Two Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in West Bank

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Dec. 17 (YPA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening the death of two young men who were critically wounded by Israeli occupation forces in  north of Tulkarm and in the town of Beit Ummar, north Hebron in the West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Maan Agency, The Ministry said in a statement it was informed by the General Authority for Civil Affairs that 25-year-old Salem Nasser Hajar died of his critical wounds which he had sustained earlier today from live Israeli ammunition.

Hajar was shot by Israeli occupation forces earlier in the day while accompanying his brother, who was arrested by the forces near the Israeli segregation wall west of the town of Deir al-Ghusun, north of Tulkarm, the statement said.

Witnesses reported that Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at one of the gates of the segregation wall fired shots at the young man, a resident of Shweikeh neighborhood in Tulkarm, hitting him in the head.

The ministry added that the occupation forces arrested Hajar and transferred him to a hospital in the 1948 territories, while his brother Saif, who was with him, was also detained.

In the same context, the ministry confirmed the murder of 20-year-old Aziz Abdulrahim Ekhlail, who succumbed to critical injuries sustained from live ammunition fired by Israeli occupation forces in the abdomen in the town.

With the martyrdom of Ekhlail, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank since October 7 has risen to 289.

E.M