A young Palestinian man was shot by Israeli occupation soldiers in Rachel’s Tomb, north of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank. A woman and two children were suffocated by pepper gas in an attack carried out by Israeli settlers near the village of Deir Nizam, north of Ramallah. Meanwhile, clashes erupted between armed resistance fighters and the occupation army in Jenin.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that a Palestinian was injured after being shot by occupation soldiers in Rachel’s Tomb, north of Bethlehem, and was transferred to Al-Hussein Hospital in the city to receive treatment.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) quoted local sources as saying that Israeli army forces stationed in a military tower near the northern entrance to Bethlehem shot the young man and wounded him in the feet, which were described as critical.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that settlers sprayed pepper gas at Palestinians near the village of Deir Nizam, north of the city of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, which resulted in two children and a woman suffering burns to the face.
They explained that the settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones and sprayed them with pepper gas, according to them. The witnesses pointed out that the injured were transferred to the emergency complex in the town of Birzeit for treatment.
In a similar incident, Marwan Sabah, head of the Umm Safa village council, north of Ramallah, said that settlers from the Ateret settlement attacked vehicles with stones on the main road adjacent to the village, adding that the attack resulted in the shattering of the windows of a number of vehicles, without recording any injuries.
Armed clashes
On another note, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported armed clashes between Palestinian resistance fighters and occupation forces in several neighborhoods in the city of Jenin, north of the West Bank.
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the city and outskirts of Jenin camp, north of the West Bank.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli military vehicles, covered by drones flying at low altitudes, stormed the city from the Jalameh military checkpoint to the north. Resistance fighters opened fire on the military vehicles and clashes erupted in the eastern neighborhood, Wadi Ezzedine, and Halima al-Sa’diyah.
Seven Palestinians were killed and 13 others were injured in an Israeli military operation targeting the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin. During the operation, the Israeli army sent military reinforcements and demolished a number of homes.
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The occupation forces raided the homes of the residents during the storming of the city of Jenin. pic.twitter.com/2gWse7sgQ8— Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) September 21, 2024
suffocation
Earlier yesterday, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that a number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation after the occupation forces used tear gas to suppress an anti-settlement march in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank.
The town of Beita is subjected to repeated attacks by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers following the establishment of the “Avitar” colonial outpost on Palestinian lands at the top of Mount Sabih in the town.
On September 6, the occupation forces killed the American-Turkish solidarity activist Aisha Nour Eji while she was participating with the people of the town of Beita in the weekly anti-settlement march.
According to data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental), settler attacks after October 7, 2023 led to the martyrdom of 19 Palestinians, the injury of more than 785, and the displacement of 28 Bedouin communities.
In parallel with its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, which led to the martyrdom of more than 710 Palestinians, the injury of about 5,700, and the arrest of more than 10,700, according to official Palestinian institutions.
While the Israeli war, with absolute American support, on Gaza resulted in more than 136 thousand Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10 thousand missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.