Shufat: A Palestinian minor Thursday sustained an injury from Israeli army gunfire in the Shufat refugee camp, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the PRCS reported that a 12-year-old minor was injured with rubber-coated steel bullets in the head after being shot by Israeli occupation forces who raided the refugee camp. The injured minor was promptly taken to a hospital for urgent treatment.
Local sources noted that during the raid, Israeli forces broke into a commercial store in the refugee camp and detained a young man. The heavily armed soldiers fired numerous tear gas canisters, leading to dozens of civilians suffering from suffocation.
The occurrence is part of a pattern of frequent raids conducted by Israeli forces in Palestinian areas across the West Bank. These operations are carried out under the pretext of searching for 'wanted' Palestinians, often resulting in confrontations with local residents. The raids are executed without search warrants, allowing military commanders to exercise extensive authority over the area's 3 million Palestinian residents.
Under Israeli military law, the army possesses comprehensive control over the West Bank, with army commanders holding executive, legislative, and judicial powers, leaving Palestinians without any influence over how these powers are exercised.
