A number of Palestinians injured, detained, including two women in Tulkarem

TULKARM: A Palestinian youth today was shot and injured by Israeli occupation army bullets following an Israeli military raid into the town of Balaa, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, according to local sources. Sources told Wafa that the youth, whose identity was not identified, was shot by Israeli live ammunition in his lower extremities and was transferred to the Thabet Thabet Governmental hospital in Tulkarm for medical treatment. No further details regarding his identity or fate were available. A large Israeli military force had earlier stormed the said town and deployed its snipers on one of the buildings, amidst clashes erupting between locals and occupation soldiers, who fired heavy bullets. The occupying Israeli forces raided a commercial store in the center of the town, after blowing up its gate, searching it, and vandalizing its contents. Fadi Shawkat Omairm, the owner of a commercial store in the town, was later detained. Forces also raided the Bala'a kindergarten building and searched it during the raid. Meantime, at least three Palestinians were injured in confrontations that broke out after the occupation forces stormed the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm. The injuries were transferred to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental hospital for medical treatment, with one of the causalities sustaining an injury in the shoulder and two others in the legs. Their conditions were described as stable. Occupation forces also detained two women following their raid of Shweika suburb, north of Tulkarm, after raiding and ranscking their homes. The two women were identified as Tahani Ahmed Hassan Nayfeh, the wife of the prisoner Muhammad Nayfeh, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the wife of her son, the freed prisoner Rabei Nayfeh Shahd Muhammad Omar. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA