Child Wounded By Army Fire In Hebron

Wednesday February 09, 2011 17:38 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child was wounded on Tuesday evening after Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank. Several army attacks reported across the West Bank on Wednesday at dawn.

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Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets at a number of homes causing damage while a child identified as Shadi Khalil, 17, was hit by several rubber-coated bullets in several parts of his body' he was moved to a local hospital in Hebron.

Furthermore, soldiers kidnapped Razi Zaqazeeq and his brother Baker while working in their land near the Karmie Tzur illegal settlement located between the Palestinian towns of Halhoul and Beit Ummar.

In related news, the Israeli army kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn seven Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem. Four of the seven Palestinians were kidnapped in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

In Awarta town, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian youth during clashes that took place after the soldiers invading the town.

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