Isreali occupation forces kill five Palestinians in West Bank

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Oct.09 (YPA) -Israeli occupation forces forces have killed five more Palestinian youths in violent attacks across the occupied West Bank, as Gaza-based resistance groups continue a major operation against the regime.

Three of the victims were shot and killed during the occupation forces’ raids near the Qalandia checkpoint in the central part of the occupied territory on Sunday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

Local sources said confrontations broke out near the checkpoint, during which the regime’s forces opened direct fire at Palestinian youths, killing three and injuring eight others.

According to Wafa, a fourth youth, identified as Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Zghayyar, was killed by Israeli forces after they shot him in the chest during a separate attack in the northern West Bank city of al-Khalil, also known as Hebron.

Separately, another young Palestinian man lost his life at the entrance to the town of Beita, south of the city of Nablus, also in northern part of the West Bank.

Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department, said paramedics transferred the youth with a critical gunshot wound to hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after.

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