The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on Friday at Palestinian workmen and injured one of them while a horde of Jewish settlers wreaked havoc on olive groves in the West Bank.
According to local sources the IOF fired rubber bullets at a number of West Bank workers near the Tarqumiyah checkpoint in the west of al-Khalil as they were trying to cross to their workplaces in 1948 occupied Palestine.
One worker was reportedly wounded in his leg and transferred to a hospital.
The IOF also kidnaped on the same day a young man from the Old City of al-Khalil and raided several homes in al-Arroub refugee camp in northern al-Khalil.
Meanwhile the IOF set up a number of makeshift checkpoints on roads in the south of Jenin and obstructed the movement of Palestinian vehicles and passengers.
In a separate incident a horde of extremist settlers destroyed dozens of olive trees in Palestinian groves in Turmus Ayya town northeast of Ramallah and Bireh province.
A local official said that a number of settlers from the illegal outpost of Adei Ad infiltrated at dawn Friday into Sahel area in the town and wreaked havoc on 30 olive trees belonging to local farmers.
The settlers also blocked a road near Sahel area with rocks to prevent the local residents from going to their lands to check on them.
A few days ago Adei Ad settlers deployed several tents in an area near their outpost.
Recently about 450 trees a few water tanks and an agricultural fence were destroyed by settlers in the same area.
