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Injuries arrests reported in IOF raids in the West Bank

Saturday 8-April-2023

Several Palestinians were injured in Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) raids in various West Bank areas at dawn Saturday and on Friday night.

IOF soldiers stormed al-Khalil’s Arroub refugee camp on Saturday morning firing gunshots stun grenades and teargas at citizens’ homes at the entrance of the camp local sources reported.

They added that a young man was hit with a bullet in his foot while dozens others suffered from teargas inhalation.

Meanwhile two Palestinians were wounded in Jenin when the IOF fired at their car in Burqin town last night.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that two youths had foot and back gunshot wounds.

Several youths suffered from teargas inhalation in Kivert village west of Jenin while defending their village against the IOF raid.

The IOF soldiers attacked and brutally beat two young people in the village during the raid.

In Tora town to the south west of Jenin similar several locals were treated for suffocation after IOF soldiers fired tear gas in the town’s center.

Israeli forces stormed Tulkarem in the meantime and stationed themselves close to Nour Shams refugee camp.

Many snipers were deployed in the vicinity of the camp.

Additionally the main road into Bethlehem’s Al-Khader town was blocked by the IOF on Friday night and at an early morning hour on Saturday the IOF arrested a young man from Beit Fajjar town while crossing al-Hamra checkpoint.

This came amid rising tensions over the storming of the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem by Israeli troops who fired stun grenades attacked Palestinian worshipers and expelled them from the holy site as they gathered for Ramadan prayers.

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