A Palestinian man, 37, fatally shot by Israeli soldiers manning military checkpoint east of Tulkarem

TULKAREM: A thirty-seven-year-old man was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces this evening at the Ennab Israeli military checkpoint, east of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry said the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed it that a man, who was identified as Fares Khalifa, from Nour Shams refugee camp to the east of Tulkarem, was fatally shot by Israeli gunfire at the said checkpoint. A security source said Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint opened fire on Khalifa and left him bleeding to death. Ambulance crews were prevented from reaching him and he was left bleeding on the ground until he died. Meanwhile, the Director of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm, Amin Khader, told WAFA that a 20-year-old youth, from the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, was also shot and injured in the hand and abdomen by the Israeli soldiers' live fire, noting that his condition is stable. The young man was injured while he was inside the 1948-occupied land. The occupation handed his body over to the Palestinian side at the Ennab military checkpoint. With the killing of Khalifa, the number of Palestinians killed today by the Israeli occupation in the West Bank rises to three, including two youths, one of whom is a female, in their early 20s. Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA