A Palestinian young man was shot and injured on Friday evening by the Israeli occupation forces near Kiryat Arba settlement outpost built on Palestinian land in the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the young man sustained serious injuries adding that the Israeli military preventing medics from tending to whim.

The Hebrew-speaking 0404 news site claimed the youth attempted to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack in the aforementioned settlement outpost before he was shot by the occupation soldiers.

NABLUS (PIC)– A Palestinian youngster at noontime Monday sustained injuries after he was shot by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at the Zaatara military checkpoint in southern Nablus.

A PIC news reporter quoted eye-witnesses as saying that the IOF troops deployed at the Zaatara checkpoint stopped a vehicle carrying a Palestinian youngster and ordered him to hand his personal ID and leave the car for inspection. But the youngster fled and was immediately shot by the IOF.

The youth reportedly sustained moderate foot injuries.

The Israeli occupation soldiers prevented the ambulance crew who rushed to the scene from transferring the casualty to the hospital to be treated for the inflicted wounds.

Shortly afterwards the IOF sealed off the roadblock between the northern and southern West Bank areas blocking the movement of Palestinian vehicles.

Meanwhile eye-witnesses said Israeli settlers hurled stones at a Palestinian vehicle driving on the Ramallah-Nablus road.

Taxi driver Mousa al-Amala 50 said his vehicle sustained material damage as a result of the stone-throwing.

Israeli vandals stepped up assaults against Palestinian citizens and properties a few days after a Palestinian toddler was burned to death by fanatic settlers in Nablus’ town of Duma.