RAMALLAH, Oct 15 (NNN-WAFA) – Another Palestinian was killed last night, in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
Palestinian media and eyewitnesses said that, Israeli soldiers killed the Palestinian man near the village of Al-Jalazon, after he opened fire and wounded an Israeli settler, near the Beit El settlement, north of Ramallah.
The Israeli army was quoted by Israeli media as saying that, an Israeli citizen was lightly injured last night, when the Palestinian gunman opened fire towards the settlement.
Israeli soldiers fired back and killed the man, whose identity remains unknown, the army said.
Yesterday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said, two Palestinians, including a doctor, were killed, and six others injured, during an Israeli army raid, in the West Bank city of Jenin.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that, 66 Palestinians were injured yesterday, during clashes between dozens of Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers, in several villages close to the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The statement said, among the casualties, four were injured by rubber bullets and two by live ammunition. The rest suffered suffocation, after inhaling tear gas, fired by the Israeli soldiers.
Since Jan this year, more than 100 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, including women and children, according to official Palestinian figures.– NNN-WAFA
