12 Palestinians Injured in Clashes with Israeli Soldiers in West Bank

Israeli forces shot and injured 12 Palestinians in Nablus and Bethlehem in the West Bank. Security sources said Tuesday that two Palestinians were injured Israeli soldiers opened gunfire at Azza refugee camp north of Bethlehem on Monday night. 

    They said that the soldiers manning a checkpoint at the northern entrance of Bethlehem opened live fire at the nearby refugee camp, injuring two Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided the city of Nablus early Tuesday and demolished the home of Amjad Aliwi, who Israeli intelligence accused of being one of the masterminds of a shooting attack on October 1, 2015 which left two Israeli settlers dead. 

    Local sources told Ma'an news agency that dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed a three story building in the Khallat al-Eiman neighborhood in southern Nablus where Aliwi’s family lived.

    The soldiers forcibly moved the family members from their apartment to one of the neighbors' apartments, and detained them there for several hours, during which time they demolished Aliwi’s apartment. At the time of the demolition, clashes broke out in the neighborhood between Israeli forces and local youth. 

    Locals said the clashes continued for several hours and that ten young men were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, while several others suffered from tear gas inhalation. On the other hand, Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians in various West Bank cities on Tuesday. 

    The Palestinian Prisoner's Club said in a statement that the Israeli forces stormed the cities Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus and Tulkarem and a number of neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem and arrested 17 citizens.

Source: QNA