By Qays Abu Samra and Zeynep Tufekci
TUBAS (AA): A Palestinian was killed after Israeli soldiers opened fire in the West Bank city of Tubas, local health officials said Wednesday. Earlier, Israeli soldiers killed a teen, and injured five other Palestinian, east of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Twenty-three-year-old Mohammed Mahmoud Basharat,21, died after he was shot in the chest, said the officials.
According to eye witnesses, Israeli soldiers used live bullets and tear gas against Palestinians in Tammoun town, east of Tubas.and injured eleven others
The Palestinian was studying Health and Hospital Management at the Al-Quds Open University, Nablus Branch, in northern West Bank.
Officials from Israel and Palestine have not yet issued statements on the incident.
Jewish settlers frequently stage attacks on Palestinian towns and farms and their Arab inhabitants across the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Health Ministry in Gaza said Montaser Mohammad Ismael al-Baz, 17, was shot and seriously injured with a live round in the head. ive other Palestinians were shot live ammunition, when the soldiers, stationed in fortified sniper posts hundreds of meters across the border fence, targeted Palestinian protesters in their lands, near the perimeter fence, in central Gaza.
According to Palestinian figures, more than 650,000 Jewish settlers currently live on 196 settlements and more than 200 settler “outposts” scattered throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
International law regards the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “occupied territories” and considers all settlement-building activity there to be illegal.
Additional report from Imemc.org
[Photo: Mohammed Mahmoud Basharat,21, shot dead by Israeli soldiers neaf Tubas. Photo by imemc.org]