibrahim Ta'amra (16 years old) was injured during an attack carried out by dozens of settlers on citizens' homes in Keisan, where they smashed windows and fired live bullets at the residents who tried to confront the attacks, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

In another context, local sources confirmed that Israeli occupation forces arrested, this Saturday, four foreign solidarity activists from the village of Al-Mughayyir northeast of Ramallah, after raiding the estate of citizen Rizq Abu Na'im (Abu Hamam estate) in the Khala'il area south of Al-Mughayyir, while they were there to support the family that is subjected to repeated attacks by settlers.

This comes as local sources confirmed that occupation forces arrested last night the young man Samih Jannajra from the village of Al-Badhan north of Nablus, after raiding his home, while they arrested this Saturday dawn three young men from the Akataba suburb east of Tulkarm, namely: Adel Qasim, Ali Abu al-Rab, and Youssef Helmi Abu Salah, after raiding and searching their homes.

In Qalqilya, occupation forces arrested last night the young man Yazen Yasser Mara'aba from the village of Ras Atiya south of the city, after stopping him at a military checkpoint set up at the eastern entrance to the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank. In a related context, Israeli occupation forces carried out raids and arrests this Saturday dawn and last night in various areas of the West Bank, according to local sources.