By Qais Abu Samra
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Two Palestinians lost their lives to Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to Palestinian authorities.
A 17-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces at Qalandia military checkpoint, the state news agency Wafa reported.
In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate Office identified the slain Palestinian as Ishaq Ajlouni from the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem.
For its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said that its fighters had engaged in clashes with Israeli forces at the checkpoint.
Israeli police confirmed that an Israeli security personnel was injured in the attack. It said the attacker was neutralized.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man died of wounds he sustained from Israeli fire in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
A ministry statement said the 39-year-old man was critically injured during an Israeli military raid in Askar refugee camp in Nablus and succumbed to his wounds on Saturday.
On Wednesday, June 21, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, identified as Soheib Adnan Al-Ghoul, 27, Mohammad Bashar Oweis, 28, and Ashraf Morad Sa’adi, 17.
On Wednesday dawn, a Palestinian child who suffered serious wounds after Israeli soldiers shot her during the military offensive in Jenin Monday succumbed to her injuries.
Medical sources at the Jenin governmental hospital said the soldiers shot the child, Sadeel Ghassan Turkman, 15, from the Jenin refugee camp, with a live round to the head and remained in critical condition until she succumbed to her wounds.
On Tuesday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Nasser Saleh Mohammad Sinan, 55, whom Israeli soldiers shot in the head a month earlier in Jenin.
On Tuesday dawn, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Amjad Aref Al-Ja’as, 48, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire Monday during the massive Israeli invasion of Jenin, during which the soldiers killed five Palestinians, and injured more than a 100, some seriously.
On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man and injured two after the army invaded Husan village, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank in recent months amid repeated Israeli raids into Palestinian towns.
Nearly 180 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of this year, according to the Ministry of Health. At least 25 Israelis have also been killed in separate attacks during the same period.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar
Additional report by Imemc.org
[Photo: Israeli Jewish settlers set fire to several Palestinians vehicles in Nablus, Wes Bank on 21 June.. They also rampage through other parts of West Bank, Palestine. Photo: Issam Rimawi AA]
