NABLUS (PIC)– A 20-year-old Palestinian youth in the village of Orta south of Nablus was hospitalized on Thursday after a group of Jewish settlers ganged up on him in the village’s main street.
Local sources said that Ashraf Awad was taken to a hospital in Nablus with bruises all over his body as a result of the assault.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) late on Wednesday night beat up four Palestinians in Beit Fujjar village Bethlehem district and all were taken to hospital.
IOF soldiers in Al-Khalil beat up a 16-year-old Palestinian near the Ibrahimi Mosque late on Wednesday. He was treated in hospital for painful bruises.
IOF troops stormed the village of Qabatia east of Jenin city at dawn Thursday for the third week running and combed the town’s suburbs. They used flare bombs in their search but no arrests were made.
