RAMALLAH, Sept 19 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian dentist died yesterday, during clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, medics and official Palestinian media said.
The official Palestinian Television reported that, doctor Nidal Jabarin, a Palestinian dentist in his early fifties, died of shock, after Israeli soldiers threw stun grenades at Palestinian demonstrators in the city yesterday.
Wisam Baker, director of Jenin Government Hospital, said that, Jabarin died of a sudden heart attack in hospital, due to a sudden shock. Eyewitnesses affirmed that, as soon as the soldiers threw the stun grenades, Jabarin fell and was taken to hospital.
There had been no immediate Israeli army response to the incident.
Meanwhile, medical sources said, dozens of Palestinians suffered suffocation, after Israeli soldiers threw tear gas at demonstrators near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that, the Israeli armed forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinian demonstrators, near Nablus.
He added, clashes broke out in the area, after Israeli armed forces prevented residents of a village, south of Nablus, from reaching their lands and farms, which could get confiscated by Israeli settlers.– NNN-WAFA
