JENIN (PIC)– One Palestinian citizen was gunned down with Israeli bullets during an IOF troops’ incursion into the West Bank village of Kufrdan west of Jenin city in a pre-dawn raid on Saturday Palestinian sources affirmed.
The fatality was identified as Mohammed Sa’eed Abed 24 who was on top of his house’s roof when Israeli soldiers shot three rubber-coated bullets that penetrated his head and killed him instantly.
The victim was a former PA police cadre the sources further pointed out.
The sources also confirmed that 20 other Palestinian citizens were wounded in fierce clashes between fully-geared Israeli soldiers on the one hand and Palestinian youths on the other hand in the nearby Nablus city.
According to the sources large numbers of IOF troops backed by at least 15 military vehicles stormed the West Bank town of Beit Forik east of Nablus amidst intensive machinegun shooting that spurred the confrontations.
House of Palestinian citizen Fadi Rajeh Hanani was reduced into rubbles on suspicion that it was sheltering Palestinian resistance fighters.
Owner of the house and his neighbors vehemently denied the IOF allegations.
Hospital sources in the city confirmed that a number of the victims have fainted after inhaling smoke of teargas canisters intensively unleashed by the IOF troops at them.
Meanwhile the IOA decided to seal off the PA-run territories starting Saturday midnight to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) when Zionist armed gangs occupied Palestine in 1948 and displaced its indigenous inhabitants to establish what came to be known as Israel on 78% of the land of Palestine.
A statement issued by the IOF affirmed that the hermitic closure was clamped based on a political decision by the Israeli occupation government; but the spokesman of the IOF troops confirmed no fixed schedule to lift the closure.
Israeli security sources alleged receiving a number of warnings of possible Palestinian armed attacks in the Israeli depth during the occasion.
The spokesman further explained that even humanitarian cases medical staff and workers of foreign agencies will be banned from crossing into the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands if previous arrangements weren’t made to facilitate their crossing.
